Chefs Gallery Townhall

Stopped in on a Monday night and it was almost completely full. Service was fast and very friendly. The noodles

Having been to the one in the city, I expected the same quality but I was greatly disappointed. The staff were rather hopeless as they couldn’t manage the overflow of patrons waiting and the service was quite inefficient. Food was also mediocre with an inconsistency between dishes — some would be full of flavour whilst others lacked any flavour at all.

Studying abroad from America.
I was on George St. looking for some good Chinese food and boy did I pick the right spot. Using Unilocal to make my decision was a smart move.
Not only was the food AHMAAAZZING, the spices and flavors were incredible. Not to mention the presentation was nothing short of beautiful.
Oh…and did I mention it took longer to get someone to take our order for the food to come out… yea, you heard me right, our food came out of the kitchen in less than 15 minutes. WITH a full restaurant.
I recommend the Spicy Dumplings…
WILL RETURN WITH FRENDS.

Ok, this place has redeemed itself. I reluctantly agreed to go back and give this place another try after my friend kept going on and on about how great it is. I wasn’t upset just disappointed with my experience last time. But I’m a big believer in second chances so went back for a second visit.
New menu. New staff. Good service. Great experience. Loved everything we ordered and can’t wait to go back. Well done Chefs Gallery.

Laut, voll, quirlig. Ungemütlich. — In mehreren Listen ist dieses Restaurant einer der Top-​Chinesen in Sydney. Für mich nicht nachvollziehbar. — Das Essen ist eine lauwarme Enttäuschung. Der Service — ich mag ihn nicht als solchen bezeichnen. — Was mir gefallen hat: Die Speisekarte. Schön bebildert und Appetit machend. Leider hat das Dargebotene nicht viel mit dem zu tun, was gebracht wird. Abgesehen vom Preis.

This was an unexpected find. I stumbled upon this place by accident.
Modern inventive asian food done really well.
The service was fast and efficient, and the food delicious.

Yum yum yum
Make sure you come with at least 3 – 4 people as you will want to share and enjoy many different dishes.
The service is quick and efficient. Often there is a line outside but trust me it goes fast, the most I ever waited for a table was 15minutes, trust me worth the wait.
My favourites have to be:
— homemade noodles with duck
— me3 mini pork burgers
— cr6 shredded Peking duck roll
— Ds2 spicy prawn pork wontons
— ds16 prawn Shui mai
— ds11 deep fried prawn pat stickers
–v48 beans with pork mince
Yes yes call me little miss fatty but I just love food! Enjoy

There are so many items on the menu that I had analysis paralysis trying to work out what to order. It’s always busy here and often there is a wait for a table. You can order a few smaller plates to share so that you get to try a variety of dishes. They also have hand made noodles which are delicious. The beef tataki is also good. You can see the chefs making the noodles — pulling apart big strings of noodle, folding it in, pulling apart again. It really is an art form. It’s a little pricey and there are better value places down in Chinatown, but overall a good experience.

Thinking about the springy, freshly made dan dan noodles cooked Chinese-​al-​dente and served with broth or served dry, with sauce, is making me hungry even though I just had dinner!
My friend and I went on a Friday night and luckily we came just in time before the queues had started. The décor is modern and bright, service is like the typical Chinese service — fast but they don’t waste any time greeting customers or playing niceties. Serving sizes are substantial — I ate the spicy dan dan noodle dish before 6pm and couldn’t eat anything else until 11:30am the next day!
All in all, above average and I would go here again if it was convenient, but I wouldn’t make a special trip just to eat here or line up if the lines are humungous.

Decent food, wonderful plating, high prices.
The peking duck roti was a flavorful Chinese-​Malaysian fusion dish with authentic peking duck wrapped in roti-​style pancakes instead of traditional Chinese-​style pancakes. Slightly more oily but the texture of roti complements the crispy duck skin.
The piggy dessert platter was more of a disappointment. It looked very pretty in pictures but the black sesame filling was too sweet and the marshmallow bunnies tasted like supermarket marshmallow, shaped liked bunnies I guess… Good for kids/​taking photos/​first dates but really not something that I’d come back to eat.
The noodle dishes were authentic but mediocre among noodle dishes served at other Chinese restaurants, but this place is pricey. Especially with many noodle houses around this area, this place is overpriced.

