Don't go on the weekend. The staff are inept. They forget food orders, table numbers, and let kids run amok around the pool table.
No sensible service of alcohol here.
Kids accompany parents to the bar and carry back drinks. Late diners have to clean their own tables. The menu is so overpriced a schnitty and chips and gravy will set you back nearly $30. And you get about 8 chips, no salad dressing and a tiny piece of chicken with sinew running through it. And you only get it if they can find your table after it has been around the whole dining room and bar area. It's stone cold.
But they don't offer a new, FRESH meal as a replacement. No, it goes in the microwave because the Chef is in a foul mood.
And parents don't supervise their kids. They take them to the pool table to make as much noise as they like banging around the pool balls. And they leave them there, unsupervised.
If this is your idea of a great day out by all means go. We are locals we know the better food is at the Palmer Pub, 16 klms and five minutes down the road. Service with a smile, great bar staff who remember your orders and a menu that changes often. And very reasonably priced.
And the Mannum Community Club needs a face lift, a new air conditioning unit and some fly spray.
Vote with your feet. We try and support the local businesses but can only support the local product if it's deserved.
The pics. 1-2 are of the Mannum Community Club,
Chicken Schnitty with soggy salad.
Cold linguine with prawns and crabmeat.
In comparison, pics 3 and 4 show a beautiful Thai salad at the Bridgeport, Murray Bridge with grilled chicken that will set you back about $24.
And a deliciously FRESH, linguine with prawns and a sauce to die for. Not out of of a jar.