Chinese Garden | Restaurant Xinès — Restaurant in Barcelona

Quite possibly the worst Chinese food We have had as a family, voted by everyone at the table. We lived in Asia for ten years so have felt it deserves an in depth review as the place rates so highly that we're assuming most reviews are not genuine and would like people to be truly informed.

They started by offering us still or water with gas which came in bottles with pre opened tops. The still water was obviously straight from the tap and the sparkling the same but with gas pushed through it. Funnily they were a bit concerned at the end of the meal as they couldn't find the top to one of the bottles to reuse.

The first dish was Wantons in Spicy sauce which was hard lumps of meat wrapped in thick pastry floating in water with no flavor at all. The Yangzhou fried rice came next which was again tasteless, undercooked rice and a laughable two prawns, strategically placed on top. We then had two fish dishes, a "crispy" fried fillet which was swimming in oil and soggy so unedible. And fish cooked in spicy oil or commonly known as shui zhu yu, 水煮鱼 was a tiny, bony fish which offered no meat and should have been thrown back in the water.

Sadly this was on moon festival which is a big occasion so we all left feeling super disappointed by this.

I could also talk about the poor service experienced however we are foodies so that's how I base my reviews and this goes down as our worst meal of the year so far. Avoid at all cost, there are many other much better...

A few times we have passed from there and decided to finally give it à try. It was an overall good experience. For what I liked was the mapo tofu( the tofu was really nice and silky!), I also loved the green beans with carrots, came nicely done with some crunching and freshness but cooked nevertheless - I liked how they were cut as well. I tried also the fried chicken filet with lemon sauce- it was tender and crunchy outside. The fried rice was nice but something was lacking for me in terms of flavour, however it was a good company to the other dishes. The sweet and sour chicken was also well appreciated. The servings were of good size and we found it to be reasonably priced. Last thing unrelated to our experience: absolutely love how the bad reviews are handled by the restaurant- so professional and just 👏 It is easy to reply to a good review but handling negative posts the right way is another story, well done to whoever is...

The first time i came here was for a company dinner with 20+ people. The service was great and the food was good. My latest experience was quite the opposite. The starter took over an hour to be served (assortment of dimsum) and we asked why they were not as described on the menu - they said that they had a big group in that had eaten them all, and that they had also taken all the room up in the steamer which was why it took so long... The main dishes were incredibly salty and the roasted duck was not at all as described. It came as a small sliced duck leg for 20 eur. 150 euros for 4 people, i definitely would not return. It seems they only want to look after the big groups. Advice: start catering for the amount of tables you have, or...