Emoji Restaurant in Manchester

When we first arrived we were greeted by staff and seated. we had a group of 7 so was a tight squeeze around the table. they showed us what to do and when they coals where added they didn't turn on the extractor fans so the restaurant started to fill with smoke. We had to wait 20 minutes for our refillable glasses. During our stay other customers where there as they were leaving the tables were still dirty and left there for the entirety of our stay. it was not the best experience and will not be going back . the staff where lovely but seemed disinterested at times as we where having to clear our own table and put it on the trolley at the other side of the restaurant as we couldn't find staff 3/4 of the time.

I tried calling up to ask whether or not the food was halal and they kept on cutting me off and didn’t want to hear what I had to say or ask. Poor service and isn’t something I expected from them. They literally cut me off 4 times and didn’t give me a straight up response. I asked to speak to the manager and they said they are not here and cut it off…

Went here with my girlfriend in a non busy time and I had a good experience.

A distinctive restaurant for self-grilling, an exclusive seating area, payment per person, and grilling until satiated is open

Place is ok for dining, a bit pricey for the choice of meat, not a lot of variants. There is far more nicer bbq restaurants around Manchester that is value for your money.

The clerk asked me to leave a mandatory 10% tip. That’s so stupid.

Emoji offers a mix of Korean and Chinese cuisine. The taste of the food is fair, providing a decent dining experience without standing out. However, the bubble tea is a letdown, as the tapioca pearls are hard and not enjoyable. Overall, it's an average spot for a meal, but improvements in their bubble tea would be appreciated.

The service is pretty good, but the food (meat) quality is average.

A lot choices of food, decent and well-seasoned. Charcoal grill was great in cooking temperature and long-lasting. The price of all you can eat was value for money.

If you're looking for something a bit different to try this place is great.

The lamb is dead and can feel its acidity! Awful experience. Dont come

Price involved unlimited eats within plus desert however bubble tea is excluded. I love the bbq however there was a few time I burnt stuff I think assistant for first timers would be good. Overall it would be a great place to go for a good price.

It's near the University of Manchester, the location is very convenient, and the taste is delicious! Meat is very fresh

No smoke in the restaurant, they have very goo extraction system. Very friendly, kind and helpful staff. The bbq skewer rotating mechanism is ingenious but may not work with large pieces. Clean restaurant, and presentation of fresh food is very good and easy to understand. Bubble tea is good. Ice cream is quite good, you should try in the end.

The store layout is very unique, the price/performance ratio is very high, there are not many people queuing up, the marshmallows are super delicious, and the dishes are very fresh😆

The price/performance ratio is super high! Went here around 2pm and the food was still very fresh. The buffet barbecue is really delicious and the variety of dishes is sufficient! Go back home in one second

Very good food and friendly friend~

Soooooooooo nice!!!!!❤️❤️❤️x I am rather missing food there 😊😊. Alway want to eat one more time. x Both BBQ buffet and normal dishes are surprisingly delicious 🔥🔥🍜🍜x

The barbecue buffet is fresh! The atmosphere is good to eat with friends and the milk tea is also good to drink! Recommend you to come. And more! Also sent a small hot pot! The dip is recommended! The dip is really delicious!

I have had self-service barbecue with friends, which has a wide variety and delicious sauces. The boss also gave me a small hot pot, which tasted very good!

Good service, delicious food!! Very recommend it!

Solid selection of items to bbq and great attentive staff members who were always on hand to assist.

I had an average dining experience at this restaurant in terms of food quality; it was normal, nothing exceptional. However, the service left much to be desired. The waitress seemed very impatient and, unfortunately, I observed her raising her voice at customers. This aspect of service really detracted from the overall experience.

Had a dinner with friends here for the skewer BBQ. - The quality of the foods are very average, very basic. You got 2 options for the BBQ, regular and premium (seafood). We choose the regular BBQ. - The refill drinks machine looks very cheap, and it doesn't look like good quality, I wouldn't recommend to order refill drink. You have 5 options: coke, diet coke, orange soda, lemonade and one more option I forgot, all of them are unknown brand. - The ice container next to the refill drink machine doesn't look clean. Most of the ice melt already, and it literally just ice water over there. I'd recommend the owner provide the better way to serve the ice cube for refill drinks. - The restaurant was very smoky. The air circulation system in the restaurant definitely need to be upgraded. - There's hidden fee, service charge, which doesn't mention on the paper menu or anywhere in the restaurant. Consider we get the skewers and cook by ourselves, the service charge is unreasonable. - Staff was super friendly and nice. Overall the restaurant is more for the experience of the new way to do the BBQ. For the quality of the food, I won't go back unfortunately.

