Big Wok Restaurant, Nottingham

What is Big Wok? ******************* Big Wok is a growing chain of fast food buffet restaurants, and the branch I am reviewing is the Nottingham branch. Its open from 12 noon till 11pm and the basic premise is simple - eat as much as you like from a huge selection of dishes, and pay one price for the meal and then extra for your drinks. Do I need to reserve? *********************** There’s no need to reserve, although you can. Simply turn up ...
...kitchen staff to wear hairnets; Big Wok goes one step further. Staff who deal with the food wear gloves, hairnets, caps, and masks to cover their mouths, which goes a good way to making me feel happy with the standards here. Staff in general seem clean and well presented, although the restaurant does seem to be fighting a losing battle with clutter. On your way to the toilets, you pass through an area near the kitchen which seems to house storage ...

Thehonesttruth 14.06.2007 · Read full review
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...Nottingham has not heard of Big Wok? It's situated in the old Co-Op building in the centre of town. The main down side of this is that there is no parking, you have to use either a NCP car park or park in one of the shopping centre car parks. I have actually lost count of the amount of times I have visited Big Wok. I have been during the weekday afternoons, weekends, school holidays and for 1 evening meal. It is always fairly busy with school holidays ...
...seated. The Ambiance -------------------- It is a very large building set out more as a canteen than a restaurant. As you enter the door a member of staff shows you to a table and takes your drink order. There are a mixture of round and square tables with the food carts (not sure of proper name of these, hot plate type canteen servers made of metal) in the middle, with quite a good space around it clear so it is easy to get to the food even when ...

mum2boys82 18.03.2008 · Read full review
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...time. The service in Big Wok is amazing! Because they take your plates away from your table to keep your space clean and when you get more food, it would not be recommend using your old plate, for health and safety reasons that it would be good to have a new plate to enjoy your new set of food you picked. In my experience that I do recommend Big Wok as your choice of Chinese food and also appreciate them that it is their first and half year of ...
...listen to you and also being grateful for telling them of what they want from you. So, please don't take Big Wok the wrong way, honestly… they have done a great job to get of where it wanted to be! I would give a definitely a 10 out 10! ...

unknownperson123 21.06.2009 · Read full review
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...I had the following at Big Wok: banana fritters, made from very sweet over-ripe banana (they weren't meant as a desert as they were with the main course buffet); tofu in mango sauce, again, the mango sauce was so sweet they could have served it as a desert; potato tepanyaki, which actually managed to be quite nice; satay sauce, which again wasn't bad; seaweed, not very authentic & too salty, but ok; something called "Burmese Potato", which was so ...
...resort, I got some sweet chilli sauce, which I usually love, with some prawn crackers, but the chilli sauce was so bad I left that as well. In short, out of 7 main food items and sauces that I had, 4 were so bad that I left most of it on my plate. However, the pièce de résistance came as we were leaving and the receptionist on the door asked to see our receipt. This has never happened to me before, and as it was 7:45 on a Thursday evening, and all ...

etain154 14.06.2007 (18.06.2007) · Read full review
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the big wok is very good value for money . you never have to wait long even tho it is alwayse busy and the food and service are brilliant ...

jingles1964 07.03.2008
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...have been going to the Big Wok weekly and have found that the service and the people have been great .Nothing is ti much trouble and that is the one thing I have come to enjoy there.The hostess on the door usually has my table ready for me and that way I do see who comes and goes.I have found that the staff especially ln the door take a lot of crap from people especially about the size of children as they do have a policy about hieght which I cant ...
...just a way staff knows what table is gone and all so that it has been paid for a thing that all the Big Woks do so next time you are asked to see a receipt dont be put off they are only doing what they are told too ...

blade01 09.11.2007 · Read full review
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I came to Big Wok to eat some elephant penises in monkey spunk sauce. But when i got inside i found they didn't have them! What a disgrace. I shall not be coming back. ...

VladRoschjenko 13.09.2008
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