Reviews for Pagoda Restaurant in Jacksonville, FL
The Duck and Chinese broccoli were amazing. You can order drinks at the restaurant too if you can?t get a reservation at the... bar. Read more
Worse Chinese restaurant I?ve ever been to. Service was horrible besides one girl (waitress). The main woman can?t speak English... and apologized every five minutes for messing up everyone?s order. When seated, the couple next to us were already complainingon how long it took to get their soup and food. She said they?ve been going there for 30 years but the last three years havebeen terrible. Our food was inedible. And the owner or manager told us sorry and he?s been in service 56 years. Well after 56years you definitely need help. If you?ve been serving this for 56 years then you don?t know what your doing. AT ALL. It wasterrible! I?d rather go to china dragon. And had the nerve to be expensive too lol. Never again! Read more
Super cool old world Asian motiff. The inside has post and beams with a high ceiling. Fun eastern decor with period music to... boot. The Food is really good and reasonably priced. Highly recommend. I had mongolian beef, which I will get it again. Warmsake- I probably won't get that again. Read more
I had a Guinness World Record experience at this place on June 9th. I went out to celebrate my mother's first birthday since... she passed away. She loved eating this type of food. I ordered an egg roll, fried rice, and egg foo young with gravy. Ireceived the egg roll and my drink first. The food came out extremely fast. They brought out white sticky rice and the egg fooyoung. I was told there is no fried rice and it will take 20-25 minutes to make it. I told them I do not want white rice, I donot like it. So I was given the option to wait. I told them I did not want the egg foo young. It would have to sit all thattime. It would be cold and the gravy jelly-like. I ordered a different entree. The waiter told the chef who was sitting atone of the tables behind me. The chef said, "no, I am not making something else. The rice can be done in 10 - 15 minutes". The waiter told him, "yes but the egg foo young will be cold and she does not want it". The chef said, "no, I do not care whatshe wants, I do not want this food to go to waste, no". This is being discussed as I sit and listen in disbelief. The waitercame back to me with the food in his hands and I said "I heard everything, he is rude and out of line. I do not want the foodand I do not want anything else. I will pay for the egg roll and the drink". I actually took my drink to go I could not wait toget out of there. I am still in disbelief that I was told I cannot order what I want to eat, the food I am paying for. I willnot ever return there. Not to the restaurant or the lounge in the back. I will not recommend this place to anyone and willtell my story to everyone. Read more
Their menu comes off as a pretty standard option of your normal fast casual Chinese restaurant, but they did offer tofu... options. Dishes came with plain fried rice with no option to upgrade, you have to purchase the separate $14 meat dish friedrice. I will say I did not take the recommendation of the waiter because I don't like beef or seafood dishes sooooo with thatbeing said I thought the dishes we got were ok. Nothing over the top but nothing to bring me running back. The service was good,we came on a Tuesday at 6pm not packed by any means got food fairly quickly. The waiter was very friendly and accommodating. Read more
One of the most beautifully decorated and unique restaurants I've ever been to! Will be back for sure.
The Pagoda is still run by the same family after 40+ years. It is a restaurant in front and a "secret" bar in back. The... private room in back is where all the 20 - 40 year old singles hang out on Baymeadows Road. Same chef in the restaurant after40 years. He can customize anything on the menu for you. Go early if you are meeting up in the Private room. Seats andparking lot fills up fast. Read more
The place was overall very decent! We got seated but when we asked for the dim sum menu, the blonde girl gave us the secret menu... instead but it?s fine, we asked our waitress for the actual dim sum menu. The food was pretty good, we had the duck, sesameballs, chicken dumplings, and Mapo tofu. It had pretty good flavor although I would say you?re more so paying for the ambiance!Our waitress was sweet and made sure our water was filled and that we liked our food. Overall decent and I would recommend justfor the ambiance! I think this place has a lot of potential, I think there?s just a few things that need to change toelevate. Advice to restaurant: ?I would switch and have the waitress be the hostess and the blonde girl be the waitress. ?hiremore cooks, the food took a bit of time and it seems to be an issue based on others comments, more specifically the dinnerentree takes longer Read more