Village Tavern Hotel - Golden Grove

Poor quality food & limited choice of wine. The garlic bread I had still had the plastic on it obviously frozen from supermarket! The chicken schnitzel was dry & there was a strong smell of oil permeating through the hotel from the fryers! Very little choice in wines which was surprising as Dan Murphy's is right next door!

My wife and I chose The Village Tavern as it has an inside Playroom for children. We arrived at opening time for the restaurant at 11.30am on the Sunday. Yes, the Playroom was OK, but other than that I was only SO SO impressed. The service was terrible. Mix up re our table, only table no plates, menu's or salt and pepper. The food was again only so so. Definitely could cook better myself. Took forever to pay as they kept making mistakes. No, will not go back again.

The venue is extremely busy which is usually a good sign for patrons. This was the case as the line up to order our meals was several meters long. This creates a bit of a wait but worth it in the end. The staff are friendly enough but are too busy to engage in general discussion. The meals come out rather quickly considering the restaurant was almost at full capacity and we were in the function room which is not normally used on some week nights. I ordered the Salt & Pepper Squid and it was a large serving and was very tender and I enjoyed every bit of it. My fellow club members had a variety of meals and I did not hear a bad remark from any of them. As far as costs are concerned I felt that the meals were very good and the price was edging up from when I last ate there. Overall a good experience with staff and food.

We called in 2 nights ago for dinner, we hadn't booked and assumed we could get a table for 2. We were told the dining room was booked out, however we could order from either if the 2 other areas available. We sat in the sports bar. Meals came out reasonably fast and it was pretty good value, for a pub meal. The salad bar didn't have a great selection, but was still reasonable. My only real complaint was that we ordered oysters kilpatrick as an entree and our mains arrived probably 2-3 minutes after the entree, which meant by the time we finished our entree the mains were quite cool.the staff were very helpful, professional and friendly. I would definitely go back. As a pub meal, this place delivers

Stopped in for lunch on a Monday, less than half the restaurant occupied. The meals took 40 minutes to arrive. The V Burger was huge and delicious, the salad/veg bar was average and my coke was flat. We had a birthday lunch booked for later int he week, that has now been cancelled , will not be rushing back.