The Lion Hotel, North Adelaide SA

Pay $22 for a Bayleys at the end of the night. Start to enjoy it and the waiter tells you. Sorry you will have to pour it into a plastic cup. I need your glass and I am staying in the apartments next to the hotel. Not allowed to take to the room. Must be expensive crystal - NOT!!

We went for a chill out Sunday day time lunch and ordered burger specials and calamari. Food tasted good and burger deal is reasonable. However, problem started when we ordered macadamia cake and vanilla ice cream. My wife ordered and paid at the bar and when she went to toilet and the staff member came and requested for the payment as I was told the previous payment did not go through. I paid with my credit card. Later at that day we checked and we were charged twice for the same item. This is not acceptable and bad customer experience. I have raised via email this issue and never heard back from the venue. Only reason I gave them 2 stars because food was good. Otherwise, it would had been zero because of this double charging.

The reason I changed the rating because lion hotel contacted and provided refund for overcharged amount.

End of year, work dinner. There were only 4 of us. We had a table in the bistro. It was a hot day and it was uncomfortably hot in there. Possibly just where our table was right in a corner, but it was really sticky.
We ordered entrees to share, they were delicious but unfortunately although we were far from finished our mains arrived.
That had us met with that awkward moment where the servers are like, my hands are full, can you make room in a table that literally has no room. So despite the fact we were still eating, we had to stack plates and move food from one plate to another to allow space to put down the next course.
Perhaps for future reference, order your entrees and have them and then order your mains.
After dinner, we went and sat outside, which was cooler and really nice next to the leafy trees.
It's not the establishments fault it was so hot, but definitely something to move the air around inside would be great.
On the food, it was yummy, the potato cakes were light and not oily. The trio of cheese dip was served with delicious garlic bread. If you get the warm nuts, it's a small serve. Smitzels were good-sized and the coating delicious.

My wife & I came into town this evening on The Overland Train and are staying at the Majestic Old Lion apartments. Wanted some where close to have dinner. We were both really happy with our food. I had the sweet and sour pork, which was yummy. My wife's Perri Perri chicken was great too by her account.

Gabby was immediately welcoming, so polite and friendly to all of us, good humour too. She is good at what she does!

Food was delicious and presented really nicely.
Tables were set up nicely, and was comfortably warm even though it's freezing outside.

My daughter had had her first taste of chocolate and approved.. 🥰