The Lemon Tree - Sydney

Have had a couple of quick business lunches here. The cuisine is Italian bent but not that great. Given location and excellent service it's good for business.

4 dined for lunch, a work Christmas lunch, after being recommended it by a colleague. Thinking it might be busy, we pre-ordered and our food came out promptly which was great however it took a while to have our drink orders taken and when they arrived, the extra glasses were all left on the cramped table. The food was good, the small vegetarian antipasti is a generous size and my fellow diners enjoyed their Veal, Steak and Ragu and their Lemon Tart. I think I would go back for dinner during a less busy time in hope the service improves.

We came here for cocktails and dinner late friday night. It was not busy at all. The cheese and antipasto plates were lovely as was the arancini. They didn't have any ingredients for two of the cocktails on the list which we thought was odd for a bar. The cocktails we did have were lovely, however took over 20 mins to make. Had to chase wait staff twice to follow up on our drinks order and were given bill before the 2nd order of drinks came out. All up a really nice place but service could be better.

Terrible service and below average meals and cocktails. The night we went we were treated to a spectacle, two of the waiters were on a trial, one kept telling us this and subsequently was fired in the middle of the restaurant. Meals came out at different times...and that is if we were lucky enough to get the right meal in the first place. Steak that tasted so bad that we would have preferred to be nibbling on Bob Hope. $18 dollar cocktails that looked like they had collected wee from a homeless man, which we would have preferred as it would have had more flavour and volume. Not to mention these cocktails were only 2 / 3 of a champagne glass. Unless they contained leprechaun special sauce ( wasn't mentioned on the menu ) then we are still waiting for the rest of our drink. 300 bucks should equal a hell of a lot more

The blood orange cocktail was amazing. It was very quiet but we did go on a rainy Tuesday night. The lasagne was nice but a bit salty and the base was all burnt which spoiled it. The food was expensive but we had a voucher deal. I probably won't be back.