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583 Opinions in 3 websites
Chinese restaurant serving Beijing (Peking), Szechuan, and Cantonese cuisine. Will be celebrating 40 years this September (2024). Inconspicuously located in Beaconsfield old town. Hasn’t got the usual large, flashy sign outside. In fact it would be easy to miss! Similarly inside, it is not littered with cheap Chinese decorations. I’d go as far as saying it looks very high class. The front of house staff are very attentive, regularly (but not annoyingly often) coming to check if everything is ok or if you need any more food or drinks. We went there for the Sunday buffet on the August bank holiday weekend. Got there about 1pm. It wasn’t busy at all, but as we were eating a number of people turned up. Talking to the waitress, we were told that Sundays, and the whole weekend in general, is usually very busy. So booking a table in advance is recommended. If you do it through the website you’ll be directed to a third party site. This site ‘warns’ you that that the Sunday buffet ends at 1.30pm. Ignore that! It’s not true. The buffet is served all day Sunday. How it works, is that you’re offered a mixed platter of Peking ribs, spring rolls, deep fried vegetables, crispy seaweed, chicken satay skewers, and prawn toast according to the number of people at the table. Then you get a “tick list” (see photo) where you mark which dishes you’d like to order. So it’s a kind of “a la carte buffet”. Once you’ve finished what you ordered, you can order more, including topping up your starter mixed platter. There’s no limit how much you can order- as long as you eat it all! We chose Chicken with ginger and spring onion, Crispy chilli beef, Szechuan beef, and Twice cooked pork. What’s our thoughts? Definitely much better than your usual Chinese fast food from ‘down the road’. Yet, perhaps not as good as I had expected. From the mixed platter the giant spring rolls, seaweed, deep fried vegetables ,and the peking ribs were the best. The prawn toast didn’t really taste of prawns, the satay sauce didn’t even have a hint of peanut flavour. From main courses: the Chicken with ginger and spring onion tasted of ordinary chicken soup. The Crispy chilli beef was crispy and tasty but I couldn’t tell if there actually was any beef! There was no “chewiness” in the crispy bites. The Szechuan beef was tender and flavoursome, not overly spicy. I couldn’t see any Szechuan peppers… The Twice cooked pork was also tender and tasty. Dessert is also included - deep fried apple and banana with caramel drizzle and ice cream. Pretty bland, to be honest. Disappointing, as I was looking forward to it. Overall, all the dishes had flavour but there was just that “little something” missing to make it stand out. Also, typical of many buffet meals, it left us both rather thirsty. I think the idea is to make the dishes a bit saltier (or use MSG?) to make you order more drinks and eat less food = more pofit.
241 Opinions in 2 websites
Went today with my parents for some drinks and I had THE most delicious bacon, avo and lettuce sourdough bap. You don't get quality like this anymore. Just fabulous. Have lived in GX over 25 years and always pop to Beaconsfield - never been before and will now come here many times!! Lovely lady owner too. So impressed!
3772 Opinions in 3 websites
I have to confess that reading the mass of bad reviews about this venue had led to a little apprehension when our daughter booked this place as an anniversary gift. But in the end all was fine. Not that the place is perfect but it rather depends on who you are and almost certainly how old you are or feel. We had a Cosy Room which was not in the main hotel but across a dual carriageway. This was undertaken in pouring rain so not a perfect start. Yes the Cosy Room is small and weirdly the bathroom doesn't have a door but a heavy curtain. However this was fine, the shower good and the towels big and fluffy. The room has no tea or coffee facility so if you wanted one you have to pay and they would deliver to your room. Did I mention the dual carriageway and rain between us and it? Food wise we ate in the English restaurant and the food was good but it's very expensive. They also have a very strange system in their bar which means you have to pay every time you order a drink, you can't charge to your room. Why? In the end Crazy Bear is aimed at the under 30s and wants to attract, according to our waitress, the influencers, whatever they are but I'm pretty sure it's not a man in his 70's. To be fair we were treated very well, perhaps we were a novelty and they were just curious. As an aside Beaconsfield is quite splendid with a lot of choice food wise. Have fun.
606 Opinions in 4 websites
I just got take away and honestly i’ve never been so disappointed. Got a tower burger meal which is a chicken burger with a hash brown, chips and a drink. The burger was wrong and was the driest bit of chicken with no hash brown and the chips didn’t have any salt or vinegar despite me putting that i wanted both. I don’t know how you can just g wet those things wrong but there you go.
113 Opinions in 1 websites
We used to make regular orders from their website but the latest episode and put us of ever eating here again. They left fish out of our order which meant two guests had to share a meal. I tried dozens of times to call their number (on the website and receipt). They kept cutting off the call. I ended up having to make an hour round trip to try and resolve the issue only to be totally ignored by the manager with the beard. At the time he seemed to be dealing with another two complaints, one for wrong order, one for a 40 minute wait. I asked to speak to the manager with the beard and tattoos - he totally ignored me. I asked if this could be sorted out and why they're not answering the phone. The assistant said it's because they're too busy (That's also their order line). I got totally ignored by the manager and indeed, spoken over while he was giving instructions to his staff. How frustrating to have people ignoring a valid complaint plus zero compensation for ruining the night with my guests and a (not cheap) meal.
23 Opinions in 1 websites
Obviously its just a fast food outlet but things were not that great. It took quite some time for our order to be ready and we found the chips a little soggy and not hot. Oh well we ate it all as you do and just left. Not the best experience but I am sure its not the worst we have had.
17 Opinions in 1 websites
Nice staff but management really need to get hold of the queues at the cash tills. The front car park really could be closed off and made into retail space.
115 Opinions in 3 websites
A friend reccommended this place after we had dreadful service with a booking in new town. They really took care of us. Thanks Bob. You are awesome.