We came for a nice family dinner to what is supposed to be the number 2 restaurant in Airlie. I have no idea how this place gets a number 2 rating. Firstly it can't decide if it wants to be a restaurant with a focus...on food and beautiful views, or if wants to be a bar catering for the crowd who are there to play pool and get drunk, or for the apartment/hotel residents who are there to have a swim in the pool that is 2metres away from the restaurant. Plus the view doesn't look like profile picture because there are 2 pool fences partially blocking the ocean views that have been photo shopped out. It's difficult to have a pleasant dinner when you can't have a conversation across the table due to the yelling, yahooing and smoking coming from the large crowd around the pool table 4 meters away. Not sure why you would also waste valuable table space for a restaurant with an ocean view by giving the pool table area the best views when no one is even there to look out over the ocean. The food was also only average, we had the Anchor can't decide platter that has pretty much a bit of everything on it, and nothing on there was great or anything that I would order again.
If you are looking for somewhere with great food in Airlie, The Deck, Mika, The Belvedere, or Northerlies are much better.More
