sailors' rest

great service from the team and great food, highly recommended .i had the fish and chips , really nice quality and good size serve. a burger as addition to themenuwould be awesome.

great place, fast and friendly service.
the place is near the waterfront so you can go for a nice stroll along the water.
themenuhad a wide variety items and also classics. spanish vol au vents were delicious.

love the new roof top bar . i can’t wait to go back. yummy barmenuand great ambience.met friends out front later and great food there too . my favourite restaurant on out beautiful waterfront.thankyou .

was all good.. and come out quick.. and had breakfast and lunchmenugoing.. and good price. i reccomend. #geelongwaterfront. i had the burger.. bun and pattie delish.. and hot crispy chips.

hi!

we have eaten here a few times, usually for a weekend breakfast or lunch. so on this occasion dinner at sailor's rest was a classic parma and chips.

pub grub classics and done well. this night was for a birthday and the service was great and very efficient for 18 people.

*kid friendly, for those interested.

reasonably priced, goodmenuoptions and drinks to match.

i walked past this place many times looking at themenuthinking it was to pricey for the area.things seemed to have changed and they seem to have expanded out to the street scape.played it safe and got a hand crumbed breast parmi, and i was very happy with the result, the meals were as described , they did not talk it up. the viet.. roll was also nice. service was friendly and they have a rather nice range of beer and wine. the  cake/ dessert fridge was impressive and catered for dietaries. great place to sit outside. on a warm day. over heard the owner interview a potential staff member quizzing him about their knowledge of red and white wines and getting them to name some. impressive interview questions.

great location near the waterfront, nice atmosphere, attentive staff and good food. there’s a wide variety of choices in theirmenuand a glass case full of desserts. perfect place to people watch and relax.

update: went in for breaky 2 days in a row and ordered roughly the same things. coffee is still good but the food has been cooked and seasoned differently. the first time bacon was crisp and cooked just right, second time it was burnt and chewy. hash brown was also bland the second time around. minus points for inconsistency of food

underwhelming. decided to stop at sailors' rest for dinner on our way back to melbourne, bad decision.

firstly, we were expected to fetch our own water.. which to me seemed strange for this type of place...

the restaurant is set out nicely, themenulooked good but pricey so we expected something nice.

as soon as my meal came out, i was dissapointed. serving was tiny and the meal was nothing special. we all agreed the food was lacking in flavour.

this place seems to be suffering an identity crisis.

always lots of variety on themenu- generally can never choose what to have - and it does change slightly from visit to visit. good mix of inside, outside dining - my pick of the waterfront restaurants.

attended geelong for a mid week lunch visit down the foreshore.
i've never eaten in geelong so i walked until i found sailors rest which has a lot of customers dining on the deck in the sunshine.

the feel of this cafe is one you'd expect to see beach or bay side.

review of the menu, stock standard. could tell from reading themenuthat the breakfast options would be sub par. i ordered the breakfast burger anyway and a coffee.

coffee came out weak af, tasted like i was drinking a warm cup of milk. the waiter i told was attentive and replaced it with a strong one even though i told him i'd be happy with just pouring in a extra espresso.

i don't know much for geelong coffee but melbournians are hard to please in the coffee department, i'll leave it at that.

breaky burger. the concept was there but a brioche bun that was doughy and a potato hash brown made it just way too heavy and lacked flavor as the oil from the hash brown took over. i took the hash brown out which allowed for the egg and bacon flavors to rear their head.

service = excellent
food = mediocre
coffee = terrible

had a light lunch here on a recent visit to geelong . located on the waterfront , with great views over port phillip bay , this historic building has both internal and outside seating .

we had a caesar salad & salt & pepper calamari which were both very nice and reasonably priced

the service was also very good and the meals came out very quickly

their breakfastmenualso looked interesting. if your in geelong and exploring the fabulous waterfront precinct, sailors rest is well worth a try .

bad form and management. while the food and wait staff were excellent, it was very disappointing when we paid the bill that an extra cost of $6 was added for ordering a number of breakfast sides rather than an advertised breakfast. the extra cost was not advised of in themenuor by staff and what i had ordered came to more than many of the breakfasts while adding the $6 meant it came to much more than even the big breakfast. the manager handled this very poorly, admitting that they did not advise of it and he arrogantly did not see the problem with it. he then took $5 from the tip jar and told me to take it, while waving it in my face. i advised i had issue with this as it was not the wait staff's fault but rather a poor business decision and when i asked it be reimbursed to our credit card he then told me not to haggle over a dollar. i felt affronted by his attitude and was offered no alternative but to take the money. having managed a cafe myself, i found his dealing with a customer and particularly his regard for his staff to be greatly lacking any integrity. i would not go back just because of the $6 but due to the managers disregard for his customers and particularly staff.

dinner has gone downhill. we hadn't been here in a few years, and expecting the great food we were used to, we were very disappointed. very averagemenuwith expensive prices. we both chose the seafood basket which stood out the most. unfortunately while it looked good, there was just too much greasy food, with no salad to refresh us. i struggled to get through half, such a waste of good seafood.
we won't return until the quality gets back to the way it used to be.

this used to be my favourite place to eat in geelong. they had the best seafood, especially calamari - huge portions with lots of chips and salad, filling up the whole plate. about feb of this year it started going down hill so i stopped going. i returned a few months ago to find it had lifted it's game - but not for long! i am not sure if there is new management or management has just decided to take a different direction with this place but i won't be back. the food is now sub par, the portions have gotten a lot smaller and the food has changed and themenunow resembles dishes that could easily be found at any other cafe/restaurant in geelong. what a waste of a beautiful building and location. will not be back until it starts improving again.