China Garden Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The food is exceptional, well worth a little extra outlay for the quality."
• "Haven't had such good Chinese food in a long time."
• "The food here was piping hot and full of lovely flavours."
• "The food itself was delicious, good portions and spice was just right."
• "The food was beautifully cooked."
• "The food was very salty and uncooked."
• "The food was high quality, the service was top notch and the portion sizes were great!"

Cons:

• "The meat in the dumplings was grizzly, the lobster was very, very overcooked, tough and had a strange bile like taste."
• "The crispy duck was extremely small and not crispy."
• "It was the worst Chinese we have ever had and the price of the dishes was ridiculous."
• "Unbelievably disgusting food which I politely sent back as it was pure, inedible gristle."
• "The seafood noodles, normally moist and flavoursome was dry and tasteless."
• "The lemon chicken normally fragrant and tender, was this time just grissle. In burnt sauce."
• "The salt and pepper aubergine had been triple fried in thick batter and was basically inedible."

Service

Pros:

• "Staff were friendly and efficient."
• "they got a table ready, was very patient, helped us with our orders, food came very quickly."
• "Staff are great, no matter how busy it is!"
• "The staff are very attentive."
• "staff were non stop yet we were not left waiting overly long and still received personal attention."
• "Very professional attentive staff!"
• "Great attentive service especially a waitresse called May, she is very friendly."

Cons:

• "Expensive fast food no better than a take away, rushed."
• "The staff were behaving very passive aggressive and got tea over the table."
• "The owner, I think she was, was very rude to a couple on the next table to us."
• "Walk in stand for 5mins lots of staff walk pass us and they don't even bother to ask us."
• "Very rude unfriendly and unprofessional behaviour."
• "Extremely rude, arrogant, unprofessional and disrespectful staff."
• "Rude and abrupt staff."

Value

Pros:

• "Cost was reasonable, wasn't overpriced for quantity & quality for sure."
• "Prices are reasonable for the location and good value for the quality."
• "The set menus are great value."
• "Food is great. Service fantastic."
• "Good value for money too, walked (or waddled) out highly content."
• "We got the bill and we were so surprised that it wasn't expensive at all."
• "prices were very reasonable on both food and drink."

Cons:

• "Beware of 12.5% service charge regardless of size of party."
• "It's too expensive for the quality of the food served."
• "We found the prices to be expensive relative to the food quality."
• "However, £95 was extortionate price for meal."
• "The bill was almost a £ 100 without any alcoholic drinks, I would not go back there again as the menu is overpriced."
• "For what we got we would usually spend £40/£50. The bill came to £150 which was shocking."
• "Very nice food but the price is ridiculous these people charge far far too much money."

Ambience

Pros:

• "Comfortable seating, clean environment and good service."
• "Ambience was lovely although I may have some reservations over their piano player, but he was good at some of the tunes!"
• "Scrumptious Chinese Food with a warm hearted staff !!!"
• "Excellent atmosphere for gatherings."
• "Great atmosphere, lots of people dining at lunch time on a Monday."
• "Evening was made extra wonderful by the live pianist playing magnificently, really made for a great evening."
• "The ambiance here was pleasant, the venue is clean and the piano accompaniment was lovely."

Cons:

• "The toilet was dirty."
• "I have been sat down next to the toilets and when i have asked to have a different table the answer was 'no there are children' all these during pride weekend. .. disgusting! !!"
• "Absolutely rude and homophobic."
• "We were casually dressed, both me and my friend wearing shorts and a top (casual) and was RUDELY turned away."
• "A very unwelcoming place with odd, rude staff."
• "Bland, over cooked, over priced with staff who couldn’t give a monkeys."
• "After several years of greatness this place has sunk below edible viability."