Restaurant 3one7
317 Church St,
Parramatta
NSW 2150
On Sunday afternoon, after weeks of craving a nice gourmet burger, we headed to Parramatta
in search of the ultimate burger to hit that spot. We ended up on Church street as we
thought that would have been the best place for variety and something really
delicious.
As we wander past a few restaurants we check out the menus but decide to
venture further on. We quickly learnt that this was not the place for the
ultimate gourmet burger. Towards the end of stroll we came across a moderately
busy restaurant called 3one7. We check out the menu and it has nice sounding
burgers and looks like a good place to dine. As we sit down and stew over the
menu we realise that the burgers are only served during LUNCH! Now this is the
awkward part whether to leave or stay. After a bit of umming and ahhing we
decide to stay and try something else.
About after another 5 minutes of looking at the menu we decide on our
dishes however it probably takes us another 10 minutes to get the attention of
the wait staff. As we are starring blankly waiting for someone to serve us we
notice that they have won awards 4 years straight from 2006-2009. We quip to
one another “no wonder they haven’t won anything since with the type of service”.
At this point we are feeling quite stupid as we can’t even order what we wanted
and the service is pretty poor.
After a few attempts to wave the waitress down, we finally placed our
order. I decided on a dish called Veal Lemon, pretty much as the name suggest
it’s veal with a lemon & rosemary sauce. I’m pretty biased as I always
enjoy something with a citrus twist and this is the same. The only problem is
that there’s not much veal at all, for $30 it’s a let down. The meal comes with
baked potatoes and some veggies and by the end of the meal all the veggies are gone with the veal however about 90% of the potatoes are still there.
Overall I wasn’t impressed. Our total bill came to about $70 for 2 mains
and a jug of lemon squash. Not the worst but definitely had better for that
price, the dishes weren’t creative and didn’t have anything special. This might
be due to the fact they probably had over 100 dishes on the menu, with about 10
types of veal and chicken to choose from. With that kind of menu creativity and flavour go out the window.
Would I go back to 3one7? Probably not, unless they win another award…
Paul
