Pretty hopeless to be honest

Also did the grabone thing. Got there “oh we don’t have a proper meal menu, just a list of dips/starters”

Great. So we ended up getting finger food. Upstairs, at a table which wasn’t cleaned yet. Even though there were plenty of staff on. Then asking about the beers. The only included beer on the $40 voucher were Heineken or a white wine.

Atmosphere was sub standard. Smoke was wafting up from below into the place.

we got a grabone voucher,hence we went to there. You get what you paid,so our meals are not that sound.Dips was no flavor at all. Ribeye steak was end of piece.Salad is supermarket things, and the sauce is done by instant powder. We won’t be back.

We’ve just been scammed! We had a grabone coupon: 2 beers or wines and a BBQ platter, value $40, for $15. Great, we thought, when we read their menu, this will be their $25 platter as advertised, and the grabone blurb led us to believe that this was so.

We arrived at 6.15 pm and produced the coupon. They checked it against a list, and told us we could have either a glass of wine each or a bottle of heineken (but none of the other beers they had). We sat down at a dirty table. The girl came and cleared the table, but didn’t bother to wipe it down although it was wet and smeared with grease and sauce.

At 7.10 we were still waiting. We bought another drink. The food magically arrived just ten minutes later …. funny old thing!
This seemed to be happening to others as well.

The two platters listed on their menu bore no resemblance to the one we received. We got:

2 pork ribs; 4 squid rings; 2 small bits of bread; 8 potato wedges; some dipping sauce.

And that was it! The only thing that could loosely be described as barbecued was the ribs, which had clearly been done in the oven, and the barbecue flavoured dipping sauce.

This “deal” had clearly been designed purely to catch mug punters buying the grabone coupons. This was a misleading advertisement, the heinekens were $7.50 each and we did not get anything like the value described for their $25 platter.

The service was slow. The ladies’ toilet floor was awash and the gents’ had neither toilet paper nor soap – and appeared not to have had any soap or been cleaned or serviced for quite some time.

Grabone has recently advertised a fresh offer, 2 mains, bread and dips and 2 drinks for $39. We saw people in there trying this deal. Apart from one, they were all drinking heinekens, eating burgers and chips; the bread and dips looked meagre indeed – so maybe this is another “special menu”.

Poor show, Grabone. If the objective is to secure new customers for Hope Bros, then what is the purpose of sending them away feeling cheated? We certainly won’t be back.

Verdict: Give their “special offers” a wide berth – in fact, don’t even think about it!

I had a great time in Hope Bros last Saturday. The staff were really friendly, my order came quickly and was the best value meal I’d had in ages (lovely chips). Great all round atmosphere. We will defiantly be back.

Find online that they have 2-4-1 meals and $5 hours drinks on Tuesday. My partner and I think Great! However, we go there and neither of these things exist anymore. The meals were 2 for $30. We both had New York Steak which was actually quite nice. And the home style chips were some of the best I’ve ever had.

However, the staff seemed confused and unprofessional. “Go sit down and I’ll bring you knives and forks.. and stuff..”
Derp.

Pretty ick atmosphere, scratched tables, stains all over the couches. Couldn’t sit there without wondering if someone had thrown up there on a Saturday night.

Go there if you want a cheap steak ($23 normally)… but in all seriousness… it’s no eye fillet.. haha

I went to this place and was sold a round of drinks by the barstaff, whose job is to vet the drunks, at which point the bouncer said as soon as I turned around, you are too drunk for these get out. This establishment may as well set up a mugging and robbery enterprise, because thats how they act. Completely unprofessional and low.

Just ghastly! Took the family to celebrate a birthday (we had a Red Book voucher).
The menu was limited, the music far too loud for a near empty bar and restaurant, the smell of cigarette smoke wafted upstairs. The table we sat at was grimy and scratched.
As for the meal… clean out the fat in your deep frier’s/vats! Anything that was deep fried had burned dark specks all over it. The rest gnocchi and a dish of fried holumi and kumera we just plain bland and horrible. The staff were pleasant enough but our meal took AGES and there was only us dining upstairs. A definite steer-clear of place.We will never go again and never recommend this restaurant to anyone, ever!

Disgusting!!, tiny menu selection(no choice here),foul food, and disinterested staff?, wife and i went for a night out also with a ‘grabone’ voucher,shame we wasted our money! this place is a glorified bar with bar snacks, the entree we ordered was beef kebabs to share, more like ‘gristle rubber boots’ coated with yesterdays burnt bits from the dirty grill?, the burgers we ordered for a main were not much better,it is not often we leave our plates half full-but we both lost our appetite as both plates chips were spattered in unknown black burnt drops of something foul?? her hamburgers meat was weird tasting/not cooked thru and my chicken burger not much better,all in all VERY dissappointing-and will never be back! both meals left unfinished!service was ok but long wait for food and no interest in how our meals were? ‘no surprise’ in hindsight? **incidentally,i raised the above issues with the waitress when paying on the way out(maybe thought would be comped drinks?/maybe apology? maybe return voucher?,but no, just ‘oh cheers’ will pass that on? **we dine out alot and have had awesome service and food around town with grabone vouchers at various other bars/restaurants,and felt compelled to write about this place…and WARN others! “hope bros” hasnt a ‘hope’ of seeing us again!

p.s.ohh forgot to mention the nights highlight, we shared a choc sundae desert at wendys @ readings -AWESOME! now that was impressive!

Me and my partner went here for dinner on a Friday night about 6.30pm. We had Grabone vouchers to use. We were upstairs and had a booth to ourselves.

The staff were nice, but it is not a place to go for the food…. or even a cocktail since they had run out of limes! Its a place to get drunk after work.

So not quite the atmosphere we hoped for. We ordered ontrays, so fries with aioli and 500g of mussels with bread.

The main menu only had about 5 or 6 items on it. The mains were about $18 – $20. Our mains took forever to arrive and we were too full to eat when they did. The mains are oversized too. I got the haloumi and baked kumara. Pretty bland.

Also, the upstairs toilets are so tiny and they have a step that you trip on when you walk in there (drunk or not).

So the food is ok if you are planning to share with friends a bowl of chips or a lot of mussels.

Their website doesn’t work either.

Awesome dining experience, great tasting fresh food, fantastic service, and the meals came out quickly! Will definately be going back!