We booked a table here at the last minute and were treated fantasically by the lovely Kosta. All of the staff were very friendly and service was very efficient. Most importantly the food was absolutely amazing. The Mussels, Garlic Prawns, Scallops and Oysters Kilpatrick were nothing short of delicious but the star of the meal was the Beef Cheeks, they fell apart like butter and tasted incredible. We highly recommend this place and we will be back, as there wasn't a thing on the menu that we wouldn't have ordered.
We had a lovely meal at Grill Steak Seafood tonight. We loved our waiter Kosta, he was very attentive and we got great service. I lobed the veal scallopini which was done with orange and pomegranate and roast potatoes. Husband had the steak with mushroom sauce. The Tiramisu was completely gorgeous and melt in your mouth. Definitely recommend �
We had the surf and turf platter and it didn’t disappoint. All elements were cooked to perfection and the wait staff were very friendly and attentive. We chose to sit outside where we listened to live music (Amy Pollock) in the laneway. A perfect evening all around!
Got served by Kosta. What a lovely, happy server. Great attention to detail and makes some great suggestions on food and wine choices. Thank you Kosta. What a great time. Good food, good company and most important good service. Come here if you want to have a great overall experience.
Could not be happier with the food or the service from Kosta. The kangaroo was the best cooked that I've ever had and so tasty. If I had to rate it out of 10 it would be a 20.
Great customer service, friendly staff, helpful in making suggestions. Great location and delicious food (the best eye fillet I've ever eaten and gnocchi cooked to perfection). It's for anyone who wants a fine dining experience.
Just had the most yummiest dinner, great service, would recommend a visit !
Risotto was delicious service was wonderful can not rate this place highly enough. A++
My daughter and I stumbled across this beautiful little restaurant , the staff were lovely very welcoming and friendly and the meal was amazing. We are country girls and look for nice restaurant to eat at when in Melbourne and this one ddnt let us down ......will be back
Best meal by far so far in Melbourne. Great service, ambiance and the beef cheeks were to die for. Just right for Melbourne's weather.
We have enjoyed Christmas Lunches & Dinners as well as New Years Eve dinners! Beautiful food� � fantastic atmosphere ��� and sensational staff � Special thanks to Kostas who took such care of us �
Firstly the location is just fantastic. The live music on the lane watching the world past by way lovely. The scallops were perfect and the hot/cold seafood platter was good. Great chips and calamari. Good salmon and fresh oysters. A lovely seafood platter with a really fabulous aioli.
I would give this a higher rating, but the host wrangling people into the restaurant had been a complete tool to me on a previous night when I didn’t want to eat there. When I decided I wanted to eat at this place and realized it was the same place I almost went somewhere else. But, in the end, the food was good and satisfying. My wife had a delicious linguine carbonara and I took down the lamb shanks, which were very moist and fell off the bone.
Hardware lane is Melbournes bustling lane and theres heaps of vendors trying to get you into their restaurant. We got sucked in here but enjoyed the atmosphere and pasta!
The service was exceptional and friendly. Lovely atmosphere in this laneway restaurant!!! 💖
Good food & great service. We were a big group and we very much enjoyed the mushroom sauce & the steak. Will come back to try their other dishes!
Amazing lunch menu with absolutely delicious food. To top with that friendly staff and great ambience on Hardware Lane. Tough to beat this place.
I gried grilled Barramundi, which to my absolute delight came with Mussels & Pipi-Clams as well and was very delicious. I also loved their Bruchetta, had great flavours though wish the salad (rockets) were a bit more fresh.
Wonderful vibe with friendly staff at this restaurant in Hardware Lane. Has indoor and outdoor seating but outside is better even in winter as there are heaters above to keep you warm.
We ordered just some wine with bites - the crumbed olives, trio of dips and garlic prawns were absolutely delicious!
Great place to enjoy a meal and soak up the atmosphere!
Outstanding. I have no idea why other reviews are low. Service was great, food was fabulous, service was excellent and overall experience was terrific.
Didn't take enough pics of the food.
