Soluxe

This place went downhill period. They have a new chef, thus a new menu, and new (worst) flavours. I was actually looking forward to a special dish, as I liked it very much when I first had it in the summer of 2015. However, when the waitress brought the dish to our table, I knew the presentation is different from last time. Hoping the flavour would remain same, I was totally wrong after having the first bite. Ingredients tasted like being undercooked and the flavours didn’t blend in together. I raised the question to a waitress and she grabbed a spoon «scanning» the dish, then left without saying anything but «I see.» She never came back! I overheard she spoke Cantonese to a waiter telling him about my complaint. That’s it. My party did not enjoy our meal at all, nor did we finished it, and had to leave with empty stomachs. Never go back again. Avoid this place at all cost.

Food is made to order, great service and very good food! We ordered fresh noodles with enoki, the plate was huge! Gai lan was crispy and dumplings are just amasing. Staff was really friendly also.

Wow. Talk about going completely downhill. This is my first visit after about a year ago and the menu is different, the staff is different, and I can’t even comment on the food because I didn’t have over an hour to wait. Everyone knows the lunch hour is busy. So do you make sure you have enough kitchen staff to cook around lunch? My friend and I waited 45 minutes after we ordered and our food still didn’t arrive. My coworker was sitting at the table next to us and their food was slowly trickling out from the kitchen.
The wait staff are SO disorganized. It so happened that my coworker and I both ordered the same dish but theirs went to us (same dish but different size). We actually started eating it (after confirming it twice that it is the size we ordered) and then the staff figured out the error so guess what… the server grabbed the dish off our table and put it onto theirs. Um, really? Good thing I’m not infectious with anything (I did tell my coworker that I ate some, but she was fine). No one has any idea of what we ordered. The manager /​supervisor came by and said the dish I picked is not available. First of all, I didn’t order that dish. And second of all, you tell me this 40 minutes after I ordered? So I told our server that we were leaving, and he’s like no no, I’ll make sure your food comes out NOW. Two minutes later, he’s holding someone else’s dish and then asked if that’s mine. Yeah, we left on the spot.
We then walked across the street to Delicious Country and ordered, ate, paid and left within 20 minutes. I’m done with this restaurant.

Oh gosh I hope this place is not the new standard in Calgary. My face started feel bloated after the first few bites from the MSG overload. Service is horrendous, as they like to leave you to sit and simmer for 30mins and never come back to take your order.
Never. Again.

The restaurant had the northern China cuisine before. As they have changed the chef, the taste is now more to the southern China cuisine, but still have pretty good northern China dishes as well. Soluxe has two private rooms, one of them is quite big and very suitable for a private lunch/​dinner meeting. You would have to book it in advance for the private room as it is hard to find in Calgary for such a big private room.

Service is good, food was great! The shrimp stir fry with tea leaves was yummy! Eggplant pot plate was awesome too. They specialize in Northern China Cuisine.

Service was not bad, chairs way too low and my 1 authentic Chinese friend said dim sum was not up to par although it was ok to the untrained taste bud.

We finally tried this place today! and my wife really enjoyed it; I mean it’s authentic Northern-​Style Chinese food. Oily, yes, but they locked so much flavour in their oils you can ignore it. I don’t know how many times I’ve wanted to try this place; from the first time I saw them open to the countless times I’ve walked by but are at U&Me, Silver Dragon, Kim Chee House or anything else but Soluxe in their stead. For those of you who don’t know, my wife is Chinese and she knows her Chinese food. She also mentioned their food is oily, but did continue saying but it’s real. If you want another authentic Chinese dining experience in Calgary; don’t skip this place like I did countless times; it’s worth it.
Keep in mind it’s not always busy and you’ll wonder if they’re open; but they are, of course, when they have the open sign lit up! A little on the pricier side of Chinese restaurants in Calgary, but it truly is a different experience. They even have frog!!! yum and you don’t have to have it Szechwan style; just ask them to make it not spicy! trust me; you want to ask them if you’ve never had it before and want to actually finish the dish. Deep fried pork bones?! oh yeah!!! really good, but best to share with at least 4 people.
Peace!

We had dinner on a weekday evening. The chairs are very low and there was a tv mounted on the wall which we found entertaining. The food is mainly Szechuan style which is spicy and hot. We ordered the Mongolian chicken which was not fresh, too salty, and overcooked. The steamed fish was very fishy & possibly cooked from frozen. The best dish was the house special fried rice made with fried eggs, Chinese sausage and shrimp. I would have just given a rating of 1 star but added the extra star for the attentive waitress (singular) by the name of Maggie. The other waitress was surly and extra pushy when it came to settle the cheque.