Gone Fishing: Roberts Circa 1876 Restaurant

Vin yard at Roberts Circa 1876

For the new year's eve 2014 we wanted to go for a long drive and decided to go to the Hunter valley as my wife had been wanting to visit the vin-yards for a long time.

Hunter valley drive

Our last visit there was during winter, and had been barren in terms of grapes.This time, we went for a trip to Pokolbin and decided to try out Roberts Circa 1876.

The restaurant premises were fantastic, with vinyard, open green space, nice quaint buildings with lush green atmosphere makes it a dream location.

Sadly for us, the great pretty much ended there.

We found the food was above average and tastes nice, but nothing sort of extra ordinary. price however, bites, and your wallet will feel it badly. The service seemed bit disjointed with customers waiting without response from the staff for long time and hurried waitresses, who seemed to be in a state of 'rush' all the time. I felt like we were being given a favour to have a table.

Shell crab

We were wine novices and were in the Hunter for the experience. So it wasn't very pleasant when we asked for a recommendation and got a terse response from a waitress 'Well..we have 300 different types of wines..so I don't know what you are looking for..' , well I was about to explain what we were looking for, you could have been a bit more patient I guess?

We drove 140 km for this restaurant in particular, that response alone half killed our day.