Kings on Kings - with wings

this is a personal fav

located on king st just beneath Hotel CBD is the king's lounge. the room itself is clean and inviting although generally lacking in atmosphere and sparsely populated with business types filtering in from a long day's drudgery to kick back and push some buttons on a pokie machine for several hours... the up side is you can dine in relative privacy and they have some high quality food.

they specialise in chicken wings, honey soy, fried, peri peri all stacked in a 4 tier oven often party pies, quiches and sausage rolls occupying the lower rungs.

to the left of the oven are the mixed nuts and wasabi peas, to the right tomato, bbq and sweet chilli sauces as well as cute little take away containers (a nice and thoughtful touch). at each machine are generous bowls of lollies (fantails, minties,
mentos and sherbies) and at the hostess' counter there are more lollies and large smartie cookies (which i havent yet dared to try myself).

the quality of the hot food is high. the wings are well cooked and tend not to have dried out even at the later stages of the evening. the peri peri wings are spicy and succulent, the honey soy is nice as well and the deep fried wings could match anything you'd find at KFC.. the party quiches and sausage rolls on the other hand are a bit plain and the meat pies have this strange soft stringy meat like they have been filled with some kind of cat food.

overall it may not be the healthiest meal but a meal nonetheless..
and if you need to run you can always fill a takeaway container on the way out!

charlie chans - fishcakestick

this is one of those club vip rooms as opposed to pub vip rooms which usually means it is more upmarket and may mean it has better food or may mean it has no food at all... sadly charlie chans had neither. it had fishcakesticks.

fishcakesticks are what happens when a fish is minced into some kind of cake-like patty, then fried and stuck on a stick.

it was a decent snack and the stick meant you could cover the entire circumference in sweet chilli without getting your fingers sticky, so that's a win. aside from that it was hardly a meal and the only other food they offered were mint mentos and tiny cupcakes that were too sweet and definitely got your fingers sticky. as a dining experience i would not recommend.

lastly they did have the first automated cash out machine ive seen which means you dont have to do a human interaction to retrieve your money and particularly makes the 2 cent method mentioned on the home page much more viable.