Fresh User Reviews for Good For Groups 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

9.5 Highly Recommended

Food  10      Ambience  8      Service  10      Value  10     

Delicious food and cocktail list! The aroma when our mains were brought out was sensational. Great value for money offering a 2 course set menu for $29 and looking after me for my birthday.

Friendly staff and cool atmosphere to start a night out. Will definitely be back to try a different meal!

May 20, 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

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  10      Service  7      Value  10     

We recently had dinner at East on a Thursday night. They have this great promotion where it's half price off your total bill. This is a great deal, and we made the most of it, keeping the bartenders busy supplying us with yummy cocktails! We also made the most of the deal and had a bunch of entrees to share.

The food was great! The food took a while to get to the table (it was a busy night), but we were cool with this, as Sex n Chocolate were on stage keeping every one entertained. We had a great night, and will be back, next time we will get the babysitter to stay a bit later so we can enjoy the late night club!

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

8.8 Highly Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  8      Service  9      Value  9     

We had a fabulous time at East last night. Drinks were great and the food was wonderful. The place was packed out too.

Not having been to east before, I was blown away by the design and ambience of the restaurant. I was even more surprised by the transition to a nightclub. We had no choice but to stick around for drinks after dinner.

All in all, I really enjoyed my time at East. We have already booked again for next Thursday. Loved Sex and Chocolate too :)

May 04, 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

10 Highly Recommended

Food  10      Ambience  10      Service  10      Value  10     

One of the best meals I’ve had in a long time. Must give 2 big thumbs up to our waiters they were great both funny and on the ball. Wish we had a Garlands back home.

Apr 20, 2012

2.5 Not Recommended

Food  5      Ambience  1      Service  1      Value  3     

We had the worst evening possible to uncontrolled screaming children, 3 children under 3 screamed all night, plus a really rude waiter made our night hell, he queried mustard and salt and obviously did not understand butterflied steak.

Apr 07, 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

9.3 Highly Recommended

Food  10      Ambience  8      Service  9      Value  10     

One of the best Yum Cha restaurants I've been to on the Gold Coast. The service is friendly and personable and the food is definitely comparable with the Yum Cha I've had in Hong Kong. You can tell if a yum cha place is good by trying their prawn dumplings, Dim Sum Delight's prawn dumplings are fresh, the prawn has a little bite in them and the skin is nice and thin. Their soy sauce stir fried noodles definitely has the 'wok hay' that you are looking for in Canto foods. I've been to most of the Yum Cha restaurants on the Gold Coast and I definitely think this one is the best.

Mar 28, 2012

9.3 Highly Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  10      Service  9      Value  9     

On a weekend away in Surfers after much investigation for great restaurants I'd stumbled across write-ups for this place time and time again. But a buffet? I'd always considered hotel buffets as trough-food but Bazaar did look to be different.

Walking into the foyer of QT we see the Stingray bar alive and kicking inviting us in, but we left it late and had to get upstairs for our 7:15 booking. The first impression was excellent, a maitre d' who walked us through the concept of chefs who interact with the patron, the different offerings and to ask the chefs to cook for you and they all will cook anything they can if possible.

The first waitress was also exceptional, congenial and genuinely welcoming after ordering a great South Aussie Momo Shiraz for under $40 (we had two). But the food is infinite. Not always top notch in quality, but far exceeding in comparison to even a buffet at say the Sheraton or the Hilton.

Starting with Asian of beef stir fry and a plate of steamed scallops cooked to order with soy and spring onion was brilliant, then the cold offers of seafood including the obligatory buffet prawns, grilled scallops served cold and oysters (I could bang on for ages), and then on to the mainstay of the hearty meats.

You could go sideways for the cold cuts of different salamis and the pizza bar, but we went straight in for a stew of braised beef cheeks (nice), the lamb shanks were meltingly tender alas no flavour, but when we looked at some sample plates of what we could order, the chef offered a 'sample plate' for two and to return in 10 minutes. What a plate, the pork belly squares with crispy crackling was my favourite food of the night (and I never eat crackling), the zucchini flower lovely, and really all the food prepared at the ready was amazing.

What is the most clever thing here is basically we were stuffed by then, and I took the tip from a blogger to leave at least 10 minutes between courses so you can run the marathon better, is the dessert. No bain-marie of heavy puddings, every dessert was in miniature, so you could easily sample everything. Way too many to list, but even so, it'd be rude not to try most.

