Bridgeway Hotel

Used to be great. Menu was nice but since they changed their menu and staff, their food has been inconsistent and gross. Had to return a couple meals (which I never do) beef schnitzel had big pieces of fat throughout and I couldn’t cut/​eat it. They gave me a full refund. The pumpkin and feta tarts were delicious the first time I had it but the week or two after they cut it down to one tart and didn’t have the same taste. Their salad bar is okay but doesn’t come close to other pubs.

Schnitzel lovers assemble!
Monday night is schnitzel night at the Bridgeway — the only night I’ve visited. Conveniently Mondays are also the night for free trivia where you can have a laugh while you eat and possibly win a voucher to come back again! That being said, my review is only of the sports bar dining area since I have not dined in the main dining area.
The schnitzel menu at the Bridgeway is the most extensive I’ve ever seen. You have your choice of chicken or beef and then you choose from a selection of fifty, yes FIFTY! different toppings. You can stick with the traditional and get a parmigiana or get really crazy and order something like the ‘Jump in the Fryer’ — an interesting concoction including a schnitzel topped with fried chicken and waffles! However, this is not the craziest invention by far — toppings include bacon, peanut butter, meatballs, fried pickles, lasagne, and you can even order a parmy topped with another parmy!
The food is well cooked and presented for a pub meal and the prices are certainly right. The most expensive choice on the schnitzel menu at the time of writing was under $ 25 and the average price is about $ 16. This includes chips and the salad bar which serves a variety of hot and cold veggies and salads. I have also never managed to finish my schnitzel here and end up taking it home for lunch the next day!
The salad bar varies in quality from week to week which is part of my reason for not giving full marks but my main qualm is with the service. The girls taking the orders are pleasant enough but about 50% of the time my order has come out incorrect in some way! Unfortunately the service is also often very slow. Maybe just for trivia night they need to have one more staff member in the front bar.
Despite it’s downsides I still return to the Bridgeway for trivia and to partake in their interesting schnitzels so it’s not all bad!

If there is one thing that I think is really, really cool about this pub and it is that the pub is built on a bridge. Okay, Dry Creek is really nothing to look at, but still, it’s built on a Bridge. Oh, and its a pretty cool pub as well. There is a night club that I believe I may have been to once years ago (and my memory is very vague about that) and the beer garden also pretty good. However, because of the fact that it is built on a bridge it was one of my desires to actually have a meal while sitting over the bridge (even though Dry Creek pretty much lives up to its name), and I did just that.
When we went to order our meal we were handed two menus, one of them was the standard menu, and the other was, well, two pages of schnitzel topping. As I looked through the options all I could thing of was cholesterol. For instance, they have one option where you get two schnitzels on top of each other with parma in the middle, or there is the double whammy, which I really don’t even want to think about. I decided to go for the spaghetti and meatballs schnitzel, and upon finishing it and driving home I suddenly remembered that I’m lactose intolerant. Oh well, I survived.

Envy
Cheap drinks $ 2 spirits you really got to love that price, in a dodgy northern suburbs so what did you expect? But it’s a nightclub so you can get your groove on to decent DJs every Friday night.
So yes WAY to many fights generally between local groups of friends keen to fight.
You’re Better off going to any where in town if you can be bothered, (except maybe for Hindley st.)