Dapple and Waver — Restaurant in Brisbane City

In all honesty, the food there is incredible and generally the staff is amazing. However, of late there seems to be one that brings down the atmosphere of the entire place, including the mood of their peers. And this is just from someone who is observing. I got her name the other night and I believe it to be Karen.

These are just a few of the things that I have noticed the are very disappointing to see from a team member working at such a nice place: Standing around talking to peers while they are trying to work Slightly adjusting items to look busy when there are clearly other more productive ways to be helping There were about 10 customers waiting to be served with only one person on till as the other was preparing cocktails and delivering them to tables as the person on floor was “busy” slightly adjusting items. Really doesn’t seem to care about assisting the rest of the team resulting in exhausted workers and annoyed customers. Overheard remarks made to peers stating she does not need to assist them with bar tasks as she is only a floor worker (this is definitely NOT want you want to hear a member of a TEAM saying) Making remarks to customers such as “you better hurry up and eat or your food will get cold” as though they are children Literally sitting down at the large picnic table while obviously not on any break and just looking around at the venue which is SUPER unprofessional and a horrible image to be portraying to customers. Overall seems like a useless team member just from observing and definitely think the team and establishment would be better off without her. You wouldn’t even need to hire a new team member because she is...

As a local, I really want to love Dapper and Weaver. It’s super convenient for me, and I give them bonus points for being dog-friendly. However, their outdoor seating area does suffer in summer due to the heat—something outside their control, but still a consideration.

Unfortunately, my recent experiences here have left me disappointed. I’ve noticed some newer staff behind the bar who come across as unfriendly. As a red wine drinker, it’s frustrating when wine is stored outside of a fridge, especially in 30°-40° weather. Room temperature for wine is not 37°! While I understand not every bar has a wine fridge, I’d expect some effort to keep the wine cool in such conditions. I’ve resorted to adding an ice cube, which isn’t ideal, but what really bothers me is the attitude I’ve received when asking how recently a bottle has been opened. This is a fair question to ensure I’m getting a fresh pour—especially when the wine isn’t stored properly. I don’t think it’s unreasonable, and the dismissive bordering on rude attitude makes it worse.

As for the food, it’s unfortunately pretty average. Edible, but often overly salty and greasy. I requested a minor change to menu item recently, which was declined due to “being busy” or “pre-preparation”—despite the fact there were very few customers in the restaurant. I get that not every place can accommodate changes, but when you add that to the challenges I have mentioned, things starts to add.

Again, As a local, I want this business to succeed, but at this stage, I won’t be returning for meals. I might stop by occasionally for a glass of wine and ice cube spiked with some...

Went there for breakfast this morning at 10pm Sunday 19th January 2020,, didn’t really like the food the mushrooms came out cold didn’t eat them, the bacon was hardly cooked went soggy and cold on plate really fast, our waiter forgot to bring us salt and pepper cause there was NONE on our table,2 mins before our coffees came out the waiter took our sugar bowl and gave to some other table, had to ask and wait to get sugar again!!!!! Took 25-30 mins to get our food!!!My Turkish bread on plate of breakfast had no butter was dry, and waiter brought out no butter with it, had to que in line at desk for 3 mins to get some couldn’t grab a waiter attention to busy, only 2 waiters on floor running around, under staffed as usual, when was ordering our breakfast I said to waiter can I know tomatoes on my plate please and I don’t like them or eat them at all, he said yes sure, I said can I have a SAUCE on the side INSTEAD of tomatoes he said yes sure, had paid for my meal when I released looking at my bill he had charged me $2 for sauce and he taking tomatoes off my order that are $3 to add if u wanted them, I said why u charge me for sauce, the tomatoes u took off my breakfast are worth $3 why not just swap, he goes, ohhh sorry we don’t do that here or swap, so I was down $3 from no tomatoes and he wanted to rob me $2 more for small sauce, I said stick your sauce give me my $2 back please, horrible place to eat over priced also, first time and last going here I promise you, if there was a 0 rating I would give it for this place, horrible...