The Fenwick

Vegetarian options: Don't bother. They only offer one veggie entree and one veggie main, and those are drowning in cheese, so definitely forget it if you're vegan. Parking: Street parking on crowded, narrow Balmain streets. Avoid driving if you can.
May 26th, 2023

Cant comment on the food here but the coffee here is good. They have a kiosk that serves sit down or takeaway coffee and it was great to sit out by the water with fabulous views and enjoy a great coffee. Will come back for food soon.
May 26th, 2023

Everything we tried was delicious. The view is fantastic and staff were extremely attentive and friendly. They even provided a sweet little dessert for my partners birthday (which wasnt requested, but greatly appreciated). Thank you so much.
May 24th, 2023

Came here on a Sunday afternoon for lunch. The food was quite tasty and the view was beautiful, however we were disappointed with the service. We requested takeaway coffee at end of the meal and had to wait for quite some time. When we followed up (as other customers who ordered later than us were being served their coffee), the host rudely and unapologetically responded that they were serving over 100 people. He did not follow up internally. It was only after we followed up with a different server that the barista started making our coffee. While we understand that waiting is part of the eating out experience, our order clearly fell through the gap and the hosts attitude left much to be desired.
May 19th, 2023

Disappointed. I held my wedding at the Fenwick and the whole experience was really disappointing. The 'event manager' Daisy couldn't seem to care less about my special day, with emails that were not being responded to, inconsistent messaging about what we could and couldn't do and inability to communicate with the floor staff as to what was possible on the day. There was no offerings of meeting us at the venue for a walk through. I appreciate this is a restaurant not an events centre but it baffled me this was not even considered, given the amount of money we were spending and the amount of back and fourth that was happening this would have been easier. I suggested this however it was denied.... I would of pulled out however we had already paid a deposit by this point. The floor staff were not much better on the day. The manager greeted me with dismay on my wedding day, as though I was burdening him being there, I was asked three separate times if I would like a beverage, to which none of them arrived ( It wasn't hard to miss me, I was the only bride there ). I will say our guests gave lots of compliments about the food and location ( the only reason this review is not 1 star) however many of our guests noticed the bad service on the day to0 and were disappointed to hear about how unconcerned Sydney Restaurant group were about receiving our business. Edit: The response below from the GM is disgraceful. This review is under an anonymous name so how would they know they have attempted to contact me multiple times to get in touch with a site inspection ( which they did not anyway ) and secondly, I did voice my concerns multiple times prior to my wedding and ended up speaking to the events manager and STILL we had disfactory service on the day.
May 11th, 2023