Pan Asian Prahran, Melbourne

Pan Asian Details

Pan Asian Address

267 Chapel St
Prahran VIC 3181
Map
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Cuisines

Asian, Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Malaysian, Thai

Prices

Average Meal Price $33 - based on one entree & main course only

General Price
Entrees $9.00-$16.50
Mains $16.50-$24.00
Desserts $12.00
The design of the dishes are influenced by eastern philosophy and combines ancient culinary customs with contemporary culture. There is no set protocol on ordering from the menu; dishes are designed with the concept of sharing in mind.

Dinner
Entrees $9.00-$16.50
Mains $16.50-$24.00

Degustation
5 courses
Without wine $68.00

Banquet
Banquet $38.00-$58.00

Small Plates
Plates $9.00-$16.50

Prices last updated: 08/2011

Bookings

Bookings are preferred

Rooms & Capacity

No of Seats 80

Main Dining Room
Old classic decor from Corinthian columns to the rose ceiling
Seating Capacity 80
Standing Capacity 160

Mezzanine
Private area with full bar but benefits fully from the ambience and buzz of the main restaurant below
Seating Capacity 40
Standing Capacity 80

Hours

Lunch
Tue to Sun Noon - 3:30pm
Dinner
Tue to Sun 5:30pm - 11pm
Remarks
We will open for special prearranged lunch functions

BYO

Wine, Sunday only
Corkage per bottle $10.00
Wine Selection
Pan Asian marries food and drink seamlessly utilising cocktail specialists, 1806. 1806 has created a cocktail list that unites the food and drink offering with a seductive, sophisticated menu inspired by classic Asian ingredients such as basil and sake

Specialties

Seared scallops with namjim sauce
Grilled king prawn with mango chutney
Donpo pork with goji berries and daikon fondant
Thai jungle curry with prik thaion peppercorns

Parking

Ample or Convenient Parking
Parking Suggestions
Huge carpark at the back of Prahran Central, behind Safeway, Coles and Dan Murphys

Notes

Pan Asian offers dining options for all occasions from delicious fast fresh meals, cocktails, private corporate and special events. Pan Asian seats approximately 80 downstairs and 150 standing in the main dining room. The mezzanine level has a seating capacity of 40 or 80 standing. It overlooks the main dining room, the mezzanine offers guests a genuinely private area and yet benefits fully from the ambience and buzz of the main restaurant below

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Pan Asian Awards

2010

The Age Good Food Guide

Overview of Pan Asian

A team of multicultural chefs to create a menu that is unique and exciting, allowing customers to play, discover and experience these delicious and modern concepts with a well considered and compact menu of great delicacy and artistry. The design is influenced by eastern philosophy and combines ancient culinary customs with contemporary culture. There is no set protocol on ordering from the menu; dishes are designed with the concept of sharing in mind.

User Reviews of Pan Asian, Prahran

Displaying: 1 - 8 of 8 reviews

2 Not Recommended

Food 1 Ambience 5 Service 1 Value 1

Having been to many buffet, I have to say this deserve the award being 'The worst of the Worst'. Buffet restaurant but constantly run out of food. Everyone have only 1 plate to use throughout the whole meal, so you pretty much clean out your own excess food after use to be able to reuse. Foods is limited variety and pretty crappy even buffet standard. Soft drink so flat, it was served from a 2litre Coke bottle probably open few weeks ago. Desserts only brought out at the end and very limited, which mean if you happen to finish your meals early, you gotta wait for others to be able to have dessert. Even though I use vouchers for only half price, I feel being ripped off.

Feb 06, 2012

tpthuan
1

9.5 Highly Recommended

Food 10 Ambience 10 Service 8 Value 10

Fantastic find in Prahran. There is nothing like this place anywhere in Melbourne. Food was divine, cocktails were delicious and the whole dining room was quirky, arty and old bling bling mixture. Service was friendly and casual and Music was Ministry of sound meets Cafe del Mar. Love it.

Aug 07, 2011

Bigtaitai
2

9.3 Highly Recommended

Food 10 Ambience 10 Service 8 Value 9

Exotic decor, Sublime food and Charming waitress, only negative is toilet that didn't seem to work well.

