New Fortune Cookie Reviews Summary

Category: Chinese restaurant London

Address: 1 Queensway, London, W2 4QJ, United Kingdom

Phone: +442077277260

Rating: 4.2
based on 184 reviews.

Food Quality

Pros:

  • "Delicious food."
  • "The food was top-notch, especially the Roast Duck, Stewed Beef Brisket, and Seafood Tofu."
  • "Their seafood crispy noodles are the best I have found in London."
  • "The food is great, especially the ducks and seafood."
  • "Gorgeous food, way better than any other Chinese restaurant on Queensway, and cheaper too."
  • "Honestly, some of the best Chinese food I've ever had."
  • "The lobster was fresh and meaty."

Cons:

  • "The broccoli was probably a bit undercooked and overall food slightly bland to our taste."
  • "The food we ordered was average - the Udon noodles broke up on contact and the mushroom side order had lots of broccoli and carrot but little mushroom."
  • "The wonton soup, the skin of the wonton is so thick it is not cook thoroughly."
  • "For a main we ordered sweet and sour chicken, which was extremely sweet."
  • "Garlic prawns came in a weird dark pink sauce tasting very acidity and it was made from powder!"
  • "The food tastes okay but the duck is so fatty."
  • "The beef that we ordered was very chewy but very tasty as well."

Service

Pros:

  • "Professional staff who can make very good recommendations."
  • "Customer service was great too."
  • "Staff are happy to help plate own brought cake which shows that this restaurant provide both service and delicious food."
  • "Service is top form, food is absolutely lovely."
  • "The service was very humble and nice, even tho we arrived 7 people at 9pm, they accepted us with smiles and treated us well."
  • "Not only was the food fantastic, but the service was also super attentive and friendly."
  • "Staff were really friendly and welcoming, helping suggest food to eat."

Cons:

  • "Walked in asking about the food menu and if we could use the toilet, though they immediately turned us away."
  • "I have never met and seen such a rude staff in my life."
  • "Very very rude staff I saw in my life."
  • "Customer service is to be improved."
  • "Terrible service, the service did not even deserve a one star, extremely rude staff."
  • "Service was very confused and understaffed."
  • "Poor customer attention from the head waitress."

Value

Pros:

  • "Fresh seafood at bargain pricing."
  • "One of the few Chinese restaurants in London that satisfies my cravings for a reasonable price."
  • "Excellent food and great value for money: £22 for a 3-course set menu (peking duck; wonton soup; squid, sizzling king prawns, mushrooms + veg)."
  • "Reasonable prices for London."
  • "Good portion sizes."
  • "The price was so reasonable too, definitely better than those in China Town."
  • "Very reasonable price. Recommended this restaurant."

Cons:

  • "Also be careful of the price: they charge 2.5 GBP for a bowl of rice."
  • "Not to mention the 12.5% 'service' charge, I use service very loosely."
  • "They try to rip you off and charge you whatever if they can get away with it."
  • "if I'd have known that they were going to serve me food in a container with a hole I wouldve asked back for my £13 + back."
  • "47GBP for this dish is a joke!"
  • "The food very expensive and not nice I end up bin it."
  • "Bear in mind though the price in the menu will be different when you pay, at around £2 because of fees and taxes."

Atmosphere

Pros:

  • "It's definitely a throwback to the 1970s/80s but it's delicious authentic food."
  • "Great roast pork belly, outstanding value and soothingly authentic, busy and wonderfully noisy Chinese atmosphere."
  • "Small family run restaurant with really great menu."
  • "Busy and wonderfully noisy Chinese atmosphere."
  • "The service is great, the atmosphere is nice."
  • "Everyone from the staff team seemed to me very hard working and proud of their restaurant."
  • "For me it's absolutely the best Chinese restaurant I've been ever to."

Cons:

  • "There are bugs in the fish ball soup, and they did not even apologize for it."
  • "The ground floor is far from roomy."
  • "Restaurant is relatively small and was super packed."
  • "The space is really cramped, the demand is high but the capacity is low."
  • "Can get a bit cramped."
  • "Maybe could have done with a little bit of Chinese music playing in the background to improve the ambiance."
  • "Only one problem was that the toilets are located in the basement which isn’t as convenient."

Hygiene

Pros:

  • "Lovely authentic food served in good speed and quality."

Cons:

  • "Foods good but there was a dead fly on my vegetable."
  • "Another issue I would like to add was washroom condition which was so well below standard."
  • "Worst dining experiences ever, poor service and hygiene."
  • "lobster noodles was served half cold. lobster was not fresh at all and tasted bland and tough."
  • "The chicken was pink the rice wasn’t fried it was absolutely disgusting."
  • "We had reservation. Waited ages for starters and then over an hour for main course which never arrived."
  • "Cheated us with Takeaway portion."

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