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I had the surf & turf which was very tasty with a cream sauce and mash. My partner had a creamy tomato soup and the salmon which must have been excellent because he didn't even ask for a bite of my steak. The dessert menu was irresistible- we had jaffa ice cream filled profiteroles.

The service was quick and friendly. We turned up without a booking on a Saturday night and they turned tables over very quickly to get walk-in's a table. However, we were quite annoyed when another (later) walk-in couple got a table before us just because they threatened to go elsewhere.

It was a cold night but the heaters kept us warm and we were near the window for a decent view.

I was very impressed! I often go out to try a new restaurant and leave disappointed but we are both very keen to return again. The food and wine were excellent and the service attentive.

We went to CCB on a fairly quiet Sunday night recently and were disappointed by the awful food and below average service. One of our dishes had to be returned as it tasted like it was cooked on a grill that had not been cleaned for months. The fish was the worst I've been served in a restaurant ever - barely warm, slimy and tasteless. And we foolishly ordered profita rolls later which were basically stale buns with a gluggy yellow substance and just terrible. The water was the most tasty thing we had all night!!

Very average - I think they realise their food is awful as we never got asked once whether we enjoyed our meals - not even by the duty manager who gleefully took our $140 without offering any discount or compensation for the bad food and the returned meal.

CCB could be a gold mine for someone who can cook, provide polite services and offer more than just rusty meat, bland pizzas and raw herrings on their menu. Sadly, there are too many internal distractions at present for the lovely waterside ambience to be enjoyable.

I really hope it was just a bad night for the CCB staff - we were friendly and polite even when though our meals were just plain awful and we did not complain about anything (except the one returned meal that tasted like corroded iron) so I don't think we're the sort to blindly criticize a restaurant. And yes we have been to many many eateries far and wide with 99.5% being at least pleasurable so its very sad when our rare bad experience is right on our doorstep.

We came here as part of a work lunch, so there was a set menu, when we arrived there was fresh bread and butter on the tables. For entree I had Smoked Salmon Salad which was rather bland, my boyfriend had the Kangaroo which was cooked very well and tasted great. Mains I had a Sirlion Steak which arrived with a thick stirp of fat running up one side - not good, after cutting that off my lunch looked a lot smaller the steak itself was very fatty and not enjoyable at all. Boyfriend had the chicken which was nice and moist. Yum, I think I should have chosen what my boyfriend had he chose very well.

When we arrived we were shown to our table and asked what we wanted to drink. I think there were about 28 people in our party and it wall ran smoothly for that number of people.

We were sort of sectioned off from the rest of the restaurant which was good, so we could be as noisy and drunk as we pleased. Our table had a lovely view of the harbour it was lovely on a sunny winter day.

We have often walk past this place and commented on how empty it is always seems. I am not sure that we would make an effort to come here again to try the normal menu

My husband had 6 Oysters Kilpatrick for entree and said he wished he had ordered a dozen - they were that good. Most of the entrees are seafood, which I am allergic to, so I opted for the soup - Potato and Spinach - very nice and full of flavour. For mains, I couldn't go past fish of the day - Barramundi, on a spicy pumpkin mash, with green beans. The fish was excellent, although I could have given the mash a miss. Hubby had the Rib Eye on the bone, which he said was the best he has ever had - and he is a bit of a steak afficionado! You have to order sides separately. We has Caesar salad and chips - both were excellent. The chips were in a beer batter of some sort - not a drip of oil to be seen. The salad was one of the best Ive had

We got there early - 6pm. Staff were friendly and attentive. Service was fast - but not too fast. We still had time for a rest between courses. Drinks were delivered quickly. Staff seemed knowledgeable about the food. It got quite busy (surprising for a Sunday night in the middle of winter).

Really nice. It was freezing outside, but all the heaters were on inside, so it was toasty! The open fire at the front of the restaurant gives a nice feel. Tables are not squished too close together and it wasn't too noisy, even when it got busy.

We had a wonderful time and a fantastic meal. Will definitely go there again - I will have the steak next time (my husbands made me drool!).

An average sort of performance. My scotch fillet was tender and cooked to spec but the green peppercorn sauce was pretty bland. An eye rib steak was tough; sent back and replaced promptly without fuss. The replacement scotch fillet was evidently good. The scallop and prawn entree was reported as tastily charred though the experience was somewhat ruined by an eye-watering lump of chillie. Vegetables in a mild buttery, garlic sauce but they were a little overcooked and looked dreadful. Presentation needs work folks.