Friendly helpful staff drew us to eat at Grill Steak Seafood, variety of food on the menu and cocktails, went with beef salad and apple martini 🍸
Just needed something easy and tasty for a dinner by myself. Friendly service accompanied with a perfectly grilled kangaroo with some potatoes, veggies and sauce. And not to forget a glass of good Australian red wine. Highly recommendable
I’m quite surprised with the rating of this restaurant on Zomato cos I had a really lovely experience here. Me and my friends were wandering around Hardware Lane and decided to give this restaurant a shot since we already tried Max. The staffs were very friendly and funny joking with you around. The food was amazing and price-wise. We ordered pork ribs, calamari rings, mussels and fresh bread. The pork ribs was so tender, you can even chew the tendons. Calamari rings and mussels were decent. I love the fresh bread, so crunchy and buttery. Ask for olive oil and dip their fresh bread in, heaven!!!
62.5$ for 2 people. Affordable for a decent Italian restaurant on Hardware Ln. Definitely coming back again :)
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I was a bit skeptical before going there due to the awful reviews that this place collected but despite a few shortcomings, I had a positive experience. First off, the owner of the place offered us a 15% discount to entice us to go there and that made a big difference as the prices are not exactly low (though not bad compared to some other restaurants on Hardware Lane). He gave us what arguably is the best outdoor table in the house (right in front of the live band). The staff were fantastic; efficient, friendly and helpful. It's a big place with a lot of tables both indoors and outdoors but the staff are on the ball! We ordered the mixed meat platter, the seared crocodile which was a special entree and the kangaroo. Our favourite was hands down the kangaroo. I had kangaroo numerous times before but this was probably my favourite. It was tender, cooked to perfection and full of flavours. The seared crocodile was nice if you like crocodile but I felt it lacked flavours although the sauce it came with was on the sweet side and exquisite. Now the mixed platter. I liked the chorizo and the ribs. The ribs were falling off the bone and marinated well. The chicken, although not rubbery, was dry and tasteless. The steak was okay; not bad but not great. I would say it was cooked more medium than medium rare and now that I think of it, they asked us which sauce we wanted but we never got the mushroom sauce we requested. The lamb chops which you can't see in the picture were just disgusting. They tasted like they were undercooked, chewy and there was a lot of fat on them. In fact, I was left with not a lot of meat after I removed the fat. Saying that, I would say the mixed platter is value for money ($99 if I remember correctly) and the kangaroo is also worth it at $31. Of course, the discount sweetened the deal even more.
We had an early 6pm dinner here. Great service and food especially the calamari, seafood spaghetti, sticky date pudding and bread & butter pudding with ice cream! Nice chai and sweet port too!
Had a great time here last night! Exceptional service with amazing tasting food! One of the best mussels and garlic prawns I’ve ever had. Would definitely recommend this exclusive restaurant and a massive BONUS with certified halal food. Can’t wait to be in Melbourne at this restaurant again. Waiter gave us a complimentary drink for the next visit!
Been twice now, once as a group and as a couple - both times, service was on the ball from the get-go and knew how to strike the right balance of attentive, helpful and personable but not pestering. Seems rare nowadays.
Food has been a consistently good experience across the board, but is a little above what I would expect in price. Medium to large serves of salad, properly done chips and the red meat is exactly the high standard you should expect from a place with 2/3rds of its name dedicated to it.
The look and feel of the place is the standard Hardware Lane eatery - which agrees with me perfectly. Would recommend for people or groups where you have a wide range of food preference so you can all order something very different and be sure it is up to a good standard across the board.
Had dinner there with my friend last night , food overall is all right , nothing spectacular, but it didn’t disappoint us simultaneously . I have to admit the service is good , staff are very efficient & friendly .This place is perfect for summer outdoor dining .
