So good. This place warrants your attention. It is a pretty big room, but the food is on point and…read moreauthentically Chinese as the day is long. I really loved how fresh and crisp all the veggies were. Perfectly cooked. Bravo and thank you- look, it might look a little old fashioned from outside, and I know "fancy looking" is the new "tasty", but good food has always been good. And this is good food.

The food is good but the restaurant itself is in desperate need of a refurb. It's like they clutter…read morethe bar with bottles and junk so you can't see what they're doing back there. I stopped in with my partner for a quick meal mid week. We had the fried rice, sizzling steak and honey king prawns. It was all fresh and delicious. I think I'd just get takeout next time though.

Cheap and cheerful Chinese food. By no means fine dining but you get what you pay for and for the…read moreprice it's pretty good. Asian food connoisseur won't like it too much but the locals love it.

Been using this as our local Chinese takeaway for over 20 years. Its not really an dine-in type…read moreestablishment, its best known as takeaway and home delivery. Staff are always friendly, and the food represents great family value for money.

I grew up down the street from Mayview and now live in New York and haven't been back to Australia…read morein two years but I am going back in December. Mayview is the first place I am eating! Love it. It's not really a dine in spot, the interior is average but the food is so good! My favorite things to order: honey black pepper steak , combination omelette and the spring rolls. Can not wait.

You can't beat the ambiance of the Hong Kong Restaurant in Newport, NSW. It's absolutely gorgeous…read more The table settings are glittering and elegant. We weren't having drinks so the glassware was taken away, but the place settings included chopsticks for an authentic experience. I had a mixed Chinese vegetable stir fry while my friend had honey black pepper lamb. We decided to forego rice, but in hindsight, we kind of wish we had ordered it to have with the delicious sauces in our dishes. As it was, we still had enough to take home for lunch the next day. The table had a plate of prawn crackers, melt-in-your-mouth crispies with very mild prawn flavor that was appealing to both of us, to our surprise since we didn't know what they were. The server was great and brought a fork for my friend. The dishes were served family style for sharing. The restaurant is up a few steps, which might be a problem for some. We didn't ask if there was a lift.

Great family restaurant, quality food, a true newport institution! Highly recommend the restaurantread more

The original and the best! Since Marigold restaurant has…read moreclosed I have been coming here for my delicious Yum Cha Sundays. The restaurant has a great range of all your favourite choices - spring rolls, dim sims, steamed dumplings, crispy skin duck, fish dishes and noodles. Service is very prompt and the staff are helpful and polite. The pricing here is very reasonable. **Beware of the other Zilver at Westfield Bondi Junction - this name branch charges every dish as a large! See my other review.

We located Zilver Restaurant up on the upper floor of 477 Pitt Street. It was a rather large…read moreChinese restaurant filled with many large round tables for the convenience of larger parties. We were out back in a private room and we filled the 4 or 5 tables. Since we were here for dim sum, we also filled our tummies. Mostly with traditional options. alongside a few carb options (namely noodles or rice plates). But the fun, eye catching part of our meal were the steamers of animal baos, each with a different color, face, and filling. They weren't especially tasty, but they were particularly fun!

#76 for 2021 My…read morewife and I got hungry and wanted something to eat to hold us over before meeting my cousin for dinner. Chef's Gallery was across the street from the mall we were shopping at making it convenient. It wasn't busy coming in after the lunch rush. We were waiting for awhile before getting acknowledged. Finally a lady came and asked if someone was helping us. I said "no" and her reply was ok I'll get someone for you. Ended up waiting a little longer before seating at a table a few steps away. Just deal with it I said. Remember this is Australia I said. They don't accept tipping here I said. And service is not a big thing here I said. I said all that. To myself. It helped a little. The restaurant is large with decor from mainland China. Cultural and historical pieces gave an enjoyable ambiance. Chefs can be seen working at their stations in the kitchen through large windows separating the dining area. The station for the hand made noodles drew the most attention especially the pulling. They make it look so easy. It certainly enhances the dining experience. Dishes are meticulously crafted with color and aesthetics to appeal to all senses. The decor, traditions and flavors of China were balanced in harmony. It is a mystical journey worth the journey. I so wanted the noodles but we just needed something a bit lighter to make sure we had room for dinner in only a few hours. The food is served family style. Large portions meant for sharing. Luckily there were small dishes we could order. We decided to share the Hot Sour Soup and Sweet Sour Pork. I would eat most of the soup. One of my faves. The soup was elegant. Fresh green onions came through the thicken broth. Mushrooms had a lite crunch in contrast to the soft egg texture. This was good. And equally good was the pork. Crispy battered outside but tender and juicy on the inside. I wish there was more sauce with this. Dessert buns were brought out complimentary. That was nice. Next time I'd like to try the hand made spinach noodles. The green color drew envy from everywhere. Many tables ordered these noodles. That's a sign of "that good" huh. Maybe pair that with the rock lobster. The noodles are definitely the signature dishes. Dim sum and hot pots are available. Small sharing dishes, main sharing dishes and roti selections include quality ingredients of wagyu beef, lobster, lamb, pork, shrimps and other beefs. The menu is amazing and wonderful to look at. I wanted to try everything wishing i had 3 stomachs to fill. Water was brought to our table in a large cola type bottle. It went down fast. while waiting for the food. I was trying to flag down someone to get more. Couldn't see our waitress. It took awhile but finally got it. Sheesh. Same thing happened with the check. I was flagging anyone who looked my way. And that was hard because it seemed like no one wanted to look my way. Well, we finally got out. The food is excellent. I so loved it and want to try more off that menu. The service, however, leaves something to be desired. I would come back but will need to make sure I have extra patience on hand. I was about to leave a tip then I remembered.

