Very good service and friendly staff but my fish was not hot. Because this is a training restaurant I was happy to not complain. Great value lunch
Fab! Lovely food, service with a smile! Thanks to our servers who were awesome � will definitely be back
Have eaten here on several occasions always a pleasure to see the staff try hard however went for dinner last Monday didn't think much to the menu this time around but what they failed on they served coffee before we had been served our sweet tsk tsk
We were invited for dinner with friends and were very pleasantly surprised by the whole experience - the meal was $20 a head for three courses and was extremely good value given the complexity of most dishes. The wait staff were obviously early in their training and were a touch nervous but very enthusiastic to please us - the food was all good and it was great that the chefs mingled after the meal and looked for real criticism so they can improve. All in all great value and we will go back regularly!
Food is absolutely delicious! You do have to remember that it is a teaching institute so the staff are all still learning. Food quality is just the best and everything we had was good. Definitely recommend!
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As an Asian Food Critic, my job is to travel and tasting Asian food around the world, was lucky enough and manage to dine in for the last Friday Asian Christmas special Lunch before Restaurant closing down for long summer holiday.
Restaurant was fully packed at lunch, but the food service was in the good pace, the Asian Christmas appetiser was stunning, beautiful presented with Peking turkey roll, mango prawn salad and honey lime grace ham, soup was good with very nature sweet potatoes and parsnip flavour , and come to the main course with good quality meats with different Asian country flavour ,lamb cutlet with cardamom sauce ,Tandoori chicken and pan-fried fish with Thai chilli sauce, dessert was very special Christmas pudding and Green tea Panacota in the China spoon.
Best feeling of this lunch meal, is my sensitive tongue didn’t pick up any trace of MSG, Chicken powder or bica-soda or chemical meat tenderiser in all the food I had been eaten at that lunch. congratulation to the chefs, good on you still had the heart and soul to produce safe food to customers by the real cooking skill and without using Chicken powder ,MSG or Chemical .
Feedback to the beautiful young lady chef student, but didn’t meet the master trainer behind, hope see you next trip when I visit Perth again.
Been there a couple of time
As training restaurant
Good presentation
No problem with quality
Love seeing the trainees working hard
Hope this traing school last forever
Bentley Pines Mothers Day Dinner. What a lovely night! We thoroughly enjoyed the food, the service and the company! The atmosphere was so nice and relaxed, the students were lovely and very professional, and the food was beautifully presented and absolutely yummy..my husbands mushroom soup, lovingly made by 3 of the chefs..lol was the best he ever had. We learnt about mushrooms..yes there is more to them than you think :) We would recommend this restaurant, we think it is amazing considering that it is trainees that are responsible for your every need.
Thank you guys !!
5 Great Chefs 5 Great Wines. I attended one of the 5 dinners held at Bentley Pines with some visitors from the UK. .It was very impressive and made more so when we learnt that the students had a limited time to cook and present the menu.
I am 'almost' vegetarian so it was a pleasure to be asked if our table had any dietary requirements prior to the commencement of service. Top marks all round. Well done. Looking forward to the next series.
Best kept 'secret'. This place is awesome! As the training facility for budding hospitality folk, this is where you can get a bargain meal while the kids gets some practice.
We went on a buffet week (the menu changes every week) and had a massive Asian feast - seafood soup, sushi, Thai beef salad, chicken satays, wontons and and and ..... for entree; followed by roast lamb, chicken curry, stir fried pork, vegetables, fried rice and and and.... finally topped off with dessert of cheesecake, fruit and tarts.
The service, although not stellar is friendly and enthusiastic and really quite fun to watch. There was so much food and so many dishes and all for $28 pp for dinner. With wine from $3 a glass, cocktails at $7 this place is a must visit. But shhhhh, don't tell anyone - we don't want it to get too popular!
What a gem of a restaurant- unbeatable value for money, esp the bistro lunch. Excellent menu and food- been here many times and no complaints!
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Sssshhh...The Culinary Fairy has a secret to share. This little cleaning fairy was recently granted the wish to don on her culinary fairy apron and test drive some really awesome cuisine at the Bentley Pines Restaurant.
Bentley Pines is a training restaurant run by Polytechnic West and proud winner of the 2008 & 2009 Gold Plate Award for a Restaurant within Training Establishment.Located on the Bentley Campus , it surprised the wand right out of this fairy's hand!
