Jazz Ria is our take-away standard and the food is consistently amazing and they are even able to cater for gluten free as well. My husband is a native Singaporean and swears by this place. We highly recommend it
Really good Malaysian food at a really good price!! There are so many dishes available and the flavours are all really spot on! I’d recommend the beef Horfun- the noodles were really nice but the beef was slightly chewy.
The satay chicken was cooked perfectly and the satay sauce was so yum!!
Didn’t like the roti with beef curry as much because it was slightly oily but would defs go back to try some other things
Jazz Ria has been a goto Laksa fix for a while now.
I also recommend the Chilli Beef, Kompau Chicken and their curries.
They also have a cheap lunch menu.
A consistent winner.
Very hospitable owner who cant do enough for you, solid staff and most importantly great tasting food.
You only have to see how busy it is to know that it is a local gem!
Food here was great - best Malaysian fare we've had in awhile. The lakes was a real highlight, real creamy and not overly spicy like many other places, and the lobak and satay chicken were similarly great.
I have been using Jazz Ria for years. They are reliable, responsive and very good quality. Beautiful Kantan Duck, Assam Prawns, String Bean Calamari, Beef Noodles for the kids. When we want something a cut above the average takeaway, we order from Jazz Ria.
Super good laksa, vegetarian noodles and great delivery service! Good price and great quality food would recommend highly!! Will order again
The food here is exceptional. We have been many times and are never dissapointed with the flavour and quality.
The Service is good, they are very friendly and attentive.
The restaurant is always lively and comfortable.
Favourite Dish - Roti with curry lamb, a delicious bowl of rendang style curry with a big pile of crisp roti bread! Special mention also to the laksa and the salt & pepper squid.
My favourite Malaysian restaurant, been here multiple times and I have to say that everything tastes great here!! Not sure if I can choose a favourite dish... took my parents here and they loved it too, and my mum who has a MSG sensitive tummy was 100% fine eating here so it's good to know they don't rely on msg to create their magnificent flavours. The satay skewers are definitely yum to start the night off with, we always fight over the sauce! Beef rendang is amazing here - I'm a pescatarian so didn't eat the meat but tried the sauce and it almost made me want to break my pescatarianism to gorge on the whole dish! Wish they had a mock meat version... The prawn har mee, the laksa, the sambal beans are all super tasty too. Service is generally good and it's got a really cute ambience with jazz background music.
Excellent food, service and atmosphere at Jazz Ria. The rendand curry is delicious, and so is the duck special. Worth every penny, and a great place to take a date for a fun but delicious dinner.
Extremely attentive and courteous staff. Has a jazz theme to this Asian restaurant as the name suggests which is a unique combination. In terms of food I especially enjoy the curries. Price a tiny bit on the high side but worth it once you taste the food. Byo wine option available.
Have been here 3 times in the past month after a friend recommended it. Wonderful each time! It's so good it fills up quickly but there are seats upstairs and outside. I don't know Malaysian food well but these dishes have a great balance of sweet and spicey. Each dish is generous and quick and the service is friendly.
The ‘Special Jazz Rice – diced prawns, calamari, peas, carrots, corn, bean shoots, and pineapple, wok fried ($14.90)’ was wonderful! The seafood, rice and vegetables were flavoursome, whilst the crunch from the iceberg lettuce and the fried shallots added texture.
Jazz Ria was a warm, family-friendly environment with great staff and nice food. I would recommend this restaurant to everyone. You should also go there because it is like the only Malaysian Restaurant in Balwyn.
This gem is now our favourite local restaurant. Consistently fantastic food, service and all with a smile. Byo wine and beer makes it a much cheaper night out and another reason this place is just amazing. Order the red duck curry (our favourite) for the best duck curry I have ever had. Thanks guys.
After reading so many positive reviews we went there for lunch. Not busy on a Monday, only us and another 2 tables. Soft jazz music playing in the background, makes you feel like you were having Malaysian food in New Orleans in the 19th century.
Lunch specials were very good value. There were a variety of dishes to choose for $9.90 or $10.90. For extra $3, you can have an entree. We had kantan chicken with rice, seafood curry laksa, and 2 curry puffs. The curry puff was ok, a bit greasy. Laksa was good and not too spicy. It had fishcake, prawns, calamaris, tofu puffs, bean shoots. It was creamy but not oily. Kantan chicken was fried chicken pieces in a sweet hot sauce, with ginger flower flavour. The flavour was nice, would've been better if the onions were not so raw. Overall, it was good value for money.
