The Lonsdale Hotel Lonsdale SA

The Lonsdale Hotel Lonsdale SA

25/27 Sherriffs Rd, Lonsdale SA 5160, Australia
Visit The Lonsdale Hotel in Lonsdale, South Australia.They have a bar and offer accommodation. This pub has an average rating of 4.1 out of 1714 reviews, with the latest ratings ranging from 2 to 5. It appears there are mixed reviews for the The Lonsdale Hotel.
If you want to have a drink and play the pokies, this pub has 40 registered gaming machines.

Customer Review

Can't recommend this place highly enough, you couldn't find friendlier staff if you tried! The service is incredible and delivered with a friendly smile, nothing is ever too much trouble, and the atmosphere is great. This is my favourite pub to frequent despite living over 25km away - we keep coming back because the service is second to none. Not only that, but their sweet potato fries are to die for!

Opening hours

Monday: 11:00 AM - 05:00 AM
Tuesday: 11:00 AM - 05:00 AM
Wednesday: 11:00 AM - 05:00 AM
Thursday: 11:00 AM - 05:00 AM
Friday: 11:00 AM - 05:00 AM
Saturday: 11:00 AM - 05:00 AM
Sunday: 11:00 AM - 05:00 AM

Latest reviews

Esther Stanley
03/08/2024
We came for dinner this evening, we had mixed grill. It was really nice, service was excellent, staff were really professional. Especially Jack who had an excellent phone manner when we booked. He was extremely helpful and friendly.🙂
Jean Arnold
08/07/2024
Went out for tea last night 7th July, the food was excellent and plenty of it. The Staff could not be faulted they were courteous and obliging and the meals came out really quickly after we had all ordered. Thank you for the service it was my 82nd Birthday and two of my Grand Children's birthday, so very special. Myself and Family will most definately recommend the The Lonny for a good night out
Vanessa Pollard
06/07/2024
We have been coming here for years and have never had any issues. The new menu for this winter has had almost nothing for vegetarians to eat. A salad or a cheese pizza. When I asked the staff about this I was told that they needed to make cuts to the menu to stop food wastage. I suggested that they still needed to have vegetarian options and was told that there were not enough vegetarians to warrant them having any options. I would think remaining an inclusive restaurant would have been a consideration but unfortunately not.
Felicity Pycroft
26/06/2024
Came for dinner tonight and could not complain. The meal was amazing. Fresh, crunchy and delicious.
The service fantastic and the place is looking amazing.
Found the guy working to be super efficient. He even noticed we needed a take away container without asking, just bought to our table when collecting plates.
Have to have take away, the meal was huge
10/10 we will be back!!
Thanks again!!
emm
30/04/2024
We recently moved from Sydney and this has become our local. We've had multiple amazing meals here! It's a beautiful pub with a gorgeous pavilion style eatery out the back that we love to sit in. Every time we've come the staff have been amazing, so friendly and always ensure the kids have a fun activity book to play with. The food is AMAZING! The serves are large for the price and always taste beautiful. Pictured a few of our favourite dishes. We can't go past the chicken caesar salad, southern fried chicken burger and of course beef schnitzel! We'll be back!
Katie Hart
31/01/2024
This place has the best food around the south area. Great choices, reasonably priced, decent sized serves, awesome staff, nice decor. The Cove Hotel needs to take note, we drive past that to go here. It's my favourite go to in the area.
Bronwyn Alexander
28/01/2024
Compliments to the chef! Amazing food!! Extensive menu. Great, friendly service. I ordered the prawn & blue swimmer crab linguine which was superb, way better than other places I've tried. Generous servings and timely delivery to table. Open for all day dining is a bonus. A quiet place to meet with lots of seating choices.
Rebecca McGraw
26/01/2024
Worst Place! Can't cook a steak!! Asked for Medium Rare comes out almost welldone! Not once but twice!! Waited an hour for steaks to he overcooked again! Shane the manager useless imbecile! Good luck dealing with him hasn't got a clue what he is doing or what food even is! Avoid save your money
Mario Carbone
14/01/2024
Went for lunch on New Year's eve with Family. Service was good, but the roast of the day that I had was barely warm and lacking flavour. The meal prices tend to be a little on the expensive side for a Pub meal as well. Apart from that it still was a good experience.
Ken PEGLAR
13/01/2024