Professional, attentive service. Not overly friendly though.

Pleasant surrounds (don't look up). Conservative decor without much style. Wouldn't cut it in Melbourne. It's comfortable, not overcrowded and not noisy.

We'll be trying somewhere else next time. We paid ~ $37 a main, and $42 for wine.

My partner and I went for our 5th anniversary on a public holiday.

Short and sweet - we ordered dozen oysters, entrees of prawn in garlic cream sauce and Salt n Pepper Calamari salad. Mains were the fish of the day "Barramundi" with pesto and mash and the Char Char Bull signature rib eye with the MASH and salad. Plus a bottle of Moet. I also ordered a glass of red to be delivered with my steak mains.

Service was OK water was provided straight away - always a good start, the wine waiter is a little bizarre for me but, bottle was presented and poured well. Top ups after that - non existent except for once by the manager. For $100 odd a bottle - I'd expect my glass would be kept full.

The oysters natural were simply sent back. Old tired warm and uninviting. We did receive an apology from the kitchen for the poor oysters and heard kitchen staff discussing the matter yet no offer to have more nor comp for the mistake. Mind you - seafood on a public holiday Monday? ;)

The remaining entrees were actually very nice and tasty. Yet, parsley through a garlic cream sauce is a little dated. Same with the white rice mold.

The mains were also quite nice but with disappointment. The glass of wine appeared just before so obviously remembered and timed. The mash on both the steak and fish dish was cold, stodgy and seemingly poorly prepared for mash (or was it broken potatoes). The fish was "beautiful" from my partner and I agreed. My steak was not medium rare it was medium and most of the bone was burnt. Not that impressed on its signature dish. We didn't have coffee or sweets.

All in all it was all "ok" - just. For $154 for food and alcohol at $110 (remember the Moet) it just doesn't meet the white table cloth presentation or expectation.

As a final note, the younger service staff deserve a mention. They were not over familiar, were easy to get the attention of and dealt with my complaint about the oysters very well.

Went to Char Char Bull on a Sunday lunch time with a party of four. Were left a good 10 minutes without menus or water.

Garlic bread a bit soggy, but turkish with trio of dips was tasty.

Unfortunately they forgot to put our order into the kitchen leaving us an hour between courses.
To be honest we wished we hadn't waited.

Kids had Chooky pizza which they really enjoyed. Husband had scotch fillet, which was over cooked and tasteless. I had Roasted chilli pumpkin, marinated mushrooms, fetta & toasted walnut salad & balsamic vinaigrette, sounded delicious but I found it to be very oily and was still hungry after eating it.

Overall very disappointed with the experience and won't be returning.

I have eaten here on a number of occasions. It is in a great location on the fishing boat harbour, and has a nice relaxed atmosphere inside. If you can get a seat outside, looking across the harbour, that is a bonus. It is a large restaurant, and does get busy at weekends so book in advance unless you eat early. Service is generally good, but can vary when busy. The menu is predominantly steak as the name implies although they do serve fish and other meats for example the BBQ ribs are excellent value. I have also tried the salmon but this was bland and unappetising. The steaks are good quality although not particularly big portions.

Off to Char Char Bull for a Sunday lunch with the family and while I had once had high hopes for this place when it first opened (steak house amongst all the seafood restaurants on the wharf has surely got its work cut out for it), my expectations were somewhat low from recent reviews. And while the food was tasty and the view was excellent, as others before me have mentioned the portion size relative to the whopping bill you get at the end does not make it a worthy place to visit again.

To start off with I found the service to be somewhat confused. Once we were seated our waitress informed us of the specials and handed out the menus. Almost as soon as she had walked away, another waiter (who I assumed to be either just a very flamboyant person or was possibly the maitre'd) swept in and announced that he would inform us of the day's specials. This happened again when our plates were cleared and we were offered the dessert menu. We initially ordered a garlic pizza while perusing the menu, which came quickly and was a very thin crust topped with melted cheese and a scattering of garlic and herbs. For $9 it wasn't _bad_ it just didn't have very much garlic on it and the dry crust was just very underwhelming.

