Cash B.

Reviews

Restaurants, Modern Australian, Vegetarian, Has Bar, Licensed

Overall 8 14

4 Below Average

Food 1 Ambience 7 Service 7 Value 1

Well, what can we say? Plenty actually, after the relatively rave reviews, was expecting a mildly spectacular degustation, with “matching’, with delicious sounding dishes and exceptional, polished service.

The Ginger room was set not to disappoint, but alas, it did... royally. It started well with a glass of roderer, and then promptly descended into a disappointing degustation.

We won’t go into too much detail here, as the time the Ginger Room spent on making the food warrants a equal amount of effort on our part,we were offended by every dish, and now will hopefully repay the expensive favour with an honest appraisal of the dismal meal we sadly endured.

The first dish, a tuna concoction was in fact was a skanky bit of less than super fresh fish (yes we know Canberra is nowhere near the sea and ought to have known better) served with bits of supermarket standard “Kalamata” olive, some curly lettuce and less than fruity olive oil.

I will now skip through a series of ordinary RSL style catering dry and unimaginative dishes to the final insults... the cheeses were ordinary at best, and the citrus souffle an inedible example of food crime for which the chef, the apprentices and more importantly the owners really do need to be sentenced to culinary prison for indecent assault.

The maitre’d however was gorgeous, and possibly slightly embarrassed by the whole disaster and we will not be back, after reluctantly giving it 1/10 - and that being solely for service. Ginger Room STOP CATERING, everything tasted like day old catered food from a public high school function for which everyone paid handsomely but you knew they would be too pissed to eat so you didn’t make an effort. Even the matching wines were poorly matched and there was no sommelier present to explain the raison detre behind the less than inspired choices.

Grrrrr utterly disappointing.

Feb 05, 2012

Villa Bar & Kitchen, Potts Point

Restaurants, Bars, Italian, Pizza, Air Conditioning

Overall 7.7 9

2 of 7 people found the following review helpful

2.8 Not Recommended

Food 1 Ambience 3 Service 6 Value 1

Vile, vile , vile. I feel sorry for the waitstaff who had to serve the revolting inedible food. We should have done a runner. Three of us sent our meals back to the kitchen to be actually cooked. Shame on you Villa, your chef ought to be fired immediately.

Response from Management:
Dear 'Cash B'

I have spoken to the chef and all staff and have found no evidence that what you claim occurred ever did. Moreso, I have noticed that you only registered on eatability a few weeks ago and have only done one review. This gives your review no credibility and I ask that you use eatability as a place to inform the foodies of Sydney with honest reviews.

To other users of eatability, we ask please that you dismiss this review as it is not true and if you come in to our place we will be happy to show you how false it is :)

Feb 26, 2011