Water Margin in East Riding of Yorkshire

So frustrating is probably the best way to describe water margin these days. The food is always incredible, there is not many places that cook Chinese food better. I cannot complain about it at all when it comes to the food. I had the crispy shredded beef, my partner had the war bar and my grandparents had the curry and chow mein. Really lovely food. The service however is just terrible and so disappointing. This restaurant when it was run by the family and the owners son/daughters the service was brilliant. Now it's just full of kids who make mistakes and just are not attentive to customers needs. There was only 2 tables in and the service is poor. So poor. It's not the first time either. The last time we went I thought I'd give benefit of the doubt but this time it was worse. Please, please, please train these girls on what service you used to pride yourself on. The food is brilliant but if you don't get the service right people will stop coming. My bill was incorrect, the food ordered was wrong but luckily we just accepted it. The service was so slow. Please get this right because I'm not so sure we will come again if it's like it was.

Just finished my lovely Cantonese style Duck dish. Lovely had a chow mein taking that home was lovely. Also had chicken satay duck spring rolls and salt and pepper chicken all was stunning. Thanks again staff where great and welcoming and as we saw good with kids. Will be back again.

Food here was amazing - the best I have ever had. The service was efficient, friendly and helpful. If only we lived closer, this would be a regular haunt.

Just moved to Driff and ordered takeaway from here as they came recommended. Ordered the garlic salt and pepper chicken and as we were sharing this we were advised to order it as a main as the portion is bigger. Well, the portion size is absolutely abysmal and the actual chicken itself is basically non-existent! Pathetic thin strips.

Lovely food and great service but it’s terribly expensive for a takeaway meal the restaurant is dreadfully rundown and the owners need to spend some cash to bring it back to life. It’s so depressing and cold and looks like it could do with a blinking good clean! Also, the owners needs to stop kids on iPads watching tv and people on video calls in the restaurant. For god sake, some of us go out to escape this behaviour. Just eat your Chinese and forget about technology for 10 minutes!!! No draught beer or other drinks left, only option was the bottles than cost a lot more for a lot less drink. The waitresses were completely honest and upfront and said they have run out and don’t take notice of the levels. So it’s bottles only. Money making scheme that! I don’t like being ripped off….£4 for a 330ml beer! This place needs to get its act together and stop thinking it’s acceptable to just bob along ripping customers off.

Just had a meal. The restraunt was very cold so we had to eat in our coats. Our order was taken and read back but one of our meals were missing. When we asked we were told it was on its way but had clearly been forgotten. Then when the meal was brought it was the wrong meal. At this point everyone else had eaten and the sides were getting cold so we said we no longer wanted the fourth meal. The chicken chow mein was also disappointing, the chicken was dry and it was very salty. Disappointing experience especially after it was reccomended to us. Will not return.

Food was dreadful, we sent one item back and left two full meals as they were awful, we were refunded one meal. Service was rushed and then they expected a £15 tip ! Didn’t pay the tip as the whole experience was bad, won’t be going again .

I went in and automatically felt off about the place. When i ordered the woman taking my order said it right but she completely got the order wrong. Afterwards me and my friends and sister were eating our meal and my sister got black beans instead or black pepper sauce and she is allergic to the black beans and she was very close to eating them. Also we had hairs in our food then got very bad attitude from a worker on the phone, they are rude and inconsiderate and trying to say we are lying. Just to add, after a 5 minute walk journey home it is stone cold. We had many workers on the phone to us giving us bad attitude. Unfortunately we never got more food even though we binned the food. Absolutely disgraceful service and i highly do not recommend i will definitely not be ordering from here again as i do not want hairs in my food.

Dined New Year's Eve, great atmosphere, lovely help staff, Amazing food. Had the set menu for two, £28.00 pp but well worth it.

Reviews invariably mention good service, and l wholeheartedly agree. However, we have been concerned to hear from more than one waitress that they have to hand over tips to management, and they receive no share of them. Neither, they say, do they receive a share of the service charge.

The Water Margin is one of our 'go to' restaurants in Driffield. You are always made welcome, and our visit yesterday was no exception. Jeanette was in very good form, and the staff were very engaging and made our meal incredible fun. The food was first class as always, and the Sunlik slipped down a treat. Another pleasant dining experience, thank you.

