Red Poles - MCLAREN VALE

A cool winters lunch by gas lantern ooops no the table next to us are too warm ..ok so we can be cold while waiting .and waiting and waiting for

Be prepared to book a table on the weekends as this place gets busy! They have a restaurant, a cellar door for brick kiln wines, beer tasting for McLaren

This is the third time I've been here and another massive let down Everytime we've been here has been for an occasion such as today which is was for a

Started with beer paddles crumbed olives and croquettes , yum , good beer food .taking the waiters recommendation we had a tasty braised lamb ( nice mash potato) and also their best seller the pork belly !! WOW a bit of food envy from the others that are coming back to have the pork . The lady folk enjoyed their desserts while we boys had another paddle of beers

Pork belly was so overcooked and chewy , it was difficult to swallow . The fat just could not be cut with the knife . The crackling nearly cracked the teeth . At that price we could not stop wondering how they could bring out such a bad plate of food - one could look at it and tell it's horribly overcooked . The vegetarian moussaka was almost raw potatoes , cold slices of zucchini, undercooked eggplant , all thrown on a plate with tomato sauce and 3 small pieces of feta cheese on top , priced 25$. Never seen or eaten moussaka like this before . Tasteless and horrible . The waitress was very nice , she took the plate of moussaka and brought another one . Alas that one was worse than the first , I could not eat it . Is it really that hard to cook potatoes and eggplant ?? They did not charge us for the pork and the dessert was good , only saving grace . Will think twice before going back again .