Old House Chinese Restaurant

If you can get past the traditional Hong Kong service (this is not a compliment), the food is really quite good. The menu is authentic Mainland Chinese but with enough safety dishes for the less adventurous (e.g. Sweet and sour pork; beef in black bean sauce). Mainland Chinese food tends to be a little oily but here it was okay. I had the spicy lamb ribs, fried cauliflower and rice. All generous serves at a fair price. All the patrons were Chinese which is another good sign. I would definitely return.

After roaming O'Connell Street looking for a park on a Saturday night to dine somewhere in North Adelaide, we happily ended up in Melbourne Street (obviously giving up on the non existing park). Roaming, yet again, we stumbled across Old House Chinese. The draw card for us, was that, at about 9pm, the place was full! Good sign, lets go in. I just love a new adventure like this, where you discover a new restaurant by accident! True foodie excitement! The menu is very authentic (with some of the usual suspects of course), so refreshing to see menus like this. Everything we ordered was simply delicious, too many dishes to mention. The only downside was the service. Although we were seated quite quickly, we perused the menu and were ready to order. We waited and waited for someone to take our order. After a good 20 minutes, we decided to hail the attention of a waitress (which wasn't easy). We also found that a large group who arrived after us, received their meals before our entrees even arrived, big no no. We also found that tables were not cleared quickly and some tables not cleared at all. By the time we left, the table behind us was not cleared from the time we arrived. Although, these may be small notations, they all matter in running a streamlined successful establishment. We will return to Old House and hope to see that some maturation has occurred. Thank you Old House.