Good food and service, can’t get enough of their hoisin duck and chicken satay skewers 😋

Poor management, shouting at the young staff in the restaurant - not acceptable at all. Banquet Dynasty was not worth the money as only 2 - 4 pieces of meat in each main course so for £56 it's shockingly over priced. Young staff at the front of house were lovely though. Will not return again and I'm also putting a negative review on TripAdvisor.

Lovely food and staff a really nice restaurant

Having enjoyed many takeaways from the Water Margin and also having eaten in the restaurant in the past, we decided to give this time to eat in the restaurant. Not having been in the restaurant for quite a while we were shocked to see that nothing had changed - it was like going back in time - the décor hadn’t changed at all - the entire restaurant is in desperate need of a makeover/ upgrade and to make things even worse the food wasn’t what we have come to expect from the Water Margin, especially has every time we have had a takeaway delivered the food has always been of top quality. There was no atmosphere in the restaurant and very few other diners which must be sole destroying for the staff all of whom were extremely efficient and polite. The owners of the Water Margin very need to invest some time and finances to bring the restaurant back up to date and then maybe they may just see more people using the restaurant on a regular basis. Think for the moment we will be staying with the takeaway service.

Went to water margin tonight for a quick takeaway, I ordered pork ribs and fried scallops with asparagus, got home, the ribs had no meat on them whatsoever and the scallop dish i had only had two pieces of scallops smaller then 5p pieces, 4 strands of asparagus and the rest was just chopped onions and sauce! I rang up to complain and the manager was very rude, said I couldn’t have a refund n called me a liar! Definitely won’t be going again!! £15 for chopped onions 😡

Pretty unenjoyable takeaway, I collected so it wouldn’t be cold when I got it, but it had obviously been sitting there a while as was only Luke warm when I got it home after a five minute car journey. Salt and pepper prawns had no taste at all, chow mein is vermicelli noodles, overall taste was quite poor, not the worst Chinese I’ve had but a very long way from being near the best. And so expensive as well, I wouldn’t recommend and I’ll never order from here again.

1 x starter, 2 mains, 1 x fried rice, 1 x pint of beer, and 2 tonics for £46.00. Food tasted nice but expensive. No atmosphere at all, as we were the only diners 6:30 to 7:45.

Great food. 7 of us went for a family meal last night. Really friendly attentive staff. Even let us bring our own birthday cake!

Great place for Chinese food always spot on, service is great too.

Never had a a bad experiance here. The food is amazing and the staff are super friendly. Even the take out food is good

Really nice takeaway. Seemed very popular. Thai Green curry was lovely

The chef knows how to cook ! The prawns were firm but cooked, as were the vegetables, everything else cooked as it should be. The flavours excellent and food ingredient quality fine. The service was promt but they were not busy..the staff were efficient, polite & eager bearing in mind they were under training. We had a set meal for more than 2 people which is an excellent way to sample many dishes & flavours and gave excellent value for money.

Looking at the reviews thought i would give it a whirl i was dissapointed the staff were trying there best but not good enough i think tbey were all new the wifes meal seemed ok mine was like eating pieces of batter it was supposed to be crispy beef well it was crispy with no beef don't think i will be going to this establishment in a hurry or at all.

Brilliant food, quick service and really good price, I totally recommend this restaurant. Nice eating area outside too.

Lovely meal with the family and very reasonably priced.

Fantastic meal yet again. I came here 3 years ago and tonight I've had exactly the same friendly service from the staff and lovely meal

Loved it first visit will be back , generous portions

Room is a bit too dark.....food nice though

Got a chicken curry with fried rice It was the worst curry and processed chicken you could imagine even the fried rice was watery will never go there again

Not really true Chinese cuisine. Very disappointing. Will not be going back.

Good food very polite young staff. A lot of people picking up takeaways did not wear a mask even when sat in public area while waiting and were not asked to do so.

Good service quick and polite. And very good food lovely place.

We had a lovely meal the food was delicious and the Staff were very attentive and friendly.

