A Night to Remember
- December 17, 2007
- Rated 2 of 5 by
inimical from sydney, Australia
Top quality steaks are served here in an upmarket environment - with prices to match. Not one for your budget eaters! We dined here on a friday and the place was full of well-heeled business people, mostly males. It's an interesting setting in a colonial type heritage building. The dining area had the most impressive views of Sydney harbour, a must see for travellers.
I had a steak with chips and ended up eating every bit of steak and left the chips (if you know me, that's unheard of). My wonderful brother shouted me and my husband and his friend, and it started out as a lovely night.
Service was fantastic - we had a courteous and charming waiter, and although we had no complaints, we were sitting next to a table of two who had complaints aplenty ranging from how long it took their water to get to them, sending back their steaks, etc and the waiters were nothing but courteous and pleasant with them. I thought the service was exemplary in that regard.
The night fell apart for me through what I witness in the bathrooms. The rooms are quite small, and at first I thought I could hear a young woman being seduced by her boyfriend, or some other horseplay.
They were quite unaware of my presence. When I made my way into the main area of the restroom I was disgusted by what I witnessed. There was a waitress being fondled by another waitress, right there in the ladies! She had the poor girl inappropriately pinned against the wall, touching, in contact with and up against.
Disgusting!
The recipient of the seduction seemed far from amused or willing and was very emmbarassed by the time she realised that I was standing there.
I said nothing to them, I was too stunned. I like to think of myself as being fairly open minded but that was beyond a joke. It made me feel extremely uncomfortable.
It is a pity to have had such an otherwise pleasant dining experience ruined by a smutty mono-gender peepshow.
Australian hospitality staff are meant to represent the excellent standard of food service that Australia is known for. I would have to think of what an overseas guest would have thought of there circumstances.