Quay View Chinese Restaurant, Dundrum, Newcastle, Co Down Review

Good Points
Lovely view and food on the menu sounded lovely.

Bad Points
Inflexibility and discrimination against our child, who will not eat chips, chicken nuggets or the other junk food children usually eat in restaurants - we have raised him to enjoy the same food we eat. The European menu included sirloin steaks, which "he" apparently would have been happy to serve a half portion of! (Sounds very wasteful compared with the noodle dish we asked for!).

General Comments
We received a good welcome this evening and were seated in the first floor restaurant with had the added bonus of a fantastic view over Dundrum harbour.

We felt very rushed to make our choices from the menu, so stalled the waiter by requesting a round of drinks and prawn crackers, which arrived very quickly. We ordered our starters and mains and then requested the waitress's recommendation for our 5 year old son's main course - she said he could only eat from the European menu. Our son is a big fan of Chinese food and had been looking forward to noodles all day, so we asked for a half portion of chicken chow mein instead. She said no, "he" wouldn't do it, but after some persuading she agreed to go and ask "him". "He" confirmed "he" wouldn't do it. We felt we had no choice but to abandon our plans to eat at the restaurant and settled our drinks bill and left. A quick calculation suggested the restaurant lost out on over £60 of trade that evening.