The Local — Restaurant in Melbourne

Daily menu specials and additions to the menu regularly. Very warm with the fire going. Pool table and outdoor dining area also. Dog Friendly and very welcoming with friendly and courteous staff and management. AFL Games showed live and some interesting changes to their menu 😋😋😋 Popped in for a quick drink and pleasantly surprised about the food on offer. Plenty of comfortable seating with a pool table and a screen to watch your current game playing live. Clean throughout and the service is friendly and courteous. You never have to wait long for a drink, with very reasonably priced beers 🍻, wines 🍷 and spirits. The menu which reasonably priced, gives you ample to choose from. A highly experienced chef cooking 👨‍🍳 to your tastes desires. Ample parking at the car parking areas next door and on street parking. Easy access from all parking areas, with disability parking next door. They are screening the State Of Origin and UFC Live...

If you have allergies, make sure to triple and quadruple check with all staff that food is allergen free. We took my son (who has multiple allergies including dairy) here the other night. Our meals were nice and had no complaints about the service, but they served my child vegetables cooked in butter despite us clearly communicating his allergies to three different staff members including the chef. When he had a reaction (luckily a mild one) they were extremely apologetic but then offered him icecream to make up for it…. Regular dairy icecream… 🤦🏻‍♀️ I’m sure they were well-intentioned and miscommunications/accidents do happen, but for anyone with anaphylaxis rather than the milder allergy my son has this could have...

Meals were very large but food was decidedly average with very high prices. Fancy menu but underwhelmed.

Service was terrible. They made multiple mistakes with taking an order for only a small number of people! We chose to accept some of it so we could all start eating together while we waited for missing items. They did try to make it better with giving incorrect items for free but these were only cheap. And then offering free drinks only it was only one person that actually got their free drink.

It was also extremely noisy. Like being in a bar when we were only having dinner. Definitely somewhere for young people to hang out, dining tables surrounding a pool table. Suspect they are relying on...