Feathers Hotel

Miserable unfriendly front bar staff apart from the two blonde sisters at weekends, hopefully they’ll get more staff like them when the new outdoor bar opens in winter, great timing by management I must say!

I came here with relatives for a birthday back in October, and it was okay. The food was nice, atmosphere was pleasant enough. Service was alright.
Look it’s not that this a bad hotel, but there are plenty of other options I’d rather take in the area if I’m after a meal. I left with nothing really jumping out and wowing me enough to want to come back.

The Feathers hotel is quite a large pub adjacent to the roundabout at the corner of Glynburn and Greenhill roads.
The hotel expands over quite a large area including a spacious car park. The hotel proper has a roomy and quite homely old English style front bar, a dining room which is quite formal in styling as well as a more casual side bar. In the summertime there are also often tables placed outside along the side of the hotel which make for a nice place to get an afternoon drink.
The Pokies room is well facilitated to say the least, but thankfully sits in an attached building so as not to disturb the familial vibe of the pub. There is also a semi detached café, within the hotel complex, known as «the place next door.»
In addition, the hotel has a well stocked drive through bottle shop.

Very expensive, but it’s not too bad. I mean, I find a chicken schnitzel over $ 20 (if you have it with the mushroom sauce) to be a little bit excessively priced, but you get a good sized serving of a decent schnitzel for the money.
The service was alright, too, and the food was presented to our table quickly and efficiently.
I’d like to see this place charge a dollar or two less on their main menu items, but apart from that, I was happy with my overall experience here.

I came here once after climbing the Waterfall Gully to Mount Lofty trail in need of coffee. It was about 5 in the afternoon, and I was exhausted. I had no interest in food, and just needed a quick caffeine hit.
It was almost as if the waiter took offense to us only wanting coffee. I can understand that businesses want to sell as much as they can, but business is business. The coffee seemed a little overpriced to begin with, but it was the staff’s inattentive attitude that tipped my discomfort over the edge, and I decided to leave.
Maybe I was in a bad state of mind. Maybe the waiter wasn’t having a great day. Maybe I smelled of sweat. Who knows?

The Feathers Hotel has quite a classy dining room, featuring your choice of an ala carte menu or a rather brilliant carvery buffet. I have to admit I’ve been there four or five times, and have never been able to convince myself to have anything off the menu, the carvery is definitely the star here — it’s also the only place I’ve found so far that I can get yorkshire puddings to go with my roast beef, bar making them myself — and these are-​all-​you-​can-​eat-​keep-​coming-​back-​and-​having-​more-​yorkshire-​puddings. Heaven!
The meat is — well, come on, what do you expect, they do this every day — the meat is melt in your mouth perfectly roasted. Close to Christmas there’s Turkey on the menu too. The crackling crackles… the lamb is so tender you have to go back for seconds… the beef… so much flavour… and those yorkshire puddings — did I mention they do yorkshire puddings???
All the accompaniments are here, too, salads, veggies, some assorted creamy pasta dishes and a curry or two, all that stuff that makes up a good buffet. And, ummmmm, I don’t know if I’ve made this clear — Yorkshire Puddings. In abundance.
Once you’re almost full, there’s a stack of desserts to choose from. Staples of trifle, bread and butter pudding, apple crumble, jelly, and assorted cakes and tarts — if you can’t eat way more than the value you’ve spent in food here, you’re simply not trying.
The one vital thing here? Book. Feathers is popular enough that you can’t simply turn up and expect to get a seat, on any night. I love a good smörgåsbord — this is an exceptional smörgåsbord. :)