Schnithouse Elizabeth

The Schnithouse is a place off excess. You dont come here for a light snack, although they do offer light meals, you’d really be wasting your time. Light meals can be found anywhere in the Elizabeth center.
Here they have come up with the, possibly unique idea, of serving a meal, on top of another meal.
I had the bangers and mash, which in its self is pretty standard pub fare, and the quality of the mash and pork sausages found here at the Schnithouse suggested they knew what they were doing when adding this very British item to the menu.
Unlike a pub however, the meal was served on a chicken schnitzel.
This is where the schnithouse departs from the common crowd.
If you are fussy like I can be at times (or if you are like Pete from The Show, who doesn’t like his food touching) you might want to ask for the schnitty to be ‘on the side’ so as to preserve the golden crumbed coating from the dense rich gravy that covers the bangers and mash.
Something I’ll remember for next time.
The next time however, I’ll also remember not to have eaten breakfast… or lunch
The Schnithouse, for when one meal on your plate simply isn’t enough.

Service and food was terrific. Ordered the reef and schnit. Loved every bite. Was expecting a bit of a wait since it was a Friday night but the wait wasn’t all that long at all. Real value for money. Will definitely go back again.

Absolutely hated my trip here. We came with my grandparents who had come from England and booked a table for 14 3 weeks in advance. When we arrived we were pointed upstairs with no other direction and found our table (which was short 2 seats)
We added seats onto the table so everyone was cramped and it was SO loud i could barely talk to hubby let alone the grandparents I was supposed to be catching up with.
Ordering food was a task being vegetarian. There was a veggie burger for me and a veggie schnitzel option but no vegetarian kids meal option. I saw there was a mini chicken schnitzel on the kids menu, and i also saw a mini vegetarian schnitzel on a platter so I asked if they could swap the chicken for veggie only to be told roughly «there is no option on a kids meal». I asked what she could have and they suggested the ham and cheese pizza with no ham. Great. Ordered that and it came out a good 20 minutes before the rest of the food. By the time our food came Boo was tired and full and ready to leave.
My vegetarian burger was cold in the middle and ridiculously salty but at least it was edible. The chips that came with it were inedible — 4 of us left our chips because they were so salty. What a waste of money.
I truly feel so bad for the waitresses here having to go up and down the long steps holding meals and taking orders. They need a dumb waiter because I am sure they arent paid enough for the trips up and down and up and down. Not to mention the issue when you meet a waitress holding 100 dishes halfway down the stairs you can’t get out of the way enough.
Not impressed. I will try again one day on a less busy day when maybe I will be able to hear myself and ask management if they can put the veggie schnitzel on the kids meal.

Chips are great but the beef schnitzels can only be rated as mediocre at best. My local pub does a better one.
I had garlic sauce and it had no flavor at all. Throughly disappointed.

I love it when new restaurants open in Elizabeth, as Elizabeth isn’t exactly a dining district — so yay! A new option!
The food is great, the tables are crowded together making it hard to navigate without knocking into other tables, but the it’s busy and full of life so cudo’s to them.
Being so new the staff are still working things out (difficulties using the Eftpos facilities — they weren’t sure how they worked, problems locating ordered items on their computer and even locating drink flavourings) — but we’ll give them time on this one.
The staff weren’t unfriendly, but they were definitely more fixated on concentrating on what gang were doing and how to do it over providing customer service.
The food however was really full of flavour and thoroughly enjoyable.
I had the beef Schnit with the Kilpatrick sauce. (Yummo) while my husband had the 12inch Hotdog, the only complaint here is that the Hotdog itself is not actually 12inch’s, it’s a
Kransky cut down the middle and half at each end of a long roll, which is more than enough to fill you — but not a 12 inch dog. Again the flavours were really good (even if the roll was slightly burnt).
We shared the dip Schnit (we ordered way too much food) but we got a good sample of what they had to offer and the fact is it was really good!!! The dipping sauces were all creamy so a non creamy option wouldn’t go astray but the important factor is it tastes really good and the serving sizes are generous.
Will definitely go back, not too soon, because the food is heavy and it’s not going to do the waist any favours :)