Cheese Bread! Sizzler has been my favourite restaurant since I was a little tyke. I love the atmosphere, the food, the cheese bread: frankly I love Sizzler in its entirety. Perhaps this bias colours my review but I honestly and sincerely believe that Sizzler is a restaurant that has something for everyone. Firstly: cheese bread! Am I crazy or is this super soft, fresh, cheesy and utterly divine bread actually the world's most delicious food? It's worth visiting just to get some of this wonderful yumminess in your mouth. Ask for as many extra servings as you like and enjoy! One of the other great things about Sizzler is that for a few dollars more than the salad bar you can get a full pub like meal as well. I opted for the Malibu beef burger and hubby had the Fishermans platter. Both were decent fare, made great with the fresh salads and pastas of the accompanying buffet. There is also a nacho/taco bar, potato skins, soups, fresh fruit and desserts to choose from to add to your stomachs delight. Food is fresh, cheap and cheerful and sure to satisfy fussy eaters (though perhaps not gourmets). If anything the decor has become more fresh and inviting than previous incarnations and the staff, as always, are friendly, swift and fantastic. The environment is very family friendly: upbeat and jovial with the wonderful background hum only found within the comfortable confines of such an unpretentious, homely place. Prices average around $35 for adults, including an attached meal and unlimited soft drinks, teas and coffees. Kids vary depending on their age. Sizzler is a true family restaurant: boasting something for all in a casual, laid back setting that is comfortable and welcoming. Come for the cheese bread, stay for a laugh, good conversation and fun times for all. read more

This place brings back memories. Everything is still so 90's. Even the cheese toast and pumpkin soup. Missed it big time since it left Melbourne. Glad to enjoy one of the last ones standing. read more

Sizzler - Steakhouses Near Me - Mermaid Beach, QLD

So got here just before 6pm on Good Friday. The place was already half full, but at least no lineup.... I've tried to get in here a few times before, but always at least a 30 minute wait I haven't eaten at a Sizzler for, I dunno, 20 years?! So I'd forgotten I need to order before I even walk in... What a hassle, but that's the way it works Ok so we make some quick decisions while talking to a hostess who so couldn't care about us. I'd be in the middle of telling her something and she'd start having a conversation in her Madonna headset. Do they have a drive thru here? Who the hell is more important than me?? I nearly walked out then and there. So we ordered food in between 3rd party conversations. So the food. I couldn't bring myself to pay $40 for a steak and be disappointed, so I thought a $35 fisherman's basket - close to the ocean - how could they go wrong?! I asked if they had mineral water, I was told no. Soda water? No. Water? Yes, get the drinks package. My daughter wanted apple juice. Drinks package. She then told me to wait until someone seated me. Between another headset conversation Then the loveliest person that works at Sizzler seated us and she was delightful. Wow, if the were all like that, people would come back!! I'm so sorry I didn't catch her name and it was the last time I saw her So we went to get drinks, after noticing that mineral water is on the drinks menu at a lower price that I paid for the drinks package... Juice? They don't have it at the drinks area. The only thing that came close - orange fruit drink. We both had tap water. $3.95 each. Our food was plonked on the table by various people passing by. The servings were a good size and there's a full salad bar too, I don't eat salad, so that's a waste.. The seafood was all bland and tasteless. We left after 20 minutes and didn't eat most of it. One of my worst dining experiences and not recommended. One star as I can't give none read more

Got food poisoning last night had some salad buffet, the fisherman's basket (probably the culprit) and some ice cream dessert. Dropped in for a quick Neal on way home from Byron. Spent an hour in the worst stomach pain ever. Thought I was going to die. Think it was the tartare sauce or the prawns :( kids had steak and salad buffet and were ok. read more

Management was poorly organised allowing line cutters, food was decent (garlic was left of garlic prawns) and restocking was slow.