Attended there 12.30 on 12/1/24 for a group lunch booking made 3 weeks prior. The dining room had plenty of empty tables despite our group of 50. All meal orders were in by 12.40. Only 3 meals had been served to our group in just under an hour later. No explanation, no offer of free drinks. My wife and I left in disgust at 2.00pm having obtained a cash refund from the dining room manager. At that stage, no other meals, other than the 3 brought out earlier, had been delivered to our group. Meanwhile, other patrons who had arrived after our group had ordered were being served their meals. It is my understanding meals were finally being served to our group at about 2.15 pm.........
If you as a licensee have X number of tables in your dining room it means you are saying you have the capability to be able to prepare and serve meals within a reasonable time of them being ordered. This is particularly the case when you were given 3 weeks notice of the numbers attending. If your circumstances had changed you should have had the common decency to say so on our arrival.
A delay of 95 minutes without any explanation is just an insult. Appalling lack of communication and customer service. Never again.
Drew Paull
21/09/2023
Come here often the staff would recognise me, normally they are a good pub but tonight My meals were forgotten, asked for A refund as my kids had finished and were rowdy, I was over it and wanted to go home. They wanted me for to wait for the meal. I got the refund but Customer service should have prevailed with refund and my meal as a take away. No sure how I feel as a semi regular
lynne bonalini
27/08/2023
Dined here last night with a large number of friends. I had the salmon which was cooked to perfection and was delicious. The meals were all large and there were no complaints. The prices were a little on the high side. The staff were pleasant and the food was served hot and not too long a wait. Unfortunately there was another very large group with at least 10 children who were loud and running around the dining room with no control from the parents which spoiled our night a little but all in all I would go back again.
lauren farrelly
22/08/2023
The lonsdale hotel has been my go to for years. I came for dinner last night so excited to eat at my favourite establishment with the best Diane gravy I've ever had and to my displeasure they've changed it!! I couldn't believe it and I'm still in shock, it was runny and had no taste, nothing compared to the rich and creamy Diane I know and love, I really hope this reaches the chef and they can do me and the rest of the locals the honour of bringing back the old recipe.
Jill Sloane
20/07/2023
Had lunch here today with s group of people. ( all seniors) Prices have increased and no seniors discount offered. I had a club sandwich and the chicken was dry and tough. Other members of our party had schnitzels and crumbed prawns which they also said was tough and dry. There would have to be a huge change in menu before we would revisit. Overall, disappointing, compared to how it used to be ??'?
Peter Osborn
15/07/2023
I have had several dinners, lunches and 4 birthday parties at the Lonnie never once was I unhappy with the food and service they provided and have friendly staff. I haven't had any time staying in their rooms but have had a few drinks in one when my cousin stayed there for my 60th and they were very comfortable and decor was up-to-date. Now the newly designed dining room is completed and it is fantastic it is a must see and enjoy the food the chefs are serving very happy.
Yvonne Irwin
12/07/2023
We have been long time customers but our most recent dining experience was rather lacking. Prices have gone up but the choice, quality and quantity was disappointing. My crumbed prawns were half batter, stodgy and lacking flavour. Neither my husband or I are a fan of greek salad, he found his a bit bitter. Another of our group had steak and veg. The steak was fine but it came with a small amount of potato bake and some greens. Old favourites including mixed grill, roast of the day, roast potatoes, pumpkin etc are no longer available. New chef? New menu....Trying to be more upmarket? Not impressed and not likely to return unless choices go back to what we prefer. Very disappointing 😪 there doesn't seem to be any discounted meals for seniors either.
Mario Capizzi
22/06/2023
As a regular customer of this hotel and a fan of its delicious food, I have
always been excited to dine here. However, my recent experience has left me thoroughly disappointed and questioning my loyalty. Tonight, I decided to enjoy a meal at this establishment, only to discover that the food was nothing short of disgusting.
I approached the staff to inquire about the sudden change. To my dismay, they informed me that there was a new chef at the helm and a completely revamped menu.
Regrettably, this disappointing experience has left me with no choice but to stop frequenting this hotel.

