Dish Restaurant & Wine Bar

When Dish opened a few years ago it was marketed as a tapas and wine bar. It has now changed focus due to a new chef (and I assume new ownership). These days, Dish primarily serves Mexican and Pizza with a smattering of other options. Our experience this week for dinner was mostly positive. Our waiter was polite and reasonable efficient, which is commendable considering he was the only waiter working and he was also helping in the kitchen. We ordered starters and mains, and the only negative aspect of the evening is we did wait about an hour for our meals and the starters arrived at the same time as the mains. Our table had Pizza, the burger, nachos and steak. All meals were very big and very tasty. Would recommend.

Well folks , I'm not sure about this place , its personnel are Indian , but they make Mexican/Texmex/Modern food , so there seems to be a bit of an identity crisis here.We chose to eat lunch , as is our habit , and we chose 4 entrees , to be served at the same time , tapas style.We chose the Calimari , Buffalo wings, Guacamole & Pork Belly , with a cranberry juice chaser.Water to the table was swift , followed by menus , and a verbal rendition of the specials.We ordered , as above , order taken , confirmed simultaneous delivery of all items.Wait for the first to be delivered was about 10 minutes , very reasonable , it was the Guacamole , and it was excellent , one of the best we've had outside of Mexico/Texas. The corn chips were good quality to match.This was followed by the Calamari , soft , not rubbery , could have done with a more robust spice , but very acceptable. A couple of seconds more in the deep fryer would have crisped up the batter to excellent.We were then presented with the Buffalo wings , with a Chilli sauce , but as some of you will know , my wife and I are Chilli heads from when the Earth was young , so these were not challenging for heat , but the flavour was excellent.The final presentation was the Pork Belly , with Scallops , a well presented , and quite exquisite combo , and whilst not a perfect dish , it was quite good. It needed 2 things to have made it excellent , a bit less well cooked Pork , and a touch more cooking of the Scallops , just on one side , a bit of caramelise would have made them delightful.So , would we return , most likely , there is promise here , maybe the owners need a bit of a shakeup , and a set of directions , but the chef shows potential , and the wait staff were good.

We dined there last week for dinner with a friend and were rewarded with beautiful food. The wine list is also quite good. My husband's steak was cooked to his order, and my slow cooked beef cheeks just melted! Well done!

I went to The Dish hungry so decided to have the steak sandwich. Wow, it was totally satisfying and too delicious to stop. Took a little while for the food to arrive but not enough to be annoying.

Recommended by someone at another restaurant because that place was booked full. I ordered the sambal prawn for both my partner and me. Only one serve presented at the table and when I asked about the other one I was told 'miscommunication'. I let that pass to the keeper but when I asked for the steak but to please hold on the mushrooms (I loathe them) and that was acknowledged by the waitress the steak came smothered in mushrooms and sauce. Of course I refused to accept it and it was taken back, only to be "replaced" by another steak, this time as bare and dry as possble AFTER 2 MINUTES. No steak is cooked welldone in 2 minutes and it was obvious that it was steak nr 1 cleaned under the tap and 2 minutes on the stove. Foul. Moreover, my partner ordered the red emperor, to be told there was none. Imagine, 6 items on the main menu, Saturday night dinner and they did not have one of them. The plates and other assorted crckery piled high on the bench that separates the dining room from the kitchen instead of keeping them out of sight under the counter on a shelf. While we were eating and other diners next to us were leaving a waitress started to furiousl spray and clean the tables instead of respectfully wait for us to finish our meal. All without so much as a "I'm sorry for the mix up" from the owner or staff. Yet a full bill to be paid, even though my main course was a culinary abomination. Never again and my partner, very wellknown in Gympie, won't be that complimentary about the place either.