Lone Star Spitfire

Group of 4 of us came in for Father’s Day lunch. We had pre-booked and were taken to our table immediately on arrival. Restaurant was very busy but the service was great and it didn’t take long to get our meals. Location is great and plenty of on-site parking.

So after a long day, all me and partner wanted was to sit down and enjoy some nice time at a restaurant. Boy did we hope too much. We walked in and found a spot next to the bar area and were immediately told to sit anywhere else as that part was closed. Couple of others were already dining there, but whatever, we moved to another spot. My partner ordered couple of drinks and told the bartender wearing cowboy hat to wait as we needed order some food as well and I was in the toilet. I came back and 2 mins later, the bartender came to our seat and asked us to pay first. We found it so rude as we had already asked for him to wait and it hadn’t even been 5 mins. Our immediate thought was to just walk out, but whatever we went and paid for drinks first and sat down. Everyone else was getting a menu and we asked for one and was told our table is reserved for 5pm and we needed to move. But we were initially asked to sit anywhere in that area and there was no reserved sign. The waitress went around and came back to let us know we can sit in that seat as she moved things around to accomodate us, which sounded so lame to us. Finally we got our food and the potato mash was like it was half done, like the potatoes were cooked and riced but missed the rest of the steps. I couldn’t eat it as it tasted so bland and half done. My partner’s ribeye tasted like rump, was asked for medium rare and it was well done. We were served by 5 or 6 waiters in the end, few of them were nice. Felt like we paid 200+ dollars for a really bad time. Never going back and absolutely DO NOT RECOMMEND lone star spitfire. What a waste of money and time!!

On holiday from Australia, last night here in Christchurch and headed to Lonestar for dinner. Bloody glad we did. We had an amazing dinner and it was so delicious and filling. Atmosphere was incredible and the staff were attentive and always there! Cannot wait to make a trip back and will be back for sure! Thank you so much!nWe did let the staff and manager on duty know how greta our experience was.

My wife and I have been to The Lone Star, Spitfire Square a few times with a good experience, but today Sunday June 9th we decided to go there for lunch. We arrived there just after midday and walked into the bar where a young woman was serving, and I said my wife and I would like to have lunch. She said go and find a table and I will bring the menus over. This was 12:08pm, so we sat down, and I observed a few people at other tables all eating, then a waitress brought drinks out for other tables but no menus for us. At 12:16pm I said to my wife it looks like we are not going to get any service here, so we got up and walked out and walked over to The Coffee Club. We walked in went up to the counter and placed our order and sat down, and within three minutes got served with our coffee and tea. It was only a matter of six minutes after getting our drinks that our meals came out and they were yummy, I had a Mexican Chicken Salad $27.00, and my wife had the Chicken Bacon Cranberry & Brie Flat Grill $25.00 and both meals surpassed our expectations, and this place was packed unlike the Lone Star. We spent $64.94 at The Coffee Club, and that is $64.94 or more that the Lone Star missed out on all because a waitress was inefficient at doing her job and as a result we will never be returning to this particular Lone Star.

We've been to Lone Star before but not this branch. So comparing our usual benchmark for Lone Star, the food was not as great. Service was also not as attentive.

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