Walt & Burley

Had a great experience dining at this restaurant. Overall, the food was excellent; I especially loved the picanha steak and zucchini pasta. The view is stunning, and the dishes are beautifully presented, definitely worth posting on social media! Everything looked and tasted amazing.

Excellent food, nice spot with a lake view. Nice cold beers. Cocktails are small. Love being able to bring our little dog.

We visited here for lunch yesterday. It got busy very quickly. I initially hestiated to go here because the reviews on multiple platforms are pretty shocking. However, we were super surprised. The food was really good, and despite them being absolutely smashed, the staff were really good, friendly and quick. The kitchen was smashing out orders - great food, good portion sizes too. Best burger I had in Canberra (had a few others). There was only ONE waitress on the entire time - two chef, two bar staff. She deserves a medal, she was a trooper and we let her know that. I hope she's recognised for her hard work. Not sure why there wasn't another waitress on - we ordered before the rush, but others may have been waiting a while for service.

Fantastic service! Team were very responsive in arranging our event and could not have been more helpful and friendly on the night. Food was great and a beautiful location. Highly recommend for functions and casual dining.

I was excited to eat here and made a booking for the Terrace. Would have been better to sit on the big tables outside as they offered more shade from the glaring sun. We asked to reloacte which seemed a hassle in a area that wasnt booked out as we were told to sit anywhere we liked. The wait staff didn't smile at all which gives the impression it's nothing more than a job. Very underwhelming atmosphere for what is a beautiful setting and venue. Food was ok. Nothing to rave about. Entrees came with main meal. Prices on order app different to physical menu! Entree of cheesy bread was oily and foil stuck/burnt to underside. Very difficult to cut and pull apart. Rump was actually nice. The Parma was not bad but a little burnt on areas. Definitely had better. Crusted lamb was ok not great but ok. Nobody asked if the meals were ok. Fully cashless which is ok but not well displayed - apparently in the toilet as one of our guests discovered! Very underwhelming experience for what we hoped was going to be a fabulous meal and venue. Alot of improvements could be done to turn this venue into a fabulous venue with what is a very beautiful setting on the water

The venue is a busy pub style eating experience, live music, family and obviously dog friendly. (I'll touch on that shortly) We had the parma, cauliflower poppers and the Asian style pork ribs. I wanted the lamb salad, but it was all gone by the time we ordered at 2pm. Meals to the table took 30 minutes. The food together with two wines and a LLB came to $147.00. This included a 15% surcharge, the excuse being it was a public holiday. I can't talk to the other dishes, but my ribs were solid. Moist and fall off the bone with good flavour. This came with fresh slaw and very average chips. Regarding the dog factor.. Great if you love dogs..(we observed outside areas only) If not, just be aware there doesn't seem to be any limitations of where dogs can sit including on outside benches and even tables. Finally, Our experience with staff was always polite, helpful and efficient.

A very nice restaurant that sells a good range of your "pub" type foods. Great location and staff are always excellent. Great all-rounder that also does a worthwhile trivia on a Tuesday.

Perfect for a sunny winter day by the lake . Food is above pub food. Service is great

There's nothing much to speak of here. Just your standard drinks and standard food. Staff are fine. The atmosphere is like a lot of the Kingston foreshore: sterile and boring. It seems like the kind of place people end up at because they're on a work trip and don't know the city very well. Lots of consultants and visiting bureaucrats making dull conversation if that's your thing.

Cranky service at the window. Clearly not enough staff for the number of patrons. Waited exceptionally long for two coffees. Such a shame for the gorgeous location.

Went here for a family lunch. Worst food ever. Ordered a seafood linguine, it stank of fish. Not the sea as it should, but fish. Prawns had no texture they were totally mushy. Tasted awful. The said they got them in frozen on Friday (it is now Sunday). Find that hard to believe, even for frozen prawns defrosted properly they shouldn't have been like that. The mussels were tiny. The flesh was about the size of 1/4 a 1c coin.

