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9.5 Highly Recommended

Food  10      Ambience  10      Service  10      Value  8     

Best pancakes in the shire! The owners are friendly and the coffee is great.

Dec 13, 2010

1 Not Recommended

Food  1      Ambience  1      Service  1      Value  1     

My husband and I booked the function room for a 30th birthday. We were advised at time of booking that we would be able to use our ipod. Was told when arrived needed to wait for the senior staff to retrieve the cord required, so we patiently waited. When he arrived I was told our ipod was not compatible. Then when we offered to go get cds or another ipod I was told that the truth he didn't want to play our music and that we were misinformed at time of booking.

This is after I'd spent $1100 on a bar tab and $1000 on finger food for all my guests. After 4 hrs of painfully boring and dull 'funeral' music we asked if they would at least put on something slightly upbeat to which he replied that it was his bar, his music and I should just 'deal with it'. The main bar has 10 patrons, we had 60 paying guests. He then also accused my guests of trashing a bathroom which on inspection was in perfect clean condition.

When one of my guests tried to enquire about this accusation so that we could rectify any confusion he was told by John to f**k off four times. My guests were so well behaved there was not even one drink spilled, glass broken, mess in a bathroom or anyone that had to be removed for being too intoxicated.

John's hostility and complete lack of care for his patrons was disgraceful. I was embarrassed to have brought my guest to this venue. I can assure them that none of my 60 'local' guests will speak highly of this bar again, let alone be a patron. We ended up leaving the venue at 10:30pm and moved on to another local bar 2230 who were more than happy to accommodate us.

Another important note for anyone considering booking this venue is that the acoustics of the room were terrible. It was so painfully loud that guests with babies, older people and even some of the younger ones were unable to stay for long due to their level of discomfort.

The food was also poor. Sausage rolls were burnt, chicken strips cold and the quantity was low. Dave the other manager at Jd's was a lovely polite man and I know he wanted to help us but unfortunately it didn't change the outcome.

Nov 22, 2010

9.5 Highly Recommended

Food  10      Ambience  10      Service  10      Value  8     

Best pancakes in the shire! The owners are friendly and the coffee is great.

Dec 13, 2010

1 Not Recommended

Food  1      Ambience  1      Service  1      Value  1     

My husband and I booked the function room for a 30th birthday. We were advised at time of booking that we would be able to use our ipod. Was told when arrived needed to wait for the senior staff to retrieve the cord required, so we patiently waited. When he arrived I was told our ipod was not compatible. Then when we offered to go get cds or another ipod I was told that the truth he didn't want to play our music and that we were misinformed at time of booking.

This is after I'd spent $1100 on a bar tab and $1000 on finger food for all my guests. After 4 hrs of painfully boring and dull 'funeral' music we asked if they would at least put on something slightly upbeat to which he replied that it was his bar, his music and I should just 'deal with it'. The main bar has 10 patrons, we had 60 paying guests. He then also accused my guests of trashing a bathroom which on inspection was in perfect clean condition.

When one of my guests tried to enquire about this accusation so that we could rectify any confusion he was told by John to f**k off four times. My guests were so well behaved there was not even one drink spilled, glass broken, mess in a bathroom or anyone that had to be removed for being too intoxicated.

John's hostility and complete lack of care for his patrons was disgraceful. I was embarrassed to have brought my guest to this venue. I can assure them that none of my 60 'local' guests will speak highly of this bar again, let alone be a patron. We ended up leaving the venue at 10:30pm and moved on to another local bar 2230 who were more than happy to accommodate us.

Another important note for anyone considering booking this venue is that the acoustics of the room were terrible. It was so painfully loud that guests with babies, older people and even some of the younger ones were unable to stay for long due to their level of discomfort.

The food was also poor. Sausage rolls were burnt, chicken strips cold and the quantity was low. Dave the other manager at Jd's was a lovely polite man and I know he wanted to help us but unfortunately it didn't change the outcome.

Nov 22, 2010