The Grill at Solway Park — Restaurant in Masterton

Booked for New Years Eve wanting to have a lovely meal and drinks as we have been a few times before. Only to find the menu was the "all day menu". So pizzas or fish and chips mains basically!! There was a steak - but it had to be cooked only one way - why we have no idea so why put it on? There were as many staff as customers so that didn't surprise us. We ordered a few entrees to see how they wld go. They were all tasteless and the dumplings were just awful. No filling and thick chewy stodgy casings. We cldnt even eat them! The staff were lovely - our waitress was really good. We had to swap chairs when we first arrived as one had a broken back and the other only one side in the seat!! It wld have been good if we were advised when we booked that it wldnt be the normal night menu!!! The place itself is amazing and shld be buzzing!!! This is not any staff error- just plain bad management!! It needs a complete change and this place just might go back to what it was a few years back!! We'll never get the Homestead or the great restaurant that was in there back - but please do something to save this Solway Park restaurant and get it back to...

Very dissatisfied with the buffet breakfast for the price $27.50 For some very bland scrambled eggs Sausages and diced potatoes with no seasoning that gave the appearance like they had been in the warmer all day shriveled in appearance The bacon was drowning in a pool of oil And dry in texture No grilled tomatoes a must with a cooked breakfast I grew up in Masterton as a youngster and worked in the restaurant for a few years and cooked the breakfast menu and prepped the lunch menu for the chef Back in the day mushrooms and deviled kidneys to name a few I went back the following morning hoping this was a one off experience but Unfortunately the same both juice dispenser’s were boarder line empty And this was 7.00am and I was the only person in the restaurant I spent a few minutes adjusting the toaster settings This was a standard procedure checking the toaster was operating One would normally have the juices topped up and the breakfast station fully prepped before the guests arrive for breakfast My stay was for six nights I ventured into town for breakfast for the duration of my stay Give the breakfast a miss you well only be...

I came here on the off chance that it had improved after a year, I was sorely mistaken...we decided to order 3 courses right from the start including cocktails and a bottle of their pricier Pinot noir, only to have our entrees arrive before our drinks (if we wanted fast food we would gone to a drivethrough like McDonald's), so not even time enough to have our cocktails, before we got time to enjoy our lovely wine with our meals. And then to make matters worse the kitchen decided to send our mains when we hadn't even finished entrees.....when they arrived I said to the the waitress we weren't ready (anyone could tell, our table hadn't been cleared at this stage) to which she took them back to the kitchen and instead of discarding them they let them sit underneath heat lamps letting fish go dry, salad wilting and mash turning stone cold all of which the kitchen thought was fine to re-serve...and it was a slow Saturday evening...no questions as to why, not a place I'd revisit or recommend...in reality -1star out of...