I've heard about the good old days at the Indooroopilly Hotel, when it was a ragingly popular…read morenightspot. Now it's just a good place to go for a quiet (or not so quiet) drink and a feed. The hotel is located right next to Indooroopilly train station, a short walk from the shopping centre. It's a big building, with several bars inside and function areas available. During my brief daytime visit, the service was excellent, the drinks were very affordable, and the meals were well priced and tasty. A great place for a quiet afternoon.

The Indooroopilly Hotel, is not actually a hotel but more of a restaurant/bar type of place. It has…read moregone through a few refurbishments throughout the years and was once a very popular place for young adults. I have been to this place a few times for private functions and for casual drinks and have been satisfied with the place. This place is rather spacious and there are different sections according to your needs. There is a restaurant/ cafe area, a pub area and a function room which can be hired out. The place also offers $10 lunch specials which is always nice for those on a budget. The function room is very large and the place also offers catering. I remember finding the food to be quite nice, nothing special but nice as far as catering food goes. The service has always seemed to be pretty good, the staff are generally pretty polite and are all dressed in clean, respectable attire. This place is nothing too special but it is a nice option if you are looking for a pub or restaurant in Indooroopilly. The function room is also pretty good, it is nice and spacious and good for very large groups.

Food was amazing fresh and hot, service was fast and helpful went for a Saturday lunch the ambiance…read morewas nice and peaceful

Good food great price good stuff BUT the bar takes only cash, no jugs and untalented bar staff…read more The entrees are not expensive and tasty, a meal in themselves. The room is comfortable and quiet. Food is good quality and well presented. The steak was over done but tasty and the salad okay.. Wait staff friendly and helpful . Clean and well designed. Why the three , well, just not as helpful with the cash only thing and the bar making my life harder by telling me to go to the public bar to buy a cocktail or a jug. A bistro should be capable of serving specialist drinks and larger quantities so this sucks . They need to think smart and serve as required. The bar person seemed startled to serve a beer and lost with a diet coke. They need to wake up to themselves .

Pros The staff are…read morequite friendly and approachable. The location is conveniently accessible with ample parking spaces available to the customers. The food, bar and gambling areas are well maintained and of an acceptable quality. The food is rather nice, with great prices and good flavour to go along with it. Cons The quality of the rest rooms is quite disappointing with minimal maintenance and funding provided. The tables, while wiped over by the staff, remain sticky and not pleasant to touch. There is an incredibly long wait to get food, with an approximate hour wait for this meal in question. Despite the good tasting food, when ordering a medium steak (as recommended on the menu), upon receiving the steak it was beyond well done which was disappointing.

Great pub meals are very good prices. We came here as it was close to our accommodation.. Happy we…read moredid, the bistro was clean and tidy. The beer was cold and the staff where excellent. The kids room is small but the will the kids still had fun. Would come back if down that way again

Good, solid, reliable, local pub!…read more Meets all of the requirements in this regard; Public bar with TAB - check Great restaurant with all the usual pub fare - check Pokies for a flutter while waiting for dinner - check Kids entertainment room to keep the rug rats busy plus outdoor play area - check and check Stop in for a cold one after work or bring the whole family for a meal, everyone will have a great night! Staff are reasonably friendly and the meals can be a bit hit and miss depending on the chef - lacks consistency. But they definitely try - mostly!

My wife & I go to the Tavern about once a fortnight to avoid cooking. The food is good and the…read moreatmosphere is friendly and the staff are efficient and congeneal. Can't ask for more from a Hotel/Taven.

This pub really isn't all that particularly great, which is a shame because it is actually the…read morefirst pub that I visited in Brisbane's west end. Okay, it is rather large, but it appears to have come about due to apartments being put up everywhere, so basically it takes the place on the ground floor. However, I still found this place rather bland and am unlikely to visit it again.