Excellent food well cooked and presented. Good variety on the menu

Better round the corner...both ways

Our favourite Chinese restaurant in Driffield.... Actually the only Chinese restaurant in Driffield! It's also our favourite take away - there are 2 others.

We had a takeaway for my partners birthday, ordered over phone, picked up on time, nice and hot and very tastey.

As a low carb vegetarian needing a treat, I ordered a mushroom foo yung for myself and a stir fried chicken dish with chips for my husband. On opening the plastic containers I found chicken something (not sure it was stir fried) and a chicken curry. When ordering I repeated what I wanted twice so how mushroom foo yung became chicken curry I don’t know but my dinner of 6 chips and a few spoonfuls of curry sauce weren’t what I expected (or paid for!)

Absolutely disgusting food. Not only did the forget my can of pop. The driver was rude and said its not my problem with a bad attitude. Ordered crispy chilli beef. Literally like eating little tiny bits of batter!! There is no meat init whats so ever ever

In the past we'd had some good meals here and we were after a takeaway. We were a bit concerned with the very average ratings on Tripadvisor, but decided to give it a go.The food was a few minutes late and so we had to wait - this is a bit irritating in these times of trying to socially distance.The food was average. Not bad, but not good either. The prices were acceptable.Return visit? Well maybe, but not in a rush.

Just had a takeaway from here absolutely spot on , lovely, thank you water margin , very satisfied customers nafferton

Nice food as always and quick collection from telephone to pickup took only 20mins.

Had an OK meal best part was the waitress a lovely young lady called scarlet what a kind and attentive girl 5* service such a delight Thank you

Shocking service on a Friday night!!! Call up at 22:15 and they just ignore you 😂😂 just lazy.. they close from 12 till 2 aswell 😂

The worst Chinese ever hardly any chicken in the chicken chowmein. Not even hot cos its sat on counter for 20 mins while the staff don't seem to have a clue what's happening.over priced and piss poor food will never order from there again

Our first takeaway since before Covid. Not only have portions become smaller the prices have increased substantially. No longer good value. Avoid!

It was really tasty and friendly staff

Haven't had a Chinese in years and it didn't disappoint! I had a satay chicken, which was excellent and the wife had salt 'n' pepper prawns and a fu yung - which she also thought was excellent.

Just ordered our first takeaway during lockdown and what a disappointment. Opted for sweet and sour chicken, which was passable, but mainly batter on the chicken. The house special curry, however, was atrocious. 3 prawns, perhaps 3 tiny pieces of chicken/beef, then the pork, which was just fat!! There was quite literally no pork in it, just 3 pieces of fat! The curry might as well have been advertised as onion and pea curry in a watery sauce!! Overpriced rubbish and won’t be going back.

Mixed seafood stater was very poor, soggy little pieces of lukewarm food hiding in the corner of the box. I would like to enlighten on what it was but unfortunately, it was difficult to tell. The duck and pancakes did not tempt the taste buds either the duck was so well cooked is was in tiny charred pieces and dry even the limp cucumber couldn't take away the taste and the hot fish had 2 prawns in the whole dish.

Been here for a meal and have got takeaway before, a lot of average reviews here but we haven’t had a bad meal since moving to Driffield .

The food was nice, although it was quite overly salty, where salt was the main thing i could taste and not much of anything else.

Best Chinese food in Driffield. Always lovely

we have just moved to driffield, due to our place being upside down, boxes everywhere, we decided to have a Chinese meal, BOY did we pick the wrong one, over priced small portioned rubbish, they should go to Scarborough, take a leaf out the I Kitchens cooking, we had ordered , special fried rice, sweet and sour Cantonese style, prawn curry, special fried rice, HUH!!! , looked like fried rice, bur forgot to put the special bits in there, this place serves overpriced rubbish, there portions are far too small, don't expect any meat in your dishes, please let there be another Chinese in Driffield, or near here, as we wont be using this place again, if this place wants to borrow my book on Chinese cooking, let me know, please folks, don't disappoint your friends, give this place a wide berth,

Have used many times before, got fried rice Xmas eve, slept fine, next morning, shivers, diarrhoea numerous times, sick once, felt cold all day in bed Xmas day. Will not be using again. I did not have any alcohol, it was just for my tea.

