Restaurant & Pub Reviews

[JK]

JK is trying to match Wristy's eating habits by eating out every 2nd night

Since the missus has quit the grog and smokes and become a gymhead, eating out is her favourite/only pastime .. Works for me!

[wristwatcher]

Angkor Cambodian & Thai food on Woodville Rd.

Small restaurant with the old furniture and pictures on the wall etc, but certainly felt Asian enough (although just being on Woodville Rd does that).

Service is VERY slow .. Given the place doesn't hold many people, we were surprised we didn't receive our meals til about an hour and 20 minutes after ordering. So the food was going to need to be seriously good.

And F*** me it was!

We had:

Chilli/Basil/Lemongrass seafood dish
Thai Green Chicken Curry
Massaman (sp?) Beef Curry
Special Fry Rice
Steamed Rice

And every single one of them was a taste sensation. As enjoyable as any Asiain food i can remember in recent years.

Throw in 2 x Iced Teas and a can of Solo, with the Ent voucher it came to $59.

Even allowing for the extraordinary delay Ive gotta give this an 8.5 just for the quality of food alone.

Highly recommend this one.

1 year no smoking tomorrow and the Mrs is keen to celebrate the occasion God bless her. Reckon I will give this a crack. Reasonably priced, high quality and authentic Asian can be hard to find. I used to go to a secret little sensation in Mansfield Park with my late Father but haven't been in a long time. That was the best id had in Adelaide, hopefully this measures up, pressures on JK

[JK]

Im confident it will stack up mate .. As an added bonus last night, the missus reckons we got the discount but they didn't take the voucher, happy days!

[mighty_tiger_79]

The Caledonian don't stamp the card when you go....love it

[Jim05]

Sammy's on the Marina last night. Overpriced and nothing special.
Not a seafood fan but went for a family Birthday. Table of 12 including 3 kids. Started with bread and Dukkah which was nice enough. Entrees were ordered and most tucked into theirs , brother in law ordered a dozen oysters kilpatrick, after waiting for about 10 minutes after everyone else's entree had arrived he questioned the waiter who then admitted he had stuffed up and forgot to order them so he went without.
Mains started coming out about 40 minutes later despite not being overly busy, adult meals came out before kids and then it got worse. My sons Salt and Pepper Calamari was stone cold and several other meals were barely lukewarm. My meal didn't even come out and once again the waiter admitted his error and my meal had been given to another table and they would prepare me another ASAP. Now I only had Beer battered Whiting and that took another 20 minutes to come out and was basically 3 tiny pieces of whiting and a handful of burn chips, the salad was ok though.
Pretty average night TBH, $35 for fish and chips I could buy for $10 at any take away store. All up with a few beers and bottles of wine it came to over $800 and of course then we were told they couldn't split the bill after being informed when we arrived that we could. Food and service pretty average 2/10

[mighty_tiger_79]

Surely they offered your meal for free for stuffing it up???

[daysofourlives]

Sammy's on the Marina last night. Overpriced and nothing special.
Not a seafood fan but went for a family Birthday. Table of 12 including 3 kids. Started with bread and Dukkah which was nice enough. Entrees were ordered and most tucked into theirs , brother in law ordered a dozen oysters kilpatrick, after waiting for about 10 minutes after everyone else's entree had arrived he questioned the waiter who then admitted he had stuffed up and forgot to order them so he went without.
Mains started coming out about 40 minutes later despite not being overly busy, adult meals came out before kids and then it got worse. My sons Salt and Pepper Calamari was stone cold and several other meals were barely lukewarm. My meal didn't even come out and once again the waiter admitted his error and my meal had been given to another table and they would prepare me another ASAP. Now I only had Beer battered Whiting and that took another 20 minutes to come out and was basically 3 tiny pieces of whiting and a handful of burn chips, the salad was ok though.
Pretty average night TBH, $35 for fish and chips I could buy for $10 at any take away store. All up with a few beers and bottles of wine it came to over $800 and of course then we were told they couldn't split the bill after being informed when we arrived that we could. Food and service pretty average 2/10

F*&(% me Jim thought you wouldve sent back all the meals that wernt satisfactory, i know I certainly would of. No excuse for cold meals

[JK]

Im confident it will stack up mate .. As an added bonus last night, the missus reckons we got the discount but they didn't take the voucher, happy days!

