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Okay, I don't eat out too often as it's a bit hard...

Okay, I don't eat out too often as it's a bit hard for me to find a place that will offer food that I actually like, but my friend just came to Sydney from Melbourne and booked a hotel in the CBD near Darling Harbour, so to make it easier for him I agreed to go out with him in that area.

It was hard to find a place to sit down and eat, but then we found Cargo Bar & Restaurant.

Well, maybe if you want a drink - this place is for you.
We popped in to get some food. Well - you do offer food, right? Right.
I got steak and my mate got chicken tenders.
I am so sorry but it was the worst steak I've ever had. Yes, it was medium, all fine - but the meat itself? Where do you get it from? It was just not yummy at all. AT ALL. I couldn't even finish it - not because I was full, but because I didn't like it.
It was mentioned that steak comes with the salad. What you forgot to mention was that 'salad' is just grass. No cucumbers, no tomatoes. Just grass.
My friend didn't like his tenders either, he mentioned they were TOO spicy (he is Indian, he is used to spices!) - I didn't try cause don't like spicy food.

On top of that, they brought our food separately. I got my steak and then, maybe 5-7 minutes later, he got his tenders. My steak got cold by the time my friend received his food - that's a bit strange, you don't usually do this... I can't eat when my friend hasn't yet received his food - that's impolite...

Anyway, I am absolutely upset, didn't like this place. If you are after some yummy food, Cargo Bar is not for you.

PS I would like to reply to the staff member that answered my review.

I get a super amazing $10 steak with chips, sauce and good salad (grass, cucumber, tomatoes) from Tennyson Hotel in Mascot. That's just to mention that your $10 steak is not the only one in Sydney / your steak is not the cheapest one.

I don't eat sauces, the only sauce I can tolerate is mushroom sauce, which you didn't have, that's why I refused to have any sauce. I never have any dressing on my salads either, so I would never complain about a salad being not good enough just because there's no dressing and will never complain about the steak being not good enough only because it comes without sauce - that's what I am used to.

Also, when I was entering the restaurant, I took a look at the menu. Steak that I noticed was $20, not $10. I even have a photo of the menu left on my phone. It wasn't me who made the order, it was my partner, so I wasn't aware that the steak price is actually $10. Is it some kind of promotion?

Even if it was some kind of promotion, still - there are much better steaks served for $10 in Sydney. Do you serve different rump steaks for $10 and $20?

Thank you for letting me know where your meat comes from. I am a great steak lover and I am surprised myself that I didn't like my yesterday steak THAT much - but I swear to God it really was the worst steak I've ever tried in terms of taste.

And I live in Sydney. That's only my mate who came here for a short business trip. :)

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