The Botanical Hotel Bendigo — Restaurant in Victoria

I used to love coming here, but no so much after my last visit. The drinks prices are unbelievably expensive as are the card surcharges - highly recommend taking cash if you want to purchase anything here.

I had a pizza on our last visit and it was disgusting. I've had nicer ones from the freezer at Aldi's for 3 bucks! It had stuff all toppings on it and was completely tasteless. When staff asked whether i wanted to take it home with me i told them no and they asked why and i told her. They said ok, we will just waste it then. They didn't care that it didn't meet expectations.

The menu is also priced poorly, and if you want to change the side your meal comes with you have to pay a fortune to do so.

The other meals delivered to our group were also very average, including the chicken schnitzel which was around 3inches square. The kids nuggets meal that came out was bigger than the adults meal.

Also, the trees they have placed around randomly are dangerous, you walk around a blind corner and cop a tree branch in the eye - not very safety conscious.

All in all it was a very disappointing and expensive visit and i have no desire to go back again unless i hear things have improved. It used to be a great place to visit, but i think they have tried to take it...

I went to the Botanical Hotel on Wednesday night with my family to celebrate a birthday. It was fabulous!

I haven't been since it reopened as The Botanical following the closure of the Wellington some time back. I hadn't particularly liked the Wellington so I was keen to see how things were going under new ownership.

Firstly, the refurbishment works are gorgeous. It's hard to believe it is the same place - and easy to forget it is essentially a pub bistro. It's quite stylish and lovely.

We had a group of 10 and we were seated at a beautiful big solid timber square table - no awkward long table where you can't see everyone! It was perfect for our group.

The menu is great - there are a wide range of reasonably priced meals and everyone in our group (including the vegetarian) was able to find something to suit their tastes. The meals themselves were delicious - everyone from the toddlers to grandparents enjoyed them.

The staff were friendly, from booking over the phone and ordering at the bar right through to service of meals. The meals were served in a very timely manner also.

We were all really impressed and we will...

Used to eat every week as a teenager/child, first time back in 8 years and honestly, wish I never came back, ruined my memory of this place been a reliable bar, Order a classic chicken snitz, with Sealed and chips, gravy… The chicken, ugh don’t get my started, yes they use good cuts of Brest and good it well, but I tell you know I know when my chicken has been tendered and treated well, it had no love, the most blend chicken snitz I have ever eaten, some processed chicken taste better, chips under cooked, no salt when salt was requested and to have the waiter be disrespectful when I did ask for some, And lastly the gravy was the most disappointing as well, I was thinking at least there not the best I can’t eat with my gravy, nope I was wrong, gravy was laced with 200% more then normal amount of Pepper I reckon, my panther who loves pepper even stated that it was way to strong Rant over Wouldn’t...