Cuda Bar and Restaurant - LORNE

Service was fantastic. Lovely staff. The food was great, we had the calamari and prawn twisters to start. Both were fantastic! The mains weren't as amazing but still good. Pork belly was nice although I didn't really like the salad it was on. My husband had the seafood platter which was not not really a platter with just scallops and fish. Could have been a more generous serving with more variety. Overall it was a really nice dinner.

An incredible evening of cocktails, followed by dinner. Steak cooked to perfection. Potentially the best service we have ever received in Australia by a very attentive and friendly waiter with a slight American accent. Would definitely return on our next visit to Lorne.

Nice menu, top quality food, excellent service by super friendly waiters... What else to say? Highly recommended!!! Top restaurant in Lorne!

Great spot, especially when on holiday! Cocktails were inventive and tasted so good. Food was well cooked, not too fussy and just what we needed.

I should stress from the beginning that this review and rating is of the place as a bar only and I cannot comment on the food as we didn’t eat there. It advertises itself as a bar (as well as a restaurant) and the large sign above it says ‘Cuda Bar’ so it seems perfectly reasonable to review it as a bar even though it is really a restaurant with a bar as distinct from a bar that sells food. We went for a beer as I had been told that this was the only bar in town that had draft beer (which proved to be not entirely true, as the Lorne Hotel at the other end of town also has a bar with draft beer). It is clean, bright, modern contemporary in design, fairly large and I would have been happy to stay for a meal if there had been any atmosphere, but it was empty except from one couple tucked away in a corner, the emptiness exacerbated by the fact it is large and well lit. I know Lorne is a seasonal resort, and it was a Wednesday evening, but this was early May so I expected a bit more life. Unlike the experience of a previous reviewer, far from buzzing the place was so quiet it had all the atmosphere of a morgue.We had a couple of beers and the waiter was friendly and chatty, no doubt because he had time to be so and was hoping we would eat there, but as it was the first place we had looked at from the motel and preferred to eat in more atmospheric surroundings we moved on. (With hindsight, as the rest of the town was also like a ghost town perhaps we would have done better to have gone back).