the union hotel

decent sizedmealsfor price. love their beer battered chips and pita bread and dips. the rib eye was massive, it does lack steak sauce and can be quite chewy to eat. cheap drinks by the bar. recommended for some casual drinks and pub meal.

i eat here a bit with friends but last night was the worst service i’ve ever encountered. a 50 minute wait for ourmealswhilst watchingmealsdelivered to several other tables who arrived much later than we did was just unacceptable. tarnished my previously high opinion of this hotel. felt forgotten....

disappointing!. my family went to the union hotel for my dad's birthday. what a mistake! i had the fish of the day which turned out to be slimy, undercooked salmon with the blandest quinoa salad i've ever had. my daughter had a boring penne and my husband's burger included a burnt roll. poor dad ended up with a tasteless linguine.

the union has never had great service, but if the food was great i might be able to overlook the attitude and long wait for meals. i wish the union was the friendly local it should be, but unfortunately it's an overpriced joint with below parmealsand staff who are often rude and unwelcoming. at least the staff were pretty nice tonight.

won't be back in a hurry.

bad bad bad. very excited about eating at the union. heard great things. ordered three meals. we recieved twomealswithin thirty minutes, although not together. our third meal never arrived. they insited it was still coming after one hour. their solution was a takeaway meal after we enquired several times. the manager was not forthcoming with solutions to rectify the situation. only after we asked for a refund did he obliged and $ 20 was thrown on the table. not impressed with the service and handling of our customer experience.

our local is ruined - whats's going on?????. been my local for years. always consistent. but - tonight it was terrible. told when we ordered that it would be 45 mins for meals. they took 1 hr 10 mins!!!!! two ordered the filet mignon ($32) - later told it was unavailable and "would it be ok for eye fillet". we said yes but when themealscame, it wasn't that eye fillet had replaced the filet mignon - it was the eye fillet meal with roasted (????) beetroot. steaks were well done (grey and solid) when we had asked for 'medium'. the $22 fish and chips was 2 tiny thin slivers of fish on some soggy cool chips and soggy salad. the chicken parma didn't have napoli sce - just some dry tomato paste - and the soggy chips. they saw me take a pic of the fish n chips - and suddenly were interested in us. refunded the money for the f n c. bought us a free drink. but - that's it - never going back. has ruined our 'local'. the owners need to step in and see what's going on. it has gone from super reliable, to "avoid at all cost" what a shame - i am sad about it.

go elsewhere. no. just no.

i've been going to the union formealsfor years but the new chef is terrible. we waited for close to 2.5 hours for our meals, themealshave halved in size but tripled the amount of iceberg lettuce. everything was flavourless except for the foods that were full of cinnamon where pepper should have been.

there are too many better pubs in the area with better food, better service and better staff to bother with this place anymore.

loved our visit good aussie pubmealsreasonable price food delicious lots of varied seating and lively music staff pleasant and accomadating ill be back ! and have told lots of people

a great melbourne pub.mealsare consistently solid! can't go wrong.

never again. they bought out the wrong order and their attitude was rude. we had to havemealswe didn't order. steak was over cooked, potatoes and chips were cold.mealsall came out at different times - one of themealswasn't even cooked.

sad night at union. what a disappointment. this was our local...until wednesday night. this pub's kitchen cannnot keep pace with demand, no fault of the chef (unless he/she is the owner) - and it's been getting worse in recent months. if you are charging high prices for fancy pantsmealsin a pub they better be bloody good and better come to the table within 20-30mins - not over an hour, or one hour ten to be exact (we ordered at 6.30). and even then there were burnt pieces of food on the plate. hopefully it was just one bad night.

how did i not know about this place?!!!. what an awesome pub! we went there on thursday night for some drinks - it was packed and there was a bluesy-type band playing inside so we sat outside, we were told the wait for food would be around 45 minutes and were given complimentary sourdough as soon as we sat down. the lighting was dim and the music was classic 90s (even heard some def fx later on!) and then the food arrived.... and it was well worth the wait! i had the enchiladas (you can ask for the vegan option without sour cream) and had a taste of the othermealson the table including the zucchini fritters, lamb backstrap (sooooo good) and their famous homemade ice cream and brownie for dessert.

such a great atmosphere, and you won't find a better bunch of people working at a bar... zero attitude, happy and adorable, even when they're completely flat out they manage to bust out a joke.

i think we just found our new hideaway