My Shanghai Bar & Oriental Buffet in North Tyneside

Place needs a lick of paint and some seats need attention but the food, service and staff were spot on. Well prepared food very tasty and hot. I would say as far as buffets go its one of the best ive had. I would definitely recommend and definitely return

Food wasn't as good as it normally is.

Great food and parking close by

Lovely food prompt service but full of screaming kids

Fresh food , sunday beef dinner , chinese help yourself. Staff on top of clearing plates , food constantly filled . Plenty of choices.

Nice place to eat and you can eat as much as you like great range of different types of food

Food was plenty. Good atmosphere. Will visit again.

Went on Saturday 5th October. My and my son both now have food poisoning from this place. I called up to rectify it and all they could do is deny it was them, not even apologise. Anyways ill be taking this further and make sure the place is inspected. Definitely wouldnt recommend

Nice friendly place plenty of food to choose from and you can eat as much as you like good service

Lunchtime is usually busy. Food is good quality and varied although a little expensive. Good luck with exiting the car park onto the Coast Road...

Very good food and fresh at all times.

Had a lovely lunch for a birthday treat. I recommend that if you like Chinese go for lunch or dinner fantastic

Food is great but their soap dispenser never works in the bathroom and I’ve seen people drop tongs and put it back in the food.

Good range of tasty dishes 😋 all you can eat

Recommend the evening food which is a lot better and more choice, if you’re going for the duck pancakes these are only on after 5.45pm

Fantastic beautiful food loverly restaurant clean fast service staff are fab as much as u like till u burst however can get pricey this isn't a weekly place try and go 12/ 1 dinnertime week day early evening is more weekends is more so stick to Mon-Friday soft drinks normally a pint of coke can become quite expensive so watch the money but other than that worth it I think 4 times a year

Always hot fresh delicious food and lovely friendly staff. Beats any other buffet in the Newcastle area.

Two of us had our lunch on Saturday 11th Aug. Basic lunch menu and two diet cokes. Food was ok, been plenty times before. Paid by card and left a couple quid cash tip. Just seen my bank 5 days later and have been charged £37. Feel rather ripped off to say the least. Lesson learnt, if you go here CHECK YOUR RECEIPT BEFORE YOU LEAVE. Definitely won’t be going back.

Absolutely awful experience, first time visiting and I can honestly say I will not be returning. Food was barely warm and no taste to anything at all. The meat, sapavilly the chicken was increfibly dry. The staff were miserable and not welcoming at all. Awful!

Enjoyable afternoon lunch with great food and alway piping hot not like some buffets that barley warm.

Food was ok.. SHOCKED that they charged a 1 year old £21 for eating a prawn cracker.. not good at all will not be back. And will be telling ppl who have kids

Its okay, certain items are quite tasteless.

What's not to like, all you can eat.

Went for the lunch session. A large selection of hot and cold on offer (although there wasn't any aromatic duck with pancakes as it says on the website/menu, very disappointed)... It's probably good value if you can eat yourself into oblivion. However, if you don't have a big appetite, then it's not the best value. The food was tasty, you can help yourself as many times you like and the staff were all very pleasant and helpful.

I'll be honest the food has been fantastic cannot knock it. Shocked at the prices for children (including toddlers) bit steep..... Good they have highchairs but prices seem always going up everywhere so best to ring ahead before going to double check. Also it doesn't open until bang on 12 so no point thinking about going earlier and sitting with a soft drink :) .

Best Chinese buffet I've ever been too! And there's quite a number of them!

Very nice fresh food tasty delicious plenty verify 😎

Food was lovely, reasonably priced sadly some scruffy family thought they could swear loads and hadn't had a wash 😢

It was all amazing and up to our needs! Really recommended.

Typical buffet. Plenty of choice for anyone with more items available in the evening...but costing substantially more.

