Rogue Bistro — Restaurant in Brisbane City

We gave this restaurant 3 stars due to the overall experience. Choosing this restaurant based on reviews we can only think that we were there on the wrong night. As we couldn’t get in on a Saturday night we opted for Sunday. We booked for 7.45 so not late. We had cocktails to start & then our first part of the meal arrived. We were served our entree not long after. By the time our first main the duck was served the kitchen was already packing up. Most other diners had already left upstairs where we were seated. We then had to watch staff washing dishes, listen to the clatter of cutlery being dried & put away, see the downsizing of the kitchen through the dining room, plastic tubs being transported to storage through the dining room & lots of cleaning up noise. It was totally disruptive to our intimate dining experience. The duck was served at below room temperature. We were told because it’s more of a salad. The Venison we could clearly see already plated well before being served. It was delivered to the table with over piping hot potatoes & warm Venison. All the while the cleaning up was going on around us. We felt we had become an inconvenience & as we thought & had read was supposed to be a overall exceptional dining experience, wasn’t. To be fair the service from Jasmine was exceptional. She was, friendly, professional, attentive & apologetic. It was the overall experience & some of the food that let us down. Understanding it’s the end of a long week for staff. It’s still no excuse to pack down a restaurant around clients at any stage until they have left. We were offered a table downstairs to have dessert so we wouldn’t have to endure any more disruptions. To have to move tables half way through a meal so staff can clean up, with a $350 bill is unacceptable. My recommendation would be don’t make bookings upstairs on a Sunday. With a further note, we had the matching wines, with a disappointing end to discover the dessert wine matched with dessert (my favourite part of the meal was delicious) was actually a digestif, not a delicious sticky to compliment the dessert but a bitter drink more suited to after dinner. We couldn’t drink it & on top of the $100 wine pairing, had to order a suitable matched dessert wine & pay extra, that we did enjoy. We do appreciate that Rogue does have top stars & good reviews. That’s why we were so excited to be dining there. Unfortunately our experience was less than expected & lacked finesse & love on the plate from...

I’m going to be critical, but when everyone at the restaurant is following a $95 set menu, with a set seating time, you come in with expectations and its hard to find excuses for everything not being pretty spot on. The service at the door was a vibe, it created the atmosphere of an experience. Partially thanks to this, the dimly lit and plain black space actually does enough. I’m glad we weren’t dining upstairs, that area felt like an extension, plus downstairs looks across to the kitchen and is all round more lively. The food was mostly good, the flat iron steak was the star, duck so close behind but the salty crispy textures of the parsnip(?) overpowered everything else for me. The watermelon was the perfect palate cleanser, and dessert was lovely except the mango was lost. Entrees were fun for the variety but smoked butter nor sourdough was anything special, the tacos were different for the size but it was a mouthful that tasted like steamed corn kernels. I was just confused by the frozen gazpacho. The scallop substitute - pork-loin actually felt dry in the mouth especially with the bacon crisp, and I was searching for pawpaw. Presentation wowed and service did most things perfectly, but we had a few different waiters/waitresses - the personality of some certainly friendlier than others. We were also hurried out, our last course was served and cleared very quickly and we were asked if we wanted the bill. Wine pairing felt worth while but the martini was also excellent. Overall food more miss than hit (considering the price), service a bit of both. I appreciate the dedication to catering to a large range of dietary requirement, if I was vegan, GF ect I may think differently, but for $95 there is a lot of competition, I need to be...

I'm always absolutely blown away going to Rogue Bistro. The value for the quality of food far exceeds any other restaurant in Brisbane in my opinion. The amount of work, time and effort the team at Rogue Bistro put into designing these dishes can be seen in each one of their fantastic creations. I love that they will always push themselves to experiment and play with new textures and flavour combinations. It's just so fun for a foodie to experience.

I went to the February degustation recently and the duck was amazing. That dish stood out immediately but I also love the way the steak was paired. At first I found it very odd mixing the flavour of pork fat in the crackling with the steak together but over time I've really kept thinking back to the flavours and textures of that dish and finding myself wanting more. I also couldn't decide which dessert I loved more which is saying something because usually I am quite confident in which desserts I prefer. The meringue dessert took me by surprise because I'm not usually a fan of meringue but after tasting that dessert I would call it a meringue dessert for the people who don't like meringue haha. I loved the rose water compressed watermelon as well. Looking up the process of making that dish was very interesting.

Atmosphere and staff as always was wonderful. Couldn't have had a better night. This review was long overdue. Thank you again Rogue...