WHET Cafe Bar Restaurant — Restaurant in Queensland

DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT:

We were recently at Whet restaurant and our experience was less than enjoyable to say the least. My husband ordered the 'Grilled lamb pita with mint, tomato & red onion salad, yoghurt & chips' ... this started our terrible experience. Anywhere in the world, lamb pita consists of actual lamb, either roast or slow cooked. Pita is the actual bread (I explain this in case the moron waitress reads this). When my husband saw an actual lamb pattie, he brought it to the attention of one of the British waitresses. She looked at us as if we had 3 heads. My husband pointed out that this was minced lamb, not what he expected and wouldn’t eat it – with a smile she took the plate away. But wait, there’s more ....

I ordered the ‘Medium rare seared tuna fillet, served on a nicoise salad of kipfler potato, soft boiled egg, cherry tomato, olive tapenade & pesto’. I had ONE KIPFLER potato cut in half, really!

We decided not to have coffees or dessert in case things kept getting worse. When we asked for the bill we noticed that the lamb dish was being charged to us, even though my husband told them it wasn’t what he had expected. The Welsh waitress tried to explain that when you order pita bread, it is obvious that you will get a lamb pattie (really?). (Clearly she knows nothing about food, specifically Greek food). My husband mentioned that not only did he receive minced lamb, it was also a tiny piece cut in 3. She proceeded to advise us that they had regulations and that the weight is 250gms. THAT WAS NOT 250gms!!! It was more like 80gms! I even told her that my potato had been cut in half and that it wasn’t acceptable. Again, I was looked at me like I had 3 heads and she insisted that it was fine because “they follow regulations”. When we asked why would we pay for something we didn’t eat, she told us that there was nothing wrong and that they had “never received complaints before”.

BEWARE: When it comes to food, this place is just not acceptable. They obviously get overseas tourists working in this place who have no idea about food. With a massive smile on their faces they will argue with you, insist that they are correct and charge you an arm and a leg.

So ... nearly to the end of my story ... since we had to pay for something we didn’t consume, I told her to make us a new order of the lamb dish to take away. Which she did.

Off we went on our not so merry way. During our next stop about 5 minutes later, we tried the minced lamb and it was DISGUSTING! It had obviously been prepared the day/s before and didn’t taste very fresh at all. We had to throw away the whole dish.

Please don’t bother going here unless you are ready to be treated like an idiot and pay through the roof. Perhaps they are great at making drinks, but we...

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