Carnegies

We came her for the quiz night last night and had a great time. We didn’t have to pay for a drink last night as you get a free round when you register your group before the night and we kept winning the challenges during the quiz and getting free drinks! We also won the top prize of $ 100 bar voucher for winning the quiz on the night.
Besides the great quiz, on a Tuesday they have $ 16 chicken parmigiana and steak specials as well as $ 7 heinikens and a $ 7 sweet cocktail. We all got the parmi’s which featured a real chicken breast (none of that processed crap) with bacon on top (so much better then ham) and loads of chips! I certainly enjoyed it and it was very filing. Will come back again.

We will not be going there ever again because of the rude bar tendering supervisor/​manager. The man refused to serve one of our party who happens to be our boss and who was not in the least intoxicated. When asked to see the manager for an explanation– no one showed up!
Later, this rude grouchy looking person removed and dumped one of our party’s drink without reason. I would have thought a paying customer would have some rights! An explanation would have been acceptable!
When I approached the man for one, he just brushed me off and told me that I would not be served another drink either!
What a shocking attitude and disgraceful customer service. I did not wish to create a scene. We simply walked out.

This place is trashy and fun but don’t waste your money eating here. Service is slow, the food may seem cheap but it’s big serves of mediocre. Sorry Carnegies, I’ve been here many, many times and I’m afraid it’s just never improved.

Admittedly, I have only been once, but I had such a bad experience I am refusing to go back to see if it was a one-​off or the standard.
We were drawn to Carnegie’s on a Wednesday night by the lure of half priced cocktails and the need for a girls night out. We arrived just before 8pm and were seated promptly and given menus. There is quite a large selection on the menu and a lot of it sounded very appetising — and reasonably priced! The waitress came back to take our order a little too quickly so we asked for a minute. Finally we were all ready to order and the waitress was nowhere to be found. We waited about 20 minutes before I went down to the bar and asked if we could order. The waitress came out shortly after and we placed our order, and then came the real waiting! We didn’t get our order until 9pm, but not before we were given the bill and asked to pay it before the meals arrived as the kitchen was closing?
The food (when it arrived) was actually quite good. I had the chicken Kiev and the chicken was moist and tender — perfectly cooked, with a crunchy breadcrumb coating and beautiful flavours oozing from the middle. The mashed potato accompaniment was a little gluggy and dense, but overall a tasty meal.
The part of the experience that offended me the most was the service — the staff were dismissive and borderline rude with their responses. I felt like every request (even ordering a drink at the bar) was an inconvenience, and ended up leaving after dinner and one drink to find greener pastures.

Place looks like it needs a really, really good clean. Great chicken curry for lunch though. V. Surprising!

Every time I walk into this place it smells really really bad and the floor is really really sticky, I hope those two interesting facts aren’t somehow connected. Anyways this is a two story building and it does get quite packed. Which can mean waiting for a long time when you want to order a drink.
It’s a two story building with a dance floor awkwardly positioned downstairs and another dance floor not so awkwardly positioned upstairs. The music is generally quite fun and often play a range of 80’s and 90’s classics as well as the current music people love to dance to.
If I have a list of top 25 places to go out to in perth based on the smell and stickiness alone poor Carniegies doesn’t make the cut. That being said I have not been there on a Wednesday night and I hear that is when it is at its best.

I only frequented Carnegies for a while as a pre drink venue as I knew a girl behind the bar who gave us cheap drinks. Now she doesn’t work there anymore the appeal is very limited.
It really is the definition of average in terms of bars, drinks aren’t amazing, but not terrible, the music is solid but not spectacular and the crowd is OK.
My favourite element of the joint is the walls of the staircase which are covered in classic vinyl record covers.
Wednesday nights are busy with half price cocktails but even still the vibe is just average.

I can’t really think of anything exceptional to say about Carnegies, to be perfectly honest.
The clientèle it draws are not really conducive to a fun night out for me. Rowdy dudes and scantily clad women, while fun for some, just don’t sit right with me.
They do quiz nights on Tuesdays though, which are far quieter and they serve platters with fried Brie — That, I can totally dig. Just don’t go on the weekend if you’re not into pumping your fist or yelling «Woo!» a whole lot.

At night, Carnegies is basically the bastion of all things wrong with the Perth nightlife scene.
The combination of awful, trashy music and drunken people looking for a hook-​up makes Carnegies only tolerable if you are drunk and/​or below 25.
The upstairs section appears to be the spot where drunken couples go to make out, especially in the darker corners towards the back. Unless you want to bump into an awkward moment, it is best not to venture upstairs. Then again, the people who are upstairs are generally too drunk to notice your presence.
If you are looking for a place to visit late at night, Carnegies is really not the best idea.

This place is so great on a Wednesday night. Half-​priced cocktails and a room full of men in suits. As a rule of thumb, places that are filled with guys in suits are the best because of the fact you know they all have good jobs. So Carnegie’s it is. It was relaxed and wasn’t too pretentious.
We got wicked excited about the entire wall covered in spirits and a large ladder and a harness. And… THE BARTENDERS CLIMBED UP THE LADDER TO GET TO THE SPIRITS UP THE TOP.
Now you can’t say that won’t be a great night!

Carnegies Bar and Restaurant provides the ultimate place to meet with friends for lunch, for casual drinks or to spend all night partying. Located on the main street in the heart of the city, this two storey, retro designed venue offers a relaxed environment, playing all those old 70s, 80s and 90s tunes. Their menu lets your tastebuds enjoy an extensive range of modern Australian cuisine, happy hour daily from 5pm to 6pm, all the sports action live on their big screens and an all day breakfast — the perfect way to satisfy those late night cravings.
With something different every night of the week, over 20 beers on tap, and over 100 different cocktails to try, Carnegies never gets dull.

For all the Irish arriving in Perth every day, this is one of the places they’ll swear they won’t go near — «I’m not like all the other Irish people coming to Australia» I can hear them say, «I won’t just hang out in Irish bars listening to some pub singers crowing out The Fields of Athenry, I want to experience real Australian night life.» But I can gaurantee each and every one of them that they will end up in Carnegies at one stage or another, and they will have an amazing time!
I know this because I was one of them.
I’m not saying it’s wise to hang out in Carnegies every night of the week, that would be a bloody nightmare, but if you wake up one Sunday feeling a little worse for wear and missing home dreadfully, then put on your best GAA jersey* and head in to Carnegies for $ 8 pint bottles of Magners and a packet of real Tayto Chipsticks and you’ll be right as rain again in no time. You’re gauranteed to meet your mother’s cousin’s neighbour’s daughter (or in my case your best friend’s ex’s cousin and his friends), so if you’re craving a few familiar faces then come on down to Irish town!
*Note: The GAA jersey thing is a joke, please don’t wear one. If you really do have a GAA jersey in Australia with you then you need to have a word with yourself.