Georges River Sailing Club — Restaurant in Sydney

Sadly much has changed here and the personalised, familiar, welcoming atmosphere has been turfed out the door by the management in favour of generic, “with chips and salad” meals. I am talking about eating here. The operators of Sails have been removed suddenly so the dining room is no longer a quiet, classy room to eat and socialise in, but now attracts all and sundry. Food here is now nothing like the restaurant fare it was some three weeks ago, but rather a matter of photocopied special menus and the former bistro menu. No beautiful dishes like the risotto, seafood pasta, lemon sole, three fish plates, fattoush salad and slow cooked lamb, but now generic and pedestrian stuff like a burger and chips, steak and chips, a couple of varieties of fish (and chips), all the common unoriginal mostly deep fried club food. The chips are once fried now, previously they were twice fried, golden and crunchy, now pale and soft. Previously you had a lovely choice here when it came to dining, now just one size fits all. Maybe some like the el cheapo specials like $12 fish and chips (Fish from wherever.....let you translate that), but mixing between bistro and restaurant was fantastic and enjoyable. Quality is always worth a few more dollars. Maybe people don’t care about it anymore. A recent (last week) old restaurant booking experience Requesting a window table proved unreliable as it was booked via the reception when people must have been coming and going, and didn’t end up being booked. It isn’t now worth 1-2 stars, down from 5. So let’s be pedestrian, like it now is and stick with 3. Well done board of directors. Love your work. Physical surroundings are still great and view is the key selling point. Staff friendliness after weekly visits and an annual spend on food and drink of some 3k as a member over two years 2/5 - could be...

The food is extremely ordinary. I go to the club each week for lunch with my mates. They eat there and I just have a drink with them. I've tried everything on the menu over the past 4 years and nothing is up to standard. Rubbish, their sausages and mash were despicable to even look at.

Australian's 3 favourite eatery meals are... Snitty Bangers and Mash. Calamari looks like it was deep fried in the 1960's at an old fashion fish and chips shop. If it was done well, it could be regarded as trendy.

Seriously, the Manager Steve (who is a nice guy) should do his homework and provide quality meals at affordable prices. The St George Sailing Club is booming. (its operated by the Manly 16ft Skiff Sailing Club.) Theire website said they have an executive chef who designs their meals.The staff are mainly young and care about their customers. It shows.

I'd like to see 2 great Clubs competing for our business. It will improve the overall business for both clubs.

PS. Maybe you need to change the name of the Georges River 16ft Sailing Club. (its too big a mouth full) People always get the two clubs mixed up. Which is a pain when you're waiting for them at the other club.

I'm available to facilitate a Brainstorming Session with members if you like to obtain a new brand name that works. (Yes, I would charge a fraction of my normal fee for this service)

Truly, I'm not chasing the work. Just want to see the...

This used to be our favourite place to meet for family lunches and catch ups.

Today we visited and were surprised at the changes, including the walled off areas to make way for functions, which effectively cut off the surrounding views and the open feel it formerly had.

The three of us ate in the bistro with all the other dining patrons crammed into a tiny space against the windows, presumably to reduce the area that staff needed to service. The amount of empty space being unutilised mocked us. Hence our gathering over lunch was noisy and crowded. We could barely hear one another over the concentration of noise coming from the condensed groups of people.

The food was substandard and I couldn't eat my meal of salad with chicken. The tomato was powdery and flavourless, lettuce transparent and soggy. Grilled chicken over cooked. And feta was served as one slimy slab sitting on top.

My husbands plate was cleared away when he stepped away momentarily to take a phone call, and the waiter was so quick about it and didn't ask if the meal had been finished. My husband returned to the table and was extremely disappointed as he'd not finished eating.

Overall the entire experience was extremely disappointing and we won't be returning.

The atmosphere and food were...