Distinctly average = ●
Dismal = ●
Food rating: ● (how we voted. red - 0, orange - 5, green - 4)
There is a great joy in ordering food. Being confronted by an exciting menu of mouth-watering breads, meats, sweets and cheeses acts as a tantalizing tease to the pre-dining experience (FireFly does this particularly well) but, alas, due to this size of our group - nine of us - we had to order a banquet. We opted for the deluxe banquet ($44pp) which offered the best array of meat, vegetarian and sea food. The food is ‘Tapas’ style share platters. The normally historic haloumi with marinated watermelon, mint & almonds was good but a bit dry and the lamb and pork meatballs and organic sweet pork chorizo with romesco sauce were also decent.
Service: ● (how we voted. red - 5, orange - 4, green - 0)
Anyone spot this? Good service was harder to find than a straight bloke on Oxford Street. Ordering a beer is a well established and well loved process, honed over many years. Ever since some wondrous bloke decided to mix malted barley and malted wheat with hops, it has never been an enigmatic process. It was here. The beer ordering process was as enigmatic as the beers themselves. As Ducky found out. Staff seemed disengaged, as if serving us was somehow putting them out their way. The manager was more concerned with playing on his laptop (doing what? taking future bookings? rearranging his iPod?) than focussing on the current customers/service. And we were told very curtly, by said manager, to vacate our seats so the next ‘sitting’ could come in. There only seemed to be two people actually serving, which may have compounded the problem (if they were indeed short staffed – why wasn’t the manager doing more?). The overall service may have survived an orange, but this final act plummeted our already shaky opinions. What good can I say? Well, they did serve us our food I suppose. We didn’t have to fetch it from kitchen.
Atmos: ● (how we voted. red - 0, orange - 0, green - 9)
I’m of the opinion that you make your own atmos – hence why it gets a green. That said, FireFly was very busy which added a buzz. We ate as the day enveloped us in warm dusk - the colour of golden wheat, which may, or may not, of had any effect at all.
WOW factor?
What? You means apart from Rusty’s opening speech and Overton’s leather mini skirt.....?
Well, FireFly is a water-front small bar set within the old docks which adds a touch of historical character that most venues lack. If you happened to be sitting looking ‘outwards’, FireFly offers nice views between the wharfs at Walsh Bay. The boats and apartments of Sydney fantastically rich and famous add a nice touch of class.
Overall: ● (how we voted. Red - 1, Orange - 7, Green - 1)
The first SupperClub restaurant gets off to a OK start. FireFly has lots to offer, but needs to tighten the reins on a few rudimentary errors.
(Dropped a few marks for having a toilet that is a postcode away from the actual restaurant)
http://www.fireflybar.com.au/
http://www.fireflybar.com.au/
