Pineapple Hotel

Unbelievably bad.
From a 6:30 ordering time until 9:00 when our last diner finished eating because food just wasn’t brought out to the table.
1 hour to get food in a restaurant barely a third full. One of our group was just starting on her meal when the rest were finished.
Orders were wrong: the waitress admitted the kitchen didn’t even know what the menu was.
No dressing on the tasteless Vietnamese salad, waitress brought out a thimble-​full of olive oil after we complained.
Lettuce in one salad was basically rotten.
$ 8.50 for two prawns. Literally. Two prawns.
The waitresses were… incompetent mostly. The heartfelt plea to forgive them was basically just a list of things they had messed up for everyone in the place all night, phrased as some sort of explanation? We know your restaurant is rubbish. Just listing the reasons isn’t an explanation!
They bribed us with a free round of drinks which also took 20 minutes to arrive! So nice to have a beer with your dessert.
A shit experience all around and we won’t be going back after a decade or more of visiting a few times a year. This place has died in the arse — unless you want to booze up with fat old geezers betting on the greyhounds.
Too expensive for such ridiculously bad food and service. Basil Fawlty would have a hard time doing worse.

Went for the $ 10 lunch special.
So gross. Got the caesar salad. Consisted of cos lettuce in clumps (nobody pulled the leaves apart) and mainly stalk, a ice cold egg (as in clearly out of the fridge rather than made fresh), clumps of dressing over the top rather than dressed properly, and a stingy serving of prosciutto and croutons.
Never again.

Tonight’s dinner proudly brought to us by the pineapple hotel. $ 1 per chicken wing, yes please! and boy are they sensational! We ordered 15 wings and ended up with about 30! Who doesn’t love to get there fingers stuck into some sticky smokey wings on a Friday night! Plus $ 5 beers, ciders and wines $ 30 and sorted for the night!

It’s a shame to give it two stars. The service was excellent but the food was severely lacking. The chips were hardly cooked and my wife’s burger was lukewarm. I have previously enjoyed my meals here but unfortunately won’t be hurrying back.

The Pineapple Hotel. A bit of a difficult one to rate, this is a place that we had driven past quite a number of times and thought about visiting. It’s a good looking venue, and always looks busy from the outside.
So, how did it stack up? Venue? Great. Service? Fantastic. Friendly, helpful, professional. Presentation of food? Excellent. Prices? Pretty standard for this sort of establishment (about $ 25 – 30 per main). Quality of food? Hmm. Below average.
I had a special for Good Food Month, which was a Seared Duck Breast, and my wife had a Lamb Shank. The duck serving was tiny, entre sized even, and wasn’t particularly tasty. The lamb was tasteless, with poor texture. Mash and spinach were good, but the lamb was a total disappointment.
Overall, a disappointment, which is a shame because the rest of the experience was very good.

I love this place. For some reason I decided, without knowing anything about it, that I would come here for lunch before watching a football match at the Gabba, and I must say I was impressed. They have some of the cheapest meals that I have seen — in fact they have an entire menu of meals for only $ 10.00, which is an absolute bargain. Mind you, you don’t get the deals in the actual restaurant, and it seems as if everybody knows about this place because it was pretty packed when I came here. The area out the back is awesome — they have a huge screen where you can watch football — and real football at that (I’m talking about AFL), and they have a really nice view of a park, though the park actually isn’t that fantastic. This is definitely the place to come for a meal before, or after, a football match.

After being served by the happy and jovial server in the Park Bar (area with the cheap meals and lounge seating?) for my third visit to this restaurant, my happy vibe was single handedly crushed by the blonde bartender with a French braid and epic lack of grammar (mind you, it’s a Monday at 7:30pm!). Way to belittle your customers! Poor form. This smug, condescending midget is a stain on this establishment.

I’ve been to many an occasion at the Pineapple Hotel or as Brisvegans call it ‘The Piney’ over the years but since the refurb the Piney is a better option for lunch than it is for drinks or evenings out. Located on Main Street between Woolloongabba and Kangaroo Point it’s a bit out of the way for ‘public transport’ and the onsite parking is barely enough for a 7’11 convenience store (ie not enough). If you’re lucky to find a park on the street then an Summer afternoon spent on the verandah overlooking the park in the park bar is not a bad way to pass time. The Piney also does some great specials for lunch which usually run about $ 10. They also do some really great food if you want to have a function, with a lovely BIG function room upstairs (perfect for work drinks etc). It is a pub so don’t expect a full fantastic restaurant but it’s not a bad option for drinks, casual meal or a catch up with friends.

Thursday night is $ 10 steak night!

I joined one of these meet-​up places where we talk about online SEO stuff, information which is helpful to online business. Where we go to ‘meet up’ is at the Pineapple Hotel. I didn’t grow up in Brisbane, so this place was never part of my cultural awakening onto the Brisbane scene. I just used to drive past it heaps.
When I first walked into the open planned eating area, which I believe is referred to as Park Bar, I was quite blown away with its views and contemporary design. I liked it and I instantly became a fan. Of course, I was purely judging its appearance. I had to try the food. It was a Thursday and I ordered the Steak & Chips and paid only $ 10 for it. Bargain! The food arrived soon after and it was cooked quite good. For ten bucks, I wasn’t expecting to taste as good as it did. However, it did have a bit too much fatty bits for my liking. Despite that, it was all good.
After our meal was done, the rest of the Meet Up crew were starting to arrive so we all shifted to one of the private rooms to have our meeting and discussions. Fortunately for the Meet Up crew, but unfortunately for us, it was quite cramped in there. Not enough tables. I guess they weren’t prepared for our large group of Meet Ups. Still, we drank beer and discussed SEO and websites.
Pineapple Hotel has a good vibe, good service and great atmosphere. Perfect for the Meet Up.

The Pineapple Hotel is a place that’s looked down upon by Brisbane’s hipper, younger clubbing crowd. This is more of a generic pub than many of Brisbane’s pub-​cum-​bars. As a result, the age range and clientele demographic varies here.
Since there’s a mixed crowd here, «The Piney» fails to be completely overrun by young yobbo drunks. (That’s not to mean there’s no sleazebags here; it’s a pub.) Ten years ago yobbo activity was evenly split between sleazing and punching, until eventually The Pineapple Hotel underwent a refurbishment and tried to foster a more cultivated vibe. It wasn’t entirely successful.
A few months ago The Pineapple Hotel underwent another, much more minor refurbishment via including an outdoor section in the inside. This hasn’t failed to really get the numbers going here on Friday or Saturday nights, however, when The Piney’s been shutting up at around 11pm at the main bar because no one’s there.
There are signs of big cutbacks here — no more bands, no more Tuffy (a Brisbane performer who reminds me of the drunk uncle at a wedding) and no more decent 2-​for-​1 meals. As to meal quality, it’s hit and miss: sometimes delicious, sometimes bland, based entirely on who’s cooking that night.

Man, has this place had a face lift! Like many of Brisbane’s old, dodgy pubs the Pineapple Hotel has been tarted up, ready to face a new affluent populace with plenty of glass and polished wood flooring.
It’s not a bad move actually, it’s a much more welcoming venue for a drink or a meal now. There’s a good mix of booths and bar style tables to sit at, and the open terrace is a great spot to cool down on a summer night. Families are well catered for with a play ground and child friendly weekend activities. I always find this a bit bizarre at a pub but as the Pineapple Hotel is more a steak house now I’ll let it slide.
The steaks aren’t cheap but they’re damn good, and that’s always worth the money in my book. Ditto for the burgers.