You can't fault this resteraunt takeaway. The food is amazing and what a choice you have. Beautiful eat-in fantastic atmosphere first class service friendly staff and management. Free poppy Dom’s while waiting for your takeaways. Highly recommend this place. Also free delivery for takeaways up to ten miles

Love the sunday afternoon set meal here best Chinese in driffield in my options spare ribs are to die for.

Overpriced and food not very good.

Excellent food, pleasant staff and good value. Felt quite upmarket with cloth serviettes in rings. My soft drink was a very good price.

Lovely place, friendly staff, delicious food! Perfect for birthdays as they let you decorate if you book in advance.

Oh dear, the food was tasty but it certainly didn't belong to us. How about taking names from takeaway customers and matching them up with their food? We enjoyed our meal but no sesame toast, no prawns. The crispy duck was very nice but not ours. One dish looked good but no idea what it was, vegetables I think. This is not the first time things have gone awry.

This Chinese is awesome the food is always lovely when I got this was the first time using the take away service and the food was just as good

We ordered from here on Friday evening. It was delivered to us in Langtoft less than half and hour after placing the order. The food was the best Chinese takeaway we’ve ever had. We got the mixed starter, special chow mien, chicken curry and sweet and sour king prawn. All the dishes were really nice. We have ordered from here before and it was ok but this time, so nice. I would highly recommend and will definitely order again.

Me and my husband went in to get something to eat and was amazed with the service and the food was beautiful deffo gunna come back again

Great food fantastic service nice atmosphere At not a bad price definitely go again 😎😎

We used to come here regularly for lunch with family and friends, so in a bit of a nostalgic moment, my son and I came here for lunch. I was surprised to see no one else here (and even by the time we finished, we were still the only ones). We ordered the mixed starter, honey roast pork, honey roast duck (extra), egg fried rice and chips, followed by banana fritter. While the decor does need lightening and brightening up, the food was good. Staff were friendly and polite. Will come back again.

Great food, with quick service , but staff were over attentive and kept asking if we had finished when clearly we hadn’t, It became annoying,

The first thing that puts me off this restaurant is the outside. The doorway outside is littered with cigarette ends and it looks filthy. Surely it’s not a big deal to keep your immediate outside entrance clean and swept up?

Had a delivery the food portions are so small and the food tasted of burnt oil so I will definitely not be going there again and also the lady who I spoke to on the phone needs to take lessons on how to speak to.the customer very rude !!!!!!

Tasty food, authentic Chinese beer and excellent service. We really enjoyed our visit. We had a selection of meals with half a duck starter. Food was both hot and tasty. Recommended.

Another great takeaway from Water Margin. There is so much choice for both myself a vegetarian and my boyfriend who loves chicken! The food we order varies from chicken satay skewers to stir fryed veg and it always tastes great. Staff are very friendly and the food is ready in good time.

Absolutely beautiful, went for my 21st with some family and it's definitely a place I'll visit again and again and again, can't fault, lovely staff and amazing food

Always good food here, and friendly service. Best authentic Chinese restaurant in the area, in my opinion.

For the second week in a row our order was incomplete. The food isnt even that great but it saves travelling out of town. Driffield is desperate for a good quality chinese restaurant

Really nice food and a very fast service, the restaurant was very quiet, there were only two other couples in there whilst others were coming in for take away food. I thought the chow mein was belting!

A word of warning, Saturday nights can be manic. We queued for nearly an hour for a takeaway and several potential customers left in despair after the restaurant became overwhelmed with hungry people. Could there not be a system in place that allows the staff either to alert people how long their order will take or restrict the number of folk waiting at any given time. Eventually our meal appeared but one item was missing. The meal was as tasty as ever but by that time we would have eaten anything.

Told 20-30 mins been waiting nearly an hour, half an hour in the restaurant itself. Not good enough, shouldn’t say a time if you can’t do it.

Food was ok, but the young staff seemed very confused & disoriented on how to take & execute orders.

Great food and fantastic service xx

Special fried rice , £8.50 , a teaspoon of meat and 5 small prawns.

