Annie E

Review of The Quarie

Service friendly enough...

Service friendly enough...

I ordered the baked camembert and asked if instead of the bread and the brown sugar sauce I could have a side salad with it. Well.. no side salad and they did give a 'wine sauce' which is what I didn't order.

The 'baked' camembert looked like someone had unwrapped a store bought camembert and put it on the bonnet of someone's car in the sun for ten minutes. Not baked at all, but just warm and sweaty (you know, like when you leave the cheese out of the fridge). Not offensive , so I ate it all.

My sons ordered garlic bread (yum they said) and both had chicken parmigiana with 3 cheeses. The chips on the side they gave a 10/10 , said they were very crunchy and the coating was delish.. the chicken schnitzel was ok.. chicken cooked well , not too dry and they couldn't tell if it had 3 cheeses on it...just tasted like one. I looked over and saw a piece of real bacon on it.. tasted it. Was good.

My pork belly seemed like it had been reheated in the oven. Pork crackling was only 'crackling' on half of it.. the other side, tough and not crispy at all. The scallops, nice.. the asparagus could have been cooked a touch longer, but still ok. For the money, I wouldn't order it again.

The salads were not the usual run of the mill tomato, rocket, spinach, red onion, grated carrot and cucumber mix.. well that's what we got, but at least it had a decent dressing. I enjoyed the salad very much and didn't leave anything on my plate.

The merlot accompanying my meal was awesome, but in this hot weather, I asked for an iceblock. The waitress happily obliged.

Would I come back again? Yes I would, but I'll order something different. I hear the chicken wings with ranch dressing are to die for. Also good specials on certain days which I will take advantage of.

Cleanliness - good
Atmosphere - good , tv screen up high playing music.
Friendly staff - one of them was, the other just a little belligerent over the missing side salad with my entree.
Efficiency - good. For three of us, only 2 serviettes , cutlery clean
Mains came out when I was still eating entree. No...don't do that. Place wasn't busy so it's easy to keep an eye on my progress.

Not a bad experience, I only visited because the awesome Brushfoot cafe had just closed for the afternoon.