Greasy bland overpriced noodles with cubes of mechanically reformed meat. The "vegetarian" noodles were literally just noodles in oil with no sauce, no vegetables, no egg, no peanuts, and they charged £11 for it! And then on top of that a mandatory service charge is demanded because the menu we were shown at the table was apparently take-out prices, which we thought were high even before we found out. The tea was good.

They have two menus a very expensive one and a more reasonable priced one, be careful they don’t only give you the option for the most expensive one. I came out of there paying nearly 30 pounds for a takeaway.

Had a nice experience with my friends. Grilled part on my table was excellent and the staff was cooperative to explain it patiently. Loved it.

非常差的体验，吃完和朋友第二天都拉肚子。非常容易烤糊或者夹生，很难吃。全程自己烤的还收10%服务费。 Very poor experience, had diarrhoea the next day with a friend after eating it. Very easy to grill or pinch and very unpalatable. Charged 10% service charge for the whole thing that was grilled by myself.

炭火燒烤，有海鮮(蝦、生蠔和魷魚)。環境衛生清潔，服務員有禮貌友善，樂於幫助小朋友👍🏻

I would give the staff 10 starts!!!!! Great service!!! The food is amazing!!! Had a brilliant time!! Thank you x

Expensive but enjoyed it . No atmosphere very quiet surprisingly

All you can eat including seafood cost £29.99 each person (an extra £4 for soft drinks). Hobs are fueled by coal. Meat include pork, lamb, beef and poultry. Seafood include shrimps and oysters.

营业时间为16:30开始，但是Google地图没有更新营业时间。我们花了半个小时来到这时十二点并且在周围等待了很久的时间，什么都没有等到！

Most of the meat had an unpleasant odor, and I observed a waitress secretly returning uneaten, uncooked food from another customer's table to the counter for other customers to select and cook. Furthermore, the waitress's demeanor was exceptionally rude.

Came to try the restaurant after recommendation on social media , was having a good time until the restaurant charged us extra for trying a different refill drink flavour which was not made clear to us at all at the beginning. Very disappointed that they did this to us at the end of the meal and ruined the whole experience. Will definitely not come back to this restaurant again. A note to the restaurant owner, if you keep being sneaky with hidden charges, your business will not sustain and will eventually fail as you lose more customers.

Very nice buffet. I can eat a lot. Will come back again!

服务差劲还要服务费 收银自己round bill理直气壮多收钱 食物不干净朋友来吃拉肚子 别来

提前预订了位置，但是没有告知自助还有限时。上炭火很慢，催我们吃完快走倒很快。态度极差，菜也不是很多，服务员在我们结账时飞快上了我们之前问还有没有的菜👎👎饮料续杯也看他们心不甘情不愿😢35磅一个人的自助就这个样子？？老板 你这生意做不长久啊。 真不懂小红书怎么那么多人推荐。 狠狠差评！！！！！！

Barbecue buffet was amazing and delicious 😋 I would recommend anyone 👌 😋 I am definitely going again. Friendly and polite staff members. It was my my son's 12th birthday 🎂 and they brought the cake and put the 🎶 as well. Guys it's a must to go and try 😘

Absolutely fabulous loved spending time here and my meals were first class

Visited the Emoji Restaurant a couple of weeks ago and thought it a great place to visit with friends, family or even by yourself! (If you want to see my video on EMOJI RESTAURANT then be sure to visit my youtube channel - Andy Eats! The concept is quite simple if you're eating the BBQ - They fill a grill in the centre of your table with charcoal and then you're free to pick skewers containing meat, seafood and vegetables to cook at the table! Some food cooks better than others but make sure to place the skewers on the grill properly so they self-turn. Otherwise you run the risk of burning one side of the food. You get 2 hours which is plenty but just be aware that the charcoal will not be so hot at this point which will make cooking the food even more difficult. The staff are excellent, albeit a bit slow at times. They were very chatty and helpful - especially when I needed assistance with the candy floss machine!

