Beef With Black Bean Sauce Beef With Black Bean Sauce

Tender beef stir-fried with savory black bean sauce, bell peppers, and onions.

Cathay Rendezvous Mǎn Tíng Huān Bristol Centre

Cathay Rendezvous Mǎn Tíng Huān Bristol Centre

30 King Street, Bristol, BS14DZ, BS1 4DZ, United Kingdom

Asian • Buffet • Dining • Chinese


"Hospitality businesses have had it tough over the past few years, but even making allowances for that, there’s no excuse for probably the worst meal I’ve had for a very long time. I should have paid attention to other recent reviews. It takes a particular skill (and not a good one) to be able to serve up a meal so completely lacking in flavour and taste. First up, the restaurant lacks any atmosphere. Granted it was early evening but we were put in an empty room so cold we had to keep our coats on. A couple of small heaters had no impact at all. On the positive side, service was attentive. The mixed starter plate was the usual mixed starter in a Chinese restaurant. Not home made, all bought in, we’ve had it numerous times. The chicken satay was a particular low point but fairly typical of all the meat dishes, a rare combination of tough but watery. As for the sauces, absolutely a million miles away from even moderate flavour to coat the meats. And sesame toast and spring roll – how can you cook the flavour out of that? Crispy aromatic duck with pancakes – the pancakes were the only things as expected. A bit of a high point, almost. There was no crispy and no aromatic, the duck was bordering on tepid and again no flavour. We had a polite word with our server who said he would speak to the kitchen to see what could be done. Given they were unlikely to be preparing fresh for us, I doubted we’d get anything. Three dishes came out flavourless and barely warm. A chicken dish came out with the server proclaiming the hope that this dish would be different. Indeed it was. It was hot, for a start. Then we found out why, it seemed like in order to get some flavour into the dish, it had been given a quick go in a wok and doused in soy sauce. So, it did have flavour, just not the flavour of the dish. Given it was so cold in there we couldn’t really even laugh the experience off as ‘one of those things’. I can’t recommend this restaurant to my worst enemy."

Henry Wong

Henry Wong

283 High Street, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Coffee • Seafood • Meat Dish • Full Available


"Dear Sir/MadamFurther to our first and now probable last meal at your establishment l will endeavour to tell you why. Last night was a visit that we were hoping would remind us of our celebratory Cantonese wedding meal we had years ago when we were married abroad. Henry Wong had come highly recommended and l will say your actual food was delicious but the meal was marred almost from the start.We had booked several weeks ago and we like to arrive in time for our booking, in this case minutes before on arrival we were greeted with almost a grunt and a demeanour of what are you doing here! Not a good evening how can l help you? We were then rushed to a table that wasn't even set, we'd have happily waited and even had a drink at the bar that was in front of us but that wasn't even suggested. We then ordered our drinks which were fine except that we had to ask three times before the additional water that we had ordered was brought to the table . We were only a table of three but our starters and mains didn't come together. My son and l were waiting for some time after our rice and noodles and my husbands main had been delivered.This is not the kind of service we expected, we didn't seem to have a designated waiter, l think we were served by different people, at at no time were we asked if everything was alright, was there anything else we wanted. We even had to wait minutes for the bill.This was a celebratory meal for my husband and l, we were not expecting any free extras but your web site mentions how you cater for celebrations and we did say on booking and on confirming our booking that it was our silver wedding anniversary ad it wasn't even wasn't even referred to.All in all we were totally underwhelmed and disappointed and what should have been a lovely evening was an expensive let down.Seriously disappointed"