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User Reviews on Young Alfred
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I had good expectations of this place, however, the food just doesn't cut it. Fairly standard prices for the area with mains around $22 - 28 on their lunch menu but the portions? Small.
I was pretty hungry when I left and while the food tasted fairly good, you tend to feel a little bit let down when you see 4 tiny mussels and a couple of small octopus legs in a seafood pasta dish you paid $24 for.
The staff were varied, a few seemed only too happy to help but the waitress serving our table was very rude on a couple of occasions. Won't bother going back.
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Lonx -
See my reviews 6 , 10 December 2008
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Food 2 |
Ambience 1 |
Service 2 |
Value 1 |
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Way overpriced! Very small portions. Order the rump for $25+ and you get nothing with it. Atomosphere of a construction site.
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freddy1 -
See my reviews 1, 16 June 2008
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Food 3 |
Ambience 3 |
Service 2 |
Value 2 |
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Went to Young Alfred for the first time for lunch. After reading the reviews I have to agree wholeheartedly with the comments about the wait staff. After waiting 20 minutes for a bottle of water while everyone else had their beers and wines.
We ordered bruschetta and it was very tasty served on the individual bowls, a little too much artistic flare with the swirls of balsamic and olive oil for my liking, but for $5.90 for one piece I did expect something special. My colleague ordered the squid salad with puy lentils and that looked tasty. I ordered the seafood spaghetti and there were 3 mussels and at the most 6 pieces of calamari throughout the dish. At $21.90, not good value for money. My colleague had the steak and it came out overcooked.
The surrounding of Customs House is nice and it's quite nice to see people soaking up the history, but you can't get past the fact that you're sitting in a common area of a building, paying exorbitant prices for average food.
Overall not bad, but the wait staff do not have the capability of coping with a lunch service. Staff seem to stick with what they know and when one staff says they don't take orders, they just bring the drinks, it makes you wonder what they're doing taking up space on the staff roster. If you can bring a drink to a table, surely you can take an order for another? Or am I asking for too much?
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barulia -
See my reviews 19, 20 March 2008
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Below Average |
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Food 4 |
Ambience 5 |
Service 3 |
Value 1 |
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Just had a work lunch for a colleague's farewell, decided to opt for the barramundi, fish was cooked nicely but a ridiculously small portion < 200g?. 4 other colleagues required to get another lunch because they had the "seafood" spagehetti in which the shells of mussels took up most of the room in bowl and were left unsatisfied ( 2 females included in this total ).
Had a female waiter which did not attend to us. When taking orders made us repeat what we had said twice on several occasions, the worst part was we were slapped a 10% surcharge for a 10+ booking making an already expensive lunch even more dear. Pizzas were average, hardly worth the tooting.
There are much better establishments in the CBD for lunch, will definitely not come back.
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fangske -
See my reviews 2, 17 March 2008
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Below Average |
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Food 5 |
Ambience 6 |
Service 2 |
Value 4 |
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Seriously poor service which is the only reason I'm writing the review. Do yourself a favour and get some trained wait staff. Seriously!!!
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jgingell -
See my reviews 2, 12 March 2008
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Food 8 |
Ambience 8 |
Service 2 |
Value 4 |
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Really like the pizzas, varying bruschetta and Osso Bucco. The location is superb and the decor is fantastic too.
However, the service here is generally appalling - a real shame because if they lifted that element of the experience i'd be back more often. Why do so many restaurants rely on location alone when service, at the end of the day, makes or breaks a great meal?
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larkers -
See my reviews 2, 10 February 2008
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Food 7 |
Ambience 7 |
Service 4 |
Value 4 |
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$3.50 for a couple of slices of bread and some olive oil... when this is complimentary at most restaurants you must be joking???
food tasty, its in customs house and when the service is with the best intentions but no experience not much of that $23 for a pizza is going to the wait staff.
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agentblustratos -
See my reviews 1, 30 January 2008
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Below Average |
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Food 6 |
Ambience 1 |
Service 4 |
Value 4 |
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Half my salad blew away when they brought it over (I made the silly mistake of sitting outside on a lovely summer's day).
The only thing going for this place is its proximity to the Opera House & Sydney Harbour, and the fact there is no decent competition.
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eatyourheartout -
See my reviews 36, 30 January 2008
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Food 7 |
Ambience 5 |
Service 4 |
Value 5 |
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Let's face it, you get what you pay for. It was boringly average, with backpacker staff, you will only get a certain level of service, and even though the pizza was approx. $25, we were paying for the location. Above all, for where it is and what it offers, I thought it was reasonable.
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kopthat -
See my reviews 7, 21 December 2007
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Below Average |
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Food 4 |
Ambience 4 |
Service 2 |
Value 3 |
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Not a terribly exciting place. Service was not very friendly and slow, and seated me in the most uncomfortable place where the air con was blowing our 15 degree cold air despite the entire restaurant being empty.
Tomato soup was alright, but the Pizza (supposedly with Mozzarella and Tomato) was a complete disappointment. Boring taste, mediocre cheese, and no tomatoes but rather plain tomato paste. And all that for $27? I don't think so, there are much better places to eat in this city.
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webgott -
See my reviews 12, 18 December 2007
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