Booney wrote:The Bartley Hotel
Late call at around 6:30 Saturday night to go out for a feed, off we head.
We went to the new Mosaic to give that a go, no good, booked out. Called the Woodville, booked out. Called the Admiral, yep. Said to Mrs and Miss, "The Bartley?". Sure. "Hey Google, call the Bartley Tavern"
Yeah, can we get in for 3 people?
LOL, yeah, that won't be a problem.
Should have been alarm bells.
Roll into the car park around 6:50, it's empty. Bar some around the back for the sports bar / pokies, the place is dead. Go into the bistro, of the 100 odd chairs in there 4 have arses on them. Should have been alarm bells.
Miss went the beef burger, stodgy, gristley, might have been made with the burger binding powder stuff. She ate 20% of the burger itself, most of the bun and salad.
Mrs went the "half" beef schnitzel, dry inside, oily outside, chips under the schnitty, salad looked like it was yesterdays. Ate probably half of it.
I went the "full" slow roasted pork, it was roast pork, but not as you know it, I got two lumps of meat about the size of your fist, not sliced neatly, just two big chunks. Roast spuds, over done, roast carrot, under done, bowl of salad ( WTF? ) covered in vinaigrette that was 80% vinegar and 20% grette. Couldn't be eaten.
Service - 4/10, young chick would have killed to be anywhere else.
Food - 1/10, it was shit.
Over all rating - Don't go there.
For some reason the Bartley was the go-to place for Crows Supporter Group pre-season and post-season gatherings. Never understood why as the food was at best, average, and at times, borderline inedible.
First time I went there, got a chicken schnitzel, and it was undercooked. That's Caffe Primo levels of badness there.
Next food times food was unremarkable, Last time I went there I ordered the laksa. It was the worst laksa I've ever had - had this awful stench to it. Picked at it for a bit before the stench made it inedible.
One good thing about COVID is that the Bartley couldn't accommodate them for their end of season dinner this year.