My husband took me to this Restaurant, on Weds, August 13th. It was my birthday. I had been reading reviews and wanting to try their "farm to table" menu on this special occasion and we were both really excited. I can't tell you enough how disappointed we were, right from the get go, things went wrong. When my husband called to reserve a table for 6pm, informing them it was my Birthday, we were told they were "fully booked", so we opted for 5:00pm instead. The restaurant was empty when we got there but for one person. Our first server, behind the bar poured me a glass of Prosecco from a previously opened bottle, I watched him take the stopper out, no pop, no fizzing action and when I tasted it, no fizz, so it was sent back and I had a glass of beer instead. We ordered the Appetizer Sample Platter for 2 ($20). REALLY... 3 prawns for 2 people? 3 Crostini (if you can call them that) for 2 people? This doesn't make any sense at all and is insulting when a person is paying premium! You'd think that a restaurant of this supposed caliber would cater for two people and not leave them to figure out how to divide a prawn and a crostini for themselves. As if that wasn't disappointing enough, my prawns were not cleaned properly (big veins I pulled out) were rubbery (overcooked) and the 3 tiny, minuscule crostini, were practically no bread at all, just a crust with a hole in it, the entire middle was missing. So although the terrine was quite tasty, we had to eat it without bread. When the server came to collect our appetizer plate, I informed him of the unclean prawns. He just took our plates away without saying anything! We felt totally neglected. It was apparent to us at that point that staff (or lack thereof) were only focused on the "big booking", customers coming in to the banquet room there, about 10 perhaps. This is what constituted the "fully booked" comment? There was only ONE other table of 2 people in the whole restaurant besides us. OK, so for the main course, I ordered the "special", Elk. It was so TOUGH and difficult to chew, I may as well have taken my shoe off and had a go at that instead. The Rissotto that came with it, was like bland, gooey rice pudding,there was no seasoning, just chunks of apple in it. Inedible! My husband had the Beef Duo, which he said was good but he left all of his potato mash, stating that it was unseasoned and pretty nasty, also inedible. We spent over $120 in this restaurant and won't go again or recommend it to anyone. I guess we got the "stand-in chef" too, not the chef advertised, who everyone was raving about. We work really hard for our money and I am always in the kitchen, cooking for a large family, so this was going to be my special birthday treat. It was certainly memorable, I will remember never to go here again and when I see all these wonderful reviews, it makes me feel like I was conned and I'm mad as hell. Restaurant 62 may occasionally be great but they're obviously NOT consistent! They have also not even bothered to contact me via email, which I wrote down with a few choice comments on their own "Comment sheet" after this disastrous meal, nor have I heard anything since I wrote a review on their Facebook wall over 2 weeks ago... read more