Barkly Hotel

We dined at the Barkly hotel, the restaurant is called the Copper ?? (hopefully one of my other dining colleagues will remember the name). The restaurant itself is in a very spacious room with a huge dancefloor and pool table area to entertain the kids. Making your way to your table involves a treachourous walk through a palm tree jungle but it does have the effect of annonminity. So for all of you out there who are having an affair and want to dine out in secrecy you can hide behind a palm tree here and no one will see you!

I had heard whispers about the restaurants home made pasta especially the gnocchi so looked forward to ordering this off the menu. The pasta menu was quite extensive from good ole' spag bol to ravioli, canneloni and gnocchi. However upon ordering we were told they had run out of gnocchi and ravioli and oysters! So it was back to the trusty rump steak with veg. I ordered med/rare rump with Dianne sauce. The rump was nothing out of the ordinary and all in all it was a typical pub style meal. The dianne sauce was well done with real capers. Vegetables were of the frozen variety.
I was very disapointed that I didn't get my gnocchi meal so we have agreed to dine again at the Barkly and fingers crossed they have it in stock!

6/10 for me. In similiar style to Townies

The Hottest Bitch

Mount Isa RSL

This was only the second time I'd ever been there but I really liked it. If you were looking to impress a good lookin' girl and wanted to take her somewhere really nice for dinner then don't even consider this place! It's not that its bad but it certainly wouldn't impress. The place itself it a little run down but it had a really nice feel to it, in a modest family kind of way. It was the sort of place that you could imagine your grandfather spending a lot of time drinking and contemplating old times. The food was fine and quite cheap. I had steak and veggies (again!) for just $13 and the steak was cooked perfectly and the veggies were good.

If you wanted somewhere to go to have dinner because you couldn't be bothered cooking for yourself and you didn't want to spend a fortune. Then this would be the first place i would recommend!

7/10
The Man!

Townies Leagues Cub

Not very impressed!

I order steak and veggies. Now this should be a piece of piss for any chef worth his salt. How hard it it to cook a steak? I chose the rump and as usual I ordered it medium rare. This thin piece of cardboard came out with burnt bits on it and was well and truly cooked all the way through. The veggies were ok. They had a hot box thing (probably on every Sunday night) and the veggies came from it. It was roast potato, pumpkin beans and the like. Townies itself is not a bad place to go. The atmosphere quiet relaxed and the staff there are friendly. Unfortunately based on the meal that I had i would not recommend it to anyone. I gave it 3/10 only because it was only the second place we went to and (God forbid) there may be somewhere worse that needs to be given a lesser score.

3/10
The Man!

Dinner At the Overlander

Background
The overlander is pub on the eatern edge of town. The restaurant part has a pretty good rep but the pub itself is thought to be a bit rough but definately not the worst in town. It's pretty popular for lunches but of course we went for dinner.

BTW. Im posting this 4 weeks after we went so I don't remember everything!

The meal
I ordered the Reef and Beef (might have been called surf and turf ... can't remember) . I always get my steak med-rare and I chose to have veges with it. The meal came out in a reasonable time and the atmosphere was fine. I didn't really like the cream sauce that came with the seafood part of the meal. It just tasted a bit bland. The steak was fine but nothing special. The veges that came with it were very average. Overall I didn't really think much of it.

My Score 5/10
Not bad but nothing special.

The Man!

What's all this about???

This is a blogg site dedicated to dining in Mount Isa. We are 3 friends who have devoted our Sunday nights to trialing every restaurant in Mount Isa. Our goal is to visit each place and rate our dining experience on a scale of 1 to 10. We aim to also include a bit of information about why we gave the scores we did. To date we have already visted 4 restaurants so those scores will be written up as soon as we can but from now on hopefully we will give our reports as soon as we can after the dinner so we can attempt to be as accurate as we can. At the end we will decide an overall winner but may also include some winners in certain catagories which we will decide at a later date.

Because there is 3 of us the posts will all be written individually in our own time (or more likely in our work time) so we will sign our posts to let you know who is who and who gave what score/rating.

If anyone ever reads this we hope you find this informative.

The Man!