The main courses also seemed rather underwhelming, with the majority of the dishes being <insert steak type> served on a bed of herbed mash and hollandaise sauce. There were also some non steak choices but they didn't appeal. Our group had the carpet bag steak, eye fillet, mini fillet, rib eye and pork ribs. Of those, only the rib eye(on the bone) and the pork ribs seemed to be of a decent size serving. The pork ribs was the only one that came with a side serving of salad (lettuce bits and token tomato wedge)

This is one of those places that tries to encourage you to buy a side salad if you want anything that isn't a derivative of potato. Giant plate, with a small steak sitting on top of a dollop of mash/scattering of wedges or chips. For the $30-37 (mini fillet being $25 iirc) you pay, you would hope that you would be getting more than just meat and potatoes. And they aren't kidding when they call it the mini fillet. They do say that its only 120 grams in the menu but that doesn't prepare you for the two finger sized bit of meat that comes out, exacerbated by the expanse of the huge white plate. It also looks like it's been cut off the end with ragged edges and that lumpy look. Huge thumbs down for presentation for that one.

While we were not happy at all about the above, the steaks themselves were done well, everyone got what their steaks cooked to the right degree and it was tender and not chewy. We were also given water immediately upon being seated and as others have said the restaurant is set up in such a way that although it is quite large and spacious, you don't feel lost amongst the tables and the room is divided in such a way that you have the illusion of privacy.

The service was not bad although I did find the waiter to be rather overbearing. Others may find it very friendly and perhaps I just wasn't in the mood for banter but I found every time he came over to crack a joke or attempt to engage my parents in humorous conversation, to be invasive and not, I guess, very polite and unobtrusive. When we declined dessert (intending to go for a walk down to the cappuccino strip for cake and gelato instead of the rather boring and overpriced desserts on the menu) and asked for the bill, it was not brought, in fact I think we were ignored after that so we went to the counter to pay and left, our wallets quite a bit lighter and still slightly hungry.

Knowing that it was meant to be a nice sunny day on Sunday, I arranged to pick my mum up and take her to lunch in Fremantle, making our venue selection when we got there. We were lucky enough to score a parking spot near the shipwrecks, so as Char Char Bull was directly across from the train crossing, we thought we would make that our first stop on our venue-hunt. The menu was attractive and appealed to our desires of light meals - we just ignored the steaks! - so that is where we stopped.

As a previous reviewer said, this is a deceptively large restaurant, quite well segmented so that the diner doesn't feel as if dining in a food hall. The tables were all attractively laid out with decent crockery, cutlery and stemware. We had a corner table so that we both had a view. Menus and water arrived quite swiftly, and on asking after the soup of the day, the waiter, who had missed the briefing (he had been late that day), was absent for only a few seconds before reappearing with the information. All the staff were friendly and happy, not a surly face to be seen, which in itself was quite refreshing.

It was a fair wait after that for a waitperson to appear for our orders, but once taken, there was not a very long wait for the food. Our order of the bread selection (three half slices each of white and brown bread with a little tub of butter cubes) ($4) and the tasting plate for two ($30) arrived not long after mum's glass of sauvignon blanc ($9). Like another reviewer, I was staggered at the little amount of food for $30, especially when taking into account the items provided - two oysters (red salsa??), two rolled (half) slices of smoked salmon sitting on a thin dill mayo, half a dozen small slices of (warm) pork, a little tub (like for an oil) of (herbed?) pumpkin, and a small amount of (we assume) Thai beef salad. The oysters were okay but not to our taste and I couldn't say how fresh they were or weren't due to the topping. The smoked salmon was a bit of a miss-able item. The pumpkin was quite tasty as was the beef. Neither of us eat pork but I was loathe to send anything back at that price, so I ate it with the fresh bread (which was soft and crusty). The pork was bland with the only bit of flavour coming from the finest skin on the fat. The buttered bread improved it no end. The oysters were the only costly items on the plate so I feel they were quite unjustified in charging as they did for the plate.

Neither of us had ordered mains, so were now beginning to wonder whether having entrees as mains was a wise move. Often when we go to lunch, we will share an entree and then have either a main or an entree each depending on the dish and time. There had not been any upselling when our orders were taken so we had assumed to some degree, that with the tasting plate and bread, the scallops (for me) and the Cajun calamari salad (for mum), we had adequately ordered. We were prepared to consider a cheese plate if necessary though. As we sat waiting for our entrees (mains) to arrive, we started to try to think of other things on the dessert menu to supplement our meal, just in case the cheese platter no longer appealed. We didn't have long to find out though as the meals arrived and were also demolished quite quickly. My plate of five scallops on the half shell with a hollandaise sauce and a few frizzy leaves ($24) was really not well prepared at all. Four of the shells had dried out sauce on them with the fifth sitting a very large pool of the stuff. While the scallops themselves were plump and tasty, the leaves were worse than the sauce with all of them looking wilted and quite a few with black patches on them. That salad should never have made it to a plate as that is not just being left under the warmer too long. Mum enjoyed her calamari although it arrived without the promised pineapple salsa, ($17) an error we didn't pick up until we had paid and left. There was more salad (leaves) on mum's plate than on mine but I would hardly describe it as a salad.