My absolute favourite Chinese buffet, My Shanghai food is restaurant quality at an excellent price. Both the lunch and dinner menus are extensive with something for everyone. With all meats being lean and excellently cooked. The char sui pork is a thing of beauty, rice perfectly cooked and all sauces are top class. I can honestly say that I really look forward to treating myself here (if I lived closer I'd be there daily). Highly recommend.

There could've been a better selection of foods. We still had a good evening.

Great variety of choices, lovely food, great service, would recommend and will visit again.

Great selection of dishes to choose from. Delicious

Went here health. I ate. Then... I left with a great present that would last the whole following week. Food poising.... happily I will never be coming back. Cook your food right for next time so the next people don't get ill.

Good oriental buffet with plenty of options. The staff are friendly and helpful and the service was great. The kids enjoyed helping themselves. My only con would be the range of desserts was very limited on the day we visited.

Lovely food would defo recommend lads. If you want a lovely meal come cos their foods class 👏👏

Lovely hot food, fresh! Staff lovely, what more do you want!

Great service amazing food lovely atmosphere helpful staff what more can you ask for on a night out well worth a visit

I found a hair in my food, I told the waitress and all she did was taking the plate away.. not even a fake sorry about that 🤢🤮

Food is as good as a buffet could be at the price you pay

Good food plenty of selection. Eat as much as u want.

Sadly could not rate this place a zero, been going here for years but will never return, never seen or tasted food so bad. Very little to chose from presumably because Sunday lunch was on, the worst Sunday dinner I've ever seen. Watery mash and turnip, the meat looked like it had been there for hours extremely over cooked and dry, gravy was lumpy..... Could of put a hole in the wall with the chicken wings most of it was inedible, some of the soup bowls were dirty, restaurant itself felt grubby and dated, we got up and left. Manager didn't care a less either, will end up shut down this place.

Amazing place. Best all you can eat I’ve ever been to. The staff are really friendly and very helpful. The food was delicious and the panga fish was out of this world tasty. Will definitely be back.

Delicious food, amazing service, I highly recommend this restaurant

It’s a well priced all you can eat Chinese buffet, evening buffet was great

Ok, nothing to write home about.

Enjoy our meal good quality food. But I thought it was slightly expensive.

Came today with 4 other people for a birthday the food was horrible either overcooked and left for hours or undercooked and mushy we all had 1 plate and left was so disappointing would never come back £85 down the drain

Its been a good few years since i have been here and food was amazing then and again now so keep up the good work amd service was great when asked, atmosphere although it was busy as we were there early evening a d some of the clients were a little louder than needed to be otherwise will make an effort to call again since food was that good will not leave it too long for a return visit

So much choice and good value for money.

Taste for Germans who need to get used to it

We have been using this oriental buffet for the past 20+ years and have seen it gradually got down hill. Yesterday 6th of March 2024 was the last straw. Although we don't frequent the restaurant ie weekly we have been there often enough and spent enough to own shares in the place. The food was mediocre but it was edible, and hasn't change in the 20+ years we have been going there. However the price has tripled we paid £27.20, my husband and my self are now in our 70's and get the pensioners discount which to be honest isn't worth having. So sorry to say we won't be back

I have always been a fan of this place and have been a regular customer for years, but unfortunately not anymore. Today, my family and I visited for my mother’s birthday and the food was absolutely disgusting. The fried rice was hard and crunchy as if it had been sitting there for days on end. The Chow Mein noodles were tasteless, burnt and stuck to the edges of the dish. The Egg Fo Yung was literally green and way over cooked. The battered food such as chicken nuggets and onion rings were so burnt they were literally inedible. Overall, the whole buffet was almost inedible and tasteless and as for the “desserts” it’s food that would be served at a toddlers birthday party, it’s literally just jelly, stale cubes of cake, cut up fruit, and tasteless ice cream. At the end of our meal, we went to pay and I told the man who was sorting our bill out that the food literally wasn’t fresh and was awful and he looked at us like we were stupid and lying. He had the cheek to say “why didn’t you tell the staff”?!?! Maybe because none of the staff come over to ask us how the food was, they were all talking almost each other and paying no attention to their job and customers. In the end, the man who was sorting our bill out only knocked a couple of pounds (literally) off our meals and had such a hostile attitude about it and also had the audacity to say “well this isn’t my restaurant” which really doesn’t matter, it’s the fact that there is customers complaining and it needs resolved! Avoid this place.

