Went to the tavern for a family dinner; the ambiance and live music was lovely (shoutout to the gentleman on guitar- best part of the evening!) and the service was perfectly fine, wait time reasonable for a Friday evening- but I was so disappointed by the food.
$29 for a parma is already a little steep but hey, it's a pub parma. Probably worth it, right?
Now I've only been in Australia for two years so I was asking my Aussie family if chips were included, because chips and veg were listed as sides for the steaks, but not the parmas. And they thought I was quite silly, what a thing to worry about! But turns out this is the one place on god's green earth that doesn't do parma and chips if you order the veg. Chips are only included with parma and salad- but you have to go to the front counter to pick up the salad.
The parma and veg wasn't even yummy. And this isn't a case of not liking the sauce recipe or something- the food didn't taste bad, it just didn't taste like anything at all.
I was planning to buy dessert at the end but had to pass. I've never had a bad parma before and I just didn't have the emotional fortitude to deal with a bad $13 cheesecake if that turned out to be yuck too.