Popped in for lunch, nobody else there. Young lady serving had the right attitude, friendly and attentive when needed. We all shared a mixed started which was ok, not the best I have had and I thought overpriced, mains were better, special chow mein, sweet and sour and squid - all were very nice. Bill with 4 drinks was reasonable, would go again.

We have a takeaway quite often and these are always okay. But this time the food was really good; I've no explanation for the improvement - but it was !!

I am giving a mediocre review because one meal was extremely disappointing & the other two were considered, ‘better than last time’!

Went for a night out with friends got the banquet and the portion size where very small and not much meat in then what food there was actually was quite tasty but dont intend to return any time soon.

First time we've been for a few months. Not many eating in, but very busy with takeaways. We were eating in the restaurant and the food and service were excellent last night. Had a really good time.

Brilliant and reasonably priced chinese

Service was a little over attentive and focused on "big sell". Food was OK not fantastic Overcharged (but only by £2.50 - so chose not to argue the case). House Wine quality (rose) was not good. Would not return

Visited with friends. Warm welcome, with drinks and menus provided promptly. The food is maybe, typical with the usual variety but the spring rolls are enormous and taste great. Portions are also superb, and nice and hot.

Service slow they brought out one starter and then told us the other starter was not available, the king prawn starter was well over cooked the mains were poor at best, noodles were greasy but better than the rest, prawn rice cold, sweet sour chicken very bland lamb satay was dry, wine was good but that came in a bottle

There were eight of us and we decided to sample one of their Banquets. Great decision! A glass turntable in the middle allowed us all to access some really well presented, delicious dishes, some of which were new to our guests. The decor is a little shabby chic but your attention was really on the food. Our service was attentive and yet unobtrusive. We have regular take aways from here and the standard never varies. Excellent.

The food was varied and tasty,the service was efficient and polite, in fact everyone involved were friendly. unfortunately we must have hit on a quiet night, as, apart from our party of four,there were only two other diners all evening, resulting in no atmosphere at all.The restaurant itself was extremely dimly lit for some reason,apart from the clean towel area,wh[ch was very brightly illuminated, Why??.Might I suggest a screen to cover that area,it wasn't very nice to look at all night. I'm sure the last time I visited this establishment,it was a lot brighter. Overall a nice meal, but dissapointed

Visited sat night, 2 of us ordered 3 mains, and noodles, to share, it was very tasty, and reasonably priced, nice Chinese beer on draft. Will definitely visit again.

As ever, a delicious meal but we began to think it was not ours. The restaurant was very busy and no doubt the kitchen was too. My duck had morphed into beef and vegetables with a handful of nuts added, my partner's beef dish had turned into a curry, but the most amazing transformation was the chips which had become a large bag of very delicious spring rolls. Oops! too late to take it back as we had already started our mains. Very tasty though, even if not as expected.

We have eaten at this establishment since its birth as Harry Kar many years ago, and one can always rely on good service and food, even going beyond the call of duty by supplying tailor made dishes on request at times. It is good to see this cheerfully staffed restaurant still going strong as others have tried and failed too often in this pleasant and hungry town. A take away this time, but very tasty.

Very well cooked food from an extensive menu. We enjoy both visits in and from takeaways which arrive hot.

Myself and my boyfriend visited with another couple early evening for a meal in the restaurant. The portion sizes were very good I was almost full just from my starter! Very accommodating staff and menu as I am a vegetarian my friend allergic to garlic and not a fan of onions everything came just as ordered and in good time. Excellent service recieved from our waiter Matt, very friendly and attentive waiter. Would highly recommend it and we will deffinatly be back soon!

Really good takeaway food. Eating in staff very friendly and professional.

The Water Margin is a very nice restaurant serving a great choice of lovely food and a good selection of drinks. Janet and her staff are very friendly and professional and will make sure that want to return many times.

I had the pleasure of visiting Water Margin for the first time last week and had a lovely evening. Everyone who worked there was friendly, helpful and made us feel very welcome. There was a good choice on the menu, and there's something for everyone - those who enjoy trying knew dishes as well as more traditional Anglo-Chinese meals. Some of the set meals for two are particularly good as you get a varied selection of dishes to share with a friend, which is a nice way of exploring different tastes and flavours. I visit Driffield fairly regularly and am pleased to have found this restaurant - looking forward to going back!