Review Opah Gary's - Cronulla

One star for the great view but this is not a restaurant as there is no table service at all for food or drinks. You need to go to the "bistro" checkout to order & pay for your food up front & get given a buzzer so you can collect your own food from the servery when it's ready. You then need to line up at the bar to get your own drinks. A restaurant experience? No way. Food quality is below average for pub style food with a lot of salad just dumped onto the plate with no restaurant quality plating skills. There are 2 other pubs in the Shire whose food & plating expertise leave this place for dead.

The best thing about the Watergrill is the great view of Cronulla Beach & onto Boat Harbour. A million dollar view but the food falls well short. The way that it currently operates it should not be calling itself a restaurant as it is really nothing more than a club bistro. At a proper restaurant you do not need to go to the cash register to order & pay for your meal up front & get given a buzzer to let you know your meal is ready. After doing this you then need to go & line up at the bar to get your own drinks. There is absolutely no table service at all for either food or drinks. So it makes me laugh when other reviewers say how great the service is because there isn't any, you need to serve yourself. The food quality is very average at best & is certainly nowhere near restaurant quality in taste or presentation although the prices are way above bistro pricing but they do give members a 15% discount. It seems to cater for the Pasta or Chicken Schnitty & chip crowd who love big servings with a heap of mixed salad leaves thrown onto the plate. Just look at the photo of my expensive steak which looks like everyting has just been slopped onto the plate, including the broccoli, some of which, is all brown around the edges. You can also see the big pile of rough & uninspiring salad that came with my lady's supposedly quality John Dory fish as well. Plating & presentation skills were very bad & very short of restaurant quality. It is such a shame that the standard is so low as being a Club member I really want to like this "restaurant" but sadly it has disappointed me at the few visits & chances I have given it. The Club could do so much more with this "restaurant" by lifting the food standard & providing normal restaurant table service & opening a bistro elsewhere in the Club. The fact that Club Management no longer responds to any reviews on here or Trip Advisor says a lot when their customers have gone to the trouble of providing what should be valuable feedback. No reply from Management really gives, maybe wrongly, a do not care attitude & nothing is going to change. I must say I am amazed how this venue achieved a 4.2 average rating on Google, just have a look at the feedback on the other rating sites like Trip Advisor & Zomato. Unless the Watergrill transforms into a real restaurant from its current bistro theme & updates the menu which never changes then I & a lot of my friends will not be back.

Once again very disillusioned with food at Cronulla RSL. I had the beef cheek. ($34) Very small portion which was conservatively 1/3 fat. The meat was soft but tastless except for an overdone sweetness with the jus. The vegetables were good quality but raw and hard. They must only have been blanched. Husband's fish and chips okay but overpriced at $34.50

The location and sea views are worth the visit. The espresso martinis are particularly good but food wasn't particularly memorable. I had the seafood linguine which for the price I would of expected fresh pasta, the sauce unfortunately overpowered the fresh seafood in the dish.

Best part is value for money. Members 2for 1 dinner plus Dine and discover. Hard to beat with good food thrown in for good measure.

View was great. Very nice presentation but food was average. Service wasn’t the best.

Really nice view and sunterrace, also a really nice quantity of quality wines,beer and lacquer. The food tastes pretty good and the size is okay. When we where there it was really crowded but it still didn't take very long. In my opinion the food quality tastewise is a litle to low for the price. I would still go there again.

A lunch catch up with two mates post restrictions, beautiful location, food and drinks, I’ll be back soon! Service was great as was the atmosphere 👍😀