TLDR: Delicious tasting food with no holiday surcharge. Anyone visiting terrigal should visit, especially over a long weekend should visit. Detail: I took my partner there on Easter Monday for dinner. They were quite busy being a public holiday but were able sit us with no wait and let us dine outdoors. They had pizza on the menu but we ordered 4x tapas dishes. Food: absolutely delicious The fried chicken wings were really incredible. Came as 5 drummetts and wings. The batter is so light and fluffy and crispy, and the meat was very juicy. I eat a lot of fried wings and most places either have too dry or oily or too much batter. If you're a fried wing fan strongly recommend coming here for this alone. This place had the balance perfectly. Came with a delicious chili jam sauce that paired beautifully. The banana prawns tasted really fresh and came with yummy garlic sauce. We got 8 prawns which is more than most tapas we've been to in past that offer only 6. I'm probably bias on this because I love prawns and garlic lemon butter is my favourite seafood sauce. Lamb empanadas were surprise of the night. Came as 4. The lamb is really delicious fresh lamb pieces that were slow cooked or something. I was expecting not as fresh tasting like mince or something bit more processed. Was absolutely delighted with this choice. Strongly recommend as a very unique and delicious item and the pastry isn't too heavy or dry. Chicken taco special. Came as 3. Grilled chicken on soft taco shell with some salad. Was tasty but a bit dry and not as much flavour as the other items we ordered. Drinks: delicious Ordered a special frangelico cocktail that was chocolately and Easter themed and my partner had a glass of mascato. The cocktail prices average $20 and have a very large variety of both classics and special to the restraunt. Mascato was $9 a glass which was a good price point. Cost: absolutely fantastic value. Firstly, no holiday surcharge! Didn't know quality places like that offer no holiday surcharge still existed. $18/plate for the tapas we ordered which is standard for tapas but what was surprising was the portions. As always cocktails are the peril to any savings but if not drinking could easily enjoy 3 tapas and water for under $60 on a public holiday. Service: great Mentioned seated straight away as walk ins. The staff were all polite, professional but also friendly and welcoming. Organised water and were prompt on bringing out drinks. Food was incredibly efficient with dishes coming out in succession a bit faster than every 5-10mins. So no awkward waits for food between dishes. Overall: this clearly is a well run establishment with good chefs and good front of house staff. Would return to try more...
Read moreAfter a bad experience here 12 month ago decided to try Four Hands with our friends again. The night started well with nice service and the food was fine to start with before things started going wrong. We had to ask 3 times for a missing tapas dish - banana prawns - and when they came they were more like small frozen prawns. Now for the big problem. Yes, a storm came through and forced the outside people inside so we waited patiently for service to order dessert. Time passed and at 7:40pm we asked to order after waiting 30 minutes already. At this point we were told that may not be possible and the poor girl checked with the manager. She then returned to state we had to clear our table for the next sitting. Our table still had everything on it still from our food and we were told we had to leave. Even as we waited to pay the table sat full of dirty plates and glasses with no one attending it for the so called next people waiting already... Never in any restaurant globally have I experienced such utter total lack of service and for a restaurant not to take a dessert order - and especially when it was due to their poor service. We didn't even get an apology. We left very angry, disappointed and still hungry so we grabbed a takeaway dessert from around the corner and went home with our friends. As a local, we will never set foot back in this restaurant nor recommend it to friends after two very poor cases of customer...
Read moreWent to there with a party of 7 on a busy Friday night. From when we first arrived we had nothing but amazing customer service. The greeting was friendly and so were all the staff members that we dealt with. The team members went above and beyond to make sure that we were as comfortable as we possibly could be while entertaining us with a couple of jokes and cheery personalities.
Nice large dinner menu accompanied with a huge drink menu. Very reasonably priced with big portion sizes. The ordering of food and drinks was quick, easy and painless. The food would’ve taken no longer than 15 minutes before it was in front of us, the smell was absolutely mouthwatering and the food tasted even better! Overall it was an absolutely amazing experience and I will be going back!
I would highly recommend this restaurant for dates, family events, or going out with friends. The atmosphere is amazing and I can handsdown say was the best experience at a dinner that I ever had.
**A special mention to the owner (Jason) who was our waiter for the evening, he went above and beyond my wildest expectations and truly made the evening a magical. I can handsdown say he delivered the best customer service that I have ever experienced and because of that I will definitely be...
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