Chris
31/08/2023
This was the first time I had visited the Old Noarlunga Hotel, despite living in the area for many years. Now I know why I had sub-conciously avoided it all these years.
We had a table for 10 booked, for a Birthday, on a Monday evening. We arrived early and provided a cake.
We were seated and looked at the menu while we waited for family members to arrive.
We ordered drinks first - and no, they do not have 'Coke', it's is 'Pepsi' only
When ordering meals, we asked for one of the meals - Salt & Pepper Squid with Chips & Salad, to have NO onion in the salad due to an allergy. We were told that this was not possible as "the salad's are pre-prepared" but " we can give you Vegetables free of charge, of course"
REALLY? - You cannot prepare an onion free salad due to a food allergy? and you are not going to charge me extra for your incompetence - well, THANK YOU! Read on - there is a kicker to this....
After ordering, we waited what seemed to be quite a long time for our meals - about 40 minutes before the first arrived.
9 meals eventually arrived, the 10th had still not arrived nearly 20 minutes later and we had to go to the counter, to question whether it had been forgotten. The meal arrived shortly after but by this time, several people had already finished their food.
The Salt & Pepper Squid - the one that had been served with vegetables due to the kitchen not being able to prepare a salad - at the conclusion of that meal - it was discovered that 1 piece of salad onion, had been placed underneath the stack of vegetables - I seriously wonder if this was just a coincidence/mistake - luckily the person had not eaten any of the vegetables in contact with this - otherwise this may have ended differently, other than with just a review.
The meal I had - A Chicken Schnitzel with a 'Shoey' topping of "Bacon, Onion, Mushoom, Cheese" sounded amazing on the menu but in reality, was unimaginably bland, it had no underlying sauce of any kind beneath the topping, there was NO bacon to be seen or tasted anywhere, barely any onion and the crumb on the schnitzel was not seasoned at all. Below average would be complimentary.
To cap it off, after providing candles for the cake and signalling to staff that we were NOT yet ready for the Birthday cake - they brought it out, approximately 4 - 5 minutes later, while 2 people were still eating their main course and 2 others were in the restroom - consequently missing the birthday song (The table had not even been cleared of plates) - Great work, Old Noarlunga Hotel staff.
As you can imagine, we won't be hurrying back and would not recommend.