Before. Show at theOpera House,we took a stroll through the Botanic Gardens and came across this. Here was a function going on upstairs so we decided to get takeaway sambos and sit in the gardens.
The choice wasn't bad, the usual stuff you'd find (chicken and avo, grilled veg and goats cheese, egg on rye, etc...), the service was worse than you'd receive at a Maccas drive through at 3am on a Sunday morning and there was a complete lack of direction, system or process.
We were given two oil soaked paper bags filled with sandwich and they screwed up my coffee order, twice (takeaway long black: now more challenging than brain surgery). We made the 10m walk to the shady tree and opened our sambo bags and discovered they hadn't wrapped our sandwiches so there were pieces of bread and filling scattered through the bag, no napkins and my coffee was cold.
However, sitting under the shade of a beautiful tree with the sun glistening through the leaves and birds singing their lungs out makes any bad situation feel a zillion times better.
I'm hoping our bad experience was caused by the lack of staff available due to the function upstairs, I'll try it again and let you know,
Poor choice, Medicare service, oily food, not wrapped, bad coffee. Not busy. Eat in the garden. read more