I would give 1 star but the Cheese Bread redeemed the experience. If maccas can use a real chicken breast in their deluxe burgers, I am not sure why somewhere that charges double the price still uses chicken that is akin to a chicken nugget. It was mediocre and the chips were average. Luckily I'm not from around here so I won't be tempted to ever think about going back. Except for that delightful cheese bread read more

Contrary to what other people have said, this is not a bad sizzler. Service is fine and the salad bar is well presented. The pumpkin soup is also nice and thick. read more

Sizzler for most Australians is one of those places we remember fondly from our childhoods. In most parts of Oz, Sizzler has gone by the wayside, with most of the sites replaced by a veritable revolving door of restaurants. Luckily, the Mermaid Beach Sizzler is still alive and kicking after all this time, and it's a must visit if you're in the area with kids. And don't be mistaken, Sizzler is most definitely a family restaurant. Go in expecting the place to be packed and full of families and you'll be fine. For most, the salad bar is extensive enough that you'll get a full meal without even having to touch the meat menu; pasta, salads, nachos, potato skins and dessert, that covers most food groups for anyone! One of my kids piled his plate with bacon laden corn chips whilst the other stuck with pasta doused liberally in cheese. For the adults in the family, you get a variety of soups, an extensive selection of healthy salad options, or if you really want something a bit heavier, grab a steak or some chicken with a side of your favourite potato (although admittedly I still prefer the potato skins). Throw in $3.95 all you can drink soft drink and coffee, as well as chocolate mousse, jelly and Sizzler's signature soft serve ice cream and you've got everything you need for a great family night out. If you're visiting the Gold Coast from the rest of the country, do yourself a favour and visit this quintessential Australian institution. read more

WORST MOTHER'S DAY EVER!!! I'm absolutely appalled by the disrespectful and unprofessional service my mum and her friends had to endure on Sunday. They went out to treat themselves for a ladies' lunch but were treated like trash by the staff at Sizzler on the Gold Coast. Of all the days, mothers should be treated with extra care and respect on "MOTHER'S DAY". So much for Sizzler's extensive Mother's Day promotion. It seems like they were just trying hard to fill the seats and didn't even care about 'showing how special they are' and helping them 'enjoy' a 'relaxing' outing. Where do I start. After repeated requests and waiting for another 15 minutes, my mum and her friends finally got served their cheese toasts but the waiter must've been feeling peckish because there was one with a bite taken out of it. He/she TOOK A BITE OUT OF THE CHEESE TOAST then served it to the diners!!!! WHAT THE!!!!? Understandably disgusted by this, they kindly and patiently requested a new plate of cheese toasts but the waiter returned and "threw", yes threw the plate on the table and walked away. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!!!!! Also, after showing them to their seats, the waiter told my mum and her friends to go get their own plates and cutlery. I mean, it's no big deal, sure they can walk over and help themselves, but that's probably not how he/she was trained. Seriously, does Sizzler GC hire any person off the street and put a uniform on them before any formal training? No wonder it's losing profit and doomed to close down within two years. If you're not getting the diners their plates or their cheese toasts, what ARE you doing? If none of the other diners were treated this way, then this is going into racist territory. Also, if you're putting so much effort into advertising about your Mother's Day special, shouldn't sufficient food stock be at the top of your priority list? My mum's vegetarian but she can still eat more than half the food on the salad bar so it's shocking to know that she basically ate a month's worth of olives because the salad bar was not being refilled promptly! Maybe since announcing the closure of all its restaurants Sizzler employees think it's okay to loosen up and just kill time at work. They're still representing the brand and are the first point of contact for diners so if Sizzler doesn't want to go out with a puff and be recorded in history for poor food, bad service and underqualified staff, it should seriously keep a check on each of its restaurants, or better yet, dine at one of them and see if they feel like they're 'enjoying' a 'relaxing' outing. If I was there I would've demanded a full refund because I would not be willing to pay over $20 for horrible service and no food. Fortunately, the manager understood this was unacceptable behaviour and offered 50% off the bill. I would've also given a list of waiters' names to the manager and demanded they be either properly trained before being put on the floor or, for all I care, fired on the spot. As a diner who grew up eating out at Sizzler for almost every childhood birthday and big group occasions, each time feeling excited about the bountiful buffet experience and the free cheese toasts, I'm extremely disappointed that its reputation has fallen below the pits. While it was once known for its friendly and attentive service it seems that the only service you now get is bad attitude. Why have the waiters around at all when they're telling the diners to go serve themselves? I don't think Sizzler can really afford to lose customers during its dying last days but after Sunday's 'experience', you've now lost another 12 customers. Pretty sure my mum and her friends didn't even get any minties after their meal! I have nothing more to say. I'm definitely not going to dine at Sizzler anymore and if GC's example is anything to go by, I'm not at all sad to see Sizzler shut down and give it's space to a better restaurant. read more