Woolwich Pier Hotel

I have been to a this place a couple times, both times to kill times for a wedding of friends in between the church and reception. This place is in a beautiful location and is close to some really popular churches for weddings.
The first time I went here I remember it being pretty ordinary and honestly just a place to have a beer and wait out 3 hours or so. This time was no better. I ordered some pulled pork sliders $ 5 each. And fat 3 times cooked fries $ 8 – 9.(man hand full) that’s ok. I’m out I want to enjoy my food the money isn’t everything as long as the food is good. Nope. The pork was slapped on a stale strange tasting bun, after one bite I was done. The chips we’re chips nothing crazy just chips. No sauce. Have to ask at the window for that.
Service. Meh. Ordered 2 beers and a lemonade, after walking back to the table and tasting the lemonade found it was soda water. Walked back and waiting hmm about 10 minutes saying excuse me when there was a gap but no luck while everyone else pushed in front of me as well as being ignored by pretty much everyone. That was nice. Even friends I came with got drinks before me.TWICE. The staff were not overly rude but you could tell that they didn’t want to be there. The way they took orders and handled customer complains, not even form me!
If there were another weeding I was attending down the road and this place was recommended I would definitely pass. There are plenty of places 5 minutes further away that may be worth a look in.

Great place for a Sunday lunch with friends or a birthday gathering. Food is great and incredibly fast given how busy it is.

They call themselves the gastropub of Woolwich and they have lived up to their name. The duck confit that I’ve ordered came in very tender and went well with the sauce. My friends seafood pasta came in al dente and very flavoursome. The great quality food justifies the higher than thy average pub prices.
I agree with some of the other reviews written about this pub: They’ve got to have better service.
Firstly you’ve gotta line up near a bar to get a food order. And then they give you a buzzer which sounded like it’s gonna explode. Finally you’ll have to go collect your food from the counter.
In our case, we were sitting upstairs at the balcony, enjoying the views. Carrying two massive plates of food up steep stairs while balancing two drinks isn’t for the faint hearted. The bar upstairs was unmanned hence we got to go downstairs again to get some water and serviettes too.
I would come back again. But this time I’ll probably sit downstairs near the kitchen.

Arrived for wife’s birthday. Nice open décor, great view of city across the water.
Plenty of choice on the menu, we decided to share some sliders. Corned beef and hot english mustard, lamb with yoghurt, and herbed chicken. The mustard packs a punch! Herbed chicken very flavoursome.
Reasonably priced, considering the suburb its in.

Gorgeous view, food was good without being mind blowing but the price was spot on. Family friendly. Great place for a summers afternoon or evening meal.

Food is yummy and a great place to spend a lazy Sunday brunch/​arvo. Beautiful spot.
Service is average.

Fine service, big helpings of food, nothing to complain about until I found a plastic wrapper in my soup. When I brought it back to the wait staff, they said they would call the manager, and did not even apologise, manager never came to say a thing. Everyone else’s food was fine. The plastic in my soup was what ruined it for me, and even then no apology.

I’ve always heard of the WPH as it’s affectionately called or so I have deemed it to be, but never had a reason to go. I’ve always confused Woolwich with Greenwich and at first I was a little put off based on how far I’d have to travel, but don’t let that hold you back.
A friend visiting from London wanted somewhere with views to chill and catch up, I decided that I wasn’t interested in the usual tourist trap-​view reliant relics that most would automatically flock to and googled ‘drinks with views’ that’s how I came across the WPH, having only been vaguely familiar with it from some article awhile ago published about serving scones at lunch time (which they still do).
So off we went on our little adventure and we were pleasantly rewarded. The atmosphere is pleasant and relaxing, the lay out of the hotel is really well planned to make use of the not-​so cliché views of the city and the glimpses of Cockatoo Island and the inner western harbour. The beer garden ‘out the back’ as a friend put it when I told him I had been was great on a summers evening to chill, catch up, drink and grab a bite to eat.
All in all, a pleasant experience. I’d recommend anyone who wants a great Sunday afternoon session on a perfect Sydney summers day to check it out.
Chef: Simon MacKay
What I ate/​drank: Best’s Riesling, 2011 Great Western VIC and Grass fed Beef Burger
What I rate:
Service: 3.5÷5
Vibe: ⁴⁄₅
Food: ⁴⁄₅
Overall Experience: ⁴⁄₅
Ideal for: Chilling with friends, those looking for a different perspective of the city, those who aren’t constrained by needing to be seen at the in place.

This place is a semi-​regular haunt of mine which is interesting as I only found it by checking for nearby restaurants on my GPS.
The food here is far better calibre than your average pub. The other reviewer called it a gastropub which is quite accurate. Rather being a place to get blind drunk, this is more of a place to eat a good meal with a drink or 2.
Anyways, the recent menu has gone upscale a bit and is a little more expensive than before, but it is all good. They also have a decent selection of amusingly named cocktails (like the Charlie Sheen or the Bollywood).
I guess it really fits into the Hunters Hill mold of being a little rich and classy, but not really too urbane.
The view of the city from this spot is also gorgeous.

The only thing about the Woolwich Pier Hotel which gives me a moment’s pause is the lack of waiter service in the bistro. The food is excellent, the picturesque location has views of the city, and the pub itself has been redeveloped from an older pub, so it mixes the new and classic.
I don’t feel the need to be waited on hand and foot (either will do) but having to queue up and pay at a register at the bar and then be summoned by a little buzzer is probably not the worthy presentation for food of this calibre. The majority of dishes are modern Australian: I applied my pub food litmus test, the bangers and mash, to try it out and they passed with flying colours. While it’s hard to dutch up this meal, it’s also hard to do an outstanding job. But the mash was soft and fluffy, the gravy light, and the sausages well grilled but soft. The prices here are generally very reasonable and there is usually a special of one kind of another.
Again, the only thing I would change is the counter service/​lack of waiter service, but it isn’t worth keeping you away.