Solander Dining & Bar

Lovely tasty healthy innovative food

Friendly attentive service, thank you

Had a most memorable time dining at Solander with friends. Luca waited on us and he was most amicable. He recommended the Explorer Menu which took us on a delightful culinary trip through great Aussie food produce. He described each of the six plates that came out which we thoroughly enjoyed. The bottle of Pinot Noir helped too.

Thank for for making the night so enjoyable - food was superb & the service fantastic!!
We will be back.

Beautiful experience !

The food was amazing, the waitress and the barman was really professional.
Good quantity.
It could be a 2 hatted restaurant.
Congratulation to chef David.

Great service and wide variety of food.

This restaurant is a gem few people know; the food is exquisite with emphasis on australian local produces and the service is excellent
Daniel is a great host, he will suggest you the best combination that suits your need
Definitely recommended

Loved the interesting Australian menu and beautifully designed space!

The food was wonderful, we ate a lot of fish, king fish, salmon ect. The chips were delicious and fantastic service. Pity the band was not there last night.

The food was very good and the service as well! Highly recommend

Tasty gourmet food, good wine of the month and attentive service. All over great fine dining experience. Keep up the good quality!

Excellent food in wonderful atmosphere

Very enjoyable

Wonderful dinner. The food was lovely but the service was exceptional. It was my first time using First Table so I was a bit unsure when I approached the staff but they were very welcoming and accommodating and took the time to explain the menu. Very happy with my experience.

Excellent food. Very good service. Very nice atmosphere.

Lovely staff and great food.

I'm planning my return already. Solander has a lovely set-up, the live music was quality and the food was beautiful.

The menu was very unique and the food was delicious and presented beautifully! The staff were very accommodating and made sure we had a wonderful experience to remember. Highly recommend!

Quiet ambience for a good chat with your pal. I went there on a Thursday night. I had the Explorer set. All dishes was exquisite and we were too full to finish the last two course. Lovely waitress who were attentive to customers needs.

The food was delicious and the service was pretty good - I would however like to see more of a wine by the glass selection - it was a bit limited.

Had a great time, dinner was delicious. Interesting and different entrees and mains. Found lots of delicious dishes to share between 3 which gave us opportunity to try lots of different dishes.

Beautiful setting, good service.. highly recommend the salmon entree

Had a really good experience with my daughter, food was above our expectations and service was very friendly.

It was a very lovely dinner with great service.

Food on the most part was really good, highly recommend the bug. The mussels were a bit flavourless and boring. Oysters really fresh too. It was a little bit too dimly lit for my liking, I couldn’t quite see the intricacies of the food. The Wine menu slightly different to online menu, but on the whole - a good experience.

Wow, absolutely wow
I initially wanted to try Solander because the menu looked interesting, so many familiar but different dishes (meaning the flora and fauna were familiar but i had never eaten them or eaten them in the ways listed)
but i never expected it to be sooooo good
firstly - sound levels and lighting are fantastic.
there was a live musician but he was situated so that you could hear him well but it wasn't disruptive to normal conversation (he was great btw, absolutely flawless).
the over all lighting is low but there was an individual light at the table and the waiters offered to turn it up if needed.
This place has a very romantic feel to it and would be great for a date if that's your thing.
the staff were exceptional too, very kind and friendly, well informed and attentive without being annoying
and then the food
OMG
we started with the Acacia and Banksia pot bread with black garlic butter
which was lovely and warm, my only criticism would be that the butter wasn't strong enough with the garlic flavours for my liking (but then i eat garlic by the tablespoon so....)
then we went to the mains
I ordered the slow cooked wallaby, my friend ordered the braised pork and we shared a salad of macadamia cheese with rocket, beetroot and glazed pecans, EVERYTHING WAS PERFECT
the serving sizes were excellent and I was thoroughly impressed as often these fancy kind of places are a bit stingy with the food (I like to eat....A Lot!)
I didn't have desert but i am definitely coming back soon to try everything
this was a 10/10 experience and I thoroughly recommend to everyone

Great experience, the seat we had was in a corner next to the window, felt pretty cozy and private. Our waiter was attentive throughout and recommended a perfect choice of side to go with our mains. The pot bread and charred bugs were full of flavours, for mains we had beef cheek which was cooked very nicely and so was the seared king fish. In the end we were both too full to have any desserts, which gives us an excuse to come back next time!

Simply beautiful. The service was exceptional; attentive and personable. Enough food to leave satisfied, we had 3 courses and the meat was cooked to absolute perfection - steak and venison rack melted in the mouth. Really well put together menu with enough choice for everyone, definitely recommend leaving room for the dessert!

Very good food, portions a bit small but we were still full in the end having ordered so many delicious dishes. The venison was the best

Venue ha a good atmosphere. Food is of good quality and very tasty but service could be more attentive.

We were searching for a restaurant that met our tough brief of great vegan and meat options in a stylish setting with fab service and great vibe. Solander delivered all of this and more in spades.

