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Rated: Average
based on 12 reviews
China House
Grand Hyatt Mumbai, Off Western Express Highway, Santacruz (E), Mumbai
66761086
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| Locality | Santacruz (E) |
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| Place Type | Lounge, Restaurant |
| Food Type | Chinese |
| Price |
Expensive
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Credit cards accepted
Air conditioned
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first reviewed by anishtripathi
- User Reviews (12)
Jul 18, 2008
after1.00am
best place 2 be open right till 3.00am - best drinks - crowd very sexy - food awful- peanuts great - music - mix of new & old - EXPENSIVE. stags allowed but before 11.pm only if u knw few stewards, mind ur outfit - got to be best no small cars please.... only salooons.
Apr 08, 2008
Good Food, Bad Service
I was entertaining some business associates last evening at the Hyatt Lounge and then carried on to China House. The Hyatt is a regular of mine as I usually go to Som or the bar quite often for a post work drink with associates. China House was a first time experience.
First impressions - tasteful decor and quite a serene outdoors marred by a bright interior. The cubicles are quite private and give you the opportunity to have a conversation without a 100 prying ears surrounding you.
Secondly, food is good albeit highly expensive. We had one round of starters (lotus root fritters and crab meat soup dumplings), followed by claypot vegetables and sichuan chicken for mains accompanied by fried rice and noodles. The bill was nearly Rs. 8,000. I am not complaining as I guess you are sort of paying for the "tao" experience, haha!!
Thirdly, to say the service is "slighly" snooty is an understatement. Here's why - I CANNOT understand EVEN if you are an accomplished restaurateur with some knowledge of food giving me lip, after all I am a customer willing to pay your fancy price. What upsets me more is some trainee waiter acting like he owns a michelin star place and is doing me a favour by waiting at my table - I mean, if he had tilted his head a little further upwards, I could have seen his brains right through his nostrils - as the Queen of Hearts would say, "Off with his head", ok off with one point!!!
I am lopping off 1 point for clumsy service (including aiming to pour water on the tables, not the glasses and spilling the claypot vegetables/mushrooms on the table and denying me the pleasure of eating them). I expect table service at an upscale restaurant to be impeccable.
The host's attitude counts for a lot during a meal. So, overall, I would think twice before going there again.
Cheers
S
Mar 08, 2008
lounge / clubbing review
the big mistake we did was to get to the place at 10ish on Friday night. It was practically empty. It started filling up at 11 and was packed by midnight. Probably thats why the DJ played pretty boring music till 11 and then slightly better music till midnight.
One thing I didn't quite appreciate is that they had no bar stools. When I asked the bar tender if he could set us up with some bar stools, he gave me the lamest answer possible - we don't keep bar stools on a weekend.
The funny thing is he got onto playing hip hop at 1.30 when we were ready to leave the place. And even funnier, there was a line outside.
The drinks are alright. Please don't try the overly expensive fancy drinks. The one I was made to try was flaming lamborgini. It was overly expensive and totally impotent.
The crowd, as expected, was quite hip. I liked the place. I would have given it a 3.5.
Feb 20, 2008
Its Sad but the CLASS of a 5 Star is no where near
Hello
I would only like to say something's about "China House Lounge / Clubbing experience"
- The A/c air conditioning SUCKS !! Its a hotel, and they can fix this in single day, (if this is the fault of bad inexperienced architect)
- But this has not yet been fixed inspite of several repeated complains
- The A/c sucks even more on the table/cubicle area which cost 30,000+ and still has NO A/c ?
- The DJ plays exactly the same music all over again, every time I have been there.. I don't know where he gets his "pathetic" "slow" "boring" music from. (or shud we call him a DJ)
- The managers look at you constantly in your FACE, its so embarrassing, if you are not ordering a drink, but just come to meet a few friends, DONT THEY KNOW, in mumbai if you are alone, you cannot drink and drive (many friends meet up at a Lounge/PUB/CLUB just to be with each other...and dont they know every one coming to this 5 START joint wud not be coming in a Auto-rickshaw
I don't understand how people who are from the highest CLASS and CREAM of Mumbai, go to such places and cant "abandon" because of lack of such a important service. And still hype this place to the level, that till today I have not been able to figure out how they distinguish between who they allow and who they don't allow to enter ?
Jan 14, 2008
dinner/food review
Went to China House w/the fiance this past Friday, expecting to be treated like I was a Ming Dynasty emperor. The entrance to this place is quite breathtaking - large wooden doors open up onto giant slabs of concrete seemingly floating in a shallow pond littered with fish and pond foliage. A few scattered tables, mostly for large parties, are in this open-air section. Follow the path to another set of large wooden double-doors, and you've reached the main entrance to the dining room. The decor is fantastic here. Although I'm not familiar with Chinese artifacts and interior decorating sense, this place seems to be somewhat authentic. The kitchen has got a glass pane facing the dining room, so revelers can peer in to see what's cookin', as well as try and guess what the dried ingredients might be in at least 50 glass containers sitting on the kitchen shelving.
We sat at our small table for two, and were instantly served small, palate-cleansing portions of cold vegetables (yellow squash, cucumber, and tempeh), as well as something a little squishier, almost the consistency of seaweed (it was tasty).
We decided to peer at the wine menu, but were very surprised to see a lot of the wines on their list included the name of the vintner, the vintage and the year, but failed to list the varietal! I pointed this out to the waiter, and he embarrassingly started to bring bottles to our table so I could read the varietals from the label. We ended up with a bottle of the 2005 Morton Estate Pinot Noir from New Zealand - not quite ready to drink, but a fair table wine.
We ordered some dim sum to start, one of prawns and the other of chicken, and it was great. The dim sum came out piping hot, in bamboo steamers. Carrots were intelligently placed under the dim sum, as to prevent sticking to the wood.
We then moved on to a seafood dumpling soup with prawns and abalone. I have always been a big abalone fan, and I remember days when my father would buy abalone directly from fisherman and cook it in his style. It would remain soft, buttery in consistency, and utterly delicious...which was why I was extremely disappointed to find the abalone in the soup as chewy as rubber. Some of it even had stringy flesh, making it impossible to swallow.
We then wrestled in between continuing to order more dim sum, or try some of the main course. We errantly opted for the latter. We ordered the much-written about hand-pulled Dang Dang noodles, and they were way too salty, doused mostly in soy sauce, and the chicken tit bits seemed to be extremely low quality sausage meat. The soft-shell crab dish was fried until they resembled pakoras, so after a few artery destroying bites, we left it alone as well.
All in all, the experience started out very promising, but then soon took a nose dive when we migrated away from the dim sum menu. I've heard from friends that Royal China in Bandra is the much better option for dim sum, so the reasons to dine at China House continue to plummet. All in all, an average experience, but such a highly touted 5-star joint ought to really be striving for perfection. Disappointed and will probably not dine here again.