Golden Bridge — Restaurant in Sefton

I have never left a review before but I feel compelled to since reading borderline ones. My husband and our two children came to the Sunday lunch buffet - £16.90 for adults and £10.90 for children. Upon entering the restaurant, I was happy to see traditional Chinese restaurant decor. Then I spotted the buffet. At first, my greedy eyes thought oh that looks quite small. How silly I was! On offer was hot chicken and sweet corn soup - seasoned well and great consistency. Prawn cracker are brought to your table. Then we assaulted the starters. What a great selection which is frequently replenished by the hard-working staff! On offer is prawn toast, veg spring rolls, salt and pepper wings, salt and pepper fish bites, chicken skewers, juicy ribs, ham egg foo young, crispy seaweed and duck pancakes you make up yourself. All of these tasty morsels were hot and fresh. Then on the mains you have egg fried rice, noodles and chips with dishes including sweet and sour chicken, chicken curry, beef green pepper, bbq char Sui pork, crispy chilli beef, mixed veg in oyster sauce (juicy mushrooms in this) and prawns in a light sauce. I tried most of these and was really happy with the flavour and hotness of each. Then the dessert table with jelly, fresh mixed fruit, watermelon, oranges and banana fritters with syrup and cream! What a bonus! Overall, the attentive staff, great price and fresh food made this an absolute treat. Lovely for our kids to go and try multiple dishes and different flavours. They didn’t even want to go and now they’re asking to back! Well done Golden Bridge! We will be back and with...

Great takeaways from here but the Sunday buffet can be had at better places. They really do not top up the meals in an organised manner. ie.. you want duck pancakes... Duck, pancake, veg, sauce... At least 2 ingredients will be missing whenever you think it's safe to try your hand, meaning it's only the first 6 people who get all that's needed at the same time to make this tasty starter.... And this continues for the whole hour and a half you are in there. Mind you it only took them 40 mins to bring our drinks to the table, so I guess that balances out the impossible task of building a meal, due to rice, noodles or chips always being left Empty for 30 mins at a time. If you want a great experience of Chinese food, then avoid the buffet, because the food here is genuinely A1 and I'd say the takeaways are up in the top 5 for Formby and Southport, you will get this great food when you order off the menu, I think the buffet suffers due to not enough hands on deck. Great scran is here...

This place has been in Formby longer than my family, and we initially moved here in the early 70s. Back then it was situated in the village but is now in a bigger place nesr the station. Loads of parking. I believe it had issues some time ago with env Health, which can be common in some Chinese restaurants, but now is back to 5 stars. Personally have never had a bad meal here. Last time we went was Mother's Day andnit was a lot busier than usual. My daughter is Vegetarian and the buffet didnt have much vegetarian food on - she spoke to a waiter who sorted out a plain boiled rice with a Tofu/cashew nut/yellow bean sauce for her at no extra charge, and...