Yum, yum, yum! Worth every cent! Great atmosphere and food. Yes we’ll be back and recommending this place.
Make the effort as it will serve you and your friends well.
Great food, beers and service. Good honest simple food done well. We have been here lots of times for many different occasions and it's always enjoyable. Great for the locals!
Nice dining experience, food is tasty , prices are not too bad, depending on the occasion , service was perfect, would recommend for a nice dinner.
Michelle Anne Ferguson
+4.5
Excellent meal last night had the pork belly was delicious. Meals not over the top price wise. And service great will be coming back again.
Delightful dinner on a Monday night with all main meals $25. Generous servings, great staff and a dessert tasting plate that is to write home about.
Excellent meal Dec 31 2016. Service was very good and very reasonable prices. We will definitely be going back and will be recommending it to others.
Always have lovely food here. Nice simple menu. Staff are very efficient and attentive. Cocktails are delicious. Love the lunch time menu, reasonably priced.
Love that such a great restaurant is located out in the suburbs. While the prices are equivalent to what you'll find in restaurants in the city, the quality is also the same, so it's worth it. We've been here more times than I can recall and the food and service is always fantastic. Would certainly recommend!
Amazing but.... I agree that dining at Portabella is pretty amazing -- the quality of the food is excellent, the place itself looks wonderful, & the staff are very attentive. But. I grew up in the area & remember when Portabella (in it's earlier form both under that name & under others) was a really good place to eat where main meals didn't cost >$30. Caving in to nostalgia, I know, but it would be nice if there was some throwback to when it was that 'really nice, affordable restaurant down the road'.
I usually don't write reviews but my experience at Portabella was exceptional. The food was second to none, it has been quite some time since I enjoyed a meal this much from a Brisbane restaurant. Not only did the food and service exceed my expectations, the price point was very reasonable.
This has now become my favorite restaurant and easily rates 11/10.
Attentive and friendly service. The pork belly was amazing. It was a very nice touch that the waiter brought my wife a free dessert because it was her birthday. We'll be recommending Portabella to our friends and we'll be back.
Loved it. We celebrated our anniversary there tonight. Fantastic. Great service, great wine, fantastic food ( we shared a tapas platter and I had the pork belly.... Yu-um!). Also, the young Irish lass who works there was a standout - whatever she is being paid - it's not enough! Well done portobello, we'll be back!
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Portabella totally impressed us. We dined at Portabella tonight to celebrate my wife's birthday and really enjoyed this place. The great vibe started with the friendly way our booking was taken over the phone earlier in the day, and what we observed on arriving was a restaurant full of happy patrons and staff.
The service here was fantastic, we were greeted, seated and wanted for nothing the whole night. A great menu and a wine list with some eclectic choices not usually found in the suburbs. The quality and presentation of our food was excellent, the four of us shared some tapas plates as an entree and main courses arrived in perfect time.
I brought a birthday cake and a packet of candles awith us and what a wonderful surprise when it was brought out to the table, candles all inserted and lit. A really nice touch by the kitchen staff.
If you're looking for a somewhere great to dine out in the northern suburbs with a fantastic atmosphere, excellent food and superb service, give Portabella a try. Highly recommended.
Second visit just as good as the first!. Went to this restaurant for the second time last night, all mains on Monday's are $25.00 so it is a great price. I had steak both times and it was cooked to perfection. The crème brulee is amazing, probably the best I have had! Good size portions and great service, will definitely be coming back again.
Never disappointed - love this place!. A great little restaurant with excellent service and beautiful food.
Great food, excellent beer. What more could you ask for?!
Great food , great Service
Always impressed every time we go, can't beat consistency! Great service, even better food and a stand out for northern suburbs of Brisbane. Keep up the great work guys!!
Fantastic for a suburban restaurant . In fact, fantastic for any restaurant. What can I say other than it delivers on all levels...food, service, atmosphere etc. xxxx star rating!!
Love it every time we go. Great food and service . Even nice to go there with a friend for a wine at the bar. They are so helpful if you ever voice a concern. It's a gem hidden at Albany Crk. Beats any pub hands down!
Why didn't I come here earlier? Have been living in the northern suburbs for 5 years and have heard great things about this place. As an avid foody haven't found much in the area worth reviewing but this lived up to expectations. Service was amazing, staff very well trained and attentive. Food came out in 10-15 minutes and was generous portion size. Mooloolaba prawns large serving for tapas, calamari cooked perfectly and steak also Cooked to perfection. Will be returning, no wonder it's so busy.
