Railway Hotel Fitzroy North

Great light, great space, OK coffee (getting old ☺), perfect for a social lunch, a blast

Such an underrated joint. Live music and incredible pasta. Perfect for a nice warm night in

Not good. They seem to have a number of regulars who know them by name, and this is the only way i can imagine this place having a 4.2* rating. Barman wiped his nose on his hand before picking up our glasses. When I requested new glasses and that he wash his hands, he had nowhere to wash his hands. Bottles of table water had grime on the lids. Dinner took about 80 minutes to arrive and when it did it was almost inedible. I was resolved to just not eat my meal but the lady who seems to be the cook questioned me on it and then started arguing with me. Telling a customer that you're on your own doesn't magically make the food better. I was offered a replacement meal but given the long wait and poor food, I declined.

Great foods, decent prices. Relaxed, no frills vibe.

Italian food at its finest 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

Real hotel not many left. Food was fresh and yummy. Service friendly and professional.

Crumbed lamb cutlets!

The sad thing about writing this review is that they I have happy memories of The Railway as a classic inner north Melbourne pub that served excellent pub classics, and some wonderful hearty and well cooked Italian food. The decor always left something to be desired, and they had this weird system for wine whereby you just went into another part of the pub to the bottle shop, picked your wine, and took it back to the pub where they stuck a couple of bucks on it. I liked that, and they had (and still have) a pretty good range of wines and very reasonable prices. Eight friends and I dined here recently on a Thursday night, and the whole experience was an unmitigated disaster from beginning to end. Not one person enjoyed their meal. Let me be specific: My veal parma was a very small serve of tough veal and very sparse topping (although the napoli sauce was pretty good). About eight chips accompanied the meal, and I have attache a photo of the so-called side salad. Oh, by the way, nothing had been eaten from that salad--that's how it landed on the table. I ordered an $18 antipasto platter for the table to share. The tiny serve of very ordinary antipasto barely covered the middling sized plate it was served on. The meats were OK, but it wasn't served with any bread or accompaniments of any sort. At $7.50 or even $10 it would still have been ordinary, but at least cheap. At $18 it was a bald-face rip-off. There would have been about $3.00 worth of produce on the plate. There was also close to an hour's gap between the antipasto and the main, despite the fact that I asked for the antipasto to come at the same time as the mains. One of my companions ordered goat with polenta. When the tiny serve arrived with chips and salad, there was no polenta. When he asked, he was told that if you ordered chips and salad with the goat, you didn't get polenta, Eh? No-one had a meal they enjoyed. Steak was tough, and the mixed grills were sparse and ordinary. The table was given two small plates of bread that was none too fresh. Overall, it was a shocking dining experience. We have all put a massive line through this place and will never eat there again. The only good thing about the meal was some good wine at a very reasonable price. As I said at the start of this review, the sad thing about this experience was that all of us had very happy memories of some excellent unpretentious pub classics and Italian food at this once venerable institution.

Honest Italian food. Friendly staff. Laidback. Popular with locals

great food. old school atmosphere