Bright Courtyard

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   Bella

   VIP

   London

   21 reviews

   1.0

   21 reviews

   Dined on February 2, 2025

   1. Overall 1
   2. Food 2
   3. Service 1
   4. Ambience 4

   Terrible. Service slow. Food sub par & toilets dirty. Would not return.
   

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   Shaila

   London

   14 reviews

   1.0

   14 reviews

   Dined on January 31, 2025

   1. Overall 1
   2. Food 1
   3. Service 1
   4. Ambience 4

   Went back after a long time. Food was bland and not worth the money. Ruined by bday dinner. Now that I think back at it, food was thrown on the plate. Nothing like the nice presentation on the menu. Poor standard it has dropped to.
   

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   Binghao

   London

   1 review

   1.0

   1 review

   Dined on January 28, 2025

   1. Overall 1
   2. Food 2
   3. Service 1
   4. Ambience 1

   Bright Courtyard was great before, but it was extremely bad when we dined in on 28th Jan, 2025. As this day was Chinese New Year, the restaurant was fully and over-booked, in fact, the restaurant and the kitchen have no capacity to handle the situation so things end up with a totally chaos. We made the reservation in advance via OpenTable, and a staff from the restaurant contacted us immediately thereafter and asked us to pre book all the food in advance with a deposit payment. He explained no more dishes can be added due the Chinese New Year and kitchen may be busy, which we understand at that time point. When on the day of 28th Jan, we arrived at the restaurant on time at 7 pm, and we were sitted at about 7:20 pm (which is still OK for now), and the first dish just came to us at 8:50 pm (1 and half hours for a single plate?). There’s only a single dish for another long wait for about an hour, until we have other dishes (so in total about 2.5 hours wait for most of the food, still two dishes not come). And there’s limited response when we try to find a restaurant staff for help, a young man even just ignore our hand-wave for many times so we have to come to the front desk to ask what happened and where are our dishes. We then confused: what is the point of ordering everything in advance suppose it’s so slow? At around 10 pm, there’re still two dishes not come, and we just cancel those and pay the bill and left. Another thing to be mentioned, we found there’re many tables who can order their food at restaurant, we felt cheated by the stall who called us earlier by saying “you cannot make order or add food at restaurant”. Myself and my friend have been to this restaurant in the past about 7 years for over maybe 30 times for all our “big event” celebration and holidays, but this time we were all very very disappointed. When you don’t have capability, you should NOT over-booked for yourself.
   

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   keira

   London

   1 review

   1.0

   1 review

   Dined on January 28, 2025

   1. Overall 1
   2. Food 2
   3. Service 2
   4. Ambience 4

   First and last visit—definitely not worth the price. The presentation was unimpressive, the portions were small, and most importantly, the food wasn’t served hot. The chicken soup arrived already portioned, but it had spilled everywhere. I would have much preferred to serve it myself. The dessert, Rice Wine Soup with Rice Bites it tasted like plain water. The staff were kind and helpful in packing my takeaway, but unfortunately, the lid wasn’t secured properly. By the time I got home, everything had leaked. I had high expectations for this Lunar New Year’s Eve dinner, but it turned out to be a major disappointment.
   

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   yunqi

   London

   1 review

   2.0

   1 review

   Dined on January 28, 2025

   1. Overall 2
   2. Food 2
   3. Service 2
   4. Ambience 1

   佛跳墙做的一塌糊涂，上的菜品和菜单的严重不符，根本不配这个价格，绝不会再去。请人吃年夜饭吃的非常丢脸
   

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   Angela

   Devon

   3 reviews

   4.0

   3 reviews

   Dined on January 25, 2025

   1. Overall 4
   2. Food 3
   3. Service 3
   4. Ambience 3

   Huajiao chicken soup was very good but other dishes were just average. They were pricey as well. There was a live singer bit the music was too loud that we had to shout to chat with each other. Staff were not well trained. Always delivered a wrong order to our table or put our order under another table. Sometimes our dishes were not even out into order until we chased them. Average price per person is around £60 and it's not worth it.
   

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   Ruiqi

   London

   1 review

   2.0

   1 review

   Dined on January 18, 2025

   1. Overall 2
   2. Food 2
   3. Service 4
   4. Ambience 4

   It was very cold in the restaurant, dishes got cold very quickly. Pork belly dish came cold also. All in all food was ok, but I don’t think it worth the price. Good space and comfortable chair at the table, which is unlike many other Chinese restaurant.
   

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   elaine

   London

   2 reviews

   5.0

   2 reviews

   Dined on December 31, 2024

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   The food is marvellous and yummy, very tasty and fresh. Good value of food and the service is super. I will definitely visit again👍😁
   

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   SY

   VIP

   London

   62 reviews

   4.0

   62 reviews

   Dined on December 27, 2024

   1. Overall 4
   2. Food 4
   3. Service 4
   4. Ambience 4

   This is our regular place to go for tasty dim sum and efficient service. Seating is generally pretty spacious compared to other dim sum restaurants - didn't have to listen to other diner conversation. Good location - not too far to walk to nearby Marylebone, or a little further along to Oxford Street.
   

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    Maria

    London

    1 review

    1.0

    1 review

    Dined on December 14, 2024

    1. Overall 1
    2. Food 5
    3. Service 1
    4. Ambience 1

    The food is excellent however the service is very poor, we were waiting for 20 minutes for the waiter to cut our duck while the rest of the dishes were getting cold.
    

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