The Melbourne Hotel is one of those places which tries to be all things to many and pulls it off…read morepretty well. Just off the main drag of West End's Boundary St, it has more of a corporate, white (& sometimes blue) collared vibe than the more bohemian bars on the main strip. Physically it's a massive space with pool tables, cavernous booth seating and a stack of flat screen TVs for watching the game on (someone once told me the place is a tax write-off for WOW Sight & Sound, but in West End people son't always let the truth get in the way of a good story...). In addition to being a solid pub where you can get a cold beer or cocktail if you're feeling refined, they also boast a respectable modern Australian menu. The emphasis on quality food is evidenced by the quote emblazoned on their signage (and I'm paraphrasing) "One of life's true pleasures is that we sit down to eat three times a day". Not being one to be able to resist a call to action rationalised by a quotation, I recently went on a Tuesday with a couple of friends to take advantage of their $15 steak special. It was quite busy but the service was impressive, with a waitress showing us to a table promptly and being generally quite helpful. She recommended the 'Confit garlic & buffalo mozzarella bread' for starters, citing its popularity. I enjoyed the 'confit garlic' part of it (they used whole cloves which become deliciously mushy with slow-roasting) but overall thought it could have benefited from a sauce of some kind, perhaps a pizza sugo. My chosen steak was a hefty 300g rib fillet -- definitely good value for the $15 -- and I was happy with their approximation of 'rare', with there being a noticible core of pink flesh in the centre of the cut. The presentation was very good too, with a balsamic reduction drizzled in orbit around the centrepiece. My only gripe with that though is that it interfered with the taste of my chosen 'pepper jus' sauce, causing a discordant clash of flavours. But it was a minor issue; overall, I left satisfied and happy with paying about half the price as you would for such a serious steak at most fine dining establishments.

Just had the chicken and pumpkin pizza. TERRIBLE!! 3 pieces of pumpkin and a smiggin off burnt…read more What a shame .. we come monthly for Rosies Karaoke (which is always great) .. but each month the food gets worse. Next month we will eat elsewhere before Karaoke.

The picturesque landscapes of the Samford Valley are worth the 30 minute drive from Brisbane's CBD…read more The fresh country air, green pastures and rolling mountains make you feel like you are miles away from the hustle and bustle of city living. I am lucky enough to live just 15 minutes away from this beautiful place and as such regularly head out to the Samford Valley Hotel for a lazy Sunday afternoon counter lunch. The food is delicious. They have daily lunch specials for under $10. The Barramundi Burger, at just $8.50 is great value! A toasted focaccia loaded full of fresh, crispy salad, a tasty cheese slice and a battered barramundi fillet - lush! You get a big fat serve of crispy beer battered chips on the side too. The meals are really big (I never finish one) and flavoursome. You can enjoy your meal at the public bar with the friendly locals, in the beer garden, in the dining room or on the deck. The deck is my favourite place to eat because you can enjoy the fresh country air and majestic landscapes.

Great little pub and restaurant on the city fringe. Easy to get to and ample parking around back…read more Have had work lunches here over the last month and the quality and service is consistently excellent. They have a great lunch menu - daily $12 lunch specials from Monday to Thursday, and the other a la carte options are just as great. Full wine list, and great beers and ciders on tap. Food is always great here. Staff are really friendly and helpful, and provide great service. Love the fact that they let you split bills - always good when you have a large work group at lunch.

The Albion Hotel is one of those commercial kind of bars that older people go to. It's got the…read morerestaurant with pub food, the DOSA area and the all-important gambling zone. For a place for younger people to come and have a drink at its probably not the most encapsulating place to go. As for food that's another story. From the outside, The Albion Hotel looks pretty impressive and the dining menu at night sees a lot of people coming to its kitchen for a quality meal. Because I'm here at lunch I'm deciding on a their burger that comes with thick cut chips and a special beef patty with secret spices. When it comes out, I need to recheck the menu and confirm that the kitchen has forgotten the bacon in my burger. I send it back and its returned in a couple of minutes with extra chips. The burger isn't too bad but there is something about the special spices that make it something I most likely will be ordering again.

This was actually quite a nice pub with some really friendly staff. In fact I never really expected…read moresuch a warm welcome when I wandered into this pub. Maybe it had something to do with it not being particularly crowded at the time. Then again, considering that it does happen to be a suburban pub, I generally don't hold all that much out for them. Yet it turned out that this place, well, this place was actually pretty good. Honestly, it was quite a pleasant surprise.

The service is very good as always, but the new menu is not. Taking eye fillet off the menu is…read moreupsetting as it was my favourite things to order. It would be 5 stars as before if the old menu returns.