Great value meals. Nothing posh about the decor, but very friendly and attentive staff. Amazing cheesy garlic bread. $14 for a bottle of sauv blanc that was very acceptable to drink. Seniors meals and daily specials. Member prices if you join for $20 a year - well worth it if you live in the area. Menu is typical pub fare plus plenty of specials each day. Calamari was lovely and tender, and other diners on our table really enjoyed roast lamb, grilled chicken with lemon veloute, and curried sausages.

People galore at popular local club. The Peninsula Club is the phoenix arising from the local RSL's ashes. A joint partnership with the Western Bulldogs football team since 2010, it has revived the otherwise ailing returned service personnel club, albeit as a poker machine venue *sigh*.

Anyone can join for $20 which entitles you to 10% off meals as well as a monthly special like half price meals or a free drink. In December, that was a free 187ml bottle of white or red wine with mains. The venue does good counter meals, with a special seniors' menu where all the classics like lambs brains or liver and onions are $13.

The standard menu is not much more - five of us had hearty dinners for about $140 all up including two steaks dishes, a salt and pepper calamari, a Greek lamb salad (great salad, slightly tough meat) and a seafood salad, plus beer and hot thick chips. The scallop & prawn surf sauce was addictively good - l had to push the plate to the other side of the table to stop dunking various carbohydrates into it.

Service is at the counter with meals brought to the table. The staff are mostly young but all enthusiastic - the young lady working the bar accelerated our late side order of potato chips while we waited for our main orders. It's a good community location (gaming aside...). Hopefully more people will come to the new outdoor deck than to the one armed betting bandits inside.