Food — alright. Not the best, but not bad. I feel like the food here is not as authentic as many other Chinese restaurants in the area.
Service — they greet you when you enter. service is decent for a Chinese restaurant. One friendly thing for people that isn’t familiar with Chinese food, their entire menu is full with pictures. The restaurant is also very clean
Will I come back? Yes, because it’s clean and good service.
One thing to note: they have special offer with the entertainment book for 25% off and Citibank for a free bottle of wine if u spend $ 50 dollar or more!

Near Town Hall, a nice place for lunch. There is plenty of seats and baby prams are permitted. The food is good, a little up market in price. Try the hand made noodles, dumplings, Chinese Roti. They are all good.

This was one of those restaurants where it’s hard NOT to play with your food.
They had the funniest shaped buns and desserts, that my family and I couldn’t help but mess around with our food.
To be honest the food wasn’t that great, but it was better than Panda Express in San Francisco, if you know what I mean.
I remember this place being pretty expensive, but it was also hard for me as a tourist to find Asian food in Australia.

The Noodles definitely saved the day.
I came here with my mother to have lunch and I didn’t really have any high expectations (We have dined here frequently and have found that it was a solid food option).
I was pleasantly surprised when I changed my normal order to a vegetarian noodle option (I believe it was a spinach noodle option) and it was amazing. I know the name doesn’t sound appetizing and the picture is questionable but it was really good.
My mother choose the typical chili wonton noodle option and she liked it despite again complaining that it was too salty.
I think the noodles here really make the menu more then just a «ehh.okay» typical hyped up restaurant. It probably is also one of the only authentic menu items.
(I would give this place 3.5 stars… considering the oiliness of the food, portions and prices)

All I can say really is yum!!!
I have spent the past 3 years staring at this restaurant from across the street where my bus stop to Hills is, wondering at the long lines of people and their terrible LED sign out the front that never syncs colours. Wondering whether I should try it out. Finally one day when my friends were complaining about how we always go to the same places I suggested we go on a weeknight to avoid the crowds. We turned up at 6pm on a Tuesday night and it was already packed, they asked us if we had a reservation and we said no so we were asked to wait on the bench inside the door. Not for long though, about 10 minutes later we were shown to a seat on the bench in front of the kitchens. A nice spot for winter but as it was a warm summers day it did get a tad hot.
Despite that the food that came out was delicious! Handmade duck noodles, dumplings, fresh greens, porks buns and more dumplings topped off with mango pancakes for dessert (obviously). I need to come back and try more noodles and more dumplings because there was just too much on the menu that looked good and not enough time or room in my stomach to eat it all.
The downside of this restaurant is the service. It took them forever to come by and take our drinks order and then even longer to come by to take our food and dessert order. It’s not really a surprise because they are so busy and constantly turning around customers. Once the food was ordered however it came out promptly… there’s no waiting around for food here (probably they want to get you out quickly to accommodate the line of people outside).

Maybe my expectations were way too high after all the hype?
The restaurant isn’t styled like your typical Chinese joint; the inside is minimalistic, modern, and hip. The ambiance is nice for group gatherings and for catching up. It’s loud in here, so you don’t need to worry about your inappropriate conversations being overheard or eavesdropped on. ;) Our group of 4 was just barely able to snag a table for an early dinner at around 5pm. When we finished our meal, there were several groups outside mulling around waiting for a table. That’s how busy they get!
The menu boasts a lot of different items to choose from, including noodle dishes, rice dishes, various dim sum style offerings, to sweets. We decided to order a bunch of different items and share so we could try the most different things:
–Cucumber Salad in Chili Oil: Bland but spicy with no real flavor besides HOT. Didn’t taste like the cucumbers were marinated long enough. Would skip this unless you like things that are doused in chili oil and only chili oil.
–Salt and Pepper Chef’s Egg and Spinach Tofu: This was one of the hits of the night. The simple salt and pepper flavor really hits the spot when combined with the soft texture of the tofu. Plus it’s totally fried. Fried is good.
–Macanese Pork Filet Sliders: These were my second favorite of the meal. The buns were nice and soft and I liked the piggy overload of the pork floss combined with the perfectly seasoned pork filet.
–Random Noodle Dish: I wish I could remember the name of this dish or what it even looked like, but it must have offended me so bad that I subconsciously blocked it out of my memory. The bowl was tiny, the noodles sucked, and the spicy broth lacked any flavor.
We also ordered a veggie dish, a fried noodle dish and an order of fried rice, but none of these really stood out (or offended me) as much as those I had listed above. The fried rice was good, but not particularly special. We ordered a fried noodle dish which had good flavor but was a hot mess and extremely difficult to separate as all the noodles had congealed together in a gigantic noodle puck.
Meh. I must be missing something, but I don’t see what the hype is about this place. I might be raving if everything was maybe $ 5 – 7 cheaper, but at the prices they charge and for the quality of the food they give, I’d keep my dining options open and look elsewhere for Chinese food!

