Reviews by Sarah22

  • Olarndo Thai

    - 321 Bay st, Port Melbourne VIC

    Overall 0.3 - Food 1, Value 0, Speed 0

    I've never put a bad review in for anything in my life but I wanted to save people the disappointment of ordering here. Ordered green chicken curry. It's inedible! The taste is weird. Not like a thai green curry at all. It's dark in colour like it's been over reduced or something. It's incredibly salty. Horrible. The boiled rice is overcooked, stodgy to the point where you can't see individual grains. The container was 3/4 full. Both are going in the bin. Value for money? 0. The flavour of the rice paper rolls were ok but fell apart upon eating. Ordered at 7:20. ETA was 8:18. It arrived at 8:50 but was the wrong meal. This was quickly rectified though. Give it a miss. There are too many great thai places in this area. Vegemite toast wins tonight.   (Sarah22 - April, 2012)

  • Freestyle Tout - Emporium

    - 1000 Ann st, Fortitude Valley QLD

    Overall 6.3 - Food 8, Ambience 8, Value 8, Service 1

    Love this place (or used to). Came home from Melbourne to visit family and on the way home from the airport we stopped in for a treat. When we got there it was reasonably busy but several tables free. Despite this we had to stand out in the cold unsure of whether to seat ourselves (the 'please wait here' sign hidden from view). After about 4 minutes a waitress indicated we were to wait at the door by which stage there were 2 other parties also waiting to be seated. After about 8 minutes we were finally showed to one of the still empty tables and given menus. I hadn't had dinner so while everyone else was ordering sweets- I was going to just get hot chips. Minutes passed as we were immersed in conversation- catching up.

    35 minutes later we all started trying to get the attention of a staff member- most of whom seemed to be avoiding our attempts to signal them. Waiting time can easily be forgiven if you can see the place is busy and the staff are run off their feet- but there were 2 or 3 waiters standing around not doing much at all.

    Eventually a lovely young man came to take our order only to tell me the kitchen closed 10 minutes ago and the chef is pretty strict about the cut off time. I hardly need to say that had our orders actually been taken shortly after we got there- when they should have- I would have got my order in. Add to this my sister's coffee never came and my brother's initial menu choice had run out of stock- I will unfortunately never be going back. A once loved restaurant has been tarnished by this awful experience.   (Sarah22 - July, 2010)