Wongs Chinese Restaurant in Ranelagh.
While booking a table for dinner tonite I just remembered to post a small warning on a recent experience. Dinner in Wongs Chinese Restaurant in Ranelagh last Thursday turned out to be one of the worst dining experiences I’ve ever had in a restaurant in Dublin. Yep, I think I’ll even include take-away dining experiences in that observation.
- Stale prawn crackers. Imagine, a “gourmet” Chinese restaurant that cannot even serve fresh prawn crackers. Then imagine that they store said prawn crackers on shelves above the cloak room rails (I kid you not).
- Uninspired, bland, overpriced, precooked main dishes. Incredibly, we were were served about two minutes after ordering, they did not even pretend to cook the food after it was ordered.
- An obligitary 10% service charge added to the bill total - for a table of 3. I thought this begorra-chance-me-arm practice had died out in the 90s?
How such a terrible restaurant can survive in a gastro-mecca like Ranelagh is beyond me. Silly rich people who don’t know any better perhaps?
Back to Zen in Rathmines for me that type of meal in future…
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Hi there,
Just thought you might be interested in a new restaurant website I found the other day. Its menupages.ie. They seem to have every restaurant in Dublin listed and you can view the menu, photo, map of each place and then submit reviews, there are some good honest reviews up there.
Check it out!!!
Just read the bit about Zen in Rathmines, thats my favourite Chinese in Dublin. Mmmm yummy!
Thanks for that Pinky, I’ve been relying primarily on word of mouth, backed up by the excellent Fork’n'Cork forums (http://www.forkncork.com/content/forumdisplay.php?s=f9e7ec67243f637d1675f46e5dd80c4f&forumid=9)
and AdLib (http://www.adlib.ie) for contact details. menupages.ie looks good - menus and google maps, nice!