As at Feb 2011 things seem to be different than these older reviews. I started going here with my Mum & two friends on a wet Monday lunch just before Christmas. Good crowd & it is Seniors day with a $10 plus $1.50 soup or dessert. There is no salad bar & one dinner roll & a butter pack with each meal. The food is good and ample. The service is a little slow which we told the lady who seemed in charge that day. The decor/atmosphere is great and we sat near the grand piano. There is free coffee for seniors that day & a raffle ticket. There should also be a $2 per meal voucher for the next meal visit which they sometimes forget & it is not advertised. Having lived in the area since 1957 this was first visit and we have been back several times since and recommended to friends who have turned up and like it. However this week it all fell apart and staff are to blame, staff I have not seen before. This venue keeps the entrances(3) bolted until meal time and this is the cause of the complaint. There is a passage way into the bistro off the side street & a Nepean Hwy entrance. The passage way is open to the door of the bistro. On Monday Feb 21 we went there and had a good night and meal. Used the first vouchrs we got the previous Friday & got two more for the next visit($4 worth). We arrived on Wednesday at 5.35pm with my niece(who had a stroke 10 months ago) & her nearly 14 year old daughter who had a Year 8 night at her convent. We decided to feed them there before dropping them off at Mentone. My niece is licensed for security(has business with husband) & gaming so knows the ropes. AS my mother is over 83 & ailing with Parkinson's, osteo-p & heart problems she needs to sit down quickly and can't stand or walk for long and has a 4-prong walking stick. One has to enter from the badly surfaced carpark(we parked at the side street near the side door to the Bistro that night) to the gaming area and thru there is a sizeable darkened room with soft seats which can be called a vestibule of which the bistro door is at the other end. There are two TV screens there. We needed my young niece t have access to the vestibule & got met with these strangers talking unintelligible nonsense. All I wanted was for them to get this girl in and that was easy as they could open two doors or have them opened for a couple seconds by someone in the bistro so she would avoid going thru the gaming area. Simple but not these people. I asked for the manager & they said OK and then hedged abut this & it did not happen. My mother culd not stand & we left the venue going to the Cheltenham RSL opposite the airport wher we were most welcome and spent $79 between us. We await the ALH Group to reply top the e-mail we sent that night but nothing so far. WE want to resume our new found venue without this nonsense. Staff can be very bad for business at tims and not good in these financially difficult times. I have run my own businesses over the years & now retired(I am nearly 62). I am prepared to amend if we settle this night with the venue.

Approximate cost: $Seniors $12

Under different management we went to this hotel for a Mother's Day in 2002 and we vowed not to go there again. Years later and new management and it was a different story. The venue is large with ample parking. The gaming area serves great free coffee on request. We have used this venue for lunch or dinner(no Seniors on Friday night) and enjoyed a bog meal of two courses for a set price. I have enjoyed the Soup of the Day and their Rump Steak with Chips & Vegies. We have recommended others to here. Some of the male or female bistro serving staff are very nice & friendly but there have been some who seem to have a poker in the posterior but we avoid them and comment about their behaviour. There seems to be a lot of mums with little kids coming here for evening meals which is good and these start from a very welcome 5pm which is great if one wants a good, reasonably priced meal and get to a concert or whatever in good time. The full menu(non-Seniors) steak is on a par with other venues in quality & price and the same meat poster is seen on many pub walls. This is an old venue and close to my home if the mood takes us to avoid cooking an evening meal. I usually go with my mother and two friends.

Approximate cost: $13.50

I belong to the R&R Club at this venue and have done over the past year and have had many meals here, usually lunch but the occasional evening meal. I go with my mother and two lady friends, also members, and enjoy the atmosphere here. A regular waitress is extremely nice and friendly, always with a smile and a nice word to say. The manageress & her assistant have made our acquaintance and we have had lots of chats and I found a book for them that had two photos of the venue's very early days of which they were grateful to borrow and copy the pictures as they had none that they knew of. The prices and quality of food as Senior's Meals is very much to our liking. As Club members we enjoy our free coffee and the occasional piece of cake left at the coffee bar from time to time for visitors. We would recommend this place to anyone and have done so. There is ample parking in the rear of the site.

Approximate cost: $12

Virtually an all-female pharmacy, this shop goes the extra mile for you when talking about or obtaining medications I or my mother need. I have been going in there since a boy from 1957 under founders then a funder's son and now the current management. I have never had occasion to have a blue with anyone at anytime at this business in all this time.

Approximate cost: $21.60

Current pharmacist on hand & assistant provide excellent assistance when required which is often due to continuous pill changes for the person I am the Carer for