I m hoping that they will find their way back to the culinary excellence they were known for.
Allison Bretones
20/06/2023
Noticed it's a new menu so prices have gone up but the oyster were amazing. Unfortunately our other meals were not. My salt and pepper squid was stringy, my husbands meal came out with gravy instead of red wine juss (which is why he ordered it) we have been there several times as the food is normally good quality but will think twice about coming back
Joanne Trewin
05/03/2023
Family loved their meals. My steak was a bit tough. Service was a bit slow. We noticed some that ordered after us was getting their bread and garlic bread before us. I had to go and ask for our garlic bread. But everything else was delicious 😋
Rob JW
24/01/2023
really impressed with the service at dinner tonight. staff were really friendly. complimentary slice of bread hit so good, and then our meals (we shared the entree beetroot arancini + the chicken parmi sliders) were perfect. very affordable too. this might just be our new go-to pub since we live down south, and some of the other pub options around this side of town are a bit disappointing.
Kerry-Anne McVeigh
21/01/2023
Had lunch in the Bistro today. Light bright room with plenty of tables. Friendly attentive staff. I ordered the Mild curry lamb pie with mashed potatoes and Greek salad. Devine! Fresh and tasty
Bernie Golab
06/01/2023
Rubbish place. Used to be one of the best. Something has broken here. Gone to the dogs. Booked ahead, ordered....and then an hour's wait for dinner to arrive due to a wrongly entered table number..... When delivered, food was cold due to having been sat in the chef's " ready" rack for 40 minutes. Pathetic. Theres better pubs up the road and they're not hard to find.... 😎
Tanya Walters
05/01/2023
Went out to dinner before restarting work for 2023 and the food was amazing. Portions were huge and so delicious. Definitely an enjoyable meal, ambience in the restaurant was great and the staff were very helpful and so pleasant.
Natasha Baird
04/01/2023
Unfortunately did not enjoy meal at all. Frozen Crinkle cut chips texture and taste terrible, mushroom gravy was really unusual did not taste like gravy at all it was set like jelly and schnity was oily. Could of just been a bad night as really busy being New years Day. Staff were nice
ewan Brunton
13/12/2022
Food was great (I had the oysters).
You better be really hungry, the servings are VERY generous.
Plus you can get free lemon lime and bitters in the gaming room - great work team.
The gaming room does have a great space and ambience.
Samantha Pratt
26/09/2022
I am a frequent customer of the Lonny. Last night I did a phone order for 4 meals and mine wasn't in the bag. When I let them know they were very apologetic and immediately cooked my meal. Whilst waiting for a second time, a staff member came out and gave me a free beverage for the inconvenience! Once I was finally given my meal another staff member informed me that the meal had been recorded but not charged when I paid over the phone - but they were not going to make me pay and gave me my meal on the house! The inconvenience did not bother me but I was extremely impressed by the way the staff handled it!
Darryl Garner
10/09/2022
We have been regulars of the Lonsdale Hotel for about 10 yrs, but after our meal tonight it is the straw that broke the camels back. For the past 3yrs the service and meals at the Lonsdale have been on the decline, we just put it down to COVID and not being able to get the staff and gave them 4 more tries, all of which were disappointing, but tonight changed all that, we will NEVER be returning to the Lonsdale and we will NOT be recommending it to any of our friends or family.

We were a table of 4 and had a booking at 6:30pm, the bistro was full so we expected there would be a bit of a wait. We ordered our meals and were not advised that there would be an extended wait for them. Over an hour we waited and when the meals came there was no apology for the wait time at all.

My partner had ordered the main size serving of Garlic prawns and rice, which was $28 and when it came out there were only 8 prawns. When he asked if this was a main size he was advised that it was the size of their main serve.

When we were asked how our meal was we said it was disappointing and also complained about it taking over an hour but were simply told they were busy.

We were not seeking any refund but simply wanted the staff to acknowledge the wait time and apologise for it. None of which occurred.

