Salamanca Inn Beef & Seafood Grill

I used to eat here quite often as the food was always good, nothing spectacular but you knew you could get a good feed; however it was starting to get quite tired, it was always the same, which is not a bad thing if you like that but sometimes a freshen up is good, a couple of friends were down from the mainland and were staying in Salamanca and had herd there were a few changes happening here so off we went.Going into the restaurant it seemed a little the same, but hang on a sec, the buffet bain marie buffet hutch thing had gone, we were greeted by smiling faces and shown to out table, all seemed similar, then the menus arrived, well that has certainly gone up a notch that's for sure, gone...

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Friends booked for a birthday dinner as they had heard that it was a little "nicer" than your average restaurant. On arrival we where met by bright lights, cafe tables and no ambience. Whilst the waitress who served us was pleasant enough our meals were served or passed across the table. The meals were served on brown stone plates - most of us had the tiger prawns for entrée - 3 for $17. The oysters were edible and the charred octopus was passable.Then out came the steaks. Again on the brown stone plates with three potatoes each. Looking totally uninspiring. All very tasty but lukewarm and in one instance one had to be sent back because even the tarragon butter sauce wasn't melting it was th...

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Eaten here on a last trip to Tasmania and Had the 3 uller Seafood Tower to share The most important disappointment was not Moreton Bay mistake, as described, was said that we could have a bit more of everything else ... Instead, we asked for oysters in place and had the beef as second stage (normal is the choice of beef or oysters for the second animal) Feedback do not charge a top dollar and promote products that you can not offer! The decor is a bit desolate probably serves mainly guests of the hotel and do not scream outwards business Seafood were very well cooked, as well as the beef. We were satisfied with the food we ate, Service good, though no direction where he got the self serv...

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Liked the sound of the new menu but unfortunately it simply didn't deliver. Three of us ordered the crispy skin duck. Portion sizes varied significantly, shame the cooking time wasn't adjusted, the largest portion was well under. Worst of all, no crispy skin! Lentils were boring and the jus missing. The 12 hour lamb was fatty and tough. Not sure what was with the 6 cold peas and 3 cherry tomatoes, that hadn't been roasted! The char-grilled octopus was well under, tough and had no charring. Meals lack creative presentation, are expensive and we went home hungry :(

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Joined a party of around 12 years last night to celebrate a birthday. The expectations were not high, based on previous evaluations and unfortunately concerns were justified. Those who had steak or lamb seemed to be the winners. A large Scottish ordered middle rare saw firmly. Unfortunately, those who ordered all seafood were largely disappointed. Everything was clearly frozen and then overcooked - no absolute disasters, but everything under the standard. With the success of the Hobart food scene at the moment there are so many better places to try it.

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