A good place for having BBQ with friends and family.

The dine-in experience was amazing. The tables were clean, there is a large variety of food and the fact that they have friendly staff.

very average food, u need to pay service charge

It’s amazing restaurant, they have bbq buffet, all you can eat , also has main dishes in the buffet. They also do normal meal , just order what ever you like , it’s delicious too. Love them very much , been there few times already, the important part is all the staffs are very nice and helpful.

The worst experience I’ve ever had in a restaurant - At the end of a meal filled with average food and terrible service. We declined to pay the service charge, as service charges are legally optional and our server was very rude we saw no issue in this. Upon asking for the service charge to be removed the waitress was very physically threatening to my group, she got the manager who started swearing at us in mandarin and saying how they wouldn’t let us leave the restaurant without paying a service charge. Behaving very aggressively. When we explained that we did not need to pay for the service charge and showed them the governments legislation on this the waitress said “how long have you even been in this country” this was clearly an insult based on my race. This discrimination has no place in the UK or anywhere else. Absolutely disgusting.

Really authentic Chinese bbq. Worth of money, recommended

非常差，服务态度差，食物差，不知道小红书为什么这么多推荐，真的避雷吧大家。

Down to Manchester again for a relaxing Saturday yesterday. Pop in this Self-BBQ buffet restaurant for lunch! We all love it! It’s fun to use the auto-rolling BBQ machine with environmentally friendly smokeless charcoal fire. Staffs are nice. It would be better if there were more types of skewers to choose from.

Looks good and the staff a v friendly - but the special chow mein was quite poor and very greasy. Not ideal at £11 for a takeaway bowl. Sorry.

Best Chinese indoor bbq place in Manchester! The lamb skewers just so tasty! Seafood buffet is the best and the bubble tea is ever so good! Most people come here are Chinese so wonderful experience for multicultural service:)

The service was brilliant ,the food fresh and delicious .

Limited of food choice and the sauce is tasteless. The meat is not marinated well hence the food wasn't that good. We went for the seafood choice for an extra of £5, and the oyster isn't fresh at all. The meal cost for 4 people was £140 incl. gratuity that they add 10% of service charge to the bill, when is a buffet and you cook yourself. I don't see where the service charge is coming from.... Won't be coming again. I would go to Azuma.

Food was not so good and very overpriced, £4 for glass of diet coke is a joke, on top of that coke was brought to me in a glass already poured in so not even sure where it came from

The food was fine but the staff were dishonest with the price and restricted the more expensive items without prior notice.

Food was nice, wasnt told about the 2 hour seat allocation. service was so so as i had problems grabbing their attention. Food variety was ok, however most of the marinated meat was spicy, not suitable for everyones pallet. Price wise was more than expected.

很好吃，就是人比较多，建议一次多拿点。肉很新鲜，烤菠萝和辣条也意外的好吃。普通胃口也能吃20-30串，比其他烤串店便宜很多也很好玩。

Friendly staff and interesting food experience. Skewers of meat, seafood and veg available to Bbq at your table over charcoal fire. Selection of sauces and side salads available to accompany your meal. Either go for unlimited skewers or select 15 for £15. Great value for money. Also serves bubble tea and cooked food from menu also available.

Friendly helpful staff. Cook your own meat. Not much for vegetarians

Make sure you know how to cook BBQ on the coal, otherwise it would be a TORTURE!!!! I have my food mostly cooked into black charcoal 😂

It’s a buffet type Asian / Korean BBQ. Quite a number of choice for meat so good for meat lovers. But honestly it is not the best of this type of restaurants considering the price and quality. There were only two staff that day so if you ask for help from staff, or refill drinks, that could be an issue. And don’t expect the staff will help you put up more carbon to the stove. They barely want to do it even though it is very obvious that it needs to.

Nice staff and place but fairly pricy for the variety of skewers there

Had a wonderful evening here, really good range of bbq, fun and unique. Would happily come back if im passing through manchester again.

味道还可以，东西也比较全。 建议不要开自动翻转，烤得会非常慢，到时间会有人来催，不一定吃的饱。直接用网铺一整排，手动翻会快很多。 童年回忆棉花糖好评！

Nice little asian diner with the option of a self cook buffet on the in built table grills. Seating can be awkward depending on the table. Labeling on the sauces and spices could better. Staff are awesome.

