gpo

awsom. amazing food ,great servise and already made a reservation for next week.
anywere with moscato on tap is a great place .

do yourself a favor and never go here. we went here thinking it would be a good place to stop for a reasonalbly quick dinner and saw the $5 tacos advertised out the front. there were no tacos left when i tried to order them. i asked the waitress a few simple questions about the other tiems on the menu and she either didnt understand or didn't know the answers, she also didn't have the initiative to go and find out. i gave up and ordered an easy pizza. we then waited almost an hour and a half for some of our food to arrive. 1 meal was completely forgotten (or the waitress from ealier didn't write it down on the order which is quite possible given she didn't know what she was doing) our pizzas were below average in taste, and the ham tasted off, except for the margarita which is hard to stuff up given you only need about 3 ingredients. looking around the whole restaurant seemed to get meals sporadically...half the table had finished their meals long before any other meals arrived. for our meal that never came after almost 2 hours of waiting we were given an appology and $14 off the bill! definitely never going here again. they need to get rid off heaps of staff before this place will be any good!

don't bother. we booked on dimmi in the afternoon and received the email confirmation. we then arrived at gpo on time. however the waitress could not see my name on the computer. i then said that i had only just booked on dimmi in the afternoon. she then said that their internet had not been on during the day and she would go and speak to someone. when she came back her story had changed and she said "the problem with dimmi is that the bookings come through the next day". i knew that this was not true as i have often booked on the same day through dimmi. we were told that they were fully booked but we could sit outside where it was covered and heated. i said we would like to look at it. we walked all the way through to the back but she did not follow us. so we stood in the courtyard and the waitress made no attempt to follow and see if we wished to stay. as we would still have had to wear our coats we had no desire to stay. appalling service. they should have realised their mistake by not having the internet on and offered a table inside - but they couldn't be bothered. sadly this shows dimmi in a bad light and they should consider withdrawing from this restaurant.

has beer at the gpo. black bug in top. taste good. beer, not so much.

i'm liking inside. lighting make happy. remind me of mother home. all heil putin.

we are regulars at gpo being local to bendigo and there is a reason we keep coming back. great food, great drinks and awesome staff! chris has been our waiter quite a few times now and always provides an excellent, friendly, personalised service, and makes us feel at home. good, relaxed atmosphere, gpo is always our 'go to' when it comes to dinner and drinks, keep up the good work! a shoutout to nathan for his wonderful service also!

there are strange giblets in my pasta!. i was excited to try gpo, but it was only ok..
the place wasnt that busy but there were tables full of dirty plates and the waitress instantly warned us "be prepared to wait half and hour to 45 for food"
ok, so we arent in a rush, lets give it a whirl.
menu reads well but it just doesnt get there on the plate.
soft shell crab had a dense and oily batter, and no sauce as described. onion rings were the same, swimming in oil and with a really thick batter. ugh.
my slow cooked lamb pasta wasnt bad, but was freaked out to find weird little things that looked like chicken giblets in there... hmmmm.
my boyfriend got a pizza and the bottom of it was covered in what looked like the black oily scrapings from the oven, like 1/2 a cm thick, it tasted like burnt dukkah or something . so all in all, high expectations, menu sounds awesome but they just cant pull it off. pity.

i must admit my last visit to the gpo was over a year ago, but at the time i wasn't sure what to expect, i was told they get very busy (this was after nye). we managed to get ourselves a nice little high table. 
the service was great, very friendly people that served us. the iced coffee was pretty good, very impressed by simple things like putting a very long spoon in a tall glass, (some venues can't even get that right, having to dive for your spoon is no fun).
 
the decor is modern and interesting enough to keep you entertained visually. 
the food i'd have to say was fantastic, i could't say there was a bad bite amongst any of the tappas we ordered, from the crispy pork belly bites, corn and zucchini fritters to the sliders and patatas bravas. will be back to see if they've kept up with the quality.

$$$$. this place is way too overpriced, $24 for a small serving of dessert is ridiculous. you can get bigger the portion at a 5 star restaurant in melbourne for only $15. the staff are very nice, but it is definitely way over the top, coming back and forth to fill up water glasses on multiple occasions, why don't you just leave a bottle on the table? and interrupting conversation on a regular basis, 5 times or so someone would be in the middle of a sentence and the waiter/or waitress would come over and ask would we like anything else, you'd think the third time you'd get the point that if i did i'd ask. i've been a waitress since i was 15, and never was i that annoying or so desperate for an upsell. overall the food was good, but they have put up the prices so much in the last few months that i wouldn't come back here.

lovely experience. beer battered flathead with hand cut chips were the best fish and chips ive ever had in a restaurant. calamari had good flavour also. we had the pork belly bites to start. these were tasty. couldn't fault the experience and would happily go again. good selection of local wines also.

disappointing experience - paella was bland and pasta was very basic (tasted like canned sauce). fish and chips were ok though, crispy and fresh.

delicious lunch today at the gpo bendigo. we were in town from melbourne for a conference and were very pleasantly surprised with the lunch specials at gpo. we enjoyed pork belly and zucchini and corn fritters and both meals were delicious, and left us wanting more!

was there over the weekend and ordered salt and pepper calamari.  it was disgusting!!! it was supposed to be crumbed and fried and came out as a slimy mess and no crumbed or pepper or salt. it was hidden on the plate under a large lump of salad. i couldn't believe my eyes upon seeing the slimy white mess underneath the salad. also the service was quite slow to start with. would not recommend this place.

great venue but customer service lets it down. there never appears to be a manager or senior staff member around. it feels like a place where people work as a job not profession. food is good but service is hit and miss.

menu is constructed to aim for haute cuisine but delivers bland hot food. friendly service but overall a very disappointing experience, and definitely not worth the prices.

we really enjoyed ourselves at gpo on a very busy saturday night.

the variety of options on the menu made it hard to choose! two serves of oysters for entree, backed up by a huge eye fillet and paella pan gave us very full bellies - but we did manage to fit in the dessert tasting platter!

plenty of drinks on offer as well, including an impressive range of victorian boutique beers.

the staff were friendly and very attentive. they handled an issue with their register system well, making sure we weren't kept waiting too long.