Student waiters came around to take our orders, efficiently presenting menus and deftly laying our linen napkins across our laps. The menu was small (as can be expected) but provided enough of a mouthwatering choice. From entrees to desserts, all dishes were well presented and absolutely delicious.
Succulent scallops were served on a delicate sheet of filo pastry and melted in the mouth. Scallops, if not cooked properly, can have the consistency of a Dunlop tyre, so I have to take my hat off to the chef here. The dish was perfect.
Catering for the vegetarians was the well presented and colourful vegetable stack. Tasty and again, cooked to perfection. Some critics did feel it lacked a bit of imagination vegetable-wise but I'm sure the chef(s) had to work with what they had on hand and did it very well. Whatever the comments, it tasted just fine and I didn't hear any complaints as it was wolfed down amidst 'hmmms' and nods of appreciation.
One of the mains was a delicious serving of roast pork, topped with a juicy piece of crackling. Although the pork was very tasty and the crackling perfect, I'm not sure serving it with a cabbage leaf was the ideal side for presentation but again, there were no complaints as hushed silence was pierced only by the scrape of cutlery on empty plates.
Yours truly played it safe (yes, boring, I know) and had the chicken. Well, I'd seen what was on the menu for dessert and that's where I decided to take my chances! The chicken was delicious. Juicy, tasty and cooked just enough. The beans would not have been my choice of sides and I would have preferred some nice fresh veg instead. But beggars can't be choosers and I gracefully accepted the offerings. It was the after-effects that concerned me more!
One of the other guests supped on the blackened fish. This was defintely the most well presented main dish of the night. Served with a side of green beans, the fish was perfectly cooked, tasty and melted in the mouth. The colours on the plate complimented each other perfectly.
With satisfied smiles all round, we waited patiently for what I thought was the ultimate closer to a perfect meal. Dessert! 'Oohs' and 'Aahs' reverberated through the Dining room as the desserts were presented. What a tough choice!
It was very quickly determined at our table that, whatever we ordered, we would share. It was all too good to pass up. The winner by far, presentation-wise, was the delicious Creme Caramel topped with a fresh, sweet strawberry and accompanied by a profiterole Swan. I could not have made a better choice. It was a tough choice too. The alternatives were just as irresistable!
All things considered, it was a very good meal. I would highly recommend Bentley Pines.
But please do remember, all the staff are students supported by lecturers and administration staff, so please be kind. They were very nervous and really appreciated the compliments that came their way. From the bar to the wait-staff and definitely the kitchen staff, it was a very good effort.
Well done! Polytechnic West is producing some great talent.
So until the next time she's allowed out, the Culinary Fairy is returning to the hearth to work off the calories gained at the Bentley Pines.
This is the training restaurant for those entering the hospitality industry. We were asked if anyone had dietary requirements and substitutes were made for those who did. For $35 you get to enjoy a 3-course meal. Service was excellent. The only criticism I have is that the vegetables were under done.
Overall 4.75/5
Food 4.5/5
Environment 4.25/5
Service 4.8/5
Menu 5 - 2022 semester 1
Crumbed feta (Entree)
Taste 4.25/5
Overall 4.5/5
Butternut pumpkin soup (Entree)
Taste 4.5/5
Overall 4.6/5
Sumac Chicken Breast (Main)
Taste 4.4/5 (The chicken skin was a bit salty)
Overall 4.5/5
Steamed date & walnut pudding (Dessert)
Taste 4.5/5
Overall 4.75/5
Harvey $4
Taste 4.25/5
Overall 4.5/5
Friendly students, nice foods, good environment and fair price.
It's hard to go wrong with this place. Cookery is solid, well executed, fair produce that's presented nicely. The drinks game is good with mocktails if you have kids. Price point is outstanding. Friendly front of house round out a pleasant experience.
Highly recommend coming here. $25 for 3 course lunch, $7 cocktails and $3 beer/wines!! Great selection of dishes and all of them delicious. The braised Lamb was outstanding, melt in the mouth and full of flavour 😋
I recommend this dining experience it's helping students learn and you get the best dining experience.
Three course meal for $25 you just can't complain drinks are basically half price and service is excellent.
Second visit this time lunch time
Excellent food, perfect serving sizes, great service from the students. Really worthwhile at only $25 pp for 3 courses and tea. Cocktails and wine at amazingly low prices too. Be prepared to dine from 6.30 - 8.30.
A little unfortunate that the sprinklers along the footpath turned on as everyone started leaving.
Overall highly recommend!
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