Flamingo Lounge — Restaurant in Sydney

All that glitters is not gold!

Went there early as a group to celebrate a birthday. Went up to the bar. There were 6 bartenders behind the counter, 5 of them looked totally tressed out and were just looking around doing nothing. One guy seemed kind of in control.

Ordered a bloody merry which the bartender accepted. Came back 2-3 mins later saying he couldn't make it. Then ordered a mojito off the menu. Half way through making the drink, the bartender said he didn't have mint! Eventually asked him to pour lemonade into whatever he had mixed up so far.

Another one of us ordered a lemon lime bitters. The bartender put vodka in it! The "senior" bartender gave him a bit of a lecture in front of us all. By this time the staff looked completely stressed out. It wasn't busy at all at this point.

A few mins later we ordered jagerbombs. Bartender agreed to serve. Came back saying jagermeister had run out (!!!). Don't know what we drank because he offered to make something similar which it wasn't.

Then we went to the other bar at the other end. Staff saw us but no acknowledgement. Three bartenders. 2 looked scared. We asked if we could order food. He pointed (didn't speak) at the more experienced guy who looked really busy. This guy was putting orders into the till, doing kitchen runs AND serving at tables while the other guys just stood around wiping fluff off the counters.

Different prices were charged for the same drinks throughout the night!

This place is all premium on the outside but a complete mess on the inside. Staff looked annoyed and anxious/scared. Most of them seemed brand new with no training. Very disappointed. Food was good but not enough to warrant a...

This place sucks, you’d think they’d have a designated smokers section instead of subjecting all the patrons to the filthy smell of relentless cigarette smoke all night. Been here a number of times never had a memorable or a good experience tbh, despite knowing a lot of the organisers etc. flamingos really needs to step up their game. Went here just last Saturday and we had a table for my friends bday. The whole experience was unbearable as I couldn’t breathe due to the cigarette smoke (most of the crowd that goes here is from western Sydney and all seem to smoke instead of vape). The crowd is not a vibe, everyone is literally standing on that balcony section pretty much smoking and it’s claustrophobic and no room to move. Everyone stands around and the seccys don’t move them along as they generally do in other licenced venues. The bottle service waitress was extremely slow and wasn’t attentive when we needed refills we went ages without having our drinks topped up and had to prompt her multiple times. If you want to feel like you’re in Bankstown look no further and go to flamingos. I’ll stick to double bay from now on. Won’t be returning unless they step up their game the free drinks are definitely not worth this...

Stay away from this Lebanese bar. My experience in this bar was just unacceptable. The doorman refused the entry to me and my friend I was dress formal my fiend friend had a 500 dollars Nike shoes which he describe as not acceptable in this bar.

He said only people dress formal are allow in however I was not allow in. We stand and wait 20 minutes outside and we saw that he let in a group of Middle East appearance man with Nike shoes and converse which I believe they were not formal. I ask the door man to explain why the doble standard? He said you are not allow in and he called a security guys to take out and said you F🤬 (South Americans ) This was just disgraceful and not acceptable in a multicultural country such as Australia. People from South America should reconsider visiting this bar!! No vallan a este bar racista...