Wongs Chinese Restaurant

Excellent staff, beautiful restaurant and spacious bathrooms, Wongs of Clontarf is a great place to get well made Chinese food. I will definitely be back here! We ordered a bottle of the Sauvignon Blanc on special for 19 euro. Me and my girlfriend ordered the 3 course meal for 24 euros with its coffee or tea, an entrée with chicken or fish and a desert in the form of vanilla ice cream.

We went here for a family night out. There’s something about Wongs I do like. You enter you feel if you haven’t dressed up, you probably should have. The interior is cool, very dark, gangsters with their dolls and mobs you can imagine in the little corner tables of the restaurant of hidden down the back.
The staff are incredibly pleasant, Wongs is the type of place your water glass is topped up every ⁵⁄₁₀ mins, which can walk the fine line of good service or a little annoying. We decided on the 4 persons to share meal. We didn’t leave hungry. The portions were very generous and plentiful.
The first starter was aromatic duck which was delicious; really crispy duck and beautiful thin pancakes. The 2^nd starter arrived which was skewers of satay chicken, spare ribs, dumplings and spring rolls. All delicious, especially the ribs.
Mains were next; there was to share beef in black bean sauce, chicken, pork, sea-​bass with fried veg and prawns in the most beautiful rich sweet and sour sauce. I’m not gone on sea-​bass, I find it a very fishy tasting fish but the rest of the food was delicious. Desserts was a choice of banana fritter, which I had but am not a real fan of, and ice-​cream. Tea and coffee was included.
I suppose I’ve no real reason to give Wongs only 3 stars; the food is really really delicious and the service and ambiance great. I suppose it might be the lack of originality; the food you can get in any Chinese restaurant albeit not as good. The meal for 4 was € 35 not including wine, so it’s a little price heavy. Maybe for those with bigger wallets…

Wongs on the Clontarf Road is at the more fancy, expensive end of the spectrum for Chineses. You wouldn’t order a 3 in 1 here.
Inside, the restaurant itself is very nice: a Chinese motif, but subtle enough at that. Not ultra-​cheesy or anything. And the service is excellent, really top-​notch.
The food is really good as well — they really know what to do with a duck — but it would want to be, as the food is by no means cheap (€ 35-​€ 50 per person for dinner, not including wine).
They have really good early-​bird specials on during the day at the minute, though, so it would be worth your while to have a late lunch/​early dinner there.
Up until less than a year ago, the setting would have been really idyllic: the restaurant is adjacent to the nicer of St Anne’s Park’s entrances, and is right across the road from the sea. It’s still quite idyllic, but in the last number of months they’ve drained the pond and begun to dig up St. Anne’s so that it looks in an awful way.
Still, there’s always the sea and Bull Island to look at.