Fat Buddha Restaurant Sydney

Fat Buddha Restaurant Details

Fat Buddha Restaurant Address

Queen Victoria Building
Level 2, Shop 201, 455 George St
Sydney NSW 2000
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Cuisines

Chinese, Seafood, Yum Cha

Prices

Average Meal Price $45 - based on one entree & main course only
Entrees $9.80-$25.80
Mains $19.80-$33.80
Desserts $9.80-$12.80
Lunch Yum Cha menu $4.50 - $9.50 per dish and a-la-carte price referred to our a-la-carte menu.

Bookings

Bookings are preferred

Rooms & Capacity

No of Seats 200

Hours

Lunch
Mon to Sun 10:30am - 3pm
Dinner
Mon to Sun 5:30pm - 10:30pm
Always Open 24/7/365

Specialties

Refined range of Yum Cha dim sum
Peking duck
Wok seared wild barramundi
Salt & pepper mud crab

Strict Dress Code

Smart casual

Serves

Serves Lunch
Serves Dinner

Delivery

Fat Buddha offer catering/corporate events menu within CBD area, for enquiries please email/phone us.

Classifications

Restaurants

Payment Types Accepted

Amex: EFTPos
Mastercard: Visa

Parking

Parking Station
Street Parking
Valet Parking
Parking Suggestions
Fat Buddha offer daily flat rate $5.00 per car per entry at QVB after 5pm. Entry via York Street corner Market Street.

Established in 2011

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Overview of Fat Buddha Restaurant

At Fat Buddha, we offer a menu cultivated from 3000 years of Cantonese culinary history. Diners won't be disappointed by the experience we bring to dishes such as barbequed corn-fed squab, wok seared wild barramundi, lotus root stuffed with pork and shrimp, steamed mud crab with egg white custard, and seared Wagyu beef with black fungi and fresh wild yam. An all day Yum Cha is also on offer. CBD workers will be able to enjoy classic favourites in their lunch hour-piping hot steamed prawn dumplings, freshly made rolls with BBQ pork, crasy salt and pepper squid and much more. For a more decadent lunch or dinner, diners can indulge in dishes such as the "Legendary Eight Treasure" of double cooked whole duck stuffed with eight traditional ingredients such as lotus seed, pearl barley and salted duck egg, or the roasted pork ribs with vintage black vinegar.

User Reviews of Fat Buddha Restaurant, Sydney

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5.8 Average

Food 7 Ambience 5 Service 5 Value 6

Went there twice. The first was a Sunday evening lured by the fact that yum cha was on offer at 6pm. Whilst the food was good, the menu is yum cha food, ordered a la carte. We asked for the dishes (about 10 of them between the 4 of us) to be spaced. They came virtually all at once, resulting in cold food.

There was only one other table occupied and it seemed rather empty (I guess it was). The architecture is nice, but when you are sitting almost alone in the expanse, ambience suffers.

The food was very good, spoiled only by the fact that half the dishes were cold by the time we got to eat them because of the delivery.

We also tried it during the week for lunch-time yum cha. This time the place was full, and trolley service available. It is fine, but doesn't stand out from any other yum cha, and is probably less atmospheric.

Lastly, I thought the a la carte menu had some interesting dishes on it. (and for those like it, it is one of the few restaurants where you can get shark fin, I'm not going to editorialise, merely stating a fact).

May 23, 2012

honestreviewernsw
13

8.3 Highly Recommended

Food 9 Ambience 8 Service 9 Value 7

Amazing food, lovely service and reasonable value. Sure you can find cheaper yum cha in Chinatown but this the quality of food, service and cleanliness wouldn't be as good. Go for any of the steamed dumplings and BBQ buns - yum!

Feb 08, 2012

be polite
3

6 Average

Food 3 Ambience 7 Service 9 Value 5

Just didn't like it. Thought the BBQ pork was not marinated long enough. Pan fried turnip cakes didn't have their usual crust but were soaked in fat. Beef Cheung Fen didn't taste right. The only dishes I liked there were the classic char siu bao (how can one get this wrong though?), lava custard buns and prawn and chives dumplings (the chives' seasoning was genuine).

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Jan 28, 2012

frenchinsydney
12

5.5 Average

Food 7 Ambience 8 Service 6 Value 1

Some dishes are good, like the fried eggplant, steam beefballs. But the scallop taro dumpling is way over priced, $9.5 for 3 small ones, I can get a big plate of noodles or something elsewhere, the price is not justified. It is way too expensive which is a shame, I wouldn't go back unless I'm forced by colleagues.

Jan 04, 2012

Reigns
34

5.5 Average

Food 6 Ambience 7 Service 7 Value 2

Three friends took me to Fat Buddha for my birthday a couple of weeks ago. It was fairly Ok, nothing standout. What surprised me was how expensive it was! We didn't eat that much and my three friends wouldn't let me pay but they shelled out $43 each. So nearly $130 in total for not a lot of food. I have had yum-cha that is much nicer and much less expensive out in the suburbs. Would hesitate in returning or recommending.

Nov 29, 2011

topazmooncat
'love eating out'
90

1.8 Not Recommended

Food 2 Ambience 1 Service 1 Value 3

We did not have a good experience at Fat Buddha. It took staff about 5-7 minutes to acknowledge us as we waited for a table and when they did acknowldege us, they were not friendly. We ordered from a waiter and the wrong food was brought out. This resulted in the waiter and another staff member yelling loudly over the top of us in a language we didn't understand.

Another waiter was arranging dirty dishes in a big two tier trolley behind me while I ate my meal. Put all that aside, the food was nothing special. I will not be going back.

Oct 30, 2011

88tac
3

7.5 Recommended

Food 9 Ambience 8 Service 6 Value 7

Yum finally a yum cha in a good venue! Love this place :-)

Oct 24, 2011

pippeony
10

7.3 Recommended

Food 6 Ambience 9 Service 8 Value 6

Great location for yum cha. The carts kept coming around regularly which is good but they didn't have a wide range of dishes, most were dumplings and deep fried goodies, and they asked us several times if we wanted anything else from the kitchen as a special order.

Oct 23, 2011

orolain
68

8 Recommended

Food 9 Ambience 8 Service 8 Value 7

I was given a gift/dinner voucher of Fat Buddha as my birthday present from my boss. My husband and me went there last night and enjoyed some really delicious dishes, especially the sauteed sea scallop and chicken sang choy bow. We both loved the decor that mixed so well with the QVB historical structure. The service was good too, with the price a bit on the high side, but understandable being at the centre of CBD.

Oct 21, 2011

China L.
3

1 of 1 reader found the following review helpful

5 Average

Food 3 Ambience 6 Service 6 Value 5

If you are looking for a good quality yum cha place, there is Zilver and good old Marigold in Chinatown or Sky Phenoix in Westfiled CBD. What the Fat Buddha is offering far from the standard you could even get from some local suburban yum cha restaurants.

Issues are there are limited choices (2 carts to be exact), prawns are not fresh and the dumpling doughs were far too thick by standard. More importantly, the dim sums are either too salty, too sweet, simply tasteless and we were shocked by the colour, taste and ingredients used in the most standard stick rice wrapped in lotus leaves. In one of the other dish, the sauce was so thick that it was set like jelly which we have never seem in any yum cha restaurants.

Service was not rude but the quality of the food is the let down. We will not be back again.

Oct 08, 2011