I thoroughly enjoyed dining at Portabella. The food I ordered was amazing and the staff were excellent. Will definitely be back soon!
AMAZING!. I have dined here on two occasions and have been impressed both times. Exciting, original, meal choices and very friendly and efficient staff. Prices for mains are around $33-36. We'll be back
Great buzz. Went to Portabella with a group of 8 last Saturday. There was a great atmosphere and despite being pretty full the service was excellent. Mixed starter plates were the way to go with something for everyone. The croquettes were awesome. Liked the artisan beers available. I had a Sunshine Coast porter which had some interesting chocolate overtones. The mains were all well presented with the pork belly being the pick. Desserts were large and shared between people. The meringue with strawberries was great. We will be back!
Incredible service and great food. Super efficient service, drinks withing minutes of arrival, entree withing 10 minutes of ordering and mains about 15 minutes after that.
We had the calamari fritti and the chorizo entree and both were fantastic.
We both had the pork belly for main and it was fantastic, very little fat, perfectly cooked and the jus and vegetables were great.
Great service, nice clean open seating and the food is exceptional. I recommend the soft shell crab and the pork belly.
A suburban gem. Dinner here on Valentine's Day was wonderful. All 3 courses were delicious & the staff were knowledgable & professional. Can't wait to return!
This is a good restaurant... However not suitable for vegetarians... There was only one option on the menu which is the blue cheese rocket salad... I ended up just having entree and going somewhere else for a main. there are some nice meals on the menu.
Pleasantly surprised to encounter superb food with excellent service at a reasonable price and relaxed but professional atmosphere in suburbia ... Highly recommended, menu is diverse and progressive - no need to go to the city! Can't wait for the Tapas Bar to open :)
Live the food, excellent service.
We ate here as part of a large booking. The service timing was excellent, the food plentiful and delicious and the atmosphere wonderful.
All I can say is OMG! This place is the best restaurant in the northern suburbs! The wait staff are so professional, friendly and attentive. I have been here a few times now since the new owners/ management and staff have changed and it has definitely put Portabella on the map!! If you don't already know about this place you must live under a rock!! FYI- Tapas are to die for and the house made sour dough is just like heaven in your mouth!!! Love love love this place!! Well done guys :))
This place is amazing. Service is top notch, food is amazing. Love love love it
Five Stars. We went for our anniversary, thought we would give a local restaurant a go instead of heading into the city and we were so impressed. The food was impeccable, the service was friendly and the atmosphere bustling. Also, HUGE choices for a coeliac. I'm not used to being able to choose from so many gluten free options, well over 50% of the menu. We will be returning, it was certainly a memorable meal.
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Chef: A+, Restaurant: B-. Portabella’s food quality is excellent, the service is prompt with a few shortfalls and the ambience is comfortable; however quite loud due to the tiled floor.
It is quite obvious the Chef and his immediate staff are highly skilled as the food quality was set to a very high standard; as soon as the food was placed under the heat lamps it was served to you within 60 seconds.
The staff were prompt and polite in their service; however it was mixed with comments from ‘Sir, Madam’ through to ‘No worries guys’, rather than ‘my pleasure Madam or Sir’. It was obvious they had been instructed to use key words when conversing with customers; however due to an apparent lower standard of training compared to the kitchen staff, and I’m referring to the restaurant team effort here, I never got the impression they young boys and girls serving us were comfortable in saying it as they would often slip into their age group language. In addition their dress standard varied from good to poor with waitresses having un-brushed hair to perhaps more underclothing warranted to cover fleshy bulges.
I’m being a little picky here but the negatives did detract from an overall good night out. With further training and mentoring the waiter and waitresses could achieve the high standard of service set by the Chef and his immediate staff.
Overall if you want excellent cuisine in a local area then this is the place; I just wish the manager would take a greater interest in ensuring the waiting-staff were at the same level of professionalism as the Chef.
Portabella = great. Have been to this place a couple of times now. The service staff are helpful and knowledgable, the food is fantastic, yeah its not cheap but this place is worth it. (Plus it keeps the riff raff of Albany Creek out ;) ) Great ambience, nice and warm in winter, good coffee..... yep its a winner. Even kid friendly! The only downfall is that you do need to make a reservation a lot of the time. But, if you have your life even vaguely organised than its hardly a problem is it. Besides, having to make a reservation is like making an appointment to see your Doctor - chances are if they're booked up for a while they're popular because they are at least half decent
Keep up the good work guys. See you next time!
