Aroma Chinese Restaurant

despite it being a Monday when we visited, the restaurant was fairly busy. we were seated straight away.
service was good. there is usually a middle aged lady who works there who is constantly watching over the table checking how much you eat. luckily she wasn’t working on this occasion as she can be very intimidating.
there were 4 of us in our group and despite us ordering starters for 4, the portions were fairly small. I can understand that they don’t want much waste but it would be nice to get a decent portion in the first place. as a result of this, we had to reorder the starters several times.
the standard of the food has declined slightly. I like to get the chicken in lettuce wrap, which was bland and not as tasty as previous visits.
overall, the food was OK, the service was OK, so I’m giving it an OK rating

The thing about this restaurant is that they do an all you can eat, not quite buffet but close. Expect to pay about £14 per person on a normal week day, £11 for kids. So once you are seated you order from the menu and they bring your food to the table. Once you are finished, they bring you the menu again and you can order again. You can continue to do this for up to two hours.
Generally, I liked the idea… granted I would prefer a more traditional buffet so I could pick and choose how much of each item wanted but that’s not really a big deal.
We ordered five different items from the menu. For the heck of it we ordered their capital spare ribs as an appetizer. It was the best thing we ordered this evening which, sadly, isn’t saying much. We then ordered the Szechaun Beef and the Kung Po Chicken. The chicken tasted as if it had been precooked, perhaps even frozen and reheated and simply tossed into the sauce. There was no flavor to the chicken at all, which was very disappointing. While I didn’t really enjoy the sauce it didn’t have any punch to it. It should have had some spice but it was sadly missing. The beef was also sub-​par and tasted as if it had been pre-​cooked and tossed into yet another uninspiring sauce.
For our second serving we ordered the Chicken in Black Bean Sauce and their Ginger Beef with Spring Onion. Once again the meat was tasteless and had no flavor of the sauce. The ginger was probably fresh as the flavor of the ginger even permeated the beef. The black bean sauce came on a sizzling skillet and wasn’t too bad… unfortunately the chicken ruined the dish.
I will say that the service was very good and the wait staff wasted no time in taking our orders.
For two pints of Diet Coke, some tea made from actual leaves and an all you can eat dinner for two adults our total came to £33. I don’t think I will be returning.

we have been several times and really enjoyed it, however the last 2 visits were poor, we booked a table of 13 and were crammed onto a smalll table, when asked if we could have a larger one we were rather rudely told its a table for 15 and no. the attitude of the bar staff were poor and had to be told several times what we wanted. dishes were served with no explanation of what each dish was. the noodles of two of the dishes were not cooked and there was so little room everytime the table was moved to get a dish a drink would go over and on other occasioins there was no room to serve the new dishes!

Another great chinese all you can eat restaurant, open evenings all week from 6pm until 11.30 sun — thurs, fri & sat closes midnight. Everytime we’ve eaten here we’ve thoroughly enjoyed every meal so much to choose from. Excellent service & surroundings

This restaurant is a chinese. They have set menu’s as well as a standard pick & choose menu and the prices are reasonable. The food has always been very nice but as the place is so big, it can be a little bit impersonal. The service is always great but sometimes the food is served a little bit cold, as if it has been waiting a while. They also cater for larger parties. We use this place for lots of work parties and always find it great for this as they give you an unlimited amount of food, in small portions.