Rhubarb Rhubarb Restaurant

Really disappointed with this place. Wish I had taken pictures of our food to upload on here- it was a bit of a joke. We waited 50 minutes for food to come. The two mains came, they were pretty cold, and we then waited another 5 for the sides to come. One of the sides we ordered was potato dauphinoise, when it arrived I had to ask the waitress what it was. It was cubes of boiled potatoes on a oven dish with grated cheese on top and burned around the edges. I asked the waitress if this was normal for them to look as they did, and she said yes. I asked them to be taken back to the kitchen. I had the duck, and it was just horrible, hardly any meat, really dry and tasteless. My partner had pork belly which was very small, but edible. We quickly asked for the bill and left. The waitress asked us how the meal was, I explained that we felt it was really poor service and quality, she just said OK. On a side note their wine mark up is pretty extravagant, a $20 bottle of wine from BWS is $70 here. I live around the corner form here so we were looking forward to knowing a local restaurant, but no chance i'll be back. For what they charge and what they produce, better off going elsewhere.

Thoroughly disappointed. I loved this retaurant but after our latest visit will not be going back. Service was lacking, even though the waiter was friendly and personable they were absent for most of the night, our water glasses were left empty (only refilled once). The wine bottle was dusty(!) and we were left to pour our own wine normally I would expect that waitstaff pour the first glass. Wine list is very limited. It took about an hour before mains were served. The food was a huge letdown considering how great it looked, honorable mentions for the chowder which was very salty, the ravioli was cold, the liver parfait was difficult to spread: too cold for the warm bread. In prior visits we ordered triple serves of the parfait this time we had just one. The mains were equally disappointing: the duck confit was very salty, the steak was tough and the kale that comes with the dish was raw/undercooked, the barramundi was nicely fried but the bisque was very salty and the addition of coleslaw with fish roe was a strange choice. One of the potato dauphanois (spelling?) we ordered was burnt black around the edges and a very dark brown in the middle. We didn't bother having dessert. It was a cold night but the back door was opened and there was a breeze. I had to wear my jacket and use my partner's to cover my legs until he too got too cold. For $85 pp I would expect much more from my dining experience! They have removed the small things that used to set Rhubarb Rhubarb apart like fine wine glasses, tablecloths, heated plates and the food is ok at best. There are better restaurants elsewhere.

Absolutely catastrophic obviously people who go here have no idea what a restaurant should be. After horrible service by two young girls who belong at suburban cafe not at a la cart restaurant which took our order three time and still managed to mess it up. After dinner we ordered dessert waited 45 minutes to find out that they miss placed order and then when we finally complained and paid $350 for three of us young managrr told our gracious host "dont come back again" Wow and we will not for sure.