I went here for my birthday
The staff is friendly and very helpful
The food was decent but I had a great experience with the amazing seating and the great staff :)
A good place for any celebration
A friend booked this restaurant for Christmas lunch on Sunday for a group of 25 people including children. We have the section on the right of the restaurant, almost like a separate room to ourselves which is great for privacy. On our table, we ordered the sharing platter, linguine marinara, pork ribs, mocktail and lemon lime bitter and finished with coffee. The sharing platter is quite good, recommended for 4 people to share. Linguine marina was quite generous in serving and tasty. Pork ribs however are not the best, the meat was a little tough and could use more sauce. Staff are quite attentive and friendly.
As others have mentioned we were almost pushed into here by the salesman outside offering special deals, however we actually received ours which is nice, a free starter. Food was fresh and fairly quick for the time of day we dined. Would go back again.
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In continuing my city adventures I decided to go back to Hardware Lane to try another place and since I was in the mood for steak, I chose Grill Steak Seafood. I ordered the Porterhouse Steak with a side of beer battered fries and mushroom sauce. What I like about Hardware Lane is that if you walk up and down the length of it you're sure to hear some good deals and specials during breakfast and lunch hours. They don't just take your patronage for granted, they work for it to win you over.
I had the steak medium because medium means it's well cooked but still nice and juicy and tender, which is what this steak was. A bit peppery on top and with the mushroom sauce it was flatly divine. Good tasting chips to go with it so all in all a very nice meal. I've noticed in Melbourne now that there is a lot of militant veganism appearing in the form of graffiti, chalk messages and what not on the streets. My thinking is that if God hadn't intended man to eat meat he wouldn't have made cows with so much meat on them, so slow moving and so delicious. Let's fact it, in 'the wild' a cow wouldn't last five minutes.
Great food, great drinks, and great service. Thank you Kosta for your hospitality, we were so impressed by the menu and quality of the food. We will definitely be back, I highly recommend this restaurant for the outstanding service.
Food: From reading some of the other reviews, I think I made a lucky choice when visiting Grill Steak Seafood. I had the lamb shanks and they were beautiful. Two huge pieces of lamb, which just fell off the bone in a flavoursome rich sauce.
Atmosphere/service: Both were fine, the restaurant decor was pleasant, it seems a little newer than some other nearby restaurants. Service was efficient.
Would I recommend it: My lamb shanks were beautiful and actually very good value for the size, so from my personal experience, yes. However, having seen some of the other meals which were brought out, all meals are not that generous, and look a little overpriced.
Very fresh and tender steak (aged 30 days) with creamy mushroom sauce. And it's my first time to try hot Irish coffee, which is cool. Servers were kindly welcoming. Won't feel cold even if sat outside.
Amazing service, offered 2 complementary drinks and entree as we sat down,
Both meals cooked to our liking, 2 complementary glasses of Port as we finished our meal!
Perfect service, will be coming back here again for sure!
This seems to have really bad reviews but I've eaten here both inside and outside, for lunch and dinner and always found it very enjoyable. I've only come here with interstate visitors as the laneway is a good dining choice for tourists atmosphere wise and as there has generally been about ten of us the staff have always given us a free round of drinks and delicious complimentary garlic bread and dips which is a lovely gesture. I've always gone for the Parma and it's never disappointed me. Good ambiance and I can't complain about the food either although I could probably never dislike a place that gave me free wine
We loved this venue! We knew we wanted to have seafood of some sort down one of the laneways in the city & this one was a great choice! They didn't have any tables outside immediately available but they took us upstairs & said that a table would be ready shortly. By the time we sat down they came & grabbed us saying our table was ready. We got stuffed around a bit because we walked outside & our table wasn't actually ready so we had to go back inside. We hadn't even sat down when they advised that our table was indeed ready this time. We did notice that one of the staff got in trouble for the mix up. But from then on the service was impeccable! The meals were amazing! We had seafood risotto, seafood pasta & mussels between the three of us. Each meal was delicious! Staff we very friendly & attentive. & the meal was topped off with a free shot glass of port for each of us at the end! Great atmosphere! Excellent prices! Would definitely eat here again.
