homestead brewery

lovely location, decent beer, average service and lousy food.
the food, rather than being brought to a customers table was placed on a side table near the bar with a number beside it. customers are given an estimated time of arrival and urged to check said side table around then for thier food.
cuefoodgoing missing, taken by other customers, arriving early and being allowed to cool to room temperature over a half hour.foodorders arriving piece meal and re-orders a plenty due to mix ups and dissatisfied customers.
less than hygenic.
as to personal experience, my wife and i ordered a medium rare scotch fillet with a mango cheesecake dessert for myself. she selected the masala chicken and chia creme brulee for herself.
the desserts arrived well before the main meal and we're consequently sent back to the kitchen. her chicken masala was less than flavourful with a half cup of hardend rice, while my steak was more well-done than medium rare, with a delightful (sic) side of cold vegetables.
we will not be returning.

#2.5
disappointed to say the least !!!! the brewery was more likely a sterile cafeteria with no ambiance or atmosphere just a noisy cafeteria.foodwas over priced and lacked any real love, although the korean wings were nice they were drowned in so much sauce it was over powering, the chips were cold and burger pattie dry and burnt bun for $70 with a drink each you can get better down the local pub.

we went here at the weekend for birthday family lunch.foodwas average and overpriced. fish was overcooked and we got very little meat on the pizza.
customer service was shocking. the lady at the cashier can not handle when we complained that we ware not told that we only have a table for 90 minutes when we made a booking by phone. the lady who at the counter seems she does not care. she just want us to pay and leave. when we addresssed again the issue as we did not get proper respond. she got annoyed and said she said 'ive got your name and number, i will block you!'. we were shocked. never get treated poorly like that before. we were paying more than $200 and the service that we received was worse than mcdonalds. i think she might be the manager. the birthday lady was quite upset because of this.
if you do not want your special occassion to be ruined, i suggest do not come to this place. i strongly do not recommend this place.

firstly i wanted to say that the bar and wait staff were amazing despite the manager.

we ordered with the manager and after she had confirmed the right amount of meals sent it to the kitchen. when thefoodcame out one of the meals were missing. i approached the manager twice to rectify the situation but she avoided me both times (at this time it was not busy) by walking away. i instead went to the bar and asked for the missing meal. they had to retake the order. it was tamara (one of the staff) that came to apologise and fix the issue.

the manager seemed stressed, disinterested in customers and unprofessional (raising voices at different customers, flustered and pushing around other staff).

thefoodwas adequate for the price, but our experience was a disappointment because of the manager.

fabulousfoodserved with best wines on offer in sawn valley is the main attraction from this restaurant. we spent the time having breakfast & lunch here, and thefoodand drinks definitely live up to standard.

upmarket place with precious materidee. cannot rate thefoodbecause all we had was an shared entrée and drinks. waited an hour for main and the restaurant was not even busy when we arrived. had to give up waiting and left. not recommend for tourist who do not travel with formal clothes

very slow service. i know that people come here for long lunch, but we've been waiting for ourfoodsince one hour ago. not fun at all especially when you are with your kids.

went on sat night in a group of 4. had to wait about 5 - 8 mins to be seated as they have a wait sign, which would be fine but its wasn't particularly busy & there were staff in front of me waiting to take the order of a table who obviously haven't decided yet. why not say you'll give them a few more minutes and sit the people standing waiting? small nit pick however. service by the rest of the staff i couldn't fault and the location is stunning, however thefoodreally lets this place down. i order lamb with pine nuts and received what seemed like an entire tin's worth of chickpeas and almonds.  if you've ran out of pine nuts that's fine but don't substitute without informing the customer or hoping they don't know the difference and try to make up for it with tinned sup par products.partner ordered the $40 sirloin which came out looking wafer thin, anaemic, full of fat & gristle and served with limp greasy chips.  not good at the best of times but you're charging $40???  not on.another person in our group ordered the fish and chips.  this came out with a limp salad on the side which i asked to be replaced as had either wilted under a heat lamp or had been out for a fair while (which they did, no problems) and the fish was actually really nice, just let down by the limp chips again.last person in our group ordered the fish pie which we all agreed was the best thing brought to our table, however, 2 cauliflower florets and 5 green beans does not a side salad make.  in fact it was almost insulting to put it on there - just leave it off if that's all your serving.its a shame as this place has potential but overpriced mediocrefoodwill see me not inclined to return.