At the end of the meal, I especially was still hungry and so we decided that we would have a dessert. After quite a long wait and with me looking through the flies that plagued the corner window where we sat (and almost all on the inside I might add), to the McDonalds across the way, we were about to leave and pick up a cake on the way home for afternoon tea instead. (No we weren't about to go to Maccas for a sundae - but it did cross our minds!!) The waitress then came to clear our plates and we were able to secure dessert menus but then the wait started again to have our orders taken. Unfortunately for Char Char Bull, I was left contemplating what I had just eaten and how much it was likely to cost me, and I decided to pull the pin on the experience. My mum didn't take much persuasion either.

We left thoroughly dissatisfied with the meal and tried to come up with excuses for the place. The best we could muster is that they possibly serve large mains, hence the small entrees but that doesn't excuse the prices. The bill, less the (hastily remembered) Entertainment Card discount of $21, came to $63. And yes, we did stop off on the way home at a bakery for another course. Five bucks more and we were replete!! Not planning a return trip.

Recently went to Char Char Bull for lunch.

The food was great, had a lovely calamari salad cooked beautifully so it was very tender.

The service was quick although not exceptional.

Ambience is great with lovely views.

I went to Char Char Bull as a farewell lunch for family over from NZ.

The service was incredibly slow, especially when ordering wine, though the waitstaff were very friendly and helpful.

The meals were very tasty though quite small especially considering the price. I would suggest ordering a side salad or vegies with the meat dishes.

The restaurant was also quite loud.

Have been craving ribs for a while and heard that the best were at Char Char Bull. And indeed they were! My goodness, the BBQ ribs ($26) were a gigantic serve of 3 huge racks with wedges and a generous serve of salad in a separate bowl. The ribs were tender and juicy and thoroughly enjoyed. Even our toddler loved chewing on the bones ! Personally, I think the ribs should not be consumed by a sole person but shared between two. Then, you would appreciate the ribs more instead of ending up with the sickly feeling of being overstuffed.

Hubby had the seafood pizza ($19) where you could see whole king prawns, mussels and white fleshy fish atop the base. A gourmet pizza indeed. Pity about the lack of taste overall, though. On the other hand, the seafood pasta ($30) cooked in pesto sauce was really scrumptious with prawns, mussels and baby octopus. This was a very delicious dish albeit being on the pricey side.

Unfortunately, Char Char Bull has limited outdoor seating compared to the other surrounding restaurants. The day we dined so happened to be a very hot Spring day and sitting inside without the breeze was somewhat stifling without air conditioning. At least, we still did enjoy the views of the harbour from our window seats.

One thing for sure, without doubt, Char Char Bull does not compromise on the quality of their food and the freshness of the food speaks for itself.

I attended this restaurant for an anniversary dinner with my husband who is a big fan of the steakhouse meal. Unfortunately Perth does not host many good quality restaurants that specialise in steak and I'd been past this place a few times and had always been interested.

What a pleasant dining experience. Beautiful view, great interior design and decor, delicious menu (we both had a tough time choosing from the variety of meals on offer) and personable service.

Meals came out in good time, wines were great and serving sizes were pretty huge! I did not finish my sirloin (to my dismay, it was incredible) and my husband did a fantastic effort on the lamb loin.

I was more than willing to pay the ~$100 bill for shared entree, meals, side salads (which weren't touched because we were so full!) and alcoholic drinks.

Fantastic experience and I have been recommending this place like crazy to all my friends and family!

I was recently in WA visiting one of my daughters who had not long moved to Riverton. She and her boyfriend wanted to show me Fremantle and have a meal. Many places were packed [Sunday early afternoon] and we eventually ended up at Char Char Bull's.

The staff who served us were wonderful, the view was lovely and the food was honestly up there with the best we've ever eaten. The steak, the lamb roast, the desserts, the wines...all splendid. Great restaurant and one I will definitely be going back to when in Perth later this year. 10/10 from me.