Not clean at all Hair in my food

It was ok not a lot to choose from

Was basic with not much selection. But good for the price.

Food was over cooked was horrible no tasrmte at all for the bit food we had never go bk

Great quality of food . Slightly salty but still delicious Drinks reasonable price Desserts Ok but could be better choice .

Food was amazing but Felt like I was getting stared at. Tables were to small

Food wasn't great most dishes were too salty.

Lovely night good hot food family night out for 21st Birthday

very disgusting place to eat, would not recommend. all 4 of us got food poisoning, the environment isn’t sanitary aswell as the plates and cutlery. we got sat next to mold on the window aswell as they did not wipe the table down. the staff are all low with no energy and seem like they don’t want to be here. plus they decided the child’s prices were based on height when there was 4 children here from ages 6-15 and still had to pay adult prices for 3 of them. not worth the money!!

Quality of service is excellent but Quality of food is dropping as price is rising

decent but not the best chinese buffet I've had

Good food, good service, price is almost double what it use to be. Expect £20 a head before 6, £25-30 after 6. It's not really that affordable any more for a small family on a budget which is a shame.

We were here for My Grandsons 8th Birthday, He loves it here, We all had an amazing night, food was amazing service was amazing, lovely atmosphere, everything was perfect

Price has dramatically increased, and i have to say food was not as good as used to be, chow mein was chewey and nearly cold, chicken wings way over cooked, will not be going back for £12.90 lunch not worth it

Always great quality meats and dishes and hot.

Loads of choice and very delicious

We had a great time.. food great and staff were very friendly and helpful 👍

The staff were nice, but the food was very disappointing. The beef was very tough and dry, the majority of dishes look and taste quite bland.. but when they're supposed to have a little kick to them, they are too much when it comes to being hot/ spicy. My sister always has a beef in black bean sauce, but couldn't have more than a couple of mouthfuls before needing to stop and have something else. Realistically, for the price per person on an evening buffet.. it is definitely not worth it unfortunately. They have the basics of battered food and curry sauce covered but most other options of dinner plates are very underwhelming for what they're charging.

Plenty of choice for starters, appetisers and dessert. Though, there wasn't much choice for main dishes, just the standard sweet and sour, black bean etc. I'd consider the price as steep (avg. £20pp for meal and drink) with this in mind... Otherwise, I would go again.

First time we have been yesterday, all the food was cold and very little variety was left. My partner has ended up ill with food poisoning and has been up all night vomiting has a fever and chills! Would not recommend this place and will definitely not be going back.

Lovely food, quick service, nice staff. Plenty to choose from on the oriental buffet. Loved it all!

It's a Buffet here and the food is amazing. A bombastic 5 stars for this restaurant.

Lovely friendly staff. You can eat as much as you want from a selection of both Chinese and European qusiens

Amazing. The best all you can eat I’ve ever ate at. This place has quality and price down to a tee, perfect balance of the two. 90% of chinese takeaways I have had are worse than this all you can eat set up, which is insane, I see why it’s so popular. Everything well labelled Well cooked Great tasting Amazing selection It’s also amazing for people watching, watched some bloke shovel away 6 heaped plates which he had to balance on the way back to his table, I could only watch in awe as he shoved prawn crackers into the back of his mouth like some jaw dislocating snake, bloke didn’t even chew. Suppose it’s testament to the food! Keep up the great work!!

The foods good it's very filling and reasonably priced. The deserts aren't that great but the other food is

Great atmosphere, food is delicious and staff are very friendly and helpful

The place always looks closed as the outside lights never work, but other than that its great.