We understand that they were busy but they took the bookings and knew exactly how many people they had to cater for, and if their kitchen could not cope, how is that the customers fault.
Well done Lonsdale Hotel if I could give you zero stars I would. We will never be back.
Bridgette White
10/09/2022
Wow what an experience tonight. After changing out mind last minute and getting a table with no booking.
Very very high service tonight
Table water n bread very nicely serviced. Very friendly n polite staff. Quick service and amazing taste of food. Very impressed.
Very welcoming place and thanksfull when we left. Honest a new experience at a hotel tonight.
Food was very nice ful of flavour and fresh .
Linda Collins
04/09/2022
Came here for fathers day. Food quality and portion size amazing. Service great as usual. Nothing too much trouble for young man who served us and put leftovers in containers . Quick service too
Michael Manning
26/08/2022
We had lunch at the Lonsdale hotel. I had fish and chips and he had a seafood plate. Both were generous serves. The fish was beautiful as was the beer batter which was light and crispy. The side salads were pretty ordinary and the bread wasn't too fresh. The service was efficient but the server was a bit grumpy.
Tracey poynter
07/07/2021
We are regulars and have never had a bad meal here. We will keep coming back. The rib eye steak with creamy garlic sauce is to die for. Mixed grill is fantastic if you're really hungry. Lovely staff too.
Michelle Booth
27/05/2021
Have eaten at the bistro a number of times now and have always experienced excellent service and quality meals. Each time I have chosen a different selection and all have been a cut above your average pub meal. And the desserts are to die for!! Many thanks to Tristan and the rest of his staff.
tania bailey
25/05/2021
Tonight was my third visit to the Bistro for an evening meal.
The customer service has always been good but tonight the way Tristan looked after us was exemplary. It was as if he knew what we wanted before we did. Nothing was too music trouble and Tristan's manner was friendly and professional. He obviously loves his job and does it to the best of his ability.
Thank you for a wonderful meal and outstanding customer care. Why would we go anywhere else?
Philip Cartledge
27/04/2021
Did not have us booked in at 7pm even though we phoned earlier in the day. After waiting 90 minutes and not receiving our food, we watched another couple which had been there only 30 minutes receive theirs. At this time I went to ask about ours and was told it was coming straight out. After a further 15 minutes we went to the manager, demanded our money back and left. We will NOT be back.
Jennifer Trewin
23/04/2021
Fantastic Food and Service! I have sampled many different meals from the menu and they all are of outstanding quality! Staff are always welcoming and friendly. I would definitely recommend dining at the Lonsdale.
Sandy Lewis
17/04/2021
Here now celebrating our 39th wedding anniversary. I can't fault this place. Just had the best meal ever... staff are top notch food atmosphere great. Love this place.
Roger Andrew
19/03/2020
We love it. Always a good meal and staff get 4 stars for great service with a smile. ud83dude09ud83dude0a
Alison Sanders
22/02/2020
Can't recommend this place highly enough, you couldn't find friendlier staff if you tried! The service is incredible and delivered with a friendly smile, nothing is ever too much trouble, and the atmosphere is great. This is my favourite pub to frequent despite living over 25km away - we keep coming back because the service is second to none. Not only that, but their sweet potato fries are to die for!
Laura Harris
20/02/2020
What a busy hotel buy the staff were lovely finding a table for us at the bistro. An the bar girls even th I run off there feet were still smiling. Had a lovely meal. Yes we had to wait a while for our meals. But hey if you saw how many people were there it was a common sense thing. But our meals were worth waiting for!!!
Bernie Golab
30/01/2020
Surprisingly, consistently, good quality food and friendly service. Extended kitchen hours. They have always fitted me in as a casual roll-up. Best pub meals and value in the Southern 'burbs Thanks folks!
Gray Bill
05/10/2019
Good big sized meals. Friendly staff. The hotel also has gaming facilities and lots of car parking space. Lovely gardens and dining area. I would recommend going for a meal here and the venue is also great for large groups. nOur iced drink I think got forgot and took a long time to come out but was worth the wait. So big and delicious.