The Walnut Restaurant & Lounge Bar

We stayed at the hotel in November 2020 but we didn't eat at the restaurant. A year later, in November 2021, we booked in at the Walnut. I had the char-grilled 180g pasture fed eye fillet, rare. It was perfect. The vegetables are a nice accompaniment to the dish. The meal portion is perfect for me. My husband had the char-grilled 300g scotch fillet, rare. He enjoyed his meal but was not an enthused as I was about my meal. We dined here again between Christmas and the New Year with a friend. My husband and I ordered the eye fillet. Our friend ordered the special. This visit we had dessert: one caramel tart brulee and one bombe Alaska. Both desserts were devine. Good portions for such rich and sweet desserts. Service was excellent on both visits. We'll be back again soon!

We came with our friends for a birthday celebration. The food was extremely good, the customer service at the table was superb. The only reason I don’t give 5 stars is that when requesting the parking ticket the girl at the counter of the hotel asked us how much we’ve spent, we told her the value of the bill and looks like she didn’t believed it so we had to go back to the restaurant and request a receipt, the girl from the restaurant came to the counter and talked to the other girl and finally we got the ticket, but it was a bit uncomfortable.

Stayed at the hotel for a significant amount of days & every time we ordered room service or went down to eat in the restaurant itself, the food was just exquisite. Personal favourite was the Royal Spaghettini. The food was flavourful, good portions & consistent with quality every time & service was immaculate, especially Jessica (I think that’s her name), the best wait staff I’ve encountered. Will definitely return to dine in when we are back in Brissy & would highly recommend.

Last minute decision (instead of the Norman Hotel steak house restaurant) to The Walnut restaurant for a friend’s surprise birthday dinner. Ordered 2 x char grilled 180g pastured feed eye fillets steak, medium rare. Took > 30mins and my serve was cooked well done (not impressed!) and my friend’s steak was a a low quality meat and broccolini that was as old as the aged of the steak, tough stems. In hindsight, would have enjoyed a better quality steak at Norman Hotel at a cheaper price. Albeit the service was exceptionally, pity overshadowed by the kitchen’s poor quality of food.

This restaurant is situated opposite to the Botanical Gardens and within the Royal on the Park Hotel. I came here during the The Fork 50% promotions and was drawn to the many positive reviews on Google. All I can say is that the food we tried were absolutely amazing. The food portions were very generous. I highly recommend the duck breast and seared scallops. This is a fine dining restaurant so expect to wait a while for the food to be served but was worth every second for the wait. Staff were very friendly and the restaurant was very clean. Definitely would be back. Highly recommended.