Fresh User Reviews for BYO in Gold Coast

9.5 Highly Recommended

Food  10      Ambience  8      Service  10      Value  10     

Had a great meal here last week. If you're not sure what to order just ask the owner for his recommendation and you won't be disappointed. Hard to single out any one item as they were all great. Will definitely be back for more.

May 27, 2012

8.8 Highly Recommended

Food  10      Ambience  7      Service  9      Value  9     

Awesome Curry. Lots of Authentic flavours. Service is very, very good. Their biryani is very tasty, the butter chicken is to die for, naans are unbelievably soft and my favourite is the spinach and lamb. My wife and I love Indian food and since we have moved to the coast we have struggled to find a good restaurant up until now. My mouth is watering just typing this up. I'm having the Malai Kofta and the Xacuti (not sure how you pronounce it) the next time.

May 17, 2012

9 Highly Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  9      Service  9      Value  9     

Excellent food, price is fair, friendly services and clean, what else can we ask for? We always take our friends there for the meals. Fish with pineapple and basil sauce, beautiful.

May 17, 2012

3.5 Below Average

Food  5      Ambience  5      Service  1      Value  3     

Food was quite good but, unfortunately, the head waitress/senior staff? was extremely rude to my mum. Won't be going back obviously they don't need the business.

May 11, 2012

9.3 Highly Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  9      Service  9      Value  10     

First time user, live in paradise point and hard to find home delivery to here. Food was delivered in under an hour and was excellent. Food was piping hot, which is sometimes rare with home delivery. Will definitely use again.

May 10, 2012

7 Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  6      Service  6      Value  7     

This restaurant was recommended by a chinese friend. We had the Yum Cha for lunch, we enjoyed it very much. We will be back there again. Love the Yum Cha.

May 10, 2012

6.3 Average

Food  10      Ambience  8      Service  2      Value  5     

Extremely happy with the food. Its the real indian food that I ever had in QLD. Only drawback is the service. Was not really happy with it as I had asked to pack the left over curry as I had ordered too much and was not able to have it there and they handed me a container and asked me to fill it myself which i felt was extremely rude.

May 09, 2012

9 Highly Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  8      Service  10      Value  9     

We have eaten as a group at Ashiana several times and always enjoy going back. Always looked after well by manager and staff. Our group normally shares plates in the middle and everyone agrees its been a good night at a very fair price. We go for mild spices to keep everyone in the group happy. Ask the manager for his recommendations on the night. On site underground parking is convenient.

May 07, 2012

5 Average

Food  4      Ambience  5      Service  7      Value  4     

Pricey place for what they serve. Clean kitchen and efficient service. They advertise hyderabadi dum biryani on the menu but what they really serve is chicken curry mixed in short grain rice. Portion size are really small.

Apr 30, 2012

3.5 Below Average

Food  4      Ambience  3      Service  4      Value  3     

Good presentation overall, food was fair, 50% full but loud and noisy, confusing menus and deals overall not value for money.

Apr 22, 2012

1 Not Recommended

Food  1      Ambience  1      Service  1      Value  1     

Recycled food. Staff tried to give me my takeaway order that had been returned by another customer. No food health and safety standards.

Apr 15, 2012

3.5 Below Average

Food  5      Ambience  3      Service  3      Value  3     

Went with friends group of 4. Service was very slow on a busy night and music too loud to talk comfortably. Food was OK paealla a real disappointment and not very authentic was possibly precooked. Sangria jugs at $25 were a rip off. Bill was $240 which was a paealla serving for 2 shared between 4 people mixed tapas for 4 a dessert for 1 shared 2 small loaves of bread and the sangria. Very disappointed group who felt like we were in a tourist trap.

Apr 08, 2012

4 Below Average

Food  4      Ambience  4      Service  4      Value  4     

I haven't eaten here. I was going to but could not get hold of a menu. Having never tried Creole food, I wanted to see a menu before making the long drive here for my husband's birthday party dinner. They don't have a website so we rang to see if we could get a menu faxed, mailed or emailed to us. We were told No. We thought if it's too much trouble/can't be bothered to fax, mail or email a menu, What would the service be like.

Apr 05, 2012

3.8 Below Average

Food  4      Ambience  6      Service  2      Value  3     

Waitress was friendly enough but service incredibly slow, took 15 minutes to get drinks, asked especially for kids food to come first yet arrived after mains, 3 of mains were wrong, one main sent back twice, plates never cleared even when kids dessert was being served, which we had to ask for, the senior staff came to apologize and blamed it on the kitchen (bad form), all in all a very disappointing experience given the prices.

