by Lightning McQueen » Fri Sep 07, 2018 10:33 am
FIL and his brother came down Saturday from Mildura & Broken Hill to fly to Cairns for a 10 day holiday so he wanted to take us out for dinner, we tried booking into the Coopers Ale House but they were full, we didn't want to travel too far as no one wanted to be deso so we decided to walk to the Mawson Lakes Hotel.
What do you know, they were full, that massive room was fully booked, they offered us a booth though with access to the buffet still, it worked out better as we were closer to the bar and it was a bit roomier.
FIL suggested that his horse shouts dinner and for us to go our hardest, him and I pick the 350g Scotch Fillet, his brother jumped on the Beef Mega Schnitzel with Ham and Pineapple topping while the missus chose the flathead that was on special.
It was all delivered to us in about 12 minutes and the steaks were cooked to perfection, the FIL said it was the best steak he'd had in a long time, mine was pretty awesome too, the mega schnitzel was a running joke, it was almost as big as the uncle, I asked him if he wanted me to come back Wednesday to pick him when he'd finish eating, it was well worth the money and he loved it, took him ages which was good as I got another couple of pints in me waiting.
The wife was a bit annoyed with her fish, she was kind of thinking it was one big piece but it was a few smaller pieces, it still tasted great though.
One small issue with the buffet was that they had forgotten to load up on the bread rolls, they did once I alerted them but they skipped warming them up for the first lot, they did apologise, generally their buffet is a meal in itself.
Anyway, all wrapped up in about an hour, full and well refreshed for the walk home.
COST: $98 for the food with a 25% off voucher, beers were well priced as was the champers.
RATINGS
Food: 9.5 (the rolls and fish cost them a point)
Atmosphere: 9 (was made better by being in the booth, we'd all had a few bevvies at home so we were all full of wit)
Service: 9 (attended to straight away, food served in how long it would've taken to cook it at home)
Value: 9.5
Overall: Tough one here, I think I'll go a 9.25
Heading to the Greek on Halifax tonight with the boss and a couple of others for our EOFY dinner and review, pretty keen, hitting the piss after that somewhere to watch the footy on work's account.
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Lightning McQueen on Fri Sep 07, 2018 11:28 am, edited 1 time in total.
HOGG SHIELD DIVISION V WINNER 2018.
I'd heard some horror stories from The Seaton.
