Review Bentley Pines Restaurant - Bentley

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.

Our Christmas lunch at the Pines. Scallop was delicious but the turkey breast was dry, cut too thick and mine had a lot of gristle.

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!

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

The staff was very friendly & the service was very good . The food was yummy & delicious. Well done guys .

Never disappointed. Lovely lunch yesterday. I always enjoy talking to the kids training as well.Im always wary of sword fish as it is most times to dry. It was perfectly cooked and mine was hot. When you pay $20 for silver service lunch who would complain.

Fab! Lovely food, service with a smile! Thanks to our servers who were awesome � will definitely be back

Such lovley meals, enjoyed the evening, well done Pines Traning Restaurant at Bentley Tafe

Excellent value and service. Enjoyed everything. Will try the cafe section next.

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!

Bentley Pines is the training restaurant connected to the local tafe. Word doesn't seem to have gotten out that this is an amazingly affordable option to try diner food and help train up new talent. Menus are seasonal and drinks are cheap.

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!

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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/> 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 .<br/><br/>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.

Drinks are amazing. If you like red wine, try the house red (Cab sav)-it is DELICIOUS abd only $12 bottle!!!! The cocktails are also to die for--try the Toblerone or the Fruit Tingle-and only $7. Best value in Perth.<br/><br/><br/>-----22 May, 2015-----<br/><br/>Food and service a bit below par tonight. Went tonight with 6 friends for my birthday celebration. Beautiful cocktails (Fruit Tingle was amazing!), It was an Asian menu and the entrees were lovely (albeit 3 choices all had seafood which my friend cant eat and the description omitted to mention it on the entree she had!). My main (Rice Platter) was dry and overcooked and had no sauce or veges* (first time this had happened while dining here!!). <br/>Desserts were great (esp the passionfruit cheesecake) although the cupcake was very dry.<br/>I felt the students were more interested in having a chinwag and (all 7 in a huddle with their backs to us) than keeping an eye on proceedings. (The lecturer didnt have a go at them for this either! It meant on four occasions I had to call out "Excuse me" several times to get their attention. Everyone at the table <br/> was served with teas and coffees but I was left with an empty cup in front of me!<br/><br/>here!). The lecturer fixed the problem by giving me some sauce meant for another dish though.

Get the toblerone cocktail!!

Been there a couple of time <br/>As training restaurant <br/>Good presentation <br/>No problem with quality<br/>Love seeing the trainees working hard<br/>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.<br/>Thank you guys !!

Nice to be wined and dined. Although these are students training in hospitality, Bentley Pines is such good value for silver service dinning. My family enjoyed a 3 course meal for $24 each with tea and coffee.<br/>I got the best dishes off the menu but alas my son and husband fared worse. Thursday is asian night and they had some beef dish which was pretty much all meat and no vege. I had noodles and sushi beautifully presented. Portions are small and food can lack flavour but we were constantly waited on for bread and water and I can't complain about the service.<br/>I would definitely go again on another night and test out their menu. This is the best value anywhere in Perth.

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.<br/>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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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!

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.<br/><br/>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!<br/> <br/>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.<br/> <br/>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.<br/> <br/>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.<br/> <br/>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.<br/> <br/>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!<br/> <br/>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.<br/> <br/>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! <br/><br/>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!<br/> <br/>All things considered, it was a very good meal. I would highly recommend Bentley Pines. <br/><br/>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. <br/><br/>Well done! Polytechnic West is producing some great talent.<br/> <br/>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.

Training restaurant. Service is slow slow slow... <br/>The training staff are great, but some of the students - oh baby cheeses!! <br/>Food is good - can sometimes be a little bland. <br/>Fantastic value for money. Make sure you have a few hours to kill. Took us about 2 hours!

Bentley Pines is a live interactive classroom, where the chefs, bar and waiting staff are all students. As a teacher of sorts myself, it is always interesting to observe the teaching methods of other teachers. This evening was no different. The waiting staff this evening were under the careful direction of the student supervisors and all food that was sent out was under the scrutiny of the lecturer.