Michael Wan's Mandarin Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The food when it arrives is wonderfully cooked and very tasteful."
• "Food is excellent and well preportioned, very tasty and hot freshly cooked."
• "Wow mind blowing food the chicken satay main was to die for didn't want the meal to end portion sizes just right."
• "The food was incredible, such wonderful flavours and enormous portions."
• "Delicious freshly prepared pork and prawn dumplings, spicy yet subtle Kung Pao chicken."
• "Food out of this world."
• "The food was amazing from start to finish."

Cons:

• "The meat on the pork ribs was a little bit tough not a lot of eating."
• "The worst bit was the 'plastic chicken'."
• "Salt and chilli soft crab which was way to salty."
• "Main course chicken had texture of rubber."
• "Chicken Curry ... I have never came across Chicken (if it was Chicken ?) like that. It was slimmey...soft...had grizzle .. it was uneatable.. and turned our stomachs."
• "The crispy duck was dry and bland."
• "Duck dry bland flavour burnt onions couldn't eat it."

Service

Pros:

• "The service, setting and attention to detail really made this a 10/10."
• "Service friendly."
• "Very friendly barman."
• "Staff are friendly and attentive."
• "All the staff were really friendly, and made you feel comfortable."
• "The staff are all polite and nothing seems too much for them."
• "The staff - attentive, polite, friendly."

Cons:

• "Staff were impressively rude and rushed."
• "Told 30 mins for table waited over 1 hour."
• "Asked for a wine list and waiter never came back to take drinks order."
• "Waiter come over and was really rude and confrontational to us."
• "Your waiter was getting in way preventing me from getting to my dad to help him up."
• "Your waiter was one that created argument."
• "Your waiter is a liar and made up being punched in face."

Price

Pros:

• "Good price."
• "This is excellent value at 8.80, and is usually the visiting time of choice for my partner and I."
• "Nice wine list, the reasonably priced house rose champagne is a bargain."
• "Lovely food, and I mean expensive style food at an affordable price."
• "Food was great, price was reasonable."
• "Price is well suited to area and good value for the excellent quality of food."
• "Lovely food, and I mean expensive style food at an affordable price."

Cons:

• "Very expensive poor quality food."
• "Above average price."
• "We had the Mandarin banquet B, we was charged £36 each. On your website it is £22.90 each. £36 is very very expensive."
• "I don't think the food was worth that plus they then asked for a £5 service charge!!!"
• "A fantastic place definitely the best in blackpool food is great service impeccable I only dropped a star because it is a little pricey and they add a voluntary service charge."
• "Price is expensive."
• "Not the cheapest Chinese Restaurant you will ever find."

Atmosphere

Pros:

• "Lovely restaurant & atmosphere! In fact it was perfect. 'Simply the best'."
• "Despite being busy, it just had a perfect atmosphere without being so loud that you couldn't speak comfortably."
• "Very nice and friendly staff, a very chilled and relaxed atmosphere."
• "The restaurant itself looks great."
• "The staff were lovely and the decor created a cool, casual modern vibe, with a quirky authentic to Blackpool touch."
• "Such a lovely dining experience beautiful restaurant."
• "The atmosphere was beautiful."

Cons:

• "Only downside was the sticky tables, I think the varnish is starting to go a little tacky with the constant sanitising."
• "Someone on next table seemed to have problem with us bringing in a dog."
• "Table very sticky."
• "The restaurant is shabby to say the least!"
• "There is outside limited parking otherwise quite troublesome to find a spot other than the car parks situated nearby(ish)."
• "We had booked here for our anniversary x due to ill health I cannot climb stairs so we requested ground floor booking for 7 pm. When we arrived we were told to climb some 15-20 stairs."
• "Looked expensive for a Chinese."