Sichuan House

9 Highly Recommended

Food  10      Ambience  8      Service  8      Value  10     

Our favourite place for Sichuan food, huge portions and so tasty! Even better than Red Chilli in Sydney!

Nov 24, 2011 

8.3 Highly Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  8      Service  8      Value  8     

A friend from work told me, if he only had time to eat at the one place in Melbourne, it would be this one. This place, is fantastic. Full stop. Spicy cumin pork ribs and Tasty cold noodles *drool*

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Aug 03, 2011 

7.8 Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  8      Service  7      Value  7     

All I can say is yum. The Kung Pao chicken, fish-flavoured pork, and fish-flavoured eggplant are standouts.

Jun 08, 2011 

5.8 Average

Food  9      Ambience  4      Service  3      Value  7     

Excellent and very unique dishes that you can't find at other sichuan restaurants. Their cumin pork ribs are to die for! The crab was a bit disappointing, I prefer the crab you get at Tooraking by far. Get there early (before 6 pm) or make a booking or you'll be waiting for a long time.

Oct 14, 2010 

4.3 Below Average

Food  5      Ambience  4      Service  5      Value  3     

Food was really chilli hot although I asked for it to be toned down. Could harldy eat anything. Be prepared!

Sep 04, 2010 

4.8 Average

Food  3      Ambience  5      Service  3      Value  8     

I've been here a few times with my work colleagues to enjoy cheap spicy food.
Unfortunately, today I found a piece of steel wool in my lunch time special Black Pepper Beef. Upon highlighting this to my waitress, she showed the piece of steel wool to her apparent supervisor.

After waiting approximately 5-10 minutes to see what response we would have, (none forthcoming), we raised the issue again with the manager, who offered me either a new dish, a 30% discount or a free drink.

Aug 09, 2010 

8.5 Highly Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  8      Service  7      Value  10     

This place really is Dainty Sichuan under another name. And thank God. The city has been a much poorer place since Dainty moved to South Yarra.

The room is functional and generally full of students after a big cheap feed. The new menu is the most lavish menu I have ever seen in a restaurant, it is like a very expensive coffeetable book with all the glossy pictures to match.

Food is amazingly good and you will get items on the menu here that you won't see elsewhere in Melbourne. Sizes are ridiculously large, 4 of us could not get through half of the 3 mains we ordered.

Again a word to the wise. Take note of the chilli ratings here. Mild rated dishes here would be rated seriously hot elsewhere. Only chilli freaks should go near anything with the "3 Chilli" rating.

But this place is not all about seriously spicey dishes. There is lots of variety and just about every dish looks like it would be worth trying. Service is functional and no fuss. Be warned that they take cash only, there are no credit card facilities.

Jul 01, 2010 

9 Highly Recommended

Food  10      Ambience  8      Service  8      Value  10     

First of all, I'm a massive Szechuan fanatic so I was really excited to hear that Dainty was replaced by another Szechuan restaurant after they moved to South Yarra.

On a weekday lunch, for $8.50, I had fantastic tea tree mushrooms with pork shreds, and all the flavours were absolutely perfect. My companions had classic Szechuan dishes kung po chicken and dry-fried green beans with minced pork, which were both spot on. I really can't fault the food at this place, and on a taste-per-dollar basis, it's probably my favourite lunch in the city. For those who are worried about spice, there are plenty of dishes here that are mild but still big on flavour, like the tea tree mushrooms I had.

The dinner menu is more substantial and pricey, and it has heaps of excitement on it, as well as many classic Szechuan dishes. It's funny, I ate somewhere else a couple of weeks ago, and despite the great service, I found the food technically competent but unexciting, and wrote off the whole experience as demonstrating very poor value for money. It turns out Sichuan House does Chinese cuisine far more favours, and at 1/10th of the price it's pretty much unsurpassed in Melbourne. Highly recommended.

Jun 22, 2010 

9.3 Highly Recommended

Food  10      Ambience  9      Service  9      Value  9     

The food was amazing, I truly enjoyed it. This restaurant was recommended to me via a tv show called no reservations. Heres the youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU5Zl_0CI3g />
I thought the food was exactly as described in the show, it was so spicy I just kept wanting more. So delicious! I loved the cumin pork ribs. Service was pretty good as well, and the wait for the food wasn't long. Overall it was a wonderful experience!

Feb 13, 2010 

8.5 Highly Recommended

Food  10      Ambience  10      Service  7      Value  7     

The food at this place is so mouth-wateringly spicy I broke down in tears. Of joy.
Whilst the spice can be incredible, its perfectly balanced by flavoursome dishes.
My personal favorite: Cumin Pork Ribs. Spicy and dry on the outside, juicy and delicious on the inside. Perfectly balanced!

Jan 22, 2010