Act Food Guide

[GTR32GUS]

I have seen ppl on here before asking about resturants if they are good or bad and it got me thinking , why dont we start a food guide. If u have been to a good resturant , takeawy place or whatever let us know I dont really want to hear about the bad one rather the good ones. I will start the ball rolling with what I think is a kick ass pizza place

Johnos Pizza Mawson it next to the supermarket think it might be Mawson Pl

Taste......I would give the pizza 9/10 not oily good mix of topping and cheese

How Clean..........Always nice and clean no funny smells in shop 9/10

Service......... well its a takeaway place u order u get your food never kept waiting long , no good looking girls only old dudes 7/10

Value..........$15 gets a big pizza hard to put away between 2 blokes 8/10

Parking..........huge car park across the road 10/10

That about all I think of at the moment , maybe the r34 owners can fill us in about the high end resturants and the r33 owner can tell us about some good seafood places .... because they spend so much time in boats HA HA only jokes

Any input would be good , i want to try some new places

[leech_]

Business Name: Ginseng

Location: Manuka

Food Type: Chinese

Taste: 9/10

Service: 9/10 (you get little peanuts if you eat in )

Value: 8/10

Parking: It’s in Manuka so big coles car park and some street parking

Overall Review: Very nice food across the board. I had it last night actually if you got and eat in I suggest the following 5 Spice Squid, Duck Pancakes and the Red Curry Hot Pot... For a Chinese restaurant it is a little pricey but like most things in the world you get what you pay for + I think it won like Chinese restaurant of the year last year for the A.C.T

[SKYLVIA]

Business Name: Grand Court

Location: Calwell

Food Type: Chinese

Taste: 10/10 (depends what you order though)

Service: 8.7/10

Value: 8/10

Parking: Meh, its calwell...

Review: its all fairly good in general, but you GOTTA i mean GOTTA!!! get the rock salt squid, it is the BOMB!!!!! also good is the satay chicken, sweet and sour chicken, and chicken corn soup

[CEF11E]

Business Name: Tak Kee

Location: Dickson

Food Type: Chinese

Taste: 10/10 everything is super happy good. laksa is a 10/10

Service: 7/10 fast but no good looking chicks

Value: 8/10

Parking: 3/10 dickson sucks for parking

Tak Kee is always full. its cheap and you know its good because everyone eating there is asian. If i was chinese i wouldn't go to a shitty chinese restraunt so I know it's good!

[Amaru]

Business Name: La Rustica

Location: Kingston

Food Type: Italian

Taste: 10/10

Service: 8.5/10

Value: 9/10

Parking: Depends on hour, Kingston can suck ass to find parking at say 8pm on a Friday night.

Awesome italian place, good value for money and the food has always tasted good. Personal reccomendations are the Calabrese pizza and lasagne.... mmmmm...

[GTRgeoff]

Business Name: Timmy's Kitchen

Location: Manuka

Food Type: Asian

Taste: 10/10

Service: 10/10

Value: 9/10

Parking: Depends but has a large undercover across the road. My favourite from all my time in ACT. Was there 3 weeks ago. The Lamb curry is awesome as is the Gulai Ayam and the Wu Wok Yu but I really love the Shantung chicken.

So many good places in Canberra and surrounds, would take forever to list them and time to get somewhere is so short. I'd rather live in Canberra again than Melbourne. Tak Kee has the best chinese BBQ I've had ever.

[GTS_DUY]

Business Name: Sammy's Kitchen

Location: City

Food Type: Malaysian/Chinese

Taste: 10/10

Service: 5/10

Value: 9/10

Parking: Bit difficult since they started constructing that new area.

I work in a restaurant, and come from a family who have all been chefs at some point in our lives, so we know what good food is, sammy's is one of the only restaurants in canberra that we'll eat at...

their shantung chicken is the best in canberra, to which no other place can match (apparently the owner mixes the sauce after hours so that no one can steal his recipe), and their rock salt calamari is perfect...

service is shit, same as at babar or lisboa for example, so they can turn over tables as quickly as they can, but food is awesome and very well priced.

Business Name: Ruby's/Jimmy's

Location: Dickson

Food Type: Chinese

Taste: 9/10

Service: 6.5/10

Value: 6/10

Parking: Dickson, not too hard

I've put these two together cos they're roughly the same. they're seafood menu is farken awesome, albeit expensive...i've never eaten from their normal a la carte menu, only been there for wedding receptions (ruby's twice), and pre set seafood lunches (jimmy's). lobster/crab/oysters rock, but yeh...expensive.

Edited May 16, 2006 by GTS_DUY

[Mr Italy!]