The service was brilliant (eg, waitress sees us with prawns and whisks out a hot lemon finger bowl and a big bowl to catch the discards) and this was a Friday night. I think I'm tripping over my tongue talking this place up. The venue itself seems busier and more interesting than what it is. There was even a station in the corner making designer mini ice creams that we didn't manage to get to.

Someone needs to get off and open up a branch in Sydney. Totally impressed.

Mar 26, 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

2.8 Below Average

Quality  1      Food  1      Drinks  6      Ambience  5      Service  1      Value  3     

Don't Bother! This restaurant used to have fantastic food and lovely management, we were frequent customers. Sadly that has changed for the worse.

We booked a birthday dinner and our night was spoiled by the terrible food, which was tasteless and took 90 minutes to arrive at our table, terrible service, slow, unfriendly staff, who completed the credit card transaction at our table (how rude) and took forever to take our orders, and the other staff - who forgot 2 meals and they said the kitchen was small, that's why things were taking so long. Totally unbelievable! There were only about 15 people in the restaurant!

At the end of the night, the only compensation made was not charging for a meal that was forgotten (I should think so!) and giving us 2 bottles of water free of charge, how pathetic. The management did not even come to apologise and tried to ignore us as we left.

The Birthday dinner was a total disaster, our night was ruined and I was embarrassed for inviting everyone there. After one of our party contacted the management about our poor experience, he was given a short sharp reply that was a personal attack, rather than an apology or explanation. Clearly the management have no concern about the quality or reputation of their restaurant.

We will never go back there again, and I urge any potential customers to stay away. If you want good food and exceptional service, go somewhere else at Sanctuary Cove.

Feb 21, 2012

4 Below Average

Food  8      Ambience  4      Service  1      Value  3     

As it is often said it doesn't matter how nice the food is if the service isn't there it spoils the whole experience. This was definitely the case for us. I never write reviews and quite honestly do not have that high expectations but our experience was far from good and feel its necessary.

I had first booked for a party of 9 to celebrate my partners 25th birthday, I called about an hour ahead to add 1 more person only to get a call back saying because we now had a group of 10 on a Saturday we would have to order from the set menu, we mostly didn't mind except one couple who were not expecting to have a large meal but what restaurant cannot accommodate for 10 people a la carte?

We arrived to find the place not very busy. When we asked if just 2 of our guests could order off the main menu the reply was "no it will be too difficult for us with the bill"! (how hard could it be).

When we sat down with only half of our table there (5 minutes past the time we reserved) our waitress came to the table and asked if we were ready to order? we said no as not all of our party were here yet (obviously) and she rudely asked how long the rest will be. Once the rest of our group arrived, straight away as soon as they sat down she came over and asked if we were ready to order to which one person replied "I have just sat down, can I take a look at a menu first please?".

The food was lovely and we could not fault it, however, our waitress was not friendly at all and very unprofessional. Drinks were expensive and the wait at the bar was long. After we finished the cake, we were Told they needed to move the tables to make way for the dance floor, poor customer service, we had just spent a lot of money at the restaurant you would think the least they could do is to politely let us know and offer us an alternative like a booth.

We would normally stick around and have a few more drinks and a dance but we finished our drinks and left as soon as we could and went to a different bar. I was embarrassed that I had chosen such a poor place to celebrate my partners birthday with friends, I am local and will not go back and definitely do not recommend this restaurant to any of my friends or family.

Feb 20, 2012

8.5 Highly Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  8      Service  8      Value  9     

Delicious Thai food. The service was prompt and polite and the decor is easy on the eye and inviting. Great value.

Feb 10, 2012

3.3 Below Average

Food  4      Ambience  4      Service  4      Value  1     

Extremely small portions, very very overpriced, can't recommend.

Feb 05, 2012

10 Highly Recommended

Food  10      Ambience  10      Service  10      Value  10     

Best coffee and service in all of Surfers Paradise. Not on the main strip so is like a little air conditioned oasis.

Jan 30, 2012

2.3 Not Recommended

Food  1      Ambience  5      Service  2      Value  1     

Not worth the effort. I wouldn't say the menu was a creative one and the server had no idea. It needs a lot of work before it can live up to the 'self proclaimed' descriptions I have read!

Jan 23, 2012