Charnwood Food & Wine — Restaurant in Mudgee

Very disappointing. Very dull atmosphere that was located in a motel. Not what we expected. For starters, we got the prawn special. $20 for 4 overcooked prawns on the tiniest piece of toast. Massively overpriced.

For main, we both ordered scoth fillet steaks. This took a full hour to come out despite the restaurant being pretty much empty. Once finally on the table, both steaks were definetly not scotch cut. Both were extremely fatty and to top it off, both were cooked well done after ordering a medium rare and medium. Onion rings were also part of this dish that didn't arrive for another 10 minutes after reminding a staff member they were missing. We made the same member of staff aware of our disappointment and she said she will let the chef know. Nothing happened until the senior waitress came to take our full plates back to the kitchen. She was completely unaware of our first compliant. We asked for the bill which didn't come for another 10 minutes, this was evidently an uncomfortable wait. They compensated our steaks by 50%. All in all a very disappointing anniversary celebration dinner. We felt sorry for the waitresses as this wasn't fair on them. They were young and inexperienced. Would not recommend or...

Not what the website tells you. While I understand post covid it takes time to get momentum in a restaurant finding staff etc. This really was an extremely poor experience. We booked our table for 7pm and received our main meal at 9pm. Waitresses while lovely repeatedly failed to remove old glasses, plates before the next serving. it's pretty simple. Go to a table and remove as you go. Saves so much time. I was grateful for the acknowledgement that it was not expected to be busy, however having worked in hospitality for many years this was far worse than a bad night The food quality did not match the prices, nor the service. We sent one of the mains back and the other the other was consumed as token gesture. We were embarrassed to leave. When we got the bill it was not itemised. Not since the 80s have I experienced this and at that point we felt not worth the conversation. Walk away. Sorry to the staff but this was not ok. Absolutely not. Sorry Andrew Your response below and previous reviews suggest this is not an isolated event. And the speed of response to this review being 5 minutes from my posting it would be better spent serving...

Staff were lovely however the food was pretty awful. We were choosing between here and Cade bar and Grill as they looked like the nice places to eat in mudgee. We'd already been to cade for breakfast and it was fantastic but decided to try somewhere different. When we arrived we realised it was attached to a motel.

My partner had the arancini as an entree which was good but I had the scallops which came on this unseasoned pea puree with balsamic glaze and walnuts. It was overwhelmingly sweet and bland.

We also ordered the pork belly which was fine but a bit overcooked and the mash was very sloppy as well as the fennel carbonara. I thought it would be fresh fennel like the vegetable but it was fennel seeds in the sauce which was like cream soup with bits of onion and spinach floating in it and it tasted like pure aniseed it was truly disgusting.

Overall ridiculously expensive for the quality. Think the steaks and more pub food items on the menu would be good but still...