The Radium Beerhall — Restaurant in Gauteng

If you are looking for a dirty overpriced bar then this is the place for you. I don't even know where to start.

The thick sticky layer of dirt on the plastic table cloths kept me from resting my arms, in the same way you would have a hover poop at the Cairo train station. The delightful jar filled with rancid water on the table was supposed to be an ashtray. It's the type of thing you find in a crust punk squat. Yuk

And then there is the food. The pizzas are okay but anything else off the menu is totally overpriced. I ordered the steak, medium rare. It was supposed to come with sauce and olives. I went for the chips and veg option. The rather small steak looked like it had been bitten off the cow by a caracal. It was overcooked and came with three rather pathetic olives. The chips were okay, the veg was that typical partly mashed overcooked stuff you get in school hostel, edible with some flavor but nothing special.

Then comes the bill. At R180 for my half macerated overcooked steak with three pathetic olives I felt totally scammed. Sure the beer was decently priced, but that hardly makes up for the daylight robbery of the main meal. Will I go again? Probably not. Will they care? Well if the general level of cleanliness and quality of food is anything to go by I don't think my withholding my patronage will make much difference.

As a final aside they do have live jazz, and if you have any reason to go to the Radium, this...

Rude and very unresponsive when questioned on the Guinness which when tasted, transported me instantly to an online review for Tenants Super I had read years before:

Acrid bitter lager taste. Not clean, dirty and damaging. Boozy and bitter. Offputting. Very difficult to drink. A real downer. Drain pour. Smells like the east end of Glasgow, that is stale lager mixed with badly-cooked chips smothered in vinegar.

Tenants usually being a lot further from a pint of Guinness than Glasgow is from Dublin, I'm only assuming these guys have gone to great lengths to achieve this most unusual taste and carbonation... easily the worst pint of Guinness I have ever tasted, and that is really saying something when I think back to some of the dives I've drank in...

Can I have a Guinness (that i have been ordering here for 30 years) NO A Rock Shandy.....NO A Steelworks ........NO A draft Black Label.......NO Excuse me, your menu has no prices.........blank stare. I give up. P.s. waited 55 minutes for a half chicken. I receive weekly messages from these guys for half price meals etc. They can keep it. The food is great, the atmosphere great BUT can they at least catch up to Manny. P.s. one of the 10 of us oredered a beef trinchado. It was not worthy of the name. The hake fish was great. The chicken good. And the espatado average. (Reviews feom other members...