Hello, I liked the restaurant very much, great service and friendly staff

10/10 must visit place.. fun and family friendly.

An unusual place with excellent food!

So so good. Love the skewers and fresh seafood including scallops and oysters. Friendly staff and great service. Make sure you are hungry before coming here! One of the best new restaurants in Manchester

Erika our waitress for (most of the evening) was absolutely great! She went the extra mile to help us with our BBQ food as we were new to this restaurant and we didn’t know how the bbq service works. She was very lovely, funny, welcoming, polite and even taught us how the buffet works. The food quality is absolutely amazing you can either choose bbq buffet where you cook your own food or order from the normal menu. We have chosen the bbq buffet which is unlimited for 2hrs as we wanted to experience it and it also comes with either rice or noodles. Erika definitely deserves thumbs up and should be praised for her role as a waitress she makes your experience 1000 times better.

Great Korean/Asian Bar B Que Skewer restaurant. The staff were very welcoming. The decoration is VERY Yellow, but very cool. So your table has a charcoal pit built into it with rotating skewer mounts, so you go to the buffet style counter and grab what you fancy, cook it yourself over the scorching hot coals and enjoy. Great experience, especially if you have kids (they will love the self service candy floss machine!). Will happily go back for a seconds in the future

Good food, perfect for groups and parties. Definitely family friendly.

This restaurant provides BBQ Buffet, each person £24.99, excluding drink. Add refill drink, each person £4.00. Foods type is not much.

Went for the buffet. Food and service were amazing. Plenty of variety from meat and seafood to veg and a bunch of sauces and spices. Very unique experience and fun way of cooking. Staff very friendly and helpful. Food is delicious and plenty of opportunity to go and get more food. They have candy floss you can make yourself too. Shy of 5 star due to price but still probably worth a one off experience. And lacks in the desserts. Definitely recommend trying!

Nice and clean. Varieties of meat is limited but enough. BBQ is overpriced.

Fantastyczne miejsce! Koreański grill z mięsem kurczak, baranina,wołowina, warzywami, owocami morza, mashamlows i inne. Plus wata cukrowa, ryż, makaron. Grill przy stoliku i rezerwacja na 2h. Opcja dodatkowe napoje osobno płatne. Świetna zabawa dla wszystkich i jesz ile chcesz za ok. 25 funtów. Wszystko świeże.

Great place. Lovely, fresh food. Nice and friendly staff serving us on Mon 04th Oct - big plus for them for being so kind

had a lovely lunch with a few friends, staff were so sweet and kind! absolutely loved the interior design of the place and the food was delicious! had to give them a tip even if it was our first time. can’t wait to see this place grow <3

Hey the food is very good and the staff are so nice 👍👌

Quality food and Wonderful staff service 👌

Great experience. Really friendly staff. A chance to try some regular and more unusual Asian delicacies. Can be quite expensive.

Good sized potions and tasty food. Korean and Chinese menus. Worth a visit.

New to this place but hearing from other I give it a try.... I enjoyed it because somthing different BBQ indoor using charcoal. It brings it flavour. There things needs improving *BBQ needs lighting so it's viable if food cooked *disappointed paying full price but there where no Scollop available that day. *table space there not enoght room to place things best to have a side stand.

Great restaurant and amazing bbq experience. Staff was super friendly and the food was amazing. There is a wide variety of choices for the bbq buffet. They also offer a wide variety of noodles and rice plates which can be ordered with the bbq experience or on their own. You also get the candy floss experience where you make your own in front of the emoji wall, which is a great way to end tour meal.

Great food and good value ! I like the wonderful barbecue idea. Definitely will visit again.

Great service with fabulous atmosphere Kids and friends loved it

Wonderful food and atmosphere to enjoy with friends. Thanks for the kindly BBQ advise. All freshly prepared.

Authentic Chinese self service bbq all you can eat. The quality of the food were so fresh and good portion. Really great value for the money! Highly recommended!

All you can eat BBQ. Great value for money. Staffs are super friendly. Food is very fresh and delicious. You can cook in the ways you want. Highly recommend it!👍🏻

刚刚开业的自助烧烤店，位置便利，菜品新鲜，炭火烤炉，自助调料，卫生环境好，价格实惠，适合朋友小聚，还会再来