Palace Hotel - Boroondara

Met mates there for a beer before going to Trinitas Thai for dinner. First 4 beers on tap we ordered they were out of!! So either bottle or Furfy $7 pint which is Ok but unbelievalbe a pub this size can be out of 4 specialty beers on a thursday evening.

Went to Palace Hotel Camberwell for lunch 29th Dec with friends,looking forward to a change decided to go for the fish,chips salad. The meal arrived fish looked like it had been cooked times,chips were the same.Spoke to the appropriate staff they were extremely rude didn’t seem to care.As there are so many great eating places in the area I would certainly not choose to go back here,very disappointed.

Ate here for dinner on a Saturday night. Was nice to have live music, but it was slightly too loud for the style of acoustic music being played to the point that the sound was distorted. The food was well priced, but slow to come out and whole table came out at very different times. I had almost finished my meal before one of my friends got his, and he only ordered a parma when I ordered a steak. Usually steak takes longer. I asked for my porterhouse steak to be Medium-Rare, but it came out somewhere between medium and well done. Dry and tasteless. Nice chips. Very average pub. When the Hallam hotel is making better food than you, you probably need to change something up.

I rate the Palace as being average for a suburban pub in most respects. Except for the prices! They 'll pull you a pint of a chosen beer for $7, all day long, not just at Happy Hour. That 's a decent price for a brew Down Unda lotsa places act like they 're giving you a deal at $5 for a schooner or tinnie. And it 's not always the Furphy for $7/pint that another reviewer mentioned. Thank goodness, coz Furph is wurphless. When I dined at the Palace, the $7 beer was a decent pale ale from the James Squire range. My parma burger was on the small side, but it only cost $16, including an adequate but not outstanding pile of fat chips. Order a burger in a pub these days and it 's going to be $20+, even though you 'll probably get something larger and more flash than the Palace 's. What they dished to me was competently cooked. They paid enough attention to my order to leave off the lettuce as I asked. Who likes hot, soggy iceberg, eh? Other items on the Palace 's menu come in at similar low prices and small sizes. I was there with a mob of more than 30 people, so I got to see a fair bit. Overall, the Palace is is a bog standard pokies n pints venue. Order at the bar, grab a lino lined chair in front of the video screens, try to chat over the loud but forgettable piped in music until a fresh faced waitstaffer brings your choice on a white institutional plate. There 's nothing memorable on the menu: your standard parmas, sangers, salads and so on. A gastropub this is not. I 've been at better around Melbourne, but there are worse. I wouldn 't go out of my way to visit the Palace again, but I was there for the group, not the venue. The Palace would be an OK spot for a pub night if you 're a local. Not that there 's anything wrong with that! Everything doesn 't have to be foodielicious. Average in the dictionary definition meaning middling. Not the current Aussie slang usage, where average signifies bad. As in how people now say I 'm feeling pretty average when they 're not feeling good. Too ironic, mates...

This hotel which was established in 1888 is located across the road from the Camberwell Train Station. My friend is a local and wanted me to join him for a drink at this hotel which was offering $7 all day pints of Furphy's which is quite a good deal. The pub is quite old and I like the charm of character of the exterior. However the interior could do with some maintenance as long as it presservated the character. We did not dine here as we dined at nearby Sofia the meal prices were very good with most items under $20.