The environment is warm and inviting with a high end quality fit out and excellent design. A wonderful guitarist played for over two hours and the settled hum of good conversation was a lovely backdrop. Service was impeccable. Luca did a great job looking after us and was a master of knowing when to serve and when to stay away. Food was fresh, innovative and local + 5 star plating up’
Drinks were excellent too. And all other staff were brilliant.

I hope everyone has as good a time as we had at Solander.

What a fabulous experience at Solander! Our dinner included bugs, oysters, venison, wallaby, chocolate fondant and milo panna cotta, accompanied by some cocktails and wine. The native Australian flavours were wonderful and very welcome. We have such great local ingredients in AUS, and it's fabulous to see them so skilfully used, here. The only negatives in the food were that the slow-cooked wallaby was actually a little dry, albeit very flavoursome, and the chocolate fondant, again brimming with flavour, was not very moist in the middle - it had almost no squishy, saucy centre, as was expected from the menu description. Our waiters were all very knowledgable, friendly and attentive, with the only negative being that they were a little slow with water top-ups - not once did a top-up come without us having to ask. Despite having ordered sparkling water in the first instance, our glasses were subsequently topped up with tap water. One can't overlook the cocktails, which were awesome. We loved the copper coupe in which one of the cocktails was served. So different! Thanks, Solander. We'll be back!

Used First Table for the first time at Solander. It was great value and fun to be able to try out a new place! We ordered the bread pot and charred bugs, wallaby shank and greens with black garlic. The bread was a little dense, but the mains were very tasty. We waited a long time for mains before we realised they were waiting for us to finish the bread starter! There was so much bread, we didn't know we were expected to finish it all! I was expecting a bright and airy greenhouse look with the botanical themed website and menu, but it was quite dark and subdued, which would suit a romantic date or friendly catch up as it was private and quiet enough for conversation. Would visit again!!!

Good food, however a subdued atmosphere. Dessert we wanted was sold out even though we were the First Table?!

Great service and amazing food that came out real quick!
Would definitely come back

The food was good but service was ordinary. Felt that first table booking was being treated differently to other tables.

Innovative menu with native australian produce
Attentive service and nice decor

The Acacia pot bread and chocolate fondant are brilliant!

The overall experience was good. The starter and the main meals were good but ordinary and unfortunately the desserts were disappointing. The service was good but waiters were not very knowledgeable in terms of menu.

Solander’s seasonal explorer courses is something special - attuned, less typical, straight up Aussie and elevated. Couldn't think of a better set of botanical cocktails to go with an interesting dining experience! Recommended - very good setting with plenty on offer. Will book again for next season’s courses.

Great fine dining experience, food were amazing though the service is a little below average.
My daughter loves her beef fillet, hubby had the shanks and I love the venison rack it was cooked to perfection!

The service was amazing. Music and atmosphere great. Thanks for a superb evening. Desert not as good as main course which was great.

Fantastic fine dining experience. One of the most delicious beef fillet steaks I’ve ever had in my life. Very attentive (yet non-intrusive) service. Highly recommended.

Had a pleasant meal for 2. There are many dishes on the menu that look interesting and a bit different. I had the venison which was cooked as requested and delicious. Side dishes were a good size and tasty. Wine list is quite good. Service was attentive without being forceful. I would return just to try some moremmof the dishes.

Great food, the staff didn’t really have a great process about the first table promotion- so they were a bit confused. Other than that would absolutely eat there again - food was really outstanding

Lovely restaurant, definitely recommend the gnocchi and butternut pumpkin with goats cheese and pomegranate. Delicious!

We had never tried modern Australian cuisine before, and loved the creativity with native ingredients. Definitely try the pot bread, an intriguing way to start the meal!

The food was amazing! Had charred bugs to start with and the portion was huge, very generous. We loved everything we ordered including the wine. Will definitely recommend to others and be back for more.

My friend and I enjoyed lunch here. The food was plentiful and terrific, and the service was impeccable. We ordered too much food but they kindly packed away the leftovers for us. I highly recommend this gem in the city!

We were delighted to get a 6 pm reso and a confirmation at this fine restaurant through First Table; however, the day of our reso, we received an email from Ivan Chu, assistant restaurant manager, saying he could not honour our reservation because the restaurant was overbooked. We sent an email saying we'd received confirmation, however, no reply. At noon we called the restaurant and the hostess assured me, after speaking with the manager, that our reservation would be honoured. We enjoyed a delicious dinner but our experience was somewhat tarnished by Mr. Chu's email. BTW, the restaurant had several open tables. Perhaps Mr. Chu was hesitant to seat First Table guests?

Excellent food!! The restaurant's lighting is a bit dark but the food was so good! The bread is really good and has a unique taste. This restaurant really explores Australian modern cuisine.

Beautiful food! And the service was excellent. Highly recommend.

Excellent restaurant with a unique 'Flora & Fauna' approach to the menu... some really inventive dishes and the use of local ingredients is perfect.
Bread baked in a plant pot & Wallaby brew were my favourites!