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4 Below Average

Food  2      Ambience  3      Service  10      Value  1     

This is the first time ever that I've felt compelled to write a restaurant review. As a Sydney-sider, we all know there are some stunning restaurants around, and I consider that I have dined at some of the best. Happy to pay the big bucks, to have great chefs in town and memorable service. However, Kingsleys is not one of these restaurants, although you will pay the big bucks!

The prices are offensive, for what you get! The wait staff were absolutely brilliant, warm and attentive, without being over the top. My fault on the Singapore chilli Crab, the menu does say "market price", and quite honestly, had it been beautiful I wouldn't have an issue. I've had the real deal, so when my Singapore chilli crab arrived with a very thick glazey sauce in a soup bowl...I thought, "interesting"!

After I removed the decorative top of the crab, underneath it was a little crab covered in this gluggy sauce. Extremely disappointing, tasted awful, an basically too small to be bothered with. You go to a lot of effort to eat crab, so it needs to taste brilliant for all the fiddling around that's required.

Bottom line, the "market price" for this overrated dish was $99! Absolutely outrageous! You've totally lost the plot guys, to serve this kind of meal and charge $99 is criminal. Didn't complain, paid up and tipped our waitress. BTW, a 3cm round steak with Nothing cost's $64, and then its plus plus plus for salad, potatoes, etc.... Sydney has more to offer than this.

Jan 20, 2012

4 Below Average

Food  2      Ambience  3      Service  10      Value  1     

This is the first time ever that I've felt compelled to write a restaurant review. As a Sydney-sider, we all know there are some stunning restaurants around, and I consider that I have dined at some of the best. Happy to pay the big bucks, to have great chefs in town and memorable service. However, Kingsleys is not one of these restaurants, although you will pay the big bucks!

The prices are offensive, for what you get! The wait staff were absolutely brilliant, warm and attentive, without being over the top. My fault on the Singapore chilli Crab, the menu does say "market price", and quite honestly, had it been beautiful I wouldn't have an issue. I've had the real deal, so when my Singapore chilli crab arrived with a very thick glazey sauce in a soup bowl...I thought, "interesting"!

After I removed the decorative top of the crab, underneath it was a little crab covered in this gluggy sauce. Extremely disappointing, tasted awful, an basically too small to be bothered with. You go to a lot of effort to eat crab, so it needs to taste brilliant for all the fiddling around that's required.

Bottom line, the "market price" for this overrated dish was $99! Absolutely outrageous! You've totally lost the plot guys, to serve this kind of meal and charge $99 is criminal. Didn't complain, paid up and tipped our waitress. BTW, a 3cm round steak with Nothing cost's $64, and then its plus plus plus for salad, potatoes, etc.... Sydney has more to offer than this.

Jan 20, 2012