Gold Coast, Southend-on-Sea

I can't believe some of the reviews on here. i am a regular at this restaurant and absolute love its food and value. I haven't experienced slow service or cold food as other people have reviewed. Maybe i was just lucky or it was just too busy that night. I tend to go for the al a carte and the crispy shredded beef is delicious, my favourite!!!

We choose the two course buffet.We waited a very long time for the starters to arrive and when they did only one of the five items ,the spring rolls,were Ok the others were either tasteless or too tough to eat.

The same applied to the main courses.Rice was cold,chicken and cashut nuts tasteless,the lamb dish had virtually no lamb in it only vegetables,the lemon chicken was very tough and only the noodles were acceptable.We will most definately never eat there again.

Absolutely APPALLING. DO NOT EAT AT THIS PLACE. We went as a party of 14 for a freinds birthday. We were sat in the basement on a long table wedged up against a bench seat - there was so little room that we had to climb on the furniture to get in and out. There were two other tables in the basement with parties of a similar number to ours. The lack of room meant that one girl got sauce dropped on her head with people going up to the buffet. The buffet consisted of two main dishes, rice, noodles and a couple of starters. There was nowhere near enough, loads of us didn't get starters at all. The staff made no attempt to re-stock. The food was cold and not good at all and we were given saucer sized plates to ensure we wouldn't take too much. The buffet was removed less than an hour after being set up to make way for karaoke so even if there had been enough for another saucer sized plateful we wouldn't have got it. They charged £16 per head for about two tablespoons of food.You could feed four people from the local takeaway for that. The drinks were extortionately expensive - £6.30 a pint (two half bottles) and the staff were uninterested and slow. I would have given no stars but this site does not allow it.

Good food, great entertainment, cheap alcohol, what more could you ask for? Great time if you want a drunken night singing with your mates and just generally making memories with close and new friends.

Gold Coast is a good place togo only if you have a load of you going for the karaoke otherwise the restaurant upstairs is not that good for the money