Chevron Tavern — Restaurant in Gold Coast City

I have to stress at the start that this review is of our takeaway experience at Chevron Tavern. NOT dining in. Having waited for my food order, the interior seemed cosy, clean, and well looked after.

There were also some redeeming qualities of my takeaway experience, hence rating 3 stars and not 2, but overall it was a very frustrating to mediocre experience at best.

On Thu 29 Dec '22, we had an arranged picnic at Main Beach and had the in-laws with us. Everyone has varying tastes and Chevron Tavern was on our way and seemed to cover a wide range of foods, so we figured we'd order all in one there instead of restaurant hopping on the way. Boy, did I regret that decision.

I phoned up well in advance (30+mins) to place my order, so that everything would be ready before time. The first bit of frustration came when the menu on their website, which I was ordering from, was completely out of date. Half the stuff I wanted to order was no longer actually on the menu. The girl who helped me over the phone was very helpful and friendly, she made sure to read my entire order back to me, and ensured she had everything correct, which she did. Took my number, name and even asked what time we'd be picking up.

I got to the Tavern to find out the girl who had taken my order had since left, and I got two blank stares from the two ladies behind the bar when I said I was there to collect an order under my name. Not only that, the blonde bar lady gave some snotty answer to the effect of "well X wrote something down, but I dunno what it was". I could tell this wasn't going to go well, but kept my cool, despite seeing our schedule go well behind.

To her credit, the dark-haired bar lady tried her best to help me, and was very friendly and patient, but ended up having to retake my entire order. She also did her best to rush the kitchen along, but needless to say it was a good 20mins later that I finally left with our food. Now I realise this isn't so bad in the grand scheme of things, but remember I specifically ordered ahead so I could just pick up and go, being on a schedule.

Not only that, but I was 5mins down the road then they phoned me up again--apparently miraculously having rediscovered my number--to say they'd missed my loaded fries, which meant I had to turn around AGAIN. Really just frustrating all round. And keep in mind this was a food order of over 100 dollars.

As for the food review: The salt and pepper calamari was well cooked, but fairly bland. Not much salt or pepper in the batter to speak of. On a bed of fairly bland, dry white rice. Not bad, but average at best. Much the same story with chicken satay. Well cooked, but bland chicken, with a sauce that has peanut in it, but that's where the similarities to satay ends. Not great, not bad. The caesar salad was okay. Tasty bacon, parmesan, croutons and a fresh egg. Too much salad leaves for our taste, but that seems to be par for the course on the Goldie. The garlic bread was very tasty and fresh. So A+ there. The steak was really well cooked, and medium as requested. Kudos to the chef for that, really hard to get a well cooked steak these days. Nice chips, too, but unfortunately we got two mushroom sauces where I specifically asked for pepper for dad with an extra mushroom for us. Dad doesn't eat mushroom, so had to be content with a bare steak. Again, had the phone order, which was originally correct, been put in and not rushed, stuff like this wouldn't have happened. Loaded fries were also good. Big portion, tasty chips and bacon.

So overall the entire experience was just mediocre to average at best. Some redeeming qualities, but disappointing to say the least. If you want a takeaway, steer clear of Chevron Tavern is my advice. I realise at the end of the day I shouldn't expect 5 star, gourmet at a tavern, but the bar is so high on the Gold Coast, especially in the Chevron area, I just...

It was our last night on the gold coast We were staying on the Nrth part of Surfis Paradise, decided on going to an Italian restaurant on Chevron Island, stopped in for a drink before dinner and we ended not leaving. Went up to the bar and we were served by a beautiful young man named Gabriel, bought drinks and we never left. We were having such a great night we decided to have dinner here. We had the scotch fillet and the chicken sniddie, both just good old pub meals but done with perfection. Chicken Schnitzel was made from scratch the chicken was delicious and juicy with hot salty chips and fresh salad that was also made fresh (not like the old wilted salad you usually get) and gravy on the side Scotch fillet was cooked to perfection medium rare juicy and same sides. I can't say enough about the bartender Gabriel and the chef both doing their jobs but doing them so well. The young man in the kitchen was cleaning and cooking as I could see him from where I was he never stopped and Gabriel the bartender fantastic customer service with an amazing personality. It's a...

Went there a few weeks ago for 2 for 1 special. It was really good. Chef came to our table to see how the food was. Went back tonight. Got there at 5.30 pm. Staff didn't even know which was the right menu. Actually staff were totally not interested in serving at all . Ordered a nacho which said on menu came with guacamole. It came with just sour cream, asked the staff for that, he had no interest at all. Took the whole plate back to the kitchen instead of just bringing some back in a small dish. No idea of hospitality or customer service. Had food on the table that was asked if I wanted to take home and I said no thanks it was horrible. Never said sorry I will ask the chef. Just took no notice. As locals will never go back there again, and will be telling our friends. Had to go across the road to Chevron Thai for better...