Terranova on the Grange — Restaurant in Sydney

There was a wedding on in the room adjacent to the dining area, and no doors on it, so it was very noisy. The waitress kindly moved us away from a draught to a new spot where the chair was broken and the sun was in my eyes. Despite the rocky start, we had a good night. We ordered the seafood platter and a lovely bottle of wine and spent more than we usually would. The seafood was all delicious but we ended up with so much food! The seafood platter for two would have served 3-4 people well with either entree before, or dessert afterwards. We said no to garlic bread with our entree to avoid surplus food, but we were talked into a side salad with the seafood platter as we were told it doesn't come with salad. There was lettuce and tomato with the seafood platter so the side salad was unnecessary and we regretted agreeing to it on the premise that there is no salad on the seafood platter. We ended up with a half eaten seafood platter and a barely touched salad and no room for dessert which I was trying to save room for. The mixed entree was lovely - the zucchini flowers were my favourite. The seafood platter was very well done. The baby octopus was perfectly cooked, not tough st all. The salt and pepper squid was delicious. Everything was flavoursome, hot, fresh and we highly recommend. The view across the golf course is beautiful and I imagine on a quieter night it would be very peaceful. The wait staff were quite attentive, even though they were run off their feet. A friendly waitress was able to help with basic wine information like white wine with seafood, and recommend some that she liked, but nothing particularly detailed and the information on the drinks menu was limited to names and regions. We chose a bottle of Italian Pino Grigio and it...

I don't know how the google stars are 4 - misleading. People READ REVIEWS before dining. This is definitely not 4 stars whatsoever.

My family and I decided to try it out for Mother's Day lunch. We waited about half an hour for a waiter to approach our table near the entrance so wasn't hard to miss (not a good spot as the door is right there with people walking in and out - also bad seating during cold weather). After a while I had to get up and walk around to get a waiter as we were ready to order. The waiter we had was a lovely young man. After placing our order we waited a further hour and a bit for our food to arrive so by this time if was dinner time. My mum enjoyed her steak, the terranova chicken was overcooked, the seafood marinara pasta was underwhleming with the flavours, the gnocchi tasted like flour, the fettucine boscaiola was lovely would definitely order that again, the lobster marinara pasta could have been better and the lobster was overcooked, the olive oil and bread starters were a disappointment as the bread tasted a little stale should have been baked, and the seafood platter was the biggest disappointment given how expensive it is there isn't much variety (there was bout 4 small oysters, octopus, prawn, lobster and mussels which took up more than half of the platter ). I definitely would not recommend for big families as it's not worth the money you spend. Dinner came to $650.00 and I wasn't satisfied with what I ate. ALSO, you guys need to clean your plates, cups and cutlery better. It was dirty. I ordered a coffee and I had to wipe the cup as it looked like it hadn't been washed on the outside. The tables aren't very appealing also, there needs to be a little centrepiece and also...

Disappointing experience is an understatement. A guy who introduced himself as the owner took our order and was polite and attentive. We ordered 2 dozen oysters, 3 pizzas, seafood hotpot for 2, rib eye, 2 lobster dishes and lamb cutlets. Rib eye was undercooked, had the wrong gravy and we had to ask two different staff for a steak knife before a 3rd one brought it. Seafood hotpot came out in what looked like a bain-marie and terranova special sauce was watery, thin and tasted like broth. Other than the broth, the dish had no flavour at all. It had to brought out twice as the first time a waitress who didn't show us what was inside the tray she was asked "Where should I put this?". When we didn't know what it was or where she should put it, she took it away and another server, maybe the manager, brought it back. After 30 mins, 6 of the 9 people at the table had been served but no pizzas for the other 3. We asked a waiter to follow up who never returned. 15 mins later we asked the owner who also never returned. 10 minutes later we asked another waiter who did come back and told us it shouldn't be much longer. In between all of this the table next to us ordered the pizza as we had and had finished theirs. After 10 minutes more, I asked the manager to cancel the pizzas. To her credit she said she would have them boxed so we could take them and she removed them from the bill. I also had to order my wife's moscato three times before she got it and the second beer my nephew ordered never appeared. All in all - the food was average, the service was below average and the overall...