Cafe De China - Thanet

We received the best reception they could wish. the personal / service was amazing, eating was amazing, we are definitely back here very soon. absolutely loved.

Cafe De China serves outstanding food with unique taste, along with very efficient and relaxing service , the lovely staff are incredibly polite and hard working , and make us feel completely relaxed and at home. The wide menu of dishes are prepared and presented...to absolute perfection, and the ambience of the restaurant is spacious, immaculately clean, well maintained and comfortable. People drive a LONG way to enjoy what this amazing restaurant can deliver, and you come away looking forward to your next visit.

Wow what can I say , after reading previous reviews I was a bit apprehensive of visiting tonight but I was blown away the food was fantastic and the service was second to none .We where seated immediately and served by a lovely gentleman who...was more than happy to assist us in any need we had atmosphere was great and busy for a usual Saturday night but this didn't hinder service or time waiting for food. Great experience all round so thank you we will return .

Went to the Cafe de China tonight for a birthday meal have been before and have never had a bad experience. After reading some of the recent reviews on here was questioning my choice! Arrived at 17.30 when it open and was warmly welcomed within...no time the whole place was packed the atmosphere was brilliant we were served very quickly and over the next two and a half hours we spent there were well looked after by all the staff. The food was fantastic and considering how busy they were hardly had to wait for service at any time. Would definitely recommend and will be returning again soon. Thanks cafe de China for a great night.

The strangest dining experience ever We arrived for our pre-booked table at 7.30. We stood by the entrance for 15 minutes, staff totally ignoring us and walking so slow like snails, completely unfazed. In the end we just stared at all 4 of them surrounding...the bar area but they completely ignored us. A waitress was serving a table near the entrance and shouted over them “TABLE FOR 2” and pointed to a empty table. Me and my boyfriend looked at each other very shocked! I guessed she was talking to us?! They didn’t even know if we had a booking or not, but we sat down like we was told. The atmosphere was very strange in the restaurant. No one was talking at there tables and everyone was just looking around/ staring at the staff with no food in front of them. I said to my boyfriend something is wrong here. After a further 15/20 minutes I stopped a waiter in his tracks if we could please order some drinks, by then we new what food we wanted too so ordered food as well. Some customers looked like their necks were going to break with the way they were twisted round just staring at staff waiting for some attention. A lady at a large table shouted “can we get some drinks! We’ve been here over a hour!” The table next to us had problems with there drinks order (no alcohol in the drinks! and then after getting food, found a large leaf in there dinner!! We still had no drinks still so we had to flag down someone else, who made them straight away. There was absolutely no system to the service and staff kept disappearing. We waited over a hour and a half for our food, in the end we rung mama jinnys and booked a table whilst still sat in the restaurant! 4 tables had walked out by this point. We just got up and left. What a joke of a evening, it was comical! so glad we got a table somewhere else otherwise our valentines night out would of been ruined. I’m unsure of what happened but if there was a problem why did they keep letting more people in and taking delivery orders? About 10 more tables were accepted after us, and most hadn’t got drinks by time we left. Why accept more people if there’s a problem? Why not let customers know the wait is going to be long. In my opinion they should of shut the restaurant and cut there losses. The most oddest experience ever, and as a 15+ year customer of cafe de China, I will not be returning!