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My review is rated one only because of the friendly hostess working. The food was bland at best. Went for dinner. The oysters were tiny and hardly got…
Amanda Walker
Valentines
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Valentines used to be excellent overall when on the corner opposite the court house, but since it has moved and has been under new management many tim…
Mae
Valentines
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Enjoy coming here as it’s one of the few all you can eat buffets available in Hamilton. Food is quite standard but not bad, all you can eat makes up f…
Villiami
Valentines
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Valentines is open for Casual Dining. Valentines serves European dishes. Incorrect or missing information? Make a report, or claim the restaurant if you own it!Details
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7 Reviews on “Valentines”
My review is rated one only because of the friendly hostess working. The food was bland at best. Went for dinner. The oysters were tiny and hardly got refilled. The prawns were pretty much what I ate most of. The seafood chowder was lumpy and tasted disgusting. The teriyaki salmon tasted like it was refrigerated and not fresh. The raw fish was ok. The hot food dishes weren’t great at all. My mum couldn’t eat much as she said all dishes were horrible. The desserts were the only high point. We did not come here for desserts only though. It was definitely NOT VALUE FOR MONEY AT ALL!!!! Please find somewhere else to eat. You don’t want to be highly disappointed like we were. Believe me. Take your $34 somewhere else, you’ll thank me later!!
Valentines used to be excellent overall when on the corner opposite the court house, but since it has moved and has been under new management many times, food and service have been through more downs then ups. I do like the desserts buffet, and appreciate the ice-cream bar. Great music though!!
Enjoy coming here as it’s one of the few all you can eat buffets available in Hamilton. Food is quite standard but not bad, all you can eat makes up for it so I’ll definitely be back!
Great quality food and very impressed! Staff were very nice and friendly too. Definitely deserves a higher overall rating than what it has. Would recommend to others!
I must say this quite possibly could be the worst restaurant I have ever been too. Most of if not all of the food is tasteless and overcooked, they couldn’t even cook something as simple as rice right. If you pay $27.90 for a meal, you expect $27.90 worth of quality food yet I left there more than unsatisfied and hungry. You’d think that a restaurant that uses some store bought things like corn chips and bread rolls would be good? Right? Well not valentines. They managed to leave the corn chips uncovered so they were very stale and covered in flies. The best thing about the restaurant is the coffee machine and that’s really saying something. Honestly I’m not going back there again and would not recommend this place at all.
This would have to be the worse restaurant I have ever been to in my entire life, and cannot understand why the decision was ever made to go there; the food standard was appalling; hot dishes were few and far between, and only luke warm (too many Asian dishes) and the cold dishes were warm and not chilled. The staff were super embarrassed because the owners did not know what they were doing. ( like a number of failed eating facilities in this country that have been taken over by immigrants who think they can cut corners and cook western cuisine that will satisfy a New Zealanders’ palette It was dirty the floors were filthy and the so were the toilets. Very typical to a low grade restaurant in Hong Kong. Hand written signs on food reminiscent of a Chinese take away with poor English; the photos on this site are NOTHING like what was available; the whole dinning experience was disgusting What has happened to the franchise? are they all like this?????? if they are, stay away.
Ugh. I’ll preface this by saying that I’m familiar with the Valentines franchise in general and I was okay with the other branches that I visited. I know they’re more about variety and family fun than about quality of food, so I visited this branch with that perspective in mind.That being said, this place was terrible even by Valentines standards. The price was on par with the North Shore branch but the quality wasn’t even in the same ballpark. It was incredibly messy, I’m amazed it passed the hygiene inspections. I don’t think the buffet counters were tidied up at all at any point during the entire dinner service. The ice cream counter looked like a whirlwind had gone through it, there was melted ice cream on the floor and the condiment table had more sprinkles outside the bowls than inside them. The other counters were only marginally better. Signs were either nonexistent, toppled over, or plain wrong, so you had to guess what food was what. There were mussels with bright, almost fluorescent yellow sauce on them. Very little edible variety and many dishes were bland, overdone, or just odd-tasting. Steak and sausages were burnt and the grill was unattended the entire time we were there. I can think of two good things to say about them – the waitress was reasonably friendly albeit a little absent-minded, and the pavlova and turkey was okay. So we made the most of our evening, but even then I cannot possibly rate them any higher than this in good conscience. This would not even have been worth $15/head, let alone the $35/head price tag.Valentines, please try and improve this branch. It gives you a bad name. kiwifoodie.co.nz