Nice Malaysian place with a wide menu of some authentic Malaysian food and a few more standard Chinese dishes. Great service and reasonable lunch prices, especially for the area. Bit of a hidden gem, pretty unassuming as a Malaysian restaurant considering the Jazz motif and background music. Would return.
Consistency in its food quality and friendly service. Highly favored by locals. Wouldn't say it's a cheap eat out though ... But occasionally a good treat!
Ordered takeaway from here. The menu had a good selection and ended going with the beef and noodles dish and some curry puffs. Everything tasted good and would definitely go back.
Consistent Malaysian restaurant - staff are friendly and ambience is nice. Their lunch specials are great value and their curry puffs are delicious. Favourite mains are Hokkien Mee, Singapore Mee and Mee Goreng.
Great food experience ... Simple and to the point... Beautiful tastes... Curry was just right , tender, and lasting flavor .................
My friends and i have been coming here regularly for about 5 years. The staff and owner are always very friendly and accomodating when we come in often without a booking. We really like the food here and theres something here for everyone. The customer service here is great and the food also.
Went for dinner with friends on Tuesday evening. Parking nearby was surprisingly easy - perhaps due to school holidays. The restaurant was modestly busy at 7.00 pm. It has a pleasant decor and friendly atmosphere. The staff were very prompt to provide service and were friendly and helpful. The menu offers a wide range of dishes other than desserts. The cuisine is predominantly South East Asian. We shared 4 dishes - Fried Kway Teow, Red Curry Duck, Sambal Fish and Belachan Spinach. All were good quality and very tasty. We considered finishing with a dessert but the choice is very limited and uninteresting. Total cost for 4 was $90. Other than dessert, this is a good value restaurant for good quality Asian food.
Really enjoyed our take-away tonight. Had the beef rendang curry and minced pork with eggplant, which were both equally delicious. I have a feeling this place may become a regular for us.
Went there for dinner, I ordered beef curry with roti and my gf ordered curry laksa. The taste overall was above average. I like the atmosphere of the restaurant more than the food. Services were just ok.
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Like sweet music to my mouth. I'm no fan of jazz music -- too much improvisational noodling around for my tastes; gimme rock 'n roll with a fast pounding beat instead -- but I like Ria. Even though the first item I had there left a sour taste in my mouth. Hot and sour, to be specific. Jazz Ria's version is more spicy hot than tamarindy sour, but it covers both bases adequately. This is a busy bowlful with the all the ingredients in it -- silky tofu, mushrooms and even a few bits of egg. The latter seems to be a requirement in most Malaysian/Indonesian dishes -- throw hard-boiled egg in. The best part of the soup was the lashing of chicken chunks throughout it. They had a pronounced flavour -- I knew I was eating some CHOOK, by gosh. It was better than a lot of insipid versions of this soup that I’ve had.
The main on my lunch special -- two items for $12, good deal! -- was Kantan chicken. This is boneless breaded and fried pieces in a wonderful sweet sauce. It had a, slight hit of exotic taste due to the ginger in it, and just the faintest amount of heat. Malaysians do some excellent sweet chook preparations -- this was almost as good as the mango chicken appy I had at Penang Road in South Melbourne. I pass through Balwyn often, so I'm keen to return here and see how they go with beef, like rendang.
Delicious!. I absolutely love Jazz Ria for takeaway and dine-in. Their laksa is delicious and my husband loves the beef rending, roti bread and satay sauce. I recommend Jazz Ria withour reservation; it has great size servings, it is great value for money and has a lovely atmosphere!
Best in Balwyn. You get what you pay for - good food. The value is enormous compared to others in Balwyn who charge an arm and a leg for a meal.
Fantastic. Thanks for your amazing food and service last night. Very attentive staff and I'd say the best food in Balwyn.
We had the Chicken Satay and Prawn Toast to start, the Prawn Toast was beyond amazing.
We had Beef Rendang and Mee Goreng for mains with roti bread on the side. The Beef Rendang was to die for!
