The Brass Monkey - Northbridge

Was in town and had a meal at grapeskin - wine list was nice - only one pasta dish on the menu - I had the steak and at best ok a little tough. Having said that a pretty good vibe - hopefully better next time

Recently went there before a night at the Heath Ledger Theatre for a performance from the Black Swan State Theatre Company. Enthusiastic male waiter asked how we were, where we were going and reminded us to show our tickets for a 15% discount. Ms FFFT (fave friend, fellow traveller) was happy at the range of vegetarian options, we ended up with an arancini salad - generous serve, yummy - and pizza - again, yummy. The not-so-good: female waiter put a bottle of water on 2 other tables, came to ask for our drinks order. We didn't get a bottle of water - is that because we DIDN'T order anything alcoholic? Then at the end, when we showed the theatre tickets, female staff member looked at us blankly. We explained. She went to get ANOTHER staff member, who probably went to get ANOTHER staff member, then finally we got 10% off the tab. It's not the 10 or 15%, more the principle and also the sense that staff "dunno" their product or specials or offerings. Sure, we'd go back again because we go to the theatre, but feel like saying, c'mon guys, "KNOW your stuff" ...

Recently went there before a night at the Heath Ledger Theatre for a performance from the Black Swan State Theatre Company. Enthusiastic male waiter asked how we were, where we were going and reminded us to show our tickets for a 15% discount. Ms FFFT (fave friend, fellow traveller) was happy at the range of vegetarian options, we ended up with an arancini salad - generous serve, yummy - and pizza - again, yummy. The not-so-good: female waiter put a bottle of water on 2 other tables, came to ask for our drinks order. We didn't get a bottle of water - is that because we DIDN'T order anything alcoholic? Then at the end, when we showed the theatre tickets, female staff member looked at us blankly. We explained. She went to get ANOTHER staff member, who probably went to get ANOTHER staff member, then finally we got 10% off the tab. It's not the 10 or 15%, more the principle and also the sense that staff "dunno" their product or specials or offerings. Sure... read more

Reasonable bistro/pub food adjoining the Brass Monkey. Generously sized portions - fetta and roast pumpkin salad was fine; vegetarian nachos unfortunately had quite a few corn chips burned under a grill which detracted. Arrogant Frog rosé pleasant and dry. The best thing about it was it was open on New Years Day when the rest of Northbridge looked like Melbourne when they filmed On the Beach...for those of a certain age. perthcafeculture.com.au

Not very good to be honest. Basically no customer service even though the 3 ladies behind the counter had nothing to do besides chat to themselves for the first 10 minutes. Upon asking about the advertised monday night special, one of these lovely ladies snapped back and said it was finished, before storming out the bar and tearing the poster down. Charming. I mean its attached to the Brass Monkey so I wasn't expecting 10/10 service but they are obviously trying to expand their marketability into a more sit down restaurant but this was just a bad experience, and we hadn't even ordered yet. Placed our order with the same girl who then had to tell another colleague to take over half way through as someone else was waiting to be served at the bottleshop side. Second girl ended up mixing our order up and not charging us the additional 2$ for mashed potatoe, and then had the audacity to come and ask for us to make up the difference after screwing up the order. Service was terrible and food wasnt much better.