Me and my wife went for dinner here, ordered pumpkin soup and bruschetta for starters. Both were average, the bread was dry and soup lacked the pumpkin flavour. For mains we ordered penne chicken and mushroom pasta and chicken Parma. The pasta was good, can't complain but the Parma sauce was bland and chicken over cooked. We"ve tried almost all restaurants nearby and I must say they all are pretty average and over hyped just because they are on hardware lane. Service by the manager/ owner was great and cocktail was good too, so an extra point for that!
Very good food. We loved the carbonara and meatballs.the portions were very good and filling.. the service was really good and so was the ambience.
Honestly do not care what the other review say. This places service was spatular, they made amazing recommendations and were there when we needed them by the second. Would recommend to anyone.
I come down to hardware lane quite a bit and tried this place for the first time last night. To start we ordered the dips. A little small but they were on the house along with complimentary drinks so we were happy. Mains arrived within 20 minutes of ordering.
The linguine marinara was very pleasing and had a beautiful balance of flavors and was a good size. The truffle mushroom gnocchi was tasty but rather small - probably best if you were wanting something light. We finished with coffee which was 10/10 😊.
Overall the service was good, food was pleasing and the atmosphere, as always on hardware, was amazing.
I don't know if I'll be back, however. While we appreciated the complimentary entre and drinks, the menu, while extensive, was just a little bland. I enjoyed the night but, for me, the only things I liked on the menu were Italian and there's an Italian place just up from there that does it even better.
This is a very long-awaited review.
I dined here with my partner on New Year's Eve and we were thoroughly impressed with our meals. In fact we were so happy with our experience that we still talk about the deliciousness of the meals 5 months on.
I ordered the Gnocchi Tomatoes and my partner ordered the 30 day Aged Eye Fillet cooked rare. Grill Steak Seafood seriously made one of the most delicious gnocchi dishes I have ever had, and my partner, (who is more picky when it comes to food than I am), loved every single mouthful of his steak. We have been planning on returning since we left the place.
We may make Grill Steak Seafood our go-to restaurant for future anniversary celebrations, it is seriously that special to the two of us. I cannot wait to try all that their menu has to offer. Great job guys.
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It was a balmy Friday night and the wifey accompanied by an uncle wanted to take advantage of the great weather so decided to sit outside. It was our second time here. We were drawn here by the lively atmosphere, live music and good quality food and service, reminded us of Europe. As locals we know this as a hotspot for tourists and normally by that regard we would normally stay well clear of such venues as most touristy places aren't well known for their quality of food nor service, however to our delight after having been there not long ago actually hosting 2 French travelers we were rather impressed so we came back. Greeted warmly by one of the managers we were ushered to a table outside in front of all the lively action. Struck a deal which saw us with a complimentary bottle of red. Winning. Wifey had the linguine marinara, good flavors, well balanced, whilst myself and uncle had the scotch fillet cooked medium rare with red wine jus and the awesome head waiter Olivier threw in some mushroom sauce on the side for us to try and dabble our chips in. Second time having this steak and I can honestly say one of the better steaks I've had in a long time. Nice char grilled flavor and well seasoned, didn't even really need the sauce. Having been to another steak house recently and ordered the same cut it was awefull in comparison to this by miles. Now for desert, we had a passion fruit Pana cotta, Creme brûlée and sticky date pudding, all of which were delicious, however what topped it off was the service from Olivier our friendly French waiter. Very quick, sharp and attentive service topped off with a French accent. He even gave us a free glass of port each and we shared some very basic French dialogue and shared some travel itineraries in France. Then we got to meet the actual owner Vons, who was a great guy, very relaxed, approachable and seemed down to earth. We all had a bit of a chat to him and turns out he use to own the Vons restaurant a few doors down. He reminded us of the rock Dwayne Johnson, which he said he has been called that before. My uncle being a masseuse by trade started talking shop to him and exchanged business cards and at the end of the night he even came out to greet us goodbye along with Olivier. Al in all a top night of great quality food, awesome service and great company. Life is good. Will definitely be back.
