The Boatshed (Regatta Hotel)

This article was written prior to the renovation and may no longer apply to current restaurant.
The Boatshed
543 Coronation Drive Toowong
0/5
I never really planned to go to the Regatta's attached restaurant, but sometimes you just need to get a steak before getting really drunk and that's what happened. To begin the Boatshed is quite literally that, a big shed with clear roller doors for walls. Not very flash, yet like everything at the Regatta has an air of pretentiousness that it may be something more or different than just a pub. Unfortunately for both the Boatshed and the Regatta hotel in general that reality falls well short of what the hotel thinks of itself.

The Boatshed sells itself on steaks (The same way that every other Brisbane pub does) and what else would i order at pub in Brisbane than a steak, so i order a 400grm rib fillet with far too many details(eg grain fed for 120 day etc etc) medium rare, with mushroom sauce (written as ragout on the menu), chips and vegetables. There was a substantial wait for the steak, luckily as this was a pub i could pass the time by drinking, with jugs of beer available at only moderately inflated prices.

Now onto the steak, here's just a quick word to Coles and Woolies hotel divisions (Liquorland & ALH) STOP using 1824 meat, i have hundreds of steaks in my life, lots of those in pubs, and not one 1824 steak has been a good one, alot of above average 1824 steaks but never a truly good one. So on from that i congratulate the kitchen staff on cooking the steak perfectly to what i ordered, which for some peculiar reason happens so rarely in the pub steak scene that you would think that the art of cooking steak was endangered to be lost to humanity. Although it appears that something so simple as using mushroom instead of pepper sauce is beyond your abilities as at least somewhat trained professionals. The steak itself was tough and chewier than many of the "budget" steak i have bought at Woolies or Coles, and flavour wise was just regular with no particulary nice or stronger flavour than again budget steaks at the supermarket.
The side dishes of the food were boring and left me unfulfilled. A hand full of steamed vegetables (of which there were only two kinds broccolini and squash) and chips that tasted like i was eating dust wrapped in potato skin.

At the ridiculous price they were charging for said meal i think i would have expected better.
The Steak was $36.50 and was a 400grm rib fillet.
The Jug of XXXX Bitter was $14


The Boatshed Restaurant has a website at http://www.regattahotel.com.au/eat_boatshed_restaurant.html