Cine (LINK)
July 28th 2008 09:04
The tv character Frasier Crane once quipped
Simplicity is the new catch-cry from restauranters. Whether it is relating to food, ambience or the overall environment, it is heard more and more, as other trendy establishments push the envelope to stand out from the crowd.
Cine is definately all about simpicity. No harm in that. But in their efforts to keep things simple, they have created a restaurant that is about as entertaining as watching Treasurer Wayne Swan deliver the federal budget.
Situated in the heart of the Entertainment Quarter at Moore Park, Cine is in an envious position. With extremely poor restaurants surrounding it, and an array of traffic passing through, it is in a prime location to capatalise on it's good fortune. Instead, Cine have taken a different route. Knowing full well diners have nothing of quality to choose from close by before they go to their movie or show, Cine shows it's contempt, by dishing up a great big serving of mediocrity.
The menu is bordering on pub food, which is a blight on pubs considering the standards of which are at an all time high.
Pizza, pasta and salad. The usual drill. Nothing you cannot get at your local Westfield food court. Chicken Scnitzel with chips, tempura fish with chips and salad..blah, blah blah.
The bad news is the service is just as mundane. My last visit even had my partner's credit card lost and took another 25 minutes to be retrieved, hence missing our scheduled movie. In part this sloppy-ness can be put down to a high turnover rate of diners, but in reality it's much more than that.
It looks as though until a restaurant with some oomph enters the fray in the Entertainment Quarter, mediocrity will remain.
Cine makes the "less is more" argument a little wobbly.
If less is more, then just think how much more, more will be
. Unfortunately for Italian restaurant Cine, less is just...less.Simplicity is the new catch-cry from restauranters. Whether it is relating to food, ambience or the overall environment, it is heard more and more, as other trendy establishments push the envelope to stand out from the crowd.
Cine is definately all about simpicity. No harm in that. But in their efforts to keep things simple, they have created a restaurant that is about as entertaining as watching Treasurer Wayne Swan deliver the federal budget.
Situated in the heart of the Entertainment Quarter at Moore Park, Cine is in an envious position. With extremely poor restaurants surrounding it, and an array of traffic passing through, it is in a prime location to capatalise on it's good fortune. Instead, Cine have taken a different route. Knowing full well diners have nothing of quality to choose from close by before they go to their movie or show, Cine shows it's contempt, by dishing up a great big serving of mediocrity.
The menu is bordering on pub food, which is a blight on pubs considering the standards of which are at an all time high.
Pizza, pasta and salad. The usual drill. Nothing you cannot get at your local Westfield food court. Chicken Scnitzel with chips, tempura fish with chips and salad..blah, blah blah.
The bad news is the service is just as mundane. My last visit even had my partner's credit card lost and took another 25 minutes to be retrieved, hence missing our scheduled movie. In part this sloppy-ness can be put down to a high turnover rate of diners, but in reality it's much more than that.
It looks as though until a restaurant with some oomph enters the fray in the Entertainment Quarter, mediocrity will remain.
Cine makes the "less is more" argument a little wobbly.
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Comment by Anonymous
From my personal experience, i have found that two of the poorer areas for dining are The Entertainment Quarter and Darling Harbour. I would suggest that it's due to the comfort of having large numbers of people passing by on a constant basis, but then again Surry Hills seems to maintain a high standard...each to their own i guess!