Five Dock Bowling Club cops criticism for ‘fake’ name and $45 chicken schnitzel
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The $45 chicken schnitzel meal isn’t the only exorbitantly priced item in a trendy inner-city pub, as patrons fire up the ‘fake’ club before it can celebrate being open a week
- Five Dock Bowling Club criticized for meal prices
- Punters complain the place doesn’t have ‘club prices’
- Serves sausages for $35, cheapest steak is $55
A trendy Sydney restaurant criticized for the price of its chicken schnitzel is also coming under fire for having a misleading name.
Five Dock Bowling Club’s Italian restaurant, Skinny Tony’s, was the subject of a furious debate Monday over its $45 chicken schnitzel with two sides.
Chicken schnitzel is $28.90, French fries are $6.90, and salad or mashed potatoes are an additional $8.90 each.
The price frenzy even saw Nine’s Today host Karl Stefanovic storm the restaurant that opened less than a week ago.
That’s why Sydney has lost her way. It’s not even good there,’ she said.
The renovated restaurant sits on the site of the historic bowling alley, but is not actually a registered club.
A trendy Sydney restaurant criticized for the cost of its chicken schnitzel has also been criticized for having a misleading name.
Prices across the menu at the Five Dock Bowling Club seemed expensive, with the cheapest steak going for $55 and two BBQ lamb skewers (pictured) $45
Sausages for dinner at $35? That’s just the beginning with a price list that bears little resemblance to the traditional local Australian club.
If you ordered a chicken parmy with two sides (fries and salad) and a single beer, you’d pay a whopping $63. That’s a meal for one person, not two.
If I wanted humble sausages, I’d pay $34.90 for the grilled pork and fennel sausages.
The cheapest steak on offer is $54.90, for a 16-ounce piece of grain-fed Riverina beef aged for 21 days. Or you could spend $120.90 on a 1kg grass fed angus ‘Tomahawk’ steak.
The pizza menu features six options priced at over $30, which is rare, even for the many specialty pizzerias of the Inland West.
Most entrees range from $16.90 to $28.90, with pre-meal service salt and pepper calamari costing $23.90 and baked figs with prosciutto costing $27.
The four barbecue skewer options range from $38.90 for two sticks with marinated chicken, to $46.90 for a combination (any two of lamb, shrimp and chicken).
The venue’s owner, Pierre Moio, defended his prices earlier in the day, saying he only withheld the historic name so people would know where it is, “not to indicate the deal.”
‘We are not a registered club. We don’t have poker machines, we’re not subsidized by gambling. We are a private restaurant,” Moio told the Daily Telegraph.
On the restaurant’s Facebook page, the business is categorized as a ‘sports club’.
Food at the revamped Five Dock Bowling Club is now cooked by in-house Skinny Tony’s Really Italian restaurant.
The four bbq skewer options range from $38.90 for two sticks with marinated chicken, up to $46.90 for a combination (any two of lamb, shrimp and chicken).
The Five Dock Bowling Club before renovation began in 2020
The high prices upset many online punters, who took their complaints to the venue’s Google reviews page.
One man wrote that Mr. Moio’s logic was ‘an escape’.
“If you’re not a club, then your name shouldn’t literally be Five Dock Bowling Club,” he said.
He added that it was “a poor justification for not offering better quality food considering that there are many clubs that offer better value for money.”
Another man commented: ‘$60 for a Chicken Parmi with fries and a beer. You’re dreaming?’
Bring on the old bowlo.
Daily Mail Australia approached Five Dock Bowling Club owner Pierre Moio for comment