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Yoooo driving the Western at night from out near the 'rat really hits different.
It feels like being in a space time warp with the winding bits, fast speeds and lack of identifying features for the most part due to it being pitch black.
Dinner was very ordinary, for someone's birthday. Good company, but very mediocre unimaginative pub fare, at the usual inflated prices ($28 for some reheated frozen crumbed calamari, bland chips and premade basic arse salad) Around 6pm a more sweary group of families started rocking up, rattails and all, I'm wondering why anyone would come here for dinner when it's so expensive... Then when I go up to pay I notice behind the counter/bar, a cave of pokies machines and some plastered punters just mindlessly pressing buttons and knobs. I don't care if it comes across as classist, fuck pokies subsidising mediocrity (among other things). I normally make it a point to avoid ever patronising a place with pokies, I didn't know that about this place but I'll definitely avoid it if it ever gets suggested again
It's no classist to hate pokies venues. They are a huge drain on our society, especially the vulnerable.
Pubs charge a fuckton for mediocre food these days.
Gimme a family run Asian (Italian or Greek too)joint, where labour laws don't matter, any day!!
I feel like there's still plenty of places including more alternative pubs that could've done a better feed for the prices offered :/ I think their selling point was the venue (golf club). But then the ambiance gets ruined by the pokies...
As my kids say (and I copy it)
Bogans gonna boge
The venue knows their clientele and acts accordingly.
We got dinner from our regular kebab joint today....they threw in a box of desserts cause they recognised my wife when she was picking up the food.
So you give the venue one star then.
Western Freeway can be treacherous in wet weather. Very scary when your car starts to aquaplane.
Not to mention the never ending potholes ... I would've thought twice about driving back in the dark if it was also pouring down.