Apr 04, 2012

8.8 Highly Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  7      Service  9      Value  10     

Really can't work out why the place was quiet. The food was amazing and authentic.

Apr 03, 2012

8.5 Highly Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  9      Service  7      Value  9     

We are local and our interstate friends wanted to go to dinner in Surfers. We really hadn't been into Surfers for some time, so we went to Nicolinis knowing they had been there for many years and still going strong. We all now know why. We had a great night, the food was fabulous, service was great and they have quite an extensive wine list which suited their menu well.

We have reaquainted ourselves with Surfers Paradise and also Nicolinis. Congratulations we will be back and will tell all our local friends to do the same.

Mar 22, 2012

8 Recommended

Food  7      Ambience  6      Service  9      Value  10     

My not so hungry buddy and I used a pre paid discount coupon costing only $27 for the 2 of us for a pleasant and fresh 4 course lunch.

The location is small cafe in arcade type, with a few tables also out side the shop in the arcade. Ambience inside is very casual and relaxed cafe style, no table cloths and, simple table accomplements.

The interior is decorated with the usual japanese bits and pieces to set the mood. The young waiter in traditional but casual costume greeted us in a charming manner, and as we had brought our own cold beers, offered us chilled glasses from the frig, and placed our other beers in the frig to stay cold.

The set meal started arriving via same waiter promptly, starting with a chilled and fresh green salad with an unusual dressing I could not identify. Next was a small entree of soup with large pieces of Tofu, very tasty.

The main course arrived next with a bowl of plain Rice each, a Miso soup each and a large plate of their speciality Teriyaki chicken in chunks to be shared, it was moist and tasty, but not in the BBq style I was expecting of Yakitori but still was plentiful moist and pleasantly garnished. I have had tastier Miso.
Tea and dessert were offered but we passed on those, as what we had already was very filling.

Chilled Local and Japanese Beer $5/$8, also saki etc are available for sale.
Overall, good value, fresh tasting food, very casual a place, and as I noticed the waiter later handling a stringed musical instrument, perhaps, a live performance on occasion.

Mar 22, 2012

9.5 Highly Recommended

Food  10      Ambience  8      Service  10      Value  10     

Absolutely the best Avo/Salmon Eggs Benedict I've had anywhere, everything was fresh and perfectly prepared, even the presentation was lovely! Next time I'll take a pic before I start enjoying it!

Mar 14, 2012

5 Average

Food  3      Ambience  7      Service  7      Value  3     

Fantastic food, big servings, the staff were great, friendly and polite. We went back 2 days in a row and relatives up from melbourne dined there 4 out of 6 days and the topper its BYO. What more could you need in a restaurant.

Wow march 2012 and my recommendation, go elsewhere. It's really sad that this place has fallen for the sad run of the mill. Don't get me wrong the service is still great but Omg, What happened. Entree of calamari was to die for but now 5 tiny pieces of calamari in it. Mmm hello wheres the Calamari it's an $18 dollar entree and you buried it under the salad so it was cold. Tempura prawns were tasty but 4 prawns for $20 and a tiny salad sorry lost me.

Mains, pasta with seafood and chilli and garlic. They drowned it in olive oil, the calamari was tough and no chilli flavor. Prawns with lemon risotto, just order the risotto. It hurts me to post his but you need to know. Oh and it was the Friday of the billabong classic and when a new customer asked if they could get a meal at 9pm, they were told no they could have dessert only. Small town mentality strikes again.

Mar 02, 2012

4.8 Average

Food  6      Ambience  6      Service  4      Value  3     

We knew this was a little more expensive than similar style restaurants so waited for a special occasion to try it out. Disappointing. I had a half rack of pork ribs ($31) and fries. I was given a very stingy serve of fries. Hubby had full rack of beef ribs and fries. My teen had a burger (which she loved) and my 6 year old had the kids meal with a burger, which was served with more chips than my rib meal. The kids enjoyed their meals.

The ribs were average, we've had much better. We had a drink spill at our table which I apologised to the waitress for, to which she said, "That's okay" but then did nothing about it. As we had no napkins, it sat there until the next time she wandered past and I asked for it to be wiped. So two ribs, a burger, a kids meal, 3 soft drinks and one cocktail was over $120. Probably won't go back.

Feb 21, 2012