Previous reviews seem unfair and not a representation of my experience. Service was outstanding and friendly. Beer was good. Food was the one of the best I had in Canberra. Fish and chips were legit and better than most I have had in London. Chips were really good. Also had the angus beef burger and would put that up against many of the best I have had in my life. Think anyone who was deterred from trying this place based on yelp reviews should reconsider.

I'd heard some good things about Walt & Burley, and being that this Monday was one of our rare coinciding days off my girlfriend and I decided to give it a go. Upon walking in it seemed Walt & Burley was a bit less pub and a bit more casual restaurant for the most part. We were met by a waitress who told us the restaurant area was all booked out but that we could sit at one of the bar tables (long tables with stools). We sat down and were brought menus and water. Good start :) The waitress then said "and when we are ready to order we go to the bar". "We"... Interesting way to phrase it... Anyway! Looking through the menu they had a mix of starters/snacks, ranging from cheeses and charcuterie boards, to pate and squid. They all sounded great, so we thought we should come back and get a selection some time, but today we wanted a nice big lunch. There were various mains, and a separate section for burgers and a sort of BBQ grill area (think similar to Smoque I'm the city). My girlfriend ordered the steak burger ($18) and I ordered the pork belly ($24). My girlfriend also ordered a glass of Shiraz. Surprisingly there were only 2 reds by the glass on their wine list. A few minutes after ordering we were told they had run out of pork belly. I asked for a recommendation and was recommended the chicken burger ($18). Two burgers it was then! The barman we ordered with said he would bring the refund difference over to us. Then we waited. And waited. Finished our drinks. Still waited. At around the 35 minute mark one of the other waiter/barmen, after being prompted by a colleague, asked us if everything was ok. We told him we were still waiting on our food. He said he would go check on it. Next time we saw him was about 8 minutes later collecting our empty glasses, at which point we actually had to ask him what was happening with our food. He said it shouldn't be too much longer. At about the 50 minute mark our food came out, with nothing more than a cheery "sorry for the wait, guys". The chips were nice thick cuts. The burger buns were pretty standard. I had a nice piece of chicken in mine with an aoli, but other than that the burger had iceberg lettuce and a slice or two of pretty flavourless tomato. Pretty sure that's the same recipe as Chicken Gourmet (which, as most canberrans know, is certainly not gourmet). My girlfriend's burger had a very small amount of steak in it, mixed with cheese and mushroom. Seemed like it would have been quite nice had there been significantly more of it. When we asked about whether the burger had the correct amount of meat, the waiter seemed rather awkward about the whole thing, but said it was indeed the correct amount. We asked if we could have some sauce for our chips, which was free, so that was nice. About 4-5 minutes later our sauces arrived, along with the cutlery the waiter realised he had forgotten. The chips were very hot which was nice, but the burgers were luke warm at best. We wondered whether they hadn't cooked the chips in time and whether our burgers had been sitting around. When we finished our meals and our plates were collected I had to remind our waiter about the difference they owed us. $18 for each burger, both with iceberg lettuce and tomato. I would have been happy with it for $12 but not $18. When I can get a better, more creative burger for $12 from Grill'd in 10 minutes, $18 for a boring burger in 50 minutes is very disappointing. Hell, Brodburger is a 3 minute walk away! Maybe the stain glass windows, the paved stone floor and the copper surfaces on the bar had lead to greater expectations, but really the whole experience was very disappointing, and with so many great places springing up in Kingston, I don't really feel like Walt & Burley is worth another shot.

Noisy. Expensive. Poor service. Average food. $11 for a pint and $10 for a small bottle of alcoholic ginger beer. Phew. 45 + minutes wait for meals. Staff who don't want to be there (maybe they are too cool to be bothered with good service?) Medium-rare steak was verging on medium-well. The chicken burger had a cold, stale bottom bun. $18. The chips were overly greasy (oil not up to temp?) I won't be back.

We order burley's beef burger and philly cheese burger , I don't like the philly burger ,the price is too high for non tasty burger, you taste only the meat flavor. Even the french fries I didn't complete it because it is too salty. I will not come again here!