Ate here with a group of 6 on a visit to Melbourne for a family birthday. Were persuaded to dine here by the older gentleman out the front. Had a lovely antipasto plate with fresh bread and a great bruschetta, complimentary round of drinks and fried olives (which sound odd but were actually really tasty!) Everyone was happy with their meals, decent serves too. Special mention goes to the marinara which was very flavoursome, and the scallops wrapped in pancetta -- so good! Service was very friendly and attentive. A good night all round!
What a great night my friends and I had! We only came in on Sunday for deserts and the waiter was so funny. He convinced us that the sticky date puddings were amazing, and they were! Will definitely be returning soon to try out their dinner and have a laugh with the staff!
Great service, awesome food. At our table we had pork belly, lamb shanks, chicken and kangaroo. All we more than satisfactory :)
The ambiance was brilliant - we had Gareth Wiecko entertaining us and it set the mood perfectly.
We were looked after by Harry and Ivo. The gentlemen were professional, courteous and had a great sense of humour! We felt at home.
Would very highly recommend it :)
The ambience of this place was simply amazing with a lane full of incredibly good looking waiters and not to mention delicious food! I had mouth watering eye fillet steak and my partner had juicy pork belly. Would definitely reccomend everyone to come here!
My friends and I were down at Hardware Lane on a Friday night, looking for something to eat. We decided to go at Grill Steak seafood. I must say first, our meals arrived promptly and secondly the food was divine and really good . We had the dips with the bread, the garlic prawns the chicken parma and the barramundi, everything was great. The service was really good and our main waiter was attentive to anything we wanted. We also ordered our dessert and we chose the creme brûlée and our main waiter recommended to also get the sticky date pudding. Thank you to our main waiter with the glasses really good service.
Don't let the negative comments put you off. Some people are just that way, no matter what. Family of four had an excellent meal here, sat outside under heaters, wait staff excellent, good value, great little location and an overall great experience, would recommend to other visitors to Melbourne.
My partner and I ate here a few weeks ago. I ordered the seafood risotto and my partner had the pork belly dish. Both were absolutely wonderful. It was just the service that slipped a little if I had to fault anything. However, they were very busy and the waiter did keep topping up my water glass.
Made my night . Great food, amazing service throughout the night .
Would highly recommend to friends and family for dinners, functions meetings or just a coffee
Great service! Didn't have to move a muscle. The wait staff are amazing and friendly. 10/10 recommend
I can’t speak highly enough of this restaurant, our recent dining experience was amazing. The staff are fantastic, we were well looked after and the quality of the meals were excellent 👍🏻 the meals were cooked to perfection. The meat fell off the pork ribs and the rib eye was like cutting through butter absolutely mouth watering. A fantastic dining experience overall and recommend trying this establishment when in the CBD. 👍🏻👍🏻
Went here with the family on a quick google search and all of us enjoyed the food. We ordered steaks, kangaroo and oysters, all of which were cooked properly and in a timely manner. I’m not much of an oysters fan, but for me to be able to enjoy it, it meant that it didn’t have that terribly fishy smell that poorly cooked oysters usually have. The older gentleman was also a good waiter and wasn’t annoying like some waiters are, demonstrating his experience in the field. Highly recommend!
Booked this place as a spare of the moment thing, was quite happy with the meal, a little over priced though to charge $5.50 for a side salad that you would normally recieve with any steak dinner was a little rich for what you got. All in all service was a little pushy with the owner ( we think) hovering and pestering us till we finally gave him our order. But i think the atmosphere is what will bring us back.
Friendly staff. Newly renovated looks great. Could of been quicker service out of the kitchen, steak was well done when medium was requested. Food was lovely for the most part. Some music outdoors for ambience would of made it more special. All In all a lovely meal.
Magdalene Rose de Rozario
+5
Reasonable pricing, good food. I had the oysters, scallops, and kangaroo, and they were all delicious! Seafood was fresh. We were celebrating a friend's birthday, and the staff went out of their way to provide a serving plate, knife, and lighter for the cake we brought. All in all, a very good experience.
Most amazing service & food here!
First time being to Melbourne and can guarantee I will be back just to visit this place again
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