Camperdown Commons — Restaurant in Sydney

I booked a table for 9. At arrival no one welcomed us. Someone finally took us to the table and left us there. No instructions on what to do and where to go.

We looked around for menus and after 10 min i went inside and ask for those. They gave me one and said: sorry the others are on other tables. The place was empty! So empty tables had menus and a table of 9 had to share the only two available.

Staff were no really present and we really felt left to our own. Surprisingly the place was quite empty too. I guess big lack of training for the young staff and no one with a decent leadership there.

We looked at the menu and after 20 min for the 2 kids to decide we realised there is no table service. Fine. We went in and we order at the counter where we discovered that breakfast items are only available till 11am. Which could be fine if u don’t state on your menu’ that are available from 6am all day. So we wasted 20 min convincing the kids to have eggs and now we need to convince them for something else.

I payed and they gave me raffles tickets, one every 30$ spent. Great!! Nice but the raffle is at 3pm and we booked at 12. So unless we stay 3 hours, this tickets have no reasons to be kept. Funny campaign.

The food arrived in a timely manner apart the pizzas that took longer. Food was not exciting but pizza was nice. And lovely was the live music that started not long after.

Such a shame this lovely looking place going so down hill. I wish to never go back there as it was really a poor experience. If owners or management read this i really encourage them to look into what they doing and train staff appropriately. Today i would have sent the...

I like to leave good reviews. But unfortunately our afternoon at a place we were looking forward to trying out turned out to be an average meal, disappointing service & overall experience.

Afternoon Saturday 01 Nov, hardly anyone there. We chose to sit outside nr kids play area. Unfortunately we didn’t realise the playground was under construction, power tools started going off. The person greeting us & following us to table /bringing table water made no mention of that. The DJ played fast boppy music - sound up loud. With both blasting, we relocated ourselves away from the play area (pity the greeter person didn’t alert us to that fact when she followed us to our table).

We pressed on (DJ still bopping away loud fast music - could not get away from it). Very distracting to try to talk to each other.

Meals ordered, a poke bowl + salmon, a regular burger & chips. Servings were surprisingly on the small size, the food was plain and unimpressive.No wow factor whatsoever.

Not great service at the bar too, my friend was kept waiting around while another person being served before was wanting to taste. He was kept watching waiting too long while this was going on before another staff member served.. Could have been managed better.

Overall the staff basically kept to their stations, although amicable enough when approached.

When plates were collected, no question as to whether we enjoyed our meals…. hence reporting our experience here.

Considering how few customers were there and how many staff were present, an overall disappointing and poor experience.

Unfortunately we’ll remember this place for all the wrong...

I have eaten here twice. Once for dinner inside at the restaurant with a booking, and now once for lunch without a booking outside. The dinner was quite delicious, except for the pumpkin dish which is literally a piece of pumpkin with a sprinkling with spices and seeds. In my opinion, a super lazy dish that required very little effort to make, and way over priced. I returned for a lunch with the intention of avoiding the pumpkin and enjoying everything else. But if you don't have a booking you have to sit outside and I'm quite certain it is a different menu to what is served inside. It was around 1:30pm and the menu is 99% breakfast. We both had the smashed avocado and ordered a side of eggs each and a side of sausage for one plate. The menu clearly states TWO eggs for $6, I even clarified when I ordered, that it was two eggs per serving. We got one crappy poached egg each but still charged $6 each. The sausage was cold. The sourdough was thin and so burnt that I couldn't cut it with my knife it was that hard. The "tomato salsa" was nothing but cut up tomatoes, there was definitely no salsa elements. And the "Feta" was not worth mentioning on the menu, there were two tiny little pieces, I barely noticed them. One of the most disappointing meals I have ever had, I could have made something better myself, and suuuuuper overpriced. If you are going to go here, definitely make a booking, and don't order...