Ken's Oriental Restaurant (Athlone) — Restaurant in County Westmeath

Ok positively the food is wonderful really cannot fault it. Now positive criticism PLEASE can you do something about the restaurant. I want to go out for a Chinese and feel like I'm eating in a Chinese restaurant. There is zero atmosphere zero ambience. It doesn't make sense to own such a great business and not take pride in it! It wouldn't cost much to add some traditional Chinese tablecloths, and serve your food on Chinese designed plates and in bowls? Some Chinese music? Dim lights and add some fans and lanterns? There was us 2 and one couple and a few customers from the b&b above . The takeaway was consistently busy. But please for us Athlonians who live here give us an experience that will make us return. Really disappointing at the lack of effort. Also service was bad. Brought us our soup together with our starter despite having specified soup first later starter. Then brought us main course not having cleared the starters soup. I don't get it as it wasn't busy in the restaurant. The restaurant should be packed but I understand why it's not. Please do something about it and we will return. Have a look at how well Jia Jia Chinese is run and the authentic experience. Hope you heed...

Went for a spontaneous dinner with the partner in Kens Athlone. Waitress was friendly, service was quite quick.

We ordered; Sweet and sour shredded chicken with egg fried rice. Plum sauce shredded chicken with egg fried rice. 1 west coast cooler rosè. The total was €38.80.

We rang to see what the story was, as our receipt only had the total cost with no price breakdown. The lady explained had we got take away it would’ve been €24.50. We were charged an extra €14.30 due to the fact we sat in. For the price alone, I would definitely not recommend, especially when there is nicer restaurants in the town for much...

Terrible service, cold food and absolutely no chicken in their munchie boxes so I called the restaurant to try and resolve this as it was literally €15 for chip curry sauce 3 chicken balls and no shredded chicken and I have never heard such unprofessional conversations from staff about my complaint! The staff on the phone were ignorant and didn’t want to listen to me at all they just said there was extra chips to make up for the missing chicken so I paid €15 for that i...