lady of ro

great spot, simple tasty food. dont know why people complain about noise, its just a cosy buzzing restaurant. we went on busy friday night and there was no tables available but we went to a cool bar next door and the waiter came to get us 15 mins later when ourtablewas ready. great prompt service but not in your face which we like! will def go back.

came for dinner, it’s a small venue with a mixed style of seating (long talltablewith stools, 3 tables for 4 inside and seating outside. the staff were friendly and attentive. we ordered our meal and asked if we could have all dishes together as two were veg dishes to accompany the mains. unfortunately our veg dishes came out about 15 minutes before the mains. the broccoli dish is nice but a little overpriced. the saganaki was not as good as others i’ve tried but was a decent portion. the smashed peas were average. a bit of mint would jazz it up. i had the lamb which was average. nothing special with over cooked potatoes. the takeaway custard tart was nice. nice flavour and good pastry. wouldn’t be my first choice of venue as i can cook this food at home myself pretty easily. it’s byo and i think the corkage may be $5 per person or per bottle as we got charged $20 for two bottles of wine and 2 bottles of beer between 4 people.

i rated lady of ro one star as this was the lowest rating i could provide. i will not return to this restaurant. the radon is because of rudeness of the staff serving. the food is overpriced . the area inside is very small so when there is a largetableof guests it is noisy. apparently you are not able to talk or have fun. i will not return to this venue.

i was dining at the lovely lady of ro last friday night, the food was great with exceptionally good octopus. it's a great atmosphere in that you can bring your own wine and finish a delicious dessert. ourtablereceived great service, i will definitely be back for it's a rare unique dining experience.

well after getting a terse "yes" upon the obligatory sms inquiry fortableavailability in which i provided name, number of guests, contact number and booking time, when i arrived i was greeted with confusion in spite of being exactly 1min early and repeating my name 3 times. after being told my name was not on the booking sheet by someone more interested in their clipboard than making me feel welcome, the female maitre d' she suddenly remembered the sms! no graciousness or apology. the young waiter and the food however, were great and nice ambience. worse greeting i think i've experienced at a restaurant.

a close friend booked this restaurant for 8pm. i've not had a dinner reservation that late since my twenties. we arrived ten minutes early to find them allegedly clearing outtable, but after a while we had to ask where we would be sitting. they organised an outside table, brought water to thetableand fetched a wine cooler for the byo bottle. then we were stranded for twenty minutes, no menu, no nothing.... the waiter eventually grabbed the blackboard which serves as the menu (how authentic) and we chose three dishes off that. things improved a bit from there. the octopus was tender and tasty, the haloumi cheese was squeaky and delicious. the slow cooked lamb had plenty of flavour, albeit a bit fatty and came served with pearl couscous on the side. we asked for the bill three times, it still didn't arrive so we made the move inside and asked the girl behind the counter if she'd like to take our money. $70 for two, a bit steep maybe.
quite tasty food, great they allow byo, let down by service.

we arrived and were seated outside (which we had already booked and were aware of despite the cold) on a miniaturetableto where i thought 'here we go, it's another one of those restaurants'. but fortunately what they lacked intablesize they made up in food and service. some of the best greek dishes i've ever eaten backed up with some delicious desserts. service was fantastic. highly recommend and will definitely be back again.

our night started with me and my 3 guests walking into the restaurant being greeted to then find out we didn't have a table, as our booking hadn't been noted down. i had made a booking earlier in the week by sending a text message to the restaurants mobile number, with a confirmation text being sent shortly after. obviously there was a breakdown of communication and quite apparent disorganisation on the floor. a tall older lady offered us atablehowever there would be a wait to be seated, we decided not to stay as we were starving and could go elsewhere down the road. this threw our night as we had also arranged a babysitter and were on a time limit as us parents don't get out often. we didn't get to experience what the restaurant had to offer and don't want to waste our time by going back.

superb!   this little gem in rokeby road came highly recommended.  food & service was fantastic.  best meals enjoyed by ourtableof four for a long time.  rare to keep everyone happy but there were no complaints at all about any of the dishes ordered.  food is fresh, delicious & full of subtle flavours.  deserts are ridiculously divine!  only negatives are the noise levels and as it is such a small space, the constantly bumping & chair being knocked as people move past or from adjacent table.  pity they don't have more space (imagine this is a nightmare for staff.)

pretty ordinary, actually

a big boost from the john lethlean review... but john, really... what was all the fuss about?

a very, very ordinary meze plate - bland and unexciting.

mains okay... but how hard is it to char-grill zucchini?

wonderful lamb-chops... superb! great produce and cooked simply.

the big downside?

insanely, insanely noisy !!!

bordering on painful as the 'bimbo shrieks' from thetablebehind us grew louder and louder.

if you plan on going book an outside table.

good food starts with good ingredients and lady of ro keeps it simple and flavoursome. i'm not sure about the byo mentioned in previous review as we bought a bottle of wine at the restaurant? i would recommend booking as gets busy and if you don't like proximity to other diners it might not be for you. the only downside for us was that the service wasn't great, it felt as though we were being overlooked and we had to keep trying to grab servers as they were rushing past. oh and we didn't get the bread that we ordered. because we weren't at the communaltableit felt a little as though we were intruding on a private party. that said, i'm willing to give it another shot because it is a lovely little place with delicious, mediterranean-style food.

update: revisited recently and was rather underwhelmed. bread and olive oil were great but other than a nice greek salad we didn't enjoy the rest of our choices of chorizo, octopus (smelt off), and lamb shoulder (criminally under seasoned). and whilst i like intimate, bustling places, the acoustics in here - or just the clientele - make it impossible to have your own conversation. probably won't bother going back to be honest.