Richardson's Restaurant - Bar — Restaurant in Whau

Attended an event here recently. Looks like your local. There is a pool table in the bar area. The main area is the dining event area. Pokies section in the side, screened off. Buffet down the back. Looks a bit tired and could do with a bit of updating. Potential!.

Food was better than expected and a lot of it. Mostly replenished and in a timely manner. Not so with the dessert side of the buffet. Would have appreciated chocolate cake being replaced when it was finished. Affordable price.

Note: there is a $5 charge for food waste (food put on your plate and not eaten) a staff member was standing around in the buffet doing surveillance. Also , one standing at the bin area. Not expected? (Maybe just the process here) you empty your own plate and put in designated...

I would give this a 0 if this rating was even allowed honestly. We booked a month in advance to have Sat 20th August for dinner reserved for a function, then we received last minute notice (day before) to say it’s been double booked with another family. The owner did offer them to take lunch but they were adamant that they wanted that slot for dinner. So we took the courage to take the earlier slot, and then on top of that notifying family and friends of time change and obviously numbers dropped, but regardless we still went ahead for lunch time. Food was average, and we were glad to have finished off the day there because it is the first and last time we’re going there...

Food was great , cook to order. U had a list and u tick off the box's between 2 ppl. So if it says choose any 5, that's between 2 ppl and food staff was friendly , chef was very knowledgeable where the ingredients came from. We enjoyed the food very much. 4 star cause we ordered banana cake. But gave us carrot cake instead. Unfortunately they ran out of banana cake and didn't tell us. We also ordered chicken wings cause my partner enjoyed them. But for 4 wings at $12.50, I find that I bit pricey for 4 chicken wings. Highlight of the dinner was the seaweed soup. It's very tasty full of flava. These pics photo u see are for two ppl...