Will be back for our weekly date nights :)
Great place. 4 of us had dinner last Friday night and it was a great experience. We had the kantan duck, black pepper butter chicken, assam fish and a stir fry spinach and they were all very good. Dessert (sago pudding in palm sugar and coconut cream sauce) was a bit ordinary though. The food was so good however, that it was easy to not let the dessert affect the experience. The service was also very friendly. Would I come again? I've already made a reservation for 6 next Friday :-)
One of my closest friends and I had dinner at Jazz Ria last night. The service was exceptional and the staff were very attentive. I read reviews about how incredible the duck dishes were so I tried one for my main, it didn't disappoint. It was served in a fragrant, light sauce and the meat was crispy and tender. My friend ordered the Tofu Ria and it was full of flavour. It was my first time trying Malaysian food and was a cool fusion of Thai and even had some Chinese-style similarities too. A great place to go if you want a good hit of Asian flavours with a broader choice of dishes. Only downside was the restaurant was very loud but that sort of thing can't be helped.
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Regularly drive from Brunswick to Balwyn, just so I can have a laksa at Jazz Ria... The first laksa I ever had was from Jazz Ria, and it changed my life - that was when I was in my early teens. To this day, I still make my husband make the trek to Balwyn, from our place in Brunswick, solely to go to Jazz Ria. There is literally no other reason for us to ever go to Kew/Balwyn, where I grew up.
The man that I assume owns the place is lovely, extremely friendly (and seems to never age) and the food is always wonderful. It always seems to be really busy, but there's a room upstairs - so don't be afraid if it looks like there's no room! It is pretty kid friendly, but can be a bit loud, and because the downstairs area is so small, you can't really get away from a loud group of diners. Which there always seems to be! It doesn't stop us going back again and again, though.
I've never had a dodgy dish, though I never deviate from the laksa. My husband gets some squid dish which is also awesome; I think it's mentioned on the menu as a 'local favourite' or something, and he gets it every time. If you're in the area, don't go past it. And it's worth the trek, if you wouldn't otherwise be in the area!
Great food and service, highly recommend.. Thoroughly enjoyed our meals here.
Food was great, first time having Malaysian food and thought it was fabulous!
We had the green curry - which we recommend if you like a bit of spice.
The Mee Goreng noodles were great also.
Medium priced, but generous serving sizes.
Thanks Jazz Ria
Excellent Malaysian Food. The food was great, we had the Assam Fish and the Tom Yum Soup it was full of flavour.Dishes are very well priced and the portions are quite big. The staff were very friendly and courteous. We will surely return to the restaurant to try out some of their other dishes.
This is a wonderful authentic Malaysian restaurant. I was introduced to Jazz Ria 10 years ago by my Malaysian friends who are regulars and it's been one if our favorites ever since. My husband loves the rending, I love s&p squid, Singapore noodles, chicken satays and the belachan spinach is delicious. Oh the yellow prawn curry is excellent as is Chicken Ayam. The staff are lovely and the owner Patrick goes out of his way to get to know you - which is how I know his name.
Safe choice. Whenever we don't know where to go - we end up at Jazz Ria. The food is consistently good, the prices are fair and the staff are great.! I recommend it....but.... there's a certain blandness and a lack of adventure - nonetheless we like it!
Been here now a few times and the food is always consistently excellent. A good place to start is their delicious curry puffs. Light, fluffy and tasty. All the mains I've tasted make my taste buds dance. Value for money. Jazz Ria is a must visit in the eastern suburbs. It's always nice to see a friendly face, and Patrick the owner is just that.
Passed the critical test of mum liking the food, that is seriously an achievement in itself! I concur, adding that it is good food, but managing your expectations by saying it isn't excellent. Had a few options on Saturday night, and this was the busiest of the shortlist
Friendly and tasty. We had a great night at jazz ria, the food was wonderful- i had the duck and it was slightly spicy and full of flavour. Other's had honey prawns and lemon chicken....really nice. The staff were friendly and attentive, could not fault the restaurant...one of the best in Balwyn
Great service, amazing food - the Fried Rock Ling was perfect & the Chilli Beef was delicious. A great night out!
Service excellent, food very good. Been to Jazz Ria twice now and impressed both times, food was tasty and gluten free options marked on menu
Jazzlaysian delight!. This well lit, wonderfully welcoming restaurant was the perfect setting for a quiet and peaceful evening not too far from home. Having had Nasi Lemak in Malaysia I thought I may be disappointed with the dish, however, it was of decent size and full of flavour and spice. For dessert, we ordered the sago pudding which was served cold. Having been accustomed to eating it hot, it wasn't as enjoyable as i had hoped. Overall, i would definitely return for a quick and easy bite.
