Watermark Glenelg — Restaurant in Adelaide

(From the perspective of someone who prefers to eat mostly plant based)

Please consider adding- mushrooms, tomatoes, house made baked beans, bbq’d onion

Also, the vegan curry served today (the orange coloured dish near the chicken nuggets/French fries) was sorta……. disgusting slop, I wasn’t surprised that seemingly nobody touched it today (Saturday 13 July). I think whatever the sauce/curry/paste they used just made it kinda sickening, didn’t taste good. The tai green vegetarian curry I remember having on my last visit (months ago), was cleaner and less sickening.

It would also be nice if there were some bbq’d onion or leek or something (there’s only a little onion with the beef patty dish)

I wish there were more house specialty deserts that maybe weren’t so heavy. They all taste good, especially the chocolate cake, but they’re (again) so heavy you can only really only have a small amount. This includes the cake slices, the sticky date pudding, choc cake, pavlova, mini muffins (the mini muffins look like real bottom of the barrel stuff you’d buy from some factory. They look really dry.. Just go to woollies and buy the packets of muffins they sell at packets of 4 for $7 (the raspberry white choc for example)

You’re only option for a dessert which isn’t so heavy, is the apple crumble. That dish kinda saved the dessert section for me. It’s a rudimentary dish, but that’s kinda exactly what saves it from being overly dessert-ified and sickening.

But honestly if the stuff I’m most happy to eat there is mostly the sliced melon, roast potato and cooked apple with some breadcrumb on top….. then I may aswell eat all that at home for 5 bucks

At home I can also add to my meal- Tofu, Brussel sprouts, mushrooms and tomatoes.

So please add those 4 items. And next time for the vegan curry, just mix some coconut/soy milk with peanut butter or avocado. Throw in the veggies and tofu and you’ve done it. Indian food version (instead of orange slop today) just mix some hummus (make it in house without lots of oil, preservatives, citric acid)…. or perhaps tahini, with the coconut milk and add the spices. Tastes great

But if my critiques are of little value then please just consider adding tomatoes, bbq’d onion, and mushrooms, pretty...

I will NEVER recommend this place after the way we were treated by the "Manager" Peter and "Supervisor" Lucy. After waiting over 30 mins to get inside we were told we had the booking in the Restaurant not the Buffet. Considering I clicked "international buffet" on the online booking, I knew we were in the right place. Treated as though we were insignificant and failure to present a solution... Peter only sought to blame us and make excuses as to why we couldn't be accommodated in the buffet area. Lucy was no help with her snarky attitude even going so far as to say something behind my back. When asked if she would like to repeat what she had said to my face, she seemed surprised I had heard her considering the level of noise at the time. I have NEVER experienced such a lack of professionalism in my life. I was also dining with my mum who has a heart condition and diabetes so we had no choice but to eat there as she was feeling faint and shaking by this stage to the point I had to get her a chair to sit down. Not once did Peter or Lucy ask if she was OK despite her clearly not being OK. He even threatened to throw her out at one stage and accused her of calling him a liar.. which she did not do. We were ushered into the restaurant area, given a dirty and unprepared table with no plates or napkins. The service was so bad they never once clear any plates from our table. We were treated as though we were to blame for their inadequate system and treated like dishonest people who were going to try and skip out on lying for our meal. This was obvious when we were told several times where we could pay before we went to get food. I did pay, without hesitation before I got our first plates only to cop more attitude from Lucy. Again, I will never recommend this place to anyone as I wouldn't to be any way responsible for someone being treated like we were. Visitors to Glenelg, Google restaurants and bars in the area... there are plenty of great ones where you will be treated with respect. The Watermark Hotel, especially while Peter and Lucy are employed there is not...

We ate here on Wed 10th July with a 6.30pm booking with a group of 9. This was our 4th time eating here over the last year. We are always impressed with the food and variety on offer, including this time. The level of service on this night however was disappointing. We had to wait 15 mins at the counter before finally being served as they only had 1 person (a young lady) serving, who would serve 1 group and then seemed to disappear for some time (sometimes to the back office) before returning to serve the next group. When we were served I requested a high chair for our young child (I also requested this at the time of booking), and was told at the counter someone would bring me one. We were then shown to our table. We waited for a high chair for 5 mins before realising no one was bringing one with the person who served us at the counter just talking to another staff member. I asked a staff member who was walking past if we could please have a high chair. He rather rudely and in a rush told me I had to go and ask at the counter. When I told him I had already done that, he again in an annoyed tone said he would ask someone for me to get one. He then walked over to the kitchen area where he stood at the counter and just talked with other staff members while he waited about 5 mins for food to be cooked and then took those meals out to the bar area. Realising no one was going to do anything, I went back to the front counter and asked for the Hugh chair again to the original staff member who served us and asked her again for a high chair. Finally she arranged for someone to get one for us. Not sure if it's just the fact that they have alot of young people working for them front of house, but if this is the case they should consider having more experienced team members supervising on the floor and running the front desk. Our plates on the table weren't cleared even once while we were there, leaving us little space on the table. I hope this feedback will assist in implementing some improvements here as it is only the service letting you down...