James Squire Brewhouse & Restaurant, Docklands, Melbourne restaurant

James Squire Brewhouse & Restaurant restaurant - If contemporary Australian food and beer is your thing, then this Docklands-based brewhouse with its own microbrewery on the water will really get your juices flowing. James Squire Brewhouse and Restaurant serves contemporary Australian food and freshly brewed beer with great water views.

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James Squire Brewhouse & Restaurant

Address:
Waterfront City
439 Docklands Drive
Docklands VIC 3008

Contact:
Tel : +61 3 9600 0700
Fax :
Website:

Cuisine: Modern Australian

License: Fully Licensed (no BYO)

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If contemporary Australian food and beer is your thing, then this Docklands-based brewhouse with its own microbrewery on the water will really get your juices flowing. James Squire Brewhouse and Restaurant serves contemporary Australian food and freshly brewed beer with great water views.

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Open since December 2005, the James Squire Brewhouse and Restaurant is based on its sister venue in Sydney's King Street Wharf. Offering the largest bar and restaurant facility in the Docklands precinct, James Squire Brewhouse has a variety of dining and drinking options to suit any want or need. Choose to sit upstairs or down, both with floor to ceiling glass windows taking full advantage of the breathtaking waterfront views, or outdoors where you can experience true Australian alfresco dining. The uncomplicated menu comprising an eclectic mix of bar food, contemporary Australian cuisine and some traditional favourites is complimented by freshly brewed James Squire beer.

Start with an entree of a half or dozen oysters served natural, Kilpatrick or Mornay (a mixed platter is available if you can't decide) or start with the chilli squid tossed in a spicy seasoning and shallow fried with lime dressing. For mains try the full rack of pork ribs with smoky BBQ sauce and steak fries, or lemon peppered kangaroo fillet served on a bed of seared mustard mash with red wine jus. Finish with the Squire lemon tart served with raspberry coulis, or the chocolate porter cake with cream and fresh strawberries. Kids are also catered for, their meals served free if accompanied by a parent enjoying a main and James Squire beer.

Veda Wickens, June 2007

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James Squire has a lovely view across Docklands but sadly little else to recommend it. The fitout resembles a better class pub, and has the potential to be at least a little classy but does not even reach mediocre. Unlike other reviewers we didn't find the staff rude, just poorly trained. The drinks waiter placed my wife's drink on the table, then reached across the entire table to plonk mine down. Not a great sin of course, but service should have been at the very least competent, and wasn't.

My steak was quite OK though lacked any imagination, served simply on a bed of chips with a couple of bits of tomato and the requested mushroom sauce. If both meals had been of this calibre I would have walked out thinking "ordinary food, nothing memorable". Unfortunately my wife's risotto was definitely one to be remembered. It was appalling to the point of being inedible. Some steamed rice had a tomato puree (tinned?) sloshed over it. No sign of the sun dried tomatoes but plenty of large lumps of half-cooked rice. Now I know that it is not a trivial task to cook a great risotto, however this dish was cooked by someone who does not appear to have even the remotest idea how to go about it. We explained to the waiter how bad the risotto was and it was deducted from the bill. We regret the fact that they did not lose a cent on the transaction, since we had been going to use a 2 for 1 dine-out coupon anyway. This is a shame since this sort of experience should cost the supplier not the consumer - my wife still had to seek dinner elsewhere.

We were there on a Saturday night so you would expect that the best waiting staff and chefs would be available. I can only conclude that after the initial enthusiastic building phase was complete, Mr Squires decided to do things on the cheap. Even if this restaurant does have a "beer" theme, with main courses in the $20-$35 range you would expect more than a cheap pub outing. We won't be returning.

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PaulNC - see my other reviews - 06/10/2007