Char Restaurant

Very friendly Spanish waitress. Mouthwatering giant Tbones and interesting yummy sides.

Great service here was bloody busy but they held themselves well. Had the prime rib. Great.

GREAT LOCATION, DELIGHTFUL ALFRESCO TABLES, GOOD SERVICE Four of us went to Char for dinner on a recent visit to Darwin. Wait staff were very well informed, options for indoor or outdoor tables and an extensive menu with a seafood feature. Fully licenced with a good wine list.

Very good service and food. Reaching out to be excellent. The Fillet Steak was superb, but the Onion soup was very sweet and there wasn't enough soup. Service was good, but not excellent. Wine prices started from circa $40 and went to $1,100 A bottle. The wines were good.

Char Restaurant 、。。 Glass-fronted steakhouse with a big courtyard, for select grilled meats and Modern Australian food 、。。 So Great Restaurant in Darwin 、。。 素晴らしい 、。。

The sour dough starter seems simple but the red wine jus warm sauce that accompanies it was unexpectedly delicious. My friend had scollop starter and i had the wagyu spring rolls. For mains my friend had wagyu rump cooked beautifully and i had the fish of the day, golden snapper. It was divine! everything is delicious

A little noisy, and in this era of social distancing, tables were a little close, but the service was good and the food just great.

Dinner for 2 gnocchi and seasonal green side was plenty, couple of beers each all good value. Wants to promote its wine list.

For the prices Char charge, I expected something a little more special than a pub feed. We made a reservation a few days out, only to find that it had been “lost in the system” - the staff however were more than happy to find us a table, and did so quickly and efficiently. The table we were seated at would have been more at home at a pub named “the beach” or “Sal’s surf shack” - lots of plastic, and chairs straight from my nan’s back garden. The waiter serving us was attentive, but definitely new to the business (and I believe I overheard him recommend a steak cooked medium to another customer...) and seeming a little flustered. Rather than the traditional notepad and pen, he had a small iPad thing that... didn’t work. When he replaced this with a working iPad, things went a little better, but maybe traditional is best here. Ordering sparkling water was another palaver - we were told only “soda water” was available as they were “running low” on sparkling. They weren’t out yet, but just running low. A bottle of tap soda water did eventually appear, but only after asking twice more. Onto the food. The Arancini balls were good. I would recommend them. The “Popcorn” Chicken Kaaraage... less so. The batter didn’t seem particularly attached to the chicken, and the chicken itself was either thigh that had been cooked much to quickly, retaining that toughness that leads to the use of breast for this style of chicken, or it was the greying breast of a very unhappy chook. A common complaint I have about restaurants is the starters not coming out quickly enough - often you’re waiting half an hour for something that the chef didn’t realise people would want in five minutes. No such issues here - the starters came out very promptly. Steak was, of course, ordered for the main. An Eye fillet and a Sirloin, both ordered rare. The Eye fillet was spot on. The sirloin was medium, and in need of a sharper steak knife. Talking of the steak knives, one had definitely been used to open something, with the tell-tale twisted point. The steaks also looked very... lonely coming out on the plates - I understand that this is the style, with the table sharing sides and adding to the plate, but for a moment there was nothing but steak on the plates, and the plates did seem very... desolate. The sides followed the mains quickly, and were mostly as described - the rocket and pear salad was unremarkable, but in a good way, as a salad should be. The carrots were a particular favourite, and the wagyu fat potatoes good, if outnumbered by the garlic cloves they were served with. Circling back to the plates and cutlery - the plates looked reminiscent of something I recently saw at Kmart, but a quick google confirmed they are in fact Target, so very much more upmarket. The rest of the table setting was very well worn, so possibly another trip to down to Palmerston to visit Target for cutlery wouldn’t go amiss. All in all, I suspect visiting one of the nicer pubs in the area would have been a better proposition, even without the price difference factored in. I was hoping for good things from the renovated Char, and what I got was a three star experience at best.

This is a classy place with good wine and a great menu. The onion sauce was sweet and delicious. Staff was informative and efficient. But service is dependent on the day. At 46$ a steak there is no room for error. I received a medium raw steak instead of a medium steak. The manager offered to replace it, but I don't waste food. No other compensation was offered. The cash register staff had no idea of what had occurred.