Amazing food, quick and friendly service will come back anyday
Great Service. Lovely food and great service. A touch on the expensive side for the type of food but I guess you don't mind paying if you know the quality is great! Nice little restaurant tucked away on the main street.
Delicious. My first visit there tonight and will definitely be going back again. I had Nasi Goreng which was good but my friend ordered a vegetable curry (sorry don't know the name) that was absolutely delicious it had a slightly aniseed flavour but was more than just Thai basil. It was one of those "oh my god" this is delicious dishes that you only come across once in a while. Nice atmosphere and very reasonably priced.
Great service with no corkage charge. Perhaps not all dishes are super authentic Malaysian, but everything we had was really tasty and well presented. Great roti and amazing satay sauce. Definitely going back. Close to the Palace cinema too.
I will never NOT go back! :). Since I was a child, my grandparents have hosted our family get-togethers at Jazz Ria. It has always been one of my favourite places to eat. Not only because of my obvious nostalgic connection, but the food has always been amazing! When I go to other Malaysian restaurants, I like to only order the Nazi Goreng.. This is purely to see whether or not it compares to Jazz Ria... It never does.
Not only this, but the staff are some of the friendliest people I have ever met. Not only do they go out of their way to prepare your meal a certain way, they will also race in front of you as you're leaving to hold the door open.
It would be a big mistake to pass up a night at Jazz Ria!
P.S. As the name of the restaurant suggests, they always play great Jazz.
Our favorite local dinner spot. The food is just great! Try the butter chicken, best I have tasted.
I loved dining at jazz ria last night! Had beautiful crab prawn toasts with whole prawns and a malaysian lamb curry with a generous serve of roti for only $12.90. Will definitely be going back!
I eat lunch at jazz Ria at least once a week. The Nasi lemak is an interesting cross section of flavours, I especially enjoy the lamb curry, very tender and tasty!
Excellent. Been here many times & will continue to come back. Food is excellent always.
Mr Malaysian. Great food and excellent service always .
A regular guest of the Restruant
Eat here regularly and both the food and service are always great! Gluten free options are marked on the menu which makes ordering easy!
Just had take away from Jazz Ria. Char Kway Teow & chicken curry were delicious (big bits of chicken though meant not everyone got a piece). Forget about the garlic prawns & beef & veges-both bland
Such quick and friendly service! Try the chicken lobak - yuuuuum!
I totally loved eating there and I highly recommend it. They have great customer service and the most wonderful food. The food really tickles my taste buds! It doesn’t take along time for the food to arrive. Overall it’s a great Malaysian restaurant with the best food and service.
Had a very tasty enjoyable meal tonight, really enjoyed the mixed vegetables. Patrick on his own was doing a great front of staff job with many customers putting in their orders. Lovely food, great ambience
Yvonne
Great local lunch spot, relaxed, fast service, well priced - $12.90 for Nasi lemak with chicken and $12 for Mee Goreng. Meals are well sized, tasty and authentic. They do lunch specials and also have a full menu to compliment. Seating is comfortable. There was a quiet tune of Jazz playing in the background, but needed to be turned up a bit. Photos of famous jazz players on the walls. Accept card has a toilet. Was busy when we came for lunch with a full array of families and friends of all ages. I would recommend
Highly recommend Jazz Ria for those looking for an authentic Malaysian experience. The food was absolutely amazing and the customer service from the restaurant team was outstanding. Thanks Jazz Ria, looking forward to ordering from you again.
Great little Malaysian restaurant. Went here for lunch, the lunch specials are well prices at $12 - $13, with a good selection. We went with a group of 6, and everyone loved their meal. I had the Roti Chicken Curry which was excellent. Very flavorsome and a good sized serve.
The service was friendly and efficient, and the jazz music in the background makes for a nice vibe.
This place has been here for ages and is consistently tasty. A bit too expensive for takeaway on a budget, but worth the price for the quantity if you can afford. The vegetarian curry and coconut rice is a must have, and the spicy tofu is delicious. Definitely more of a blended cuisine than totally authentic Malaysian, but still a local legend and among the best on the street for quality take away.
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