Awesome food, awesome staff...great price...love it!
5 star dining in suburbia! Have lost count at the amount of times I've dined at Pottabella and I still have never walked away dissappointed. Food and service ate impeccable! I'm a big fan of the lunch set menu at the moment.
Loud but lovely. I've been going to Portabella since it opened and have always loved the food and the service - a current favourite is the stuffed mushrooms which are to die for. A recent trip for my birthday gifted us with a divine cheesecake which was fabulously light and fluffy and the perfect ending to a gorgeous meal. My only slight (and it is slight) drawback is how noisy it can get - it's a big open space with high celiings and because they're good they get group bookings; who are patently having a great time but end up raising the volume in the whole room........ So maybe don't go here if you're looking for a romantic candle-lit dinner but do go here if you love good food, appreciate good service and don't mind having louder conversations
Have dined here many times both with family or for special occasions. We always leave happy and satisfied. The food had been always good or great and the staff are consistently very friendly and helpful. This is a nice restaurant with a reputation it's built up over time and which it lives up to.
Very Impressed. I've been to Portabella on several occasions and have always had a fabulous meal, never disappointed. Recommended to friends and family who have also had very good experiences. I went to a restaurant last Saturday in Brisbane city, which I might add is supposed to be one of the best.... It didn't even come close to the quality of food or service that Portabella provides.
Finally got to dine there last night for birthday dinner. Wish we had gone there sooner. Fantastic place, great value food, awesome staff. Looked after us well. Will be back with friends.
Stuffed mushrooms! So good!
Our favourite local. We love Portabella! We have been here more than a dozen times, and every time, the food has been divine. There is a little bit of everything on the menu, and I think we have pretty much had at least one of everything now.
The pork belly is amazing, the steaks are always perfectly cooked and tender, and the fish is always fresh. They have interesting and varied entrees and the menu changes enough to keep us entertained.
The staff are attentive and polite and we are rarely without a fully topped glass of water or offers of more wine when we are getting low.
We recommend this restaurant 100% - especially if you can get a booking on a Monday night when they have their $22 mains!
LOVE THIS PLACE. Portabella has come a long way over the past year. I am a local and it is one of my favourite places to eat. I must say that last year the dishes were basic with small servings of accompliments however, this has changed and now the servings are generous and good value for money. HIghly recommended.
Lovely dinner. Went to Portabella for a group dinner and it was a lovely experience. While I didn't have an entree, the ones that did were very happy with them and they looked delicious. I had the pork belly for the main and it was absolutely delicious. The other mains looked yummy too and I can't wait to come back again with hubby.
Last night was the third time I had been and again I left very satisfied. The Turkish meatballs for entree were well seasoned and plentyfull with a beautiful mint yogurt. The pork belly main was well presented and tender. The fat was rendered down perfectly leaving little fat on the plate. Creme brûlée for dessert with vanilla bean ice-cream finished the night with a smile on my face. Well done Portabella.
Chicken. Love the organic chicken breast main with sweet potato fondant... delish!
A nice and tasty suburban restaurant experience. Enjoyed the menu whilst the ambiance was unexpected. Friendly staff and notable service. I observed a wide range of customer demographic types which is indicative of it's broad appeal.
Delicious. Our first time and loved it. Pork belly was lean and perfect. Chicken breast was tasty and moist. Vegetables are cooked to perfection. Lovely professional staff.
The food was magnificent. The service was fantastic (thanks Tom). The price was great value at only $45 for 3 delicious courses. I will certainly be back and sharing this gem with friends and family.
Recommendations: 1st course - stuffed mushrooms, 2nd course - baramandi & 3rd course - pana cota.
Amazing mocktails and cocktails too.
Very good service and food was great as well. Décor is a bit tired in this place, but other than than that pretty good.
Great place. The staff were friendly and efficient. Food was delicious, especially the platter.
Second time dining in here, food was just as good as the first time.
Looking forward to dining here again in the future
What an amazing little suburban restaurant! Friendly, attentive service and delicious food. The set menus are great value as well!
I really enjoyed this place. Entrees were very good and we got the share platter for mains.
Really good flavours, I could not fault the food I had. Someone else on our table had the pork and said it was a bit dry.
The service was excellent, the staff were friendly and nice people.
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