Ansels 'Calabash'.
Had lunch there yesterday. There would have been 8 people max in the restaurant. We were going to go somewhere else but she who likes fish saw the lunch menu and we dcided to give it a whirl.
The specials for lunch were rump steak, or crumbed fish of the day (Barramundi), or calamari. All with salad and chips for $9.90
I ordered the rump, medium rare, and the SO got the fish. First drinks arrived in the right amount of time. The meals arrived after 30mins wait. I ordered another drink when they arrived. After another 15mins and finishing my lunch, I went up to the bar and got the beer myself. Took the stubby back to the table and drank from the bottle. You should have seen the looks of disapproval!! A waitress came up and asked if I would prefer to drink it out of a glbutt, I said no.
At $5 per stubby of Tooheys New, you'd think they'd have them flowing out to the patrons. The young girl behind the bar was stressed to the max....... and she only had *3* drinks orders on the bar!! Mine being one of them!!
But........ the meals. The steak was overcooked, and I was charged an extra $2.50 for some garlic butter to put on top of it. The so called "Barramundi" tasted like cod..... very fishy, so I ended up having that because the SO doesn't like her fish to taste like fish. Go figure.
And to top it off, several other of the 8 patrons in the place were complaining of long waits to get drinks/food.
We ended up finishing my second beer and walking out..... but not until after helping the waitress work out how much change she was supposed to give me. DUH!!
Will be going back to the Cove in the near future, but Clabash is definitely on my 'Not to visit' list.
-- Peter Lucas Brisbane Australia
At this spectacle even the most gentle must feel savage, and the most savage must weep.
Turkish Officer 400 Plateau 24May1915
