I came here last night with my partner and a group of his friends midway through our weekly bike ride around NSW. I had my doubts over whether or not I would be able to eat here due to my dietary restrictions (it's quite difficult being vegan and having food allergies to certain vegetables as well!), as I couldn't find a website or even a PDF of their menu available online. So I pretty much went in blind.
Upon arrival, I immediately fell in love with the atmosphere. The music was set on an early 50s to early 60s playlist, and the decor felt absolutely homey and overall lovely.
The menu was a tad confusing as it was split into vegetarian and regular dishes (which I do appreciate though!). I spent a good 3 minutes wondering why there wasn't a tofu/veggie option for their curries. Once I made it towards the end of the menu I just sighed in relief that I wouldn't have to order an entree and just be done for the night with a 3hr bike ride ahead of me to boot.
I was having a bit of trouble properly communicating with the waitress and had to ask her 3 times if there were no peas in the red curry (as I'm highly allergic to them), and she seemed to think that I wanted peas included, but once that was cleared up, I wasn't entirely certain if she wrote down my rice order along with it as it didn't arrive for 10 minutes after my curry did, and 20 minutes after the rest of my group received their food. We had to ask if she had taken my rice order and promptly returned with a massive bowl of rice (rather than a single person portion).
I felt bad to ask her about it again so I just tried my best to finish it all and had to give the other quarter that was left to my partner and his friends. Even so, I was starting to feel a bit sick from all the food and having to quickly eat (as my order took substantially longer to arrive than everyone else's).
As our little tradition, we all went through the menus to add up what we owed that night's paying person, but I noticed that one of their menus was missing the single page that I ordered my dishes from, so we had to wait for one of the staff to exit out of the kitchen in order to ask for another one.
Once we were nearly ready to leave, a member of our group ordered a coffee to go (takeaway) but when he asked for 2 sugars, he was instead given 2 orders of coffee, to stay. My partner had to drink one of them since it was simply too much coffee for one person in such a short time.
One of the younger waitresses admitted that she was still new, and advised us to ask the other in regards to all of our orders that night, but I feel as though the language barrier and disorder within the establishment just made it all the more complicated for everyone.
I wouldn't necessarily recommend this restaurant unless you're allergy-free and not picky with getting something you didn't order. It was such a shame too. The place looked absolutely lovely, but they really seemed to have an issue with either the management or staff. read more