Now, when I get a Chinese take away I always tend to go for the same thing, so I can't confess to give an especially broad opinion of the Willow Garden. What I can say though, is that thier egg fried rice with sweet and sour chicken balls (or BBQ spare ribs) is a pretty safe bet, and get yourself some prawn crackers as well (sort of goes without saying really!) What this Chinese take away has though that most doesn't is... wait for it.... An English take away! That's right, they do Fish and Chips! how about that for a cheeky bonus!?! read more

Willow Garden - Fast Food Near Me - Bristol, BST

'Chinese & English Meals To Take Away' is it's caption and that's exactly what you will get at Willow Garden. Situated opposite the Tobacco Factory and quite close to Bristol City F.C's Ashton Gate stadium - this is the perfect place to grab some warm food prior to the midweek game or after the weekend's match. The English side of the menu consists primarily of what you'd expect to find in a Fish & Chip shop, whilst the Chinese part consists of, erm...well....Chinese Food. The owners are always polite and enjoyable to talk to, as also are your fellow customers. The Willow Garden also makes for a perfect place to grab a battered sausage to fill your stomach before you rush into the Tobacco Factory's theatre just before the doors close. read more

Willow Garden - Fast Food Near Me - Bristol, BST

This has to be the worst Chinese food I have ever eaten. Not one out of three people who ate were happy. No care was taken in the preparation of this food. It looked as bad as it tasted. The duck fried rice was full of fat. It seem to contain only the fatty bad part of the bird. It was very tasteless, badly made,expensive. The special fired rice was chicken fired rice with a fried egg on top. It had little other meat inside. Counted only 5 small frozen pawns mixed in. Again tasteless. The chips looked and tasted like afternoon chips warmed back up. Pawn crackers had no taste what so ever and were just full of grease. The spring rolls were a massive piece of deep fried battered nasty tasteless lard. They are really bad. The fish cakes were a deep fried affair which for some reason seemed to contain lots of potato. Again no flavour what so ever. Finally the battered sausages were cheap and nasty which offered nothing in the way of flavour. This food was not cheap. If I had been served this in a restaurant I would have demanded my money back. More was placed into the bin rather than bellies. This place seems to hark back to the early 1970's. It has not progressed in anyway. hand on heart I have and can cooked better myself. My experience was due to being lazy. I will not make the same mistake again. I give this place no stars what so ever. In fact I advise you not to eat here at all. I will never return to this very poor Chinese chip shop again. read more

I have been back to the Willow Garden last weekend and there has been quite a few change of personnel. Although the lady and the young lad is still working there, there is a new head chef. I ordered the Crispy Beef in which there were alterations. The main Mandarin Sauce still has the same taste as previous ones. However, I can taste an addition of sesame oil with garlic which brings out the taste even more! My uncle ordered the Sweet and Sour Chicken Hong Kong style and he says there is a slight difference too! There is more zingy taste than before but in a good way! read more

This small, family run takeaway is a cut above the rest. If you, like myself, are enthusiastic about Chinese cuisine then you are in for a treat! Unlike larger takeaways that struggle to create an identity for themselves, the Willow Garden strays from formula dishes and stamps all the food with its own individuality. The open kitchen is very reassuring and can be quite mesmerizing. I can highly recommend the mandarin crispy beef. Hmmm..... divine! read more

Ive been having take aways from here for almost 20 years on and off. The Chinese food has always been good , tasty and plentiful.Crispy Chili Beef with fried rice I love,I always seem to order to many dishes though,so its next days breakfast. Best to phone and order then no waiting,Ill miss them now Im leaving,nice friendly people a real Chinese family business read more

The Willow Garden is a fairly standard Chinese takeaway, offering rice and chow main dishes, as well as English fish and chip shop style fare. The food is generally very good, and prices are about average for this sort of meal. On match days it can get very busy, due to being close to Ashton Gate Stadium, and Friday nights are another time when you can expect long queues. Beware of ordering prawn crackers, as they really aren't good, but the fried rice dishes in particular are excellent. Duck fried rice comes highly recommended, but make sure you have some Hoi Sin sauce at home to get the very best flavour. This is a family business, and they are generally very helpful, though some of them don't speak English as well as others and you will need to speak carefully when placing your order. The food is cooked to order, and you can see into the kitchen, so it's quite interesting to stand and watch the gouts of flame from the woks as you watch your food being cooked. read more

Willow Garden - Fast Food Near Me - Bristol, BST

I give this place minus one star. My fried rice tasted like boiled rice with fat and gristle thrown in. The chips were dry and overcooked. The only good part was the curry sause. Its the only thing i liked. I am never going back again. All my food was thrown in the rubbish bin read more

tl;dr: Terrible food. Actively hostile customer service. OK, so I had a truly horrific experience with this place. In fact, the experience was so bad I had to video it, and afterwards I downloaded Yelp and created a Yelp account just to see if I was a very unlucky person, or if other people had had similar experiences. For whatever reason, there are a couple of very negative, recent reviews that seem perfectly legitimate to me, but they're in the "unrecommended" section. So it seems even Yelp's reviews have reviews. Because it seems unlikely that most people would look in the "unrecommended review" section, I had to add my dissenting voice to the positive reviews... some of them from 10 years ago. Let me put this as succinctly as possible. I bought chips and a chicken and mushroom pie from the "English" side of the menu in March 2017: - pie was clearly from ancient times; only the filling was edible, the pastry both of the top and bottom rock hard and ... inedible. - chips were clearly refries from several goes around ... inedible. Ok, so pretty bad so far. But what was worse was when I went back to complain: - I was spoken about in front of my face extremely rudely in a language they thought I couldn't understand (Cantonese) - but I could - I was shocked - I was called a liar, that I had engineered the whole situation to get money out of them ("we get that alot around here" - direct quote) and they *CALLED THE POLICE* because I refused to simply accept that they had ripped me off for inedible, expensive food When the police (yes you're reading this right) arrived, they went on to call me a liar etc. Is asking for a refund on inedible takeaway food that cost under a fiver pathetic? Maybe, but I was poor, ill, and really didn't need to be taken advantage of at the time. Perhaps - just perhaps - it's MORE pathetic to call the police on a perfectly calm customer, acting in good faith, and call them names etc? In the end, as I was discussing the "issue" with the police outside, the manager, who had been showing off how rich he was and how it would be so easy to provide me a refund, threw £1.80 on the floor in front of me and the two police officers. Firstly, that's incredibly rude, the police obviously thought it was out of order, and these people still owe me £2. Not just for me, but for everyone they are clearly selling food to that has been cooked and recooked so much that the "sell by" dates are from different geological eras, and when they politely ask for some restitution, they have their appearance mocked, they are bluntly called liars, and the police are called. Most people aren't likely to stick up for themselves against such hostility. So I decided to, for me, and for them. (But mainly me obviously). Terrible food. Actively hostile customer service. There's a much much nicer fish and chip shop a few doors up the street, and for Chinese food - literally any other option is going to be better, because remember, if these people serve you inedible slop, you have no right to complain and will likely have the authorities called on you if you attempt to. Because the food was so bad and no attempt to resolve the situation in anything other than an aggressive, rude and patronising way, I am also making a report to Environmental Health. read more

Found this little gem whilst trying to find some food pre rugby and I must say we were pleasantly surprised. Three of us had fish and chips, and the portions were fresh and good sized. One had a battered sausage and he said it was the best sausage he had ever had. That's saying something, he has had loads of sausages in his time! Fantastic service, I would definitely recommend this to others. They even had Rio to drink. read more