The Reef Hotel - GLADSTONE CENTRAL

We were passing through Gladstone and only stayed one night. We weren't looking for fine dining. Just somewhere where we could have good food in pleasant surroundings at a reasonable price. We'd checked out The Reef Hotel in the afternoon and it looked like it could offer that. Unfortunately it was a little disappointing. The place is obviously popular as there were lots of people there. That made the initial ordering tedious - we queued for about 20 minutes while the single lady on the till seemed to be having all sorts of problems taking people's orders. We then waited another 40 minutes for 2 quite simple dishes - one curry and one grilled fish. When the food eventually arrived one order was wrong (though it was quickly fixed up) and the curry was more like a stew, very unappetising. Note to chef, if you don't know how to make a decent curry then don't bother cos no-one is expecting a curry in a country pub. The other meals we saw looked good and serving sizes in general were huge, so maybe we were just unlucky.

Stayed at the Reef hotel- for 2 nights ,good view from room , comfortable bed , clean

Had a late dinner after taking grandkids to movies, relaxed with a good beer and food.Had steamed dumplings Asian style and Cajun Barra with vegies great food. Very well priced and a good feed.

Went with a group of workmates on our first night in Gladstone as had been given 2 for 1 vouchers for the bistro. Steak meals inconsistent in size (all supposed to be 400g but some lucky to be 200g). I waited ages after the others for my meal and my medium steak was blue. They offered to cook it further for me but after 25 mins I asked again where my meal was, I was offered a drink and my money back and another meal but after a long day at work I don't want to spend an hour and a half waiting for a below standard meal. I won't be back to this establishment for a meal. The service was lousy and so were the meals.

My friend ordered a rare steak and came out well done, his mushroom sauce had a carrot in there that had turned brown. My partner and I meals came out 45 minutes after our friends meal. Duty manager was embarrassed about it and gave us free round drinks and $10 voucher. She was the only good thing about the venue.