Flower Drum Restaurant Melbourne

It’s definitely a one off visit for me. The food taste just OK compared with other high-end Chinese restaurant serving Cantonese cuisine. But more importantly the service was terrible. I ordered four Xiao Long Bao, but it came only two. When I checked with the staff to confirm if more were coming, the answer simply was ‘it doesn’t matter, you can always order more’ without bothering to check. When I tried to order the Vegetarian Pocket, the staff kept recommending Lamb Pocket to me until I insisted to have Vegetarian Pocket (very confused about this behaviour). Overall the service was very rude for some reason…

Great service! Ordered chicken with moutai, roast duck, sauté mushrooms and seafood fried rice with black truffle - the food is a bit too salty

Came here with a group of 11 for lunch. Although almost of the dishes were cooked well, I highly recommend the Seafood Soup Dumpling, Crispy Skin Chicken Peking Duck and Lotus Leaf Fried rice. The steamed milk and ginger was okay, but inconsistent between each bowl (some had more ginger flavours than others). The broth in the soup dumpling was so clear yet intense chicken flavour, the skin on the poultry was crispy with tender meat and the fried rice was full of aromatic smell of the lotus leaves. Definitely true to its Cantonese roots.

Not what it use to be. The place was dirty, stains on the floor, waiter didn’t even thank us for the tip.

This continues to be Melbourne's premier Chinese restaurant establishment.
The 5 STAR service begins when you are greeted at the ground floor by the concierge and he beckons the elevator for you. Upstairs the ambiance is one of tradition & professionalism.
The lunch banquet was exquisitely presented & divinely delicious.
The staff are immaculately dressed and cater to ones every need.
If you have not experienced The Flower Drum. You have not lived yet.

Very dated decor, scratches on the walls in dining room and cuisine was very generic, unfriendly staff. So disappointed!

Amazing quality food & friendly staff. My husband has been celebrating his big birthdays here from 18th, 21st, 30th to 4oth and every time the quality of food never fails us. We also go for our wedding anniversary aswell.

Flower drum is not the fine dinning it use to be. 2 sittings customers in shorts and singlets. McDonald's has a better dress code

A special night celebrating Chinese New Year? With a lion dance and a fabulous banquet of delicious food ️️️

2nd time here. It is and will be my go to place for any special anniversary or occasion.
Delicious food. Attentive service. Price is well if it is worth it then it is affordable.

So far this is one of the best Chinese restaurant with five star service. I can feel the warm welcome from the supervisor, it was very sincerely and the dedicated waiter was following the service procedures. Given i worked in five star restaurant many years ago, I can feel its very professional. The only suggestion I could give is when introducing the wine, normally the person who tasted the wine needs to wait to be the last pouring glass, but that’s just a minor thing. Also I can feel serving waiter doesn’t take customer orders, needs to wait for the supervisor, but it could be better if the serving waiter could acknowledge that client wants to make additional order and inform the supervisor. Overall the place deserve a five star, food is top quality, nice environment and good service. Definitely recommend friends and family members to visit and try out more often.

We visited as a group for lunch and ordered al la cart from the menu.

The food was delicious, freshly made, and authentic Cantonese cuisine.

The service and ambience is very good - one of the best I have been to so far in both Sydney and Melbourne for Cantonese cuisines. The cutlery with silverware stand is very rare to see nowadays!

The dishes were served individually - come and enjoy a good time, don’t rush it!

An incredible experience each time. The quality, preparation and presentation is second to none.

The annual award winning 15 chefs hat restaurant lives up to its reputation. Fabulous environment for vivacious celebrations, superb food and friendly talented staff. Amazing crab, scallop and shrimp dumplings, stuffs crab shell, Jade tiger abalone and pepper eye fillet. Yummy.

I have always heard of this place as being highly rated for excellent Chinese food however never managed to pay a visit until we received a gift to dine here, and wow am I kicking myself for never trying this sooner!

As soon as you step into the premises, the staff are all so welcoming and attentive. I can only echo what other reviewers have said and agree the service is second to none. I don't think I've ever been to a restaurant where I haven't had to get the attention of staff.

And the food, wow! Everything was beautiful, we had the summer tasting banquet and we cannot fault any of the dishes. The coral trout was cooked to perfection, eye fillet was so tender and the veg was so simple yet wonderfully complimented the special fried rice and eye fillet.

Dessert could be selected from a wide range from crepe to ice cream to something more traditional like milk pudding. We were spoilt for choice! We went with the almond pudding and the baked chestnut crumble. The custard pudding in the bake was really nice and not too sweet.

Overall it was a wonderful night out, we will definitely be back and telling family and friends about this place.

Amazing atmosphere, the customer service was immaculate. We came as a group of four, when we ordered the mains they served it all to us all equally instead of just picking at the dish. Our favourite was definitely the Peking Duck! Definitely would recommend going back and trying out more of there dishes The drinks were also amazing, a restaurant always worth visiting.

Hands down the best Chinese restaurant around and probably one of the best places I have been to. Definitely worth checking out

It's not possible to overstate how good this restaurant is. Stunning food and impeccable service in a beautiful and spacious dining room.

You will experience a welcome at the Flower Drum such as you have never enjoyed before.
Your dinner is an event, with great food and a killer wine list.

This was the most underwhelming meal when we had such high expectations. It started with trying to jam as many people into the lift regardless of current restrictions. The meal was bland and uninspired I would not recommend and was overpriced. Better to head up Chinatown