BTW Wristy, Id be grabbing an entree - get the feeling the wait we experienced for our Mains was likely a common occurrence

[Jim05]

Surely they offered your meal for free for stuffing it up???

Not a cracker off mate

[Magellan]

Sammy's on the Marina last night. Overpriced and nothing special.
Not a seafood fan but went for a family Birthday. Table of 12 including 3 kids. Started with bread and Dukkah which was nice enough. Entrees were ordered and most tucked into theirs , brother in law ordered a dozen oysters kilpatrick, after waiting for about 10 minutes after everyone else's entree had arrived he questioned the waiter who then admitted he had stuffed up and forgot to order them so he went without.
Mains started coming out about 40 minutes later despite not being overly busy, adult meals came out before kids and then it got worse. My sons Salt and Pepper Calamari was stone cold and several other meals were barely lukewarm. My meal didn't even come out and once again the waiter admitted his error and my meal had been given to another table and they would prepare me another ASAP. Now I only had Beer battered Whiting and that took another 20 minutes to come out and was basically 3 tiny pieces of whiting and a handful of burn chips, the salad was ok though.
Pretty average night TBH, $35 for fish and chips I could buy for $10 at any take away store. All up with a few beers and bottles of wine it came to over $800 and of course then we were told they couldn't split the bill after being informed when we arrived that we could. Food and service pretty average 2/10

Not let you split the bill? After all that, including serving up cold meals? Sounds like they should've split at least $100 off your bill.

Wow, that's one incompetent restaurant. Pity you didn't give them a serve (pun intended).

[mighty_tiger_79]

Surely they offered your meal for free for stuffing it up???

Not a cracker off mate

I would be putting this review on their Facebook page. That is just arrogance of the highest order from Sammys

[Jim05]

Sammy's on the Marina last night. Overpriced and nothing special.
Not a seafood fan but went for a family Birthday. Table of 12 including 3 kids. Started with bread and Dukkah which was nice enough. Entrees were ordered and most tucked into theirs , brother in law ordered a dozen oysters kilpatrick, after waiting for about 10 minutes after everyone else's entree had arrived he questioned the waiter who then admitted he had stuffed up and forgot to order them so he went without.
Mains started coming out about 40 minutes later despite not being overly busy, adult meals came out before kids and then it got worse. My sons Salt and Pepper Calamari was stone cold and several other meals were barely lukewarm. My meal didn't even come out and once again the waiter admitted his error and my meal had been given to another table and they would prepare me another ASAP. Now I only had Beer battered Whiting and that took another 20 minutes to come out and was basically 3 tiny pieces of whiting and a handful of burn chips, the salad was ok though.
Pretty average night TBH, $35 for fish and chips I could buy for $10 at any take away store. All up with a few beers and bottles of wine it came to over $800 and of course then we were told they couldn't split the bill after being informed when we arrived that we could. Food and service pretty average 2/10

F*&(% me Jim thought you wouldve sent back all the meals that wernt satisfactory, i know I certainly would of. No excuse for cold meals

Was for my mother in laws Birthday so members of the family pretty much begged me to zip it. When I fixed up the bill I let the girl know how rubbish it was.
Won't be going back that's for sure

[mighty_tiger_79]

The said family members should have paid for your frozen meals

[wristwatcher]

