The Court — Restaurant in Perth

Absolutely worst service I've ever had in my life. Showed up for a paid event that started at 8pm. I was in a group of five & had four of us allowed into the venue whilst one person wasn't allowed in "due to intoxication". We had all had a couple of drinks but we were by no means drunk. My friend was asked to wait an hour to sober up before he could enter. In that time had multiple glasses of water provided by the security of The Court but after the hour was still not allowed in. I was then threatened to be kicked out of the venue for asking security why my friend could not be let in. Apparently I had also become intoxicated after drinking water for the hour. After another hour he was still told to wait and when we asked for a refund on the ticket we were directed to contact the event coordinators on Facebook. Totally ridiculous. I would at least expect a phone number or email. The event ended at 1am and the friend was finally allowed in at 11pm allowing two hours of the five hour event. We will NEVER be coming back to this venue, was the worst service I have ever received. I have an unrestricted bar managers license and not a single person we spoke to had any kind of idea what they were doing or any legitimate reason for denying entry to my friend. The only possible reason we could see was the colour of his skin. The only kind of refund policy listed is "No Refunds", according to Australian Consumer Law they were to provide access to the five hour event which they did not provide so would warrant a refund under law. Again,...

Great place for a quiet Friday Afternoon drink to wind down from work - from 2 until 5 you pretty much have the place to yourself plus a few other like-minded folks. People largely keep to themselves in ones, twos or threes. A few bigger groups celebrating getting through another week in little ole Perth.

Food and Service are great. Good location and easy to find. Nice big Open doors at the front.

As usual when I enter a place - people leave or pretend they are busy on important business.

This time the only people who would talk to me were a returning Irishman - who had lost his bags in Bangkok and the DJ.

The excellent bearded DJ (GREG?) took a bit of time out to chat. We shared a few (lots) of laughs before he had to finish set up for the 4 0clock crowd.

Greg promised to look up and play my favourite ABBA Song - Me&I (Super Trooper - 79). Also, he said he would Google my name so he could see what looked like in 87. Finally, he suggested I come back on a Thursday Evening when they do Comedy a thing.

I said I might just do that. If they want me on stage - I would need a comfy chair. Simply because I am a Sit-Down Comic. Too lazy to stand up. Plus, I could bring my two friends - Heckle and Jeckle to help with audience participation.

I guess I will do an Arnie - meaning Aisle Bee Bak.

Cheers Pad

PS "Iampad" which Kylie almost got backwards in her latest song - PADAM... in which she tells me that she wants to see what's under my tshirt. ...

Not to sound harsh or like a broken record but really disappointing that my once loved venue has let such a large (and vocal!) homophobic scene. Heard it went a certain way since the renovations were complete a few years back. But it was only once I had experienced this for myself - homophobia and ignorance from a young group of patrons - more than 1 occasion too & in separate settings (Friday night dance & Sunday arvo casual drinks.) But tbh once I saw it & I believed what I heard - unfortunately the place, which was once considered one of ONLY 2 major gay venues here and safe place for our community,was not just like gay-ish ? Crowd was okay and friendly when there were drag performers on, at that exact time and no more… but yeah, the rest of the time it’s just become a bit like metros city v2.0 - young, naive and not apart of (or even allies) of the LGBTQIA Perth community. Don’t get me wrong because it is not a bad venue at tbh quite nice interiors and I like the design, when I walked through at first it looked really great! Unfortunately though, not as good as it once was. Would love to see this made into a redemption story...