the mandoon estate is absolutely stunning. it was my first time coming here and we haven't even seen half of it! the homestead was lovely with an excellent panoramic of the vineyard. 🌿 there was an acoustic singer playing in the background - perfect volume and great sound! i was impressed with the beer and wine selection - something for each taste bud. we had a tasting paddle and loved all the brewski's, can't wait to try the wine next time. 🍻 thefoodwas all yummy! only thing i would question is the veges served with the scotch fillet, but hubby loved it. i look forward to returning. 😄

friends & i went to the homestead brewery for breakfast, thefoodwas beautifully cooked & well presented, the staff were delightful. this visit showed a big improvement on my last visit.
ron sara (fcia) ret

went here on a friday night. it was great! live music, nicefoodand good service. they also split bill which good for larger groups. would come back.

i sincerely wish homestead brewery was better, particularly given that the other swan valley breweries are also pretty poor, but unfortunately it has fallen completely flat.

we visited homestead brewery about a month ago with our young daughter, my sister, brother in-law and their two adult children. mr doe called prior to see if we could book for sunday lunch and was told bookings were for groups of 10+ only and they recommend arriving between 11am and midday to secure a table. following their recommendation we arrived at 11am and asked a male staff member for a table, he disappeared for a couple minutes before taking us to a table and seating our group.

we proceeded to order a variety of dishes and i'll keep my critiques to ourfoodonly and say it was very average; pizza was soggy with the base undercooked in the centre and the octopus in the octopus and chorizo dish overcooked and chewy although the flavours in the dish overall were good. they did serve some excellent olives though i'm not sure that's enough of a saving grace. mr doe and i also shared a chai creme brûlée which was terrible, curdled custard is not nice at all and inexcusable in a professional kitchen.

around three quarters of the way through our meal a female waitress approached us and told us we needed to move half of our party from the table they were seated on (as we were seated across two adjoined tables) claiming that we had removed the reserved sign for the table. we explained that we'd not removed anything and had been seated at this table by another staff member. without a word the waitress turns around, walks off and returns with the male manager in tow. let me make it apparent when i say as a diner i have never been treated so poorly as by the ill-mannered staff at homestead brewery, the manager was incredibly rude and proceeded to accuse us of removing the reserved sign from the table and tell us that we needed to hurry up and leave. he was again told that we had removed nothing and were seated at the table by his staff member. only after demanding a detailed description of the offending staff member which was provided did he huff off to verify that this was correct. we were not rude or confrontational with the staff over the situation just slightly incredulous at the rudeness and that they expected us to up and leave over their mistake when we were not finished eating. we received no apology from the manager for his appalling behaviour.

what really made me cranky though is that after watching the waitress move tables around for the reservation in question that a party of four sat down on the reserved table when they'd refused to take a booking for a party of eight. unsure why the double standards exist at this establishment? either take bookings or don't but whichever way homestead need to manage their processes better.

based on the abysmal service and below parfoodi wouldn't personally return to homestead brewery.

location — 4
parking — 2
food — 2
pricing — 2
service — 1
overall — 2 out of 5

below average service at nice location.foodwas average. not bad, but wouldn't return.

so average fair but fairly typical inflated prices. so wouldn't recommend to friends.

beautiful grounds, but very overpriced. i've visited homestead brewery on 3 occasions now. the building and grounds are beautiful and it is certainly what the swan valley was missing. however it is very overpriced for the servings you receive. i was appalled at my $15 dessert last night. the sizing was tiny. it was yummy, but nothing to be wowed at, which i wouldn't of minded except for what i had paid. there is no table service, which is what you expect in a bar, but how can they justify the cost of the meals/drinks especially when their mandoon restaurant "a semi private dining room with 5 star service"charges the same amount for dessert. early on in the evening when we ordered our wine, we had two wine buckets on our table, which left very little room for ourfoodso i asked for a wine bucket stand. i was told where i could locate one, rather than the bar staff going to get it and bringing it over. again when we ordered our desserts we were told where we could go and locate some cutlery. homestead if you don't want to do any table service and expect your customers to set their own table, then you need to lower your prices.

$7.50 for a coke, really?. i was excited to try the new brewery homestead as my friends had highly recommended the brewery. the view and the facility are 1st class, thefood( i had the togarashi spiced squid) delicious, a little on the expensive side, but i don't mind paying for good food. the only and biggest let down for me (especially being that i'm a non drinker) is paying $7.50 for a pint of coke and $4.5 for a middy if i recall. i just don't see how they justify charging this, are they trying to pay for the new facilities by charging through the nose for coke. it's ludicrous. thumbs down.