I’m still a fan of the noodles here.
Granted getting seated near the toilets is a bit crappy, however the place was pumping and we didn’t have a booking, so can’t really complain tooooo loudly.
I had the dan dan noodles with vegetables in the broth and it was rather spicy. It came with some BBQ pork ribs that my partner devoured. He got the duck noodles and said that he was really impressed with the way they did the duck and it was really yummy.
We had some of their fruity mocktails and some lamb rolls that were in some kind of filo pastry? Or something. Not sure, it was flaky and delicious.
Either way, this place is still winning in my books. I can’t wait to come back and try some other noodles that I haven’t tasted yet.

Overall great dining experience!
Four of us got there on a weekday at around 6pm. Even though it was a little early for dinner, glad we got there at that time as there was a line half an hour later !
Service was OK, not spectacular but then the restaurant is really busy so i guess the wait staff does not have the time to stand around to chat.
Prawn Potsticker ($ 14.90) — That’s probably my favourite dish for this meal. The potsticks are big and packed with prawns! Definitely not stingy with the filling and more importantly, not fried.
Fried bun with condensed milk ($ 7) — Good alternative to the items on the dessert menu
Handmade prawn noodles with chilli prawn paste ($ 17.90) — A little disappointed with this one as the tomato taste is overpowering.
Crispy barramundi and pork belly ($ 29.90) — OK, nothing special
Love the mango juice, very refreshing especially in the summer :)

Food was yummy. We started with the pork sliders and omg they were delicious my husband and I fought over the last one eventually deciding to cut it in half. Duck roti was also lovely. I order the of tail which I loved but my husband thought it was to fatty. Handmade noodle with duck were yum however the duck fried rice was nothing special. It wasn’t bad but I would go for more Noodles over it next time.
Will definitely return.

As far as Chinese food goes, Chef’s Gallery is a great blend of traditional and modern cuisine.
The food incorporates familiar Asian flavors while reworking the conventional presentation of its dishes — Whether it is in the form of sliders, spinach noodles, or wrapped up in a Chinese pancake — It doesn’t give off the air that it’s trying too hard to be unlike many other ‘fusion’ restaurants.
A solid thumbs up.

I’m a total foodie. That said, I can’t believe this place was not on my list of places. I stumbled upon this place on my way to dine at MissChu. When I saw the huge line of people and constant flow both in & out, I knew this place had to be good. There were also various accolades posted in the window that confirmed my intuition; «People Love Us On Unilocal» being one of them. I placed my name on the wait list, tore off a number, and waited a short 20 minutes or so. I was seated just in front of the chefs window, which was pretty neat. It was fun watching the chefs make fresh noodles and various other popular dishes.
Service was quite awful, but I’ve learned this to be true of most of my dining experiences in Sydney. When you’re seated, don’t expect a server to come and greet you or ask for your order. My table mates and I had to flag down a server in order to receive assistance. This place is super busy and, while you’ll see servers constantly running around, they never quite stop to service you. And, forget about getting refills on water, beverages, etc. I did not particularly enjoy this rat race of an experience. Especially, given this restaurant has received such high accolades — National best Asian Food Award, etc. However, after the wonderful food experience, the bad service became a distant memory.
The food was AMAZING. I ordered:
Strawberry Delight — a delicious beverage made of strawberry purée, muddled strawberries, and soda. Just wonderful
Spicy Prawn Dumpling — Not too spicy. Wonderful to dip in the sweet & spicy chili sauce.
Spicy Prawn Noodles — Good, but tad sweeter than expected. Next time I’ll opt for the spicy beef/​lamb dish served with spinach noodles. It looked divine.
This food here is pretty awesome. Because of this I will definitely return.