This is meant to be a good restaurant as I have previously tried this place multiple times in…read moreSydney CBD. We ordered 4 very straight forward dishes on their lunch special menu - dishes which will be easily completed and served. You would think..... We enquired about it twice (after waiting for 15 and 20 minutes). Ambience is not the best.... I would prefer to comment on the quality of the food except that we waited around 30 minutes and none of those populate dishes had arrived! I would NOT recommend CHEFS GALLERY MACQUARIE to anyone.

I became familiar with this Chinese restaurant before I went there. Such is the power of word of…read moremouth. It wasn't a terribly exciting or even positive introduction. And it had absolutely no relationship to the food. It was the stools. The red stools that people sit on. And I got word that they were supremely uncomfortable. I didn't follow up on the critique (made by a friend) and in fact forgot about the restaurant altogether. It wasn't until my partner and I happened to be walking around Darlinghurst around dinner time at a later date that I remembered about the comment (which would surely put a black mark on any restaurant's name). And yet, it was delightful. We were the first ones there - so early in fact that we lingered outside like miscreants while the staff were eating their dinner - and avoided the stools altogether, and instead sat at the two person table further toward the kitchen. We ordered the Beijing Dumplings (lamb and vegetarian), the steamed vegetarian buns, hainan chicken rice and the nyonya chicken and potato curry with two pots of brown rice. Mostly everything was outstanding. The only thing that didn't surpass our expectations wildly was the Hainan chicken rice. The rest was so incredibly good that we've gone back twice since (take-away). The staff were also incredibly accommodating and take note that they have a vegetarian menu as well as a Coeliac one. As for those infamous stools, on our last visit there to pick up our take-away we saw Hugo Weaving sitting on one of them at the far end of the communal table eating his dinner. If it's good enough for Hugo Weaving ..

Thinking about the Sang Choi Bao ($13) at Fu Manchu is enough to get me excessively drooling. I am…read moreso glad a friend of mine shared one of hers with me all that time ago because now when I come here I encourage other friends to try them too. Everybody is just as impressed as I am. The fresh prawn rice paper rolls with chilli dipping sauce and Beijing vegetarian dumplings are also staples. The Beef Tenderloin Fillet Fry ($20) is tasty but the Mixed Asian Greens ($10) is uninspiring. The menu is a little pricier than you would find elsewhere and you may find yourself leaving still relatively hungry. But if you order more (like I usually do) or come on a night when you are not incredibly hungry to begin with, then the quality of food should impress you. The restaurant is BYO and also has a coeliac friendly gluten-free menu and options for kids. The only issue I have with this place is the menu layout. I think it would be more successful if the dishes had a bit more description in terms of the sauces rather than just the main ingredient.

Despite making a reservation online through their website, my name was not on the list. Thankfully,…read morethe restaurant was pretty empty (7.30pm on a Friday...hmmm), they seated 7 of us at a big table in a corner. FOOD -- One can choose either the buffet ($25pp) or the ala carte menu. Note that the buffet does not include the soup base (ranging from $12-$16) or sauces (about $1.20 per type of sauce). We (bunch of finance geeks) spent over 15 mins debating if it was cheaper to do the buffet. In the end we chose not to. It turned out to be a good decision, cause the meal cost each of us around $21pp (excluding softdrinks). We ordered about 20-22 plates of veggies/meat. The food was pretty good, everything was quite fresh. My favourites are probably the spam & beef rolls. Who knew spam tasted so good when boiled in spicy broth ? :) SERVICE -- A.R.G.H. This is the only reason why Im giving this restaurant a 3 star instead of a 4. Ordering through the iPad is a stupid idea because you can only see 2-3 items per "page", so it was time consuming to "go-through" the menu. (especially when i am HUNGRY, A.R.G.H) Getting the attention of a waitress/waiter was the worst. Maybe because we were sitting in a corner but it was almost impossible to catch their attention. We gave up and took turns to walk over to the cashier counter each time we needed something from them. A.R.G.H They should consider doing what some korean restaurants do - putting an alert/bell system on each table. Lastly, I heard from my guy friends that the male bathroom was NASTY ! (boo!!)

Can't comment on the service (other than a few unique things) because we came when it was during…read moreits quieter times (Tuesday night) so it was as expected but as a hotpot lover I found the food to be very good compared to the other buffet hotpots around the city. The unique thing about this place is that they gave protective sleeves for your jackets because hotpot smells tend to stay with clothing for some time. Average spend is around $30 for the all you can eat menu (and also unlimited softdrink, but don't fill up on soft drink) which is very fair when there are other places which charge about $35 (without the drink thing).