federal hotel

we had lunch here on a mates recommendation & we weren’t disappointed. good & reasonably priced pub food, well presented. the staff are cheerful & helpful. you could do a lot worse. we would definitely dine here again. oh, did i mention the ice cold beer 🍺

love the fed! it's the local, the staff are friendly and food is great. the best food is at the sports bar side, very cheap and always consistent.

went to the fed a few weeks ago for a birthday celebration after having not gone in years due to poor service and food previously.
dinner took approx 1-1.5hrs to come out for our group of 16, with varying times of delivery and with starters in some cases arriving after the meals were finished. my partner and i ordered the special steak which came out cooked raw to well over the piece, very inconsistent. chips were good....salad was limp and undressed. the dip platter consisted of some kind of stir fry sauce, thousand island and a capsicum dip with minimal bread. very strange altogether.
if you are after a classic pub to have a beer play pokies and eat hot chips this would probably be it, but don't expect much else. understand that we were a large group but we did book so it was not a surprise we were coming in.

consistently disappointing!. we are not from toowoomba, but visit regularly.
our first experience was a few months ago when we ordered steaks that arrived over cooked.
this time was no better, my eye fillet was ordered medium rare but arrived with no hint of pink left to it!
my dining partners was slightly more pinky, but full of stringy rubber bands.
everything on the plate was consistent....... in a bad way!!!
the deep frying oil the chips had been done in was well and truly in need of changing and the veggies were grey and mushy.
never again....!!

...this was a pub bistro, a very good one at that. the food that was presented both times was excellent.