The setting was nice enough although the 'restaurant' kind of felt like it was an after thought. Service was very attentive, almost too attentive, I twice had my drink glass cleared before I'd finished my drink. However when I mentioned it to the waitress she got me another drink on the house. I ordered the gnocchi and it was pretty ordinary to be honest, it was like something out of a packet. My date ordered the pork which he said was delicious so I'm thinking you can get a good meal here but be selective with your ordering. I suspect this place will be very popular in the summer and hopefully they would have ironed out any teething problems by then. It's definitely worth a visit but it's far from amazing, hopefully it becomes amazing, I'm rooting for you guys!

Service was good, food was overpriced and the steak was poor quality. We had a better steak the night before at the Queanbeyan Pub for a third of the price. Nice place for a drink but save your $$ and have a BBQ at home instead! Would not eat here again.

This place started off so promisingly last year. We went on the first week the place was opened and the food was exceptional. We must have eaten when all the official food reviewers were sniffing around because you only ever see top marks for this place. I highly recommend those reviewers drop in unannounced now in order to update their reviews because this place stinks now. The surroundings are still very flash, but even the choice of beers on tap has been reduced down to the bog-standard at every pub in Canberra. And don't get me started on the quality of food. Just... don't. Or the service. Mum always told me if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all. And I think I've already said enough regarding this establishment.

The music was too loud and had to ask them to turn it down. Food was expensive and we ordered wedges and they gave us a handful that were stale and sauce in a take away container and it took half an hour. We ordered wine and they gave us a half empty bottle.

Rather expensive meals. Colleague's meal came out 15 minutes late, raw. Not impressed :(

Pretty ordinary pub food for the price. Service? What service? Go to counter for drinks Drinks are very expensive. $10 for a house wine or beer at a pub?? C'mon now. Order and pay for your meals at the counter. Get served a cold seafood with no plates to eat it on. Octopus like rubber. Blue swimmer crab tiny and tasteless. Fish overcooked (you'll do better at your local club). Chicken dry.

Rocked up for brunch. Quick and easy. Only suggestion is probably keep serving brunch beyond 1030 on Sunday's.

Marvellous outlook with a lovely cool breeze on a hot day. Ordered one of the specials to be told it wasn't on the menu - the menu had just changed. Ordered a peroni on tap - peroni wasn't available! We then ordered a chefs selection for two. The starters came out and looked interesting enough. Bread with three different dips, Zucchini balls with sauce, chicken wings with a spicy sauce and battered prawns with what appeared to be shredded coconut. All ok except the prawns which were tough. The mains arrived on a layered platter. It was awkward getting the food from the platter to the plate with no serving implements. Lamb chops and shaved lamb were both tough. Green beans with roasted almonds were overcooked. There was a piece of chicken that seemed to be two joints fused together and impossible to cut. All food exceot the corn cob, which was luke warm, was cold and it seemed as if it might have been prepared at the same time as the starters and left until it was brought to our table after we'd finished the first course. Another rather offputting thing was two European wasps which were on the serving platter as well as our plates - I moved the serving platter to the next table hoping to deter them, to no avail. I was most disappointed in the meal, as the only other time I had eaten there was a couple of weeks ago when I ordered fish and chips which was delicious! Sorry I won't be going back.

This pub has the best location on the foreshore, with great views across the water to Canberra landmarks. That's where the good part ends. We went for lunch on a Sunday, so it was fairly busy, however we waited for a full hour before our meals arrived. My dining partners had burgers, of which two were OK (so they said).......the chicken burger and the Reuben's. My husband had a $22 beef burger, which he said was very average and boring....a piece of unseasoned mince with a bit of tomato and lettuce and tasteless sauce. I ordered the Chicken Salad for $25. For that price it should have been pretty special, but no...it was tasteless and was made up mainly of spinach leaves, despite the enticing description in the menu. It had soggy potatoes, one old yellow piece of watercress, and three tiny morsels of chicken with barely any pesto and some tinned soggy "roast capsicum" thrown in. It was appalling. If we weren't with guests I would have asked for my money back. This place really needs to lift their game but I feel that they are relying on their great location. I don't mind paying higher prices for great food, but the standard of food here is very poor.