Sammy's on the Marina last night. Overpriced and nothing special.
Not a seafood fan but went for a family Birthday. Table of 12 including 3 kids. Started with bread and Dukkah which was nice enough. Entrees were ordered and most tucked into theirs , brother in law ordered a dozen oysters kilpatrick, after waiting for about 10 minutes after everyone else's entree had arrived he questioned the waiter who then admitted he had stuffed up and forgot to order them so he went without.
Mains started coming out about 40 minutes later despite not being overly busy, adult meals came out before kids and then it got worse. My sons Salt and Pepper Calamari was stone cold and several other meals were barely lukewarm. My meal didn't even come out and once again the waiter admitted his error and my meal had been given to another table and they would prepare me another ASAP. Now I only had Beer battered Whiting and that took another 20 minutes to come out and was basically 3 tiny pieces of whiting and a handful of burn chips, the salad was ok though.
Pretty average night TBH, $35 for fish and chips I could buy for $10 at any take away store. All up with a few beers and bottles of wine it came to over $800 and of course then we were told they couldn't split the bill after being informed when we arrived that we could. Food and service pretty average 2/10

This was my favourite restaurant in the mid to late 90s so this saddens me. I went there last year and it was good but nowhere near the level of 10-20 years earlier. I however went on a Maybe Tuesday night as I work 5 minutes away and it was very quiet and I got very good service in a group of 3 which is obviously easy to manage.

Reading the above I agree you should contact the manager. I'd even mention my beloved SAFooty restaurant review thread with 32,000 views and see if they care about their customers. If worst comes to worst you tell the bastards they will be on our blacklist

If I foot an $800 bill and copped your experience I'd have a fair bit to say. Food must be warm, service should be free of major errors and food of that price should come out together. If they can't tick those 3 boxes it's fair to feel aggrieved and deserving some form of compensation.

[Brodlach]

Lone Star on Mosley Square at Glenelg.(old McDonalds spot)

Only been open for three weeks so everything is clean, new and tidy.

Walking in we are greeted with friendly staff and given a small bucket of peanuts in shells while deciding what to eat.
Good selection of burgers, ribs, wings and steaks at reasonable prices.
The wife had a mushroom burger and she said it was much better than what she had at Chuck Wagon last week. Myself and my two boys shared Pork BBQ ribs, hot chicken wings and a serve of Onion Rings. Each were served with a huge quantity of steak cut chips. The Pork ribs were as good as I have had, meat fell off the bone and the taste was amazing. Wings were delicious also. When the Onion Rings hit the table they didn't look as good as the Chuck Wagons but they tasted much better. Ate way too much but left most of the chips on the plate so was worth the cost. Bill came to $83 including four drinks. Would give it a solid 8.5 and recommend it to anyone into this kind of food.


They do a two foot hotdog challenge (in 20 minutes) to get you photo on the wall of fame

[Jim05]

Lone Star on Mosley Square at Glenelg.(old McDonalds spot)

Only been open for three weeks so everything is clean, new and tidy.

Walking in we are greeted with friendly staff and given a small bucket of peanuts in shells while deciding what to eat.
Good selection of burgers, ribs, wings and steaks at reasonable prices.
The wife had a mushroom burger and she said it was much better than what she had at Chuck Wagon last week. Myself and my two boys shared Pork BBQ ribs, hot chicken wings and a serve of Onion Rings. Each were served with a huge quantity of steak cut chips. The Pork ribs were as good as I have had, meat fell off the bone and the taste was amazing. Wings were delicious also. When the Onion Rings hit the table they didn't look as good as the Chuck Wagons but they tasted much better. Ate way too much but left most of the chips on the plate so was worth the cost. Bill came to $83 including four drinks. Would give it a solid 8.5 and recommend it to anyone into this kind of food.


They do a two foot hotdog challenge (in 20 minutes) to get you photo on the wall of fame

There was a lone star franchise in Melbourne around the early 2000's, not sure if they still exist and if so is the Glenelg one part of the chain?

[Brodlach]

We asked about that as there used to be one near South Road down south but this is totally new

[mighty_tiger_79]

We asked about that as there used to be one near South Road down south but this is totally new

Corner of south rd and Sturt rd??

[Brodlach]

We asked about that as there used to be one near South Road down south but this is totally new

Corner of south rd and Sturt rd??

Yep that's it

[Spargo]

We asked about that as there used to be one near South Road down south but this is totally new

Corner of south rd and Sturt rd??

Yep that's it

Used to be Sizzler also.