The staff were friendly, but restaurant seemed to echo a lot which made them difficult to hear. Other than this, the food was great. My medium rare steak was cooked exactly how I like it and overall it was a pleasant experience.

Approximate cost: $33

I have been here several times and the service is alway sgreat and the food is good. Question is, does Hogs Breath live up to the hype? almost for me.

My husband and I have always been loyal fans of "Hoggers". We both have frequent diner cards and have probably dined at their locations throughout Australia over 50 times over many years.

Since moving to QLD we haven't visited any of the local Hogs Breath's so we decided to give the one at Carindale a try (Located inside the Westfield Shopping Centre).

To begin with finding the right spot to park was a nightmare, we drove around the carpark entering and exiting more times than I care to admit to before we "stalked" the car in front and finally found our way to the right spot to access Hogs Breath.

It was busy, a 20 minute wait at the bar which is expected for a Friday night.

Hogs Breath are famous for their slow cooked prime rib steaks, they pride themselves on these. So you can imagine our surprise that when we went to order at 7:30 we were told they had run out of them! This baffled me, how can a restaurant on a Friday night run out of their signature prime rib steaks so early in the night? The waiter explained that we should have phoned ahead to "reserve" a prime rib steak to ensure we had them when we arrived. Never, ever in the many times we have eaten at this chain have we been told they have run out of prime rib steaks, yet alone be informed that we should have phoned ahead to reserve one.

We were offered the fillet steak instead, the waiter advised that while they wouldn't be as tender as their slow cooked prime rib that they would still be enjoyable. We agreed and went ahead and ordered. I ordered a Medium cooked Avocado Fillet with a side serve of mash and curly fries. My husband ordered a well done Blackened Fillet with the same side serves.

Our meals arrived in decent time, not a long wait. But. My steak was rare. To the point that the middle was purple in some places. My steak was flavorless and was so tough that my jaw hurt after eating it and the knife was straining to cut a decent piece. The mash potato was tasteless with this massive blob of "garlic" butter on top. There was no garlic to taste whatsoever. Their curly fries had a plastic frozen bag taste to them and were soggy on the plate.

My husbands steak was cooked to his liking, well done but was surrounded by a thick border of fat. When this was removed he was left with the smallest piece of steak, it was smaller than the palm of my hand.

When our bill arrived we had been charged the "Prime Rib" amount, so each of our mains was $36.00 with the sides we had chosen. We paid the same amount for a lesser quality steak, one of which was mostly fat the other was like a leather boot.

Very disappointing, we will not be dining here again.

I have only given 3 stars for service because while the waiter was friendly enough they should inform diners sooner that their prime rib steaks have run out. The way he spoke would indicate that this isn't a one off event at this location either.

Approximate cost: $36.00

We ordered a mixed grill tower for two n it was just fantastic. The staff were helpful, although they looked as though they were on speed or some other drug. The gist I got was 'shove ya in n shove ya out' and that about sums it up.

Approximate cost: $35