Business Name: The land of goat sphincter rings Pide House

Location: Jamison -- (another one in Civic)

Food Type: The land of goat sphincter rings - ie dips, breads, pizzas, etc

Taste: 9/10

Service: 7/10

Value: 6/10

Parking: 4/10 - Kinda small, for some reason they have kinda thin parking bays, its strange.

Ohhhh i love this place, if you like The land of goat sphincter rings food this is the place to do. I'm actually drooling a little bit as i write this. Make the best Humas dip ever! Kinda expensive but if your addicted to it like i am, the taste outways the cost.

[race_snooze]

Bharat Internation,

Location: Belconnen Oatley Court.

food Type: Currys (chicken only) They are an indian Grocer plus take away.

Taste: 9/10

Service: 7/10

Value: 8/10

Parking: 10/10

Good curry shop, service is great but take your time to work out what they are saying. Only down side is ther is only 3 main currys you can get. Chicken curry, Butter Chicken, Chicken Vindalo (ohh thats good)

I have to agree with Leaigh and Nick

[Amaru]

Business Name: The land of goat sphincter rings Palace (I think, cant remember exactly off the top of my head)

Location: Erindale

Food Type: The land of goat sphincter rings

Taste: 9/10

Service: 10/10

Value: 8/10

Parking: Lots of parking its in that row of shops that has dominos, pizza hut, kingsleys etc.

Awesome The land of goat sphincter rings place for southsiders (never been one south side). Service is excellent and food is always ready when they say it will be. The land of goat sphincter rings food always costs a little bit more, but one pide/pizza is $14 and will feed at least 2 people. On par if not slightly better than The land of goat sphincter rings Pide House in my opinion. They do some mean lemon+garlic+herbs lamb skewers with rice, and spicy salami and traditional chicken pides/pizzas. The parmesan chicken with aioli dip is awesome too... man im hungry now!

Edited May 16, 2006 by Amaru

[SKYLVIA]

Business Name: Oporto

Location: Woden and Civic

Food Type: Chicken

Taste: 10/10

Service: 8.9/10 (depends how busy it is)

Value: 10/10

Best damn fast food chicken in all of canberra!!!!

i recommend the Bondi Burger, its up to you if you want chilli or not, but theyre damn good!!!!!

[MIVEC]

Sorry Beau, but the last two times I've had Oporto it has been less than appeasing, especially for the price.

Service is good though.

[Amaru]

Id agree, Oporto has become absolute crap. When it opened in Woden like 3 years ago it was good, but the burgers are always shit house now and the chips are never cooked properly.

[Bluprint]

Bullet32 and I can vouch for the strength of Oporto's chilli......

But yeah, I'm not a fan of the place overall

Edited May 16, 2006 by Bluprint

[SkyGTRline]

Business Name: MacDonalds

Location: Alot of the places

Food Type: PLastic

Taste: 1/10

Service: Sh!t/10

Value: 5/10

[leech_]

See this thread's already gone to shit with people and crappy reviews...

Sammy's kitchen would get like an 7/10 for taste but maybe a 9/10 for value...

and Timmy's kitchen getting 10/10 for TASTE pfft a 6/10 at best...

to many 10/10's here as well

[Frink]

HAHAHA!!!

Business name: Kashmir House

Location: Narrabundah shops

Food Type: Indian

Taste: 10/10

Service: 8.5/10

Value: 9/10

this place is just awesome. once you've eaten this curry, anything else tastes pretty bland. the best ever rogan-josh, great vindaloo and good service. the resturant seems a little 'cheap', its pretty old, but it won best indian resturant the last 2 years running.....

Warning: curry could potentially cause dis-comfort to the rectal area. if a stinging sensation persists, see your doctor.....

[SKYLVIA]

i wuv oportos chicken burgers, and the chips are always made fresh when i order... yummo

[GTRgeoff]

Well Lee, that's just what I like, and strangely it's similar to the food I eat when I'm in those parts of the world, plus Elaine has been a good friend for years and I've never faulted Timmy's food or service once in the 14 years I've eaten there.

As for Ginseng, well I didn't rate it that great (although it could be better now) and the prices were 4/10 as they were too high. But I didn't tell you that your opinion was crap.

Thanks for being inconsiderate to others on the forum.

[SKYLVIA]

shame on you leigh.

why are the majority of places here asian restaurants? isnt there any good mediteranean food?

dunno what the service is like now, but Hogs breath (Civic is a nicer place to eat, unless you like the whole bush shed feel, then go to woden) is the bomb. but, i havent been there in a long time so it may have changed...