Aug 01, 2011

gdine
3

8 Recommended

Food 9 Ambience 9 Service 7 Value 7

Unsual Asian eatery along Chapel St. From the name we gathered it was Asian but not sure which cuisine. As it turns out it "pans across Asia". Clean fresh and friendly. A bit under staff but when they arrive service was pretty on the ball Brought my mates from interstate and got brownie points for picking the venue. Love the seafood pajeri roasted coconut pineapple curry and the melt in your mouth confit pork with lup cheong wongbok. Wish it was a bigger serve. Good wine and cocktail list. At 10.30 when we stepped out the whole of Chapel Street seems to be buzzing with night life.

Apr 02, 2011

Umame
10

8.3 Highly Recommended

Food 9 Ambience 9 Service 7 Value 8

Wow, would love to have found this place earlier to hold many of my functions here. Such a grand place and would have been fantastic to have some of my office parties here. Love the mushroom gyoza and sweet toasted coconut seafood curry. Service was very good and attentive and again not the typical non existence service you would find in most Asian restaurants.

Drinks list was impressive and we had half price cocktail for ladies only that evening. If you park metered parking be sure to check because nearly ruined the evening as we got back to the car just before the parking inspector reached us.

Mar 26, 2011

Whitepony
11

7.5 Recommended

Food 6 Ambience 7 Service 9 Value 8

Ambience of the restaurant was nice, and the staff were friendly and helpful. The food was a little disappointing though, all the dished were over seasoned.

Dec 14, 2010

jkl168
1

5 Average

Food 4 Ambience 7 Service 4 Value 5

Two lessons learnt. One: When a restaurant has your booking for the wrong night it may be a sign from the Gods above to dine elsewhere. Two: If you want to see great artwork hit up a gallery as the fingerfood is generally well catered for.

Now the artwork was the main attraction drawing us in originally, with the online menu looking rather inticing also. The artwork is pretty cool and we were, as requested, seated right next to the large painting, an impressive backdrop for any photos. The interior of the restaurant is brilliant, with the high ceilings and chandelier adding a touch of traditional class amongst lanterns (apparently generated by a butter knife) and other mish mash touches.

The service is almost Fawlty Towers worthy, they do not seem intentionally rude, they just lack the capacity to do their job. They had very little knowledge of the menu and lacked the usual courtesies of a waiter. There were several 'stuff ups' also from oysters arriving brothless and the chaps served without their fire spice sauce. That said you would never dehydrate as the glasses as filled non-stop throughout the evening.

The food was not horrific but it was by no means anything worthy of a return. We all ate our dishes with the seafood mix springrolls as a starter being the winning dish. They were filled with seafood and cooked it what appeared to be a very clean oil. The scallops served with what was described as a 'Chinese green sauce' were fresh but the sauce tasted like what I would imagine slimey dirt tastes like. The shredded duck salad was quite delicious.

My main, the BBQ spicey lamb, (also ordered by two others) was served pretty much cold and lacked any real omph. Apparently the chicken was quite a hit and the seafood soup could have done with some more marine life. Sadly even the sides of jasmine rice were disappointly claggy. As for dessert there was a mixed response with the apple pie and cheese plate being the most edible.

At a certain point of the evening the lights were dimmed and the karaoke started, well karaoke is losely used as it was just the senior staff battling out his favourite tunes. It sure was entertaining, possibly for the wrong reasons!

There is occasionally a fine line between a horrible experience and a truly memorable and hilarious one, thankfully all of the negatives of this restaurant actually allowed for a very amazing evening. A magnificent night made so by the tragicness of it all!

Dec 13, 2010

tsj1979
27

0 of 2 readers found the following review helpful

10 Highly Recommended

Food 10 Ambience 10 Service 10 Value 10

Chef Kin San's Asian/Western fusion style food is as beautiful as it is delicious, and his impeccable attention to detail reflects his many years of excellence at the peak of the industry. I was well served by Danny Lay, the friendly and efficient matrede and I eagerly look forward to my next opportunity to dine here again, and as the trams stops right outside the door, the convenience is a definite plus!

Mar 26, 2010