Cuisine on Lake Crackenback

My wife and I stayed at lake Crackenback and frequently visited this restaurant (1 of 2 in the location) food was nice, view is great and staff are friendly and accommodating. Only issue is the take away menu. I would recommended eating in.

Great location and atmosphere. The food was fantastic and beautifully presented with friendly professional service. Just a little pricey !

The restaurant sits right on Lake Crackenback so has some great views. The food however doesn't match the views. A two course dinner was included as part of our accommodation package. We had the chef's special which was a rib eye fillet with a gravy on mash. Whilst it was cooked okay it lacked flavour. We split the second course - one entree and one dessert (can't remember what the entree was which probably says it all, the dessert was some chocolate thing with ice-cream? Can't remember much about that either, which is probably on me rather than the dish. The kids menu was a bit basic, with standard pasta,fish/chips,sausage/mash,pizza options, and very similar to the other restaurant on site which we had eaten at the night before so not much variety for the kids. Plus our primary school age children are a bit past this type of meal but it was going to cost more to get something from the main menu, so being a tight bottom (can't say the a r s e word) I made sure they stuck with the kids menu. The staff were helpful though and we managed to change the mash for chips. Overall the staff were friendly but not as attentive as they should have been, and we had to help ourselves to water top ups a few times. We also ordered a side dish of vegies which failed to appear. We also went to the full buffet breakfast as it was part of our accommodation package. This was okay but after five days I was looking for a bit of variety but it was the same stuff everyday. But what can you say? I love a buffet and managed to eat way more than I should have. My excuse was I needed the carbs for skiing all day. The truth is I love an buffet. So much bacon, so little time.

We have had dinner, which was below average for being so overpriced... main was well under done (raw), they had to be reminded about our drinks. Had to have another drink taken off the bill, they never brought. We were 1 of 2 tables in the whole restaurant. Went for "Happy hour" drinks which is completely limited and consist of 1 cocktail and not even a Shiraz (which they don't have right glasses for) and happy hour means only a couple $$ less then the full price e.g instead of $15 a cocktail it's $12 Their cocktail list is poor also, no classics and not a good range at all! We also had to wait 20 mins for our drinks, while she talk to staff and serviced other guess before making our drinks .... overall breakfast is well over priced and dinner and the bar have poor service, and are over priced for what it is

Having eaten here last year we were aware that it was fairly pricey but with the weather closing in a trip to Jindi for dinner wasn't an option so we decided to splurge on our last night and eat at Cuisine. It was very disappointing. The service was terrible and we had to call over a waitress for everything, to order, for bread plates, for salt and pepper, to clear our plates, for the desert... we weren't rushing but got sick of waiting for 20 min every time. One of the waitresses was extremely rude and probably should have taken the night off. While our mains were fairly ordinary, the "steamed greens" came out nursing-home grey. Almost inedible asparagus and broccolini. For a 'fine dining' restaurant I understand that children's meals aren't a priority but this is in a resort so you'd expect people will bring kids. The children's meals were a great size but I'd expect better than defrosted chocolate slab cake and frozen chips. Sorry but overall well overpriced and poorly staffed. Thank goodness for the Accor discount card is all I can say.