Holdfast Hotel - GLENELG SOUTH

Pretty pleasantly surprised by Holdy! A lovely set up with very friendly and attentive service. The food - quite decent. I came in a larger group and we shared some breads and oysters Kilpatrick. I had a burger for my main and it was huge! The patty was a bit too big for my liking but, it was pretty tasty. Overall, very good first visit!

Been a big supporter of the holdy for many years, ordered take away, half way home opened the boxes to have a pick to find wrong order, and the chicken salad was tiny, more like a side salad. Love what they are doing with share food, but needs to be enough to share.

I made the mistake of ordering rare Rump steak in a pub, seemed like a good idea at the time but as usual when I make this mistake, it was dreadful!! Steak came, raw and cold and very tough, steak knife couldn't cut it! Waitress was very good, took it back and tried again, marginally better but terrible! Certainly spoils a good night out!!

Once a good pub, The Holdy's popularity has declined over the last couple years. We haven't considered going here for a long time, but now the pub's front bar and beer garden has received a face lift and there's a new menu. Reopening over the Adelaide Cup long weekend, we decided to give The pub another try. The beer garden's new design - with booths, bar seats and dining spaces - is now much better. Inside, the space is still too large, but better than what it was. We were surprised the bathrooms, which are in a dire state, were left untouched. The food menu is, simply, massive. There's dishes from every corner of the globe: Mexican, Vietnamese, Thai, burgers, pizza, Indian, Greek as well as the pub classics - we thought this was way too much, and made ordering ****** hard! Between two, we ate four dishes. The southern fried chicken was dinner's best dish; ocean trout betel leaves and duck bao were alright, but the pulled pork quesadilla was a big miss. The drinks menu, we'd hoped would be as large as the food one. It's, however, too corporate - no craft beers or local breweries on tap. My partner's cocktail was weak. The wine selection is okay, but the cheap glasses makes everything taste terrible. No drink specials on opening night a slap in the face to returning patrons. Certainly, areas to improve here. Service was reasonable and all bar staff were good. In all, we thought the pub was, in some areas, good, and in others, below average. The space and fit-out is now much better, but the food menu needs to shrink and focus on the better dishes. The drinks menu needs to be completely reconsidered. We live locally, and may check it out again once the place finds it feet.

Once a good pub, The Holdy's popularity has declined over the last couple years. We haven't considered going here for a long time, but now the pub's front bar and beer garden has received a face lift and there's a new menu. Reopening over the Adelaide Cup long weekend, we decided to give The pub another try. The beer garden's new design - with booths, bar seats and dining spaces - is now much better. Inside, the space is still too large, but better than what it was. We were surprised the bathrooms, which are in a dire state, were left untouched. The food menu is, simply, massive. There's dishes from every corner of the globe: Mexican, Vietnamese, Thai, burgers, pizza, Indian, Greek as well as the pub classics - we thought this was way too much, and made ordering ****** hard! Between two, we ate four dishes. The southern fried chicken was dinner's best dish; ocean trout betel leaves and duck bao were alright, but the pulled pork quesadilla was a big... read more