1. Lone Star Mermaid Beach
2. What is this disgusting thing served up at the Lone Star?
The decor was excellent, the free peanuts were great, the staff were friendly and the service was extra quick but that's where the Triple A rating ended at the Lone Star Steakhouse and Saloon on the main highway at Mermaid Beach on the Gold Coast.
The Wild Fire Shrimps were on the cold side and their main meal size for the two entrees did not exactly whet the appetite for the much-anticipated steaks which came hot and well-appointed.
There was a disappointment for the birthday boy in the group when his pumpkin soup arrived as a luke warm, funny-coloured liquid which gave every appearance of having just been siphoned out of a plastic pail.
Now, take a close look at the concoction in the second picture above.
How can this be said delicately? In fact, it looks exactly like what confronts a professional gynecologist every day.
Well done means well done and when a gastronomic connoisseur orders a well done steak, he or she doesn't expect some oozing, dripping, blood-filled piece of offal.
The picture shows why the steak was left on the plate to be feed to the dogs scrounging in the rubbish bins after midnight.
Here's hoping those Gold Coast stray mutts survived their meal as well as the Lone Star patrons.
The Lone Star staff didn't bother asking how the meal was - probably because they were fully aware it looked disgusting sitting, half-eaten on the plate.
Now for the finale.
The bill was as easy to read as War and Peace for a blind man.
It was put together with acronyms and hieroglyphics which would make it impossible for even Barry Jones to decipher.
The Wild Fire Shrimps appeared to have been overcharged but what seemed to have been a $9.92 ripoff was credited back AFTER the Invoice Total as "LocalStoreMarketing".
What a bizarre way of presenting the bill which simply causes embarrassment for customers and staff.
The Lone Star - not much of a star last night, more a big, black hole!
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CR PAUL TULLY: paul@tully.org.au
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