Fresh food constantly brought out, need fresh large spoons as the handles are red hot off the heat lamps

Lovely food lovey staf was there till closing.

Lovely staff. Went for dinner time. Scran was nice. Sweet & sour chicken Hong Kong style was delicious. They don't have any crumble on at dinner time. That's my only criticism. Big fan of the crumble but it doesn't come on until after tea time. Plenty free onsite & off site street parking. Also they should include drinks with the all you can eat.

Very nice food enjoyed everything Nice cider aswell

Well i must admit this was an experience we won't forget in a hurry! I phoned and asked to speak to the manager in august (whomever the man was that spoke to me i had assumed was manager) i asked if we could dine with midnight in his stroller. I was told yes of course that's fine!! So we went on friday as time passes so quickly...i initially thought we were getting vip treatment and we were pleased we found somewhere to dine with our boy. The food was pleasant other than the salad (prawns tasted bad) and the dessert choices weren't great. Sadly when we went to pay we were not only lied to saying no-one remembered me phoning (yet you remembered we had to travel 🤔) and we were told we couldn't come back with our boy!! 😱😡 Considering we were paying customers who ate quietly in a deserted area where there was only us and our boy...whom was sound asleep in his stroller being good as gold! Your complete change of attitude towards us has reflected on your review!! Would've been a good review if you hadn't had attitude problem and became hostile towards us! Such a shame as your only staf member i still appreciate is the english gentlemen that seated us! He was polite and kind . Unlike the blonde girl keep coming over and whomever the (gentleman "i say loosely btw as you weren't" was that tried to tell me i no-one remembered my call) so like we told you i am a google reviewer and we have plenty other places that are hospitable for us to dine. Word of advice work on your attitude as you could loose alot more customers than just us!!

The food was really nice and delicious.

I really enjoy my visits to this restaurant the food is excellent quality . This visit was marred by a noisy drunken man put on the next table. He abused the staff,and his loud swearing was not acceptable. Unfortunately this spoiled what otherwise was a great experience.

Amazing very nice friendly staff Food was lovely If something ran out it was replaced very quickly Thank you

Great for a good feed, recommended for Chinese food, plain and simple British style Chinese but very good salt and pepper ribs and chicken. Delicious

Came here for lunch the other day.. amazing value for money.. food was hot, fresh and plentiful.. exactly what you expect from a Chinese buffet. Can’t wait to come back and try the evening menu

Normally it's quite nice today it was terrible the chicken & sweetcorn soup was terrible the battered chicken was crispy on the outside and wet and soggy on the inside

Had lunch with the family and food was hot and plentiful with something for everyone. I prefer the amount of choice available in an evening as we like the fish choice but no complaints.

Lovely as per usual. A tad expensive though

I just love this place, so much different selection of dishes. Day time you can have a nice fruit or jelly and ice cream after your meal, night time you get a selection of so many cakes and more. Highly recommended you try it.

Plenty of choice. Food was hot and tasty. Staff were friendly and kept buffet food topped up. Definitely recommend a visit!

Gorgeous food as always. Amazing service. I went for my birthday. It never disappoints and has so much choice. Love it. Free parking too.

Very helpful staff, but food quality has significantly declined

Went on the afternoon (extra dishes in the evening), enjoyed the experience. It was nice to try different foods like crispy seaweed, plenty dishes to choose from

We have been today at 14:00 and dear me. I have never ever been to a worse buffet in my life. Not one piece of food was “fresh/tasted not stale”. Everything was so stale like eating chewing gum. All they do is reheat food from night before. I hope these guys get caught out on food safety because some of the foods were honestly a joke. How as business owner someone can just serve that out. Not to mention the service 🤦‍♂️ . Unless you shout from top of your lungs for a waiter you are not being seen. Sad part is it looked like it was an Asian owned l. I expected so much better from Asian cuisine. This place would be empty if it was located in china.