The Metz — Restaurant in Launceston

The service was excellent, however the food was so overpriced and so mediocre. The chicken bites were exponentially worse than kfc, and cost 20 bucks. Im not a fan of fast food so this should be telling. They were dry, and the batter was some nonexistent cornflake deal. The duck risotto cost $36 and tasted of bland stock, with chewy shredded duck. The signature calamari salad dish was a saucy mess, and the calamari wasn't fresh, probably frozen after tasting proper calamari in Freycinet. I would recommend this place for vegans/vegetarians, they have a good menu selection. Its interesting to see their previous response to this. Its highly reflective of why their food is like this. "Covering inner city costs" im sure sydney is a lot more expensive, but the dishes are half the price. Their justification means nothing, their food was just forgettable. Thanks for the response! Dont fall for it peeps. Look at the owner's infallible response. I tustled on the feathers of a restaurant manager who focuses on the finances, and not the quality of the food. Sydney has higher rent, and a more competitive job market. There's also more competition so it's inevitable that the quality will be better for the price. However whatever you guys have done is a disservice to your expensive Tasmanian produce, a shame really. Dont emotionally information dump me with usless info. Infallible, insufferable, self-righteous and out of touch. This place is...

Do not waste your time on a venue with sydney pricing who can not be bothered honouring a pre-booked sitting.

We got there for our reservation and ordered cocktails while we waited for our last guest to arrive. 20 mins later, still no drinks. Instead, we are informed that the kitchen is no longer going to serve unless we wanted pizza. Our guest arrived just in time for us to rebook into Rupert and Hound, who graciously except us. We were happy with our change. See Rupert and Hound review for details.

Response to the Metz: Please be advised that I was one of the man sitting at the table wondering why we were being told that despite having a dinner booking the kitchen was not going to be serving us other than pizza unless we could order and recieve our full sitting inside 30 minutes. If we had been made aware on arrival we would have had the opprtunity to take the time in deciding what option we would like to take. Further to this, any indiscreprencies with booking times is between you and our host.

I am sorry that you feel this review has been harsh however, all I can do is review the brief experience I had. I hope your team can move forward and take this as a simple learning experience on how to best approach a situation such as this in the future.

For future reference, a simple apology is the appropriate response to my review, not false allegations on my personal...

Booo! Horrible!! Overly priced pub food. Avoid at all costs!!

I'll leave my original review above for reference but I have added a star. One star for the chap who served us and one star for the chicken ribs entree which were pretty incredible to be fair.

Here's what I look for in a restaurant- value portion taste

Good restaurants will get two of these checked off and great restaurants will get all three.

Last night I had the Pad Thai. To be frank, the dish lacked soul. It was a mess of ingredients overcooked and thrown on a plate. To my above points I'm not sure a larger portion would have saved it but I would suggest you have a look at reducing the price.

My partner had the hoisin duck. The duck was overcooked but that's not really my criticism. The sauce was way too overpowering, it either needs to be toned down or not put so much on the plate. To be honest, you could have traded out the duck for any other protein and no one would be able to tell the difference.

We checked many restaurants online before settling at The Metz and our decision came because we found what sounded like an amazing dish, Lamb shoulder with gnocchi. Alas this wasn't on the menu when we sat down and going through your website today to price match the items we had I have a feeling the menu on there isn't your...