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9 Reviews on “Railway Hotel”
The sad thing about writing this review is that they I have happy memories of The Railway as a classic inner north Melbourne pub that served excellent pub classics, and some wonderful hearty and well cooked Italian food. The decor always left something to be desired, and they had this weird system for wine whereby you just went into another part of the pub to the bottle shop, picked your wine, and took it back to the pub where they stuck a couple of bucks on it. I liked that, and they had (and still have) a pretty good range of wines and very reasonable prices.
Eight friends and I dined here recently on a Thursday night, and the whole experience was an unmitigated disaster from beginning to end. Not one person enjoyed their meal. Let me be specific: My veal parma was a very small serve of tough veal and very sparse topping (although the napoli sauce was pretty good). About eight chips accompanied the meal, and I have attache a photo of the so-called side salad. Oh, by the way, nothing had been eaten from that salad–that’s how it landed on the table.
I ordered an $18 antipasto platter for the table to share. The tiny serve of very ordinary antipasto barely covered the middling sized plate it was served on. The meats were OK, but it wasn’t served with any bread or accompaniments of any sort. At $7.50 or even $10 it would still have been ordinary, but at least cheap. At $18 it was a bald-face rip-off. There would have been about $3.00 worth of produce on the plate.
There was also close to an hour’s gap between the antipasto and the main, despite the fact that I asked for the antipasto to come at the same time as the mains.
One of my companions ordered goat with polenta. When the tiny serve arrived with chips and salad, there was no polenta. When he asked, he was told that if you ordered chips and salad with the goat, you didn’t get polenta, Eh?
No-one had a meal they enjoyed. Steak was tough, and the mixed grills were sparse and ordinary. The table was given two small plates of bread that was none too fresh.
Overall, it was a shocking dining experience. We have all put a massive line through this place and will never eat there again. The only good thing about the meal was some good wine at a very reasonable price.
As I said at the start of this review, the sad thing about this experience was that all of us had very happy memories of some excellent unpretentious pub classics and Italian food at this once venerable institution.
I would have to say from the moment we arrived it was down hill , decor was extremely dated ( I get it’s an old pub …but please ) service was very ordinary and the food left a lot to be desired …I rarely give a poor rating ….generally fair / positive or not at all!! But can’t let this one go….over an hour for entree!!! Barmaid did her best to help …..but will not return!!
Real Casalinga home cooking. Really love coming here. In Summer the grape vines cover the outdoor area, chilli bush, limes… The quality of the food is always amazing. Thursday lunch is Gnocci day!
Shabby chic meets Italy in Fitzroy North. The venue is incredible. Ideal for functions and large groups, especially the large outdoor beer garden. The food is spot on, unpretentious, tasty, home cooking/ pub grub. Excellent choice in wine at all budgets. This venue has so much more potential for this to be an iconic institution in the area, just requires more TLC to hit the right market and see this place booming.
we went here with a party of six all of us were impressed with our meals, decor back in the 70s county pub. clean as anything
great homestyle Italian slanted meals
Rude. The publican is a arrogant bloke unless your one of his crew. The area is spoilt for great friendly pubs so dont bother with this place. Very slap dash meals.
Worst Ever. The continental sausages were dreadful, the ‘salad’ was abysmal and the chips were ok.
My partner had the mixed grill and left the liver because it was gross. I’ve had better meals at the football club and they don’t claim to be chefs. Way better at any football club than this muck!
The only upside was the company and I brought that with me.