The Charles Dining Room

Amazing dining experience!!! The 7 courses we had with the matching wines were excellent. The staff were super friendly and so helpful, we could not fault the service. The restaurant has a great glass fronted window overlooking the street. Highly recommended if visiting Wagga Wagga. I believe this restaurant has now changed it's name to The Charles.

Service was lovely. Food was nice and cooked to perfection however the price you pay for a 5 course meal. Not worth it. Left feeling unsatisfied. Portions were just so damn small !!! Every portion was just 20/30% too small especially the ‘main’. Sad. If they had bigger portions it would of been excellent however due to paying $200 for one evening out. Money is better off spent else where.

Probably the Best restaurant in Wagga. Not trying to be over fancy but providing good food and service with a nice relaxing and casual ambiance. Food: everything was delicious from start to finish Service: Easy going Ambiance: not to overly fine dining Family friendly: leave the kids at home and enjoy the moment. Will I come back: most definitely

The fanciest restaurant in Wagga Wagga floats over the driveway of a motel. The Roundabout Restaurant could well have been named for the street feature, less than fifty meters up the road. Suburban nature strips and lichen-speckled roof tiles are certainly an odd view for a well-appointed fine diner. We had a shaky start to our meal. Our reservation was incorrectly recorded on their booking system—despite both email & SMS confirmations being correct—and junior staff panicked for a manager rather than simply seating us in an empty table and working it out quietly behind the scenes. Luckily they have a good wine list, and we were soon soothed with a keenly priced 2017 Tolpuddle Chardonnay ($120) that was elegant to the final coveted dribble. The five-course tasting menu ($79/head) gets underway with bread and black garlic butter that we were cheekily advised not to devour before our dumplings. This is apparently because their sauce is too good not to dip in. While I disagree about the sauce—the tamari and chilli blend was unbalanced—it definitely was improved by the butter. And while the dumpling skins could do with more refinement, their packed prawn interiors were impressive. A beautiful piece of yellowfin tuna served two ways—seared with jalapeño mayonnaise and tartare with tequila & lime applied too sparingly to taste—was let down by under-seasoning & corn crackers so crisp they hurt my mouth. Boned and rolled leg of chook was perfectly executed, wrapped around confit garlic and thyme risotto with an accompanying pat of the silkiest Paris mash I’ve had all year. It stole the thunder from the Wagga farmgate beef fillet, which also came with Paris mash (I suspect the former dish was meant to have cafe de Paris butter on green spears of asparagus instead). Desserts—where guests can choose between macadamia sable with honey sorbet, lemon curd, yoghurt foam and fennel pollen or a freeze dried strawberry ice cream concoction—throw too much at it for my liking. I suspect a simple panna cotta with the beet & Bidgee Strawberries and Cream compote would have been enough, without the Junee Liquorice and Chocolate Factory liquorice meringue, caramelised white chocolate milk crumb and aforementioned strawberry ice cream. Good produce doesn’t need over-complication.

One of the worst experience ever. After 12.5 hrs shift there was no lights in my room and my fridge was dead. Funny things was when I complained they were just staring at me and my fridge was smelling like hell. My food was rotten inside the fridge. I ended up walking outside for dinner and the most funny part was raining. Please fix something if you can.