The Boathouse, 7 The Boulevard, Moonee Ponds

Excellent and timely service, have seated us with bookings with no trouble and sometimes without Quality food. Been many times for these reasons.

This is our first visit. Our booking was at 6.30 for a table of 2, they got the booking name wrong even after I spelt. Then when we got there it took them 15 min to even come up and ask if we wanted any drinks whilst other tables that had arrived after us were ordering their mains. Then the drinks took 10 to 15mins to even get to us, we ordered our meals and our entree took 40minutes and our mains took 50min so 10mins after our entrees!!! This is all happening while other tables are getting their meals or leaving before we get our mains. The food and wine were nice but some of the staffs manners we less then desirable. The decor was nice and cosy but the lights dimming and brightening every 5min for no apparent reason ruined the cosy setting. Will not be coming back here again any time soon.

Went there for brunch with a some friends and I'm really liking the place. Nice decor, good food with ample portions. I had the River Run breakfast and it's everything was great except that I'm a little disappointed with the hashbrown. It seemed like it was store bought and not made fresh. A friend tried one of their brekky pizzas and went for the "Smashed Avo" one where it had smoke salmon, haloumi, cherry tomatoes and avocado. A little exotic for my brekky taste but still looked good. And oh, Gary wasn't there. #sadface

First visited The Boathouse in 2008. Ordered a pizza, seeing it was advertised as award winning. Worst pizza we have ever had. Staff very offhanded. Tried again next year. Once again staff needed training. Nothing on the menu caught our eye, so decided to give a pizza another run for its money! Ugh,.. awful, boring and barely any topping. Gave it all another try 2012....just the same, and duck dish awful. Needs huge makeover in decor, food and staff....never trying here again...So much more could be done to enhance the fact the river is so near....so much more training needed for staff. What a waste of our dollar..Hope Gary can blast this place outta the water.

We booked a table a night before, but the waiter did not seem to aware about our booking. When requested for a table with cushioned couches for my pregnant friend, The waiters did try to organise it for us (after showing my girlfriend's tummy). The entree and the pre-lunch drinks were very nice and fast served, but the main course, desert and coffee and tea were talking long time to be served. After serveral times of requesting and re-taking orders, we finally got our orders on table, but it was close to their early closing time and were rushed to finsih our meals . One of our mains was under cooked "pink mince beef burger" and we did have a replaced burger after a gentle complain. The famous Garry's Cheese Cake was absolutely divine. We did ask the waiter about our tight scheduled that we only allowed to have 1 hour and 20 minutes meal time, but it took us three hours to finish our lunch. It was not what we expected. Overall, I would like to give it another chance and I hope they can improve the staff training and quality control before serve to the customers as the price is marked for high quality and service.