David's

Food was lacking flavor, service on drinks was very slow.

Really tasty food, delivered by friendly staff in a very ambient environment.

Simple flavours executed to perfection. Great service, excellent value and a must for lovers of Yum Cha

The food was excellent and service was great. We were late due to traffic so rushed at first but all good

Fabulous food, clean environment, efficient and friendly staff

Wondeful service

Delicious food. Excellent value. Great service and the lion dance performance was very enjoyable!

It was a disappointing experience at David's this time around. Booked the unlimited yumcha for my birthday lunch and it didn't quite meet our expectations. The yumcha menu was very limited and we were served noodles and fried chicken as part of the course. We were hoping for a more traditional yumcha course with more choices of fried/steam dumplings etc. On a dumpling note, we felt like we were chewing on gum as the dumpling skin were very thick and non translucent. We were seated late as well within the 2 hour restriction and we were not allowed to re-order our choice of course until we were served everything - which by then an hour has passed and our tummies were filling up. Sneaky strategy! Definitely not worth the $55 paid.

Food was amazing and service was exceptional. Even though it was a little noisy we would return again.

Delicious set yum cha menu and yummy cocktails. Highly recommend the pink panther! You will definitely not go hungry, if you can get through the set menu and still hungry you just ask for repeats of your favourites. I love the DIY peking duck and the pork dumpling in ham broth is divine.
Normally I am not a big fan of asian desserts but the white chocolate dumplings are off the charts delicious, everyone in our group was impressed. I would go back just for these.
Service was also great, David's rang me about an hour before our booking time to check if we had any dietary requirements which was a nice touch.

Fabulous food. Great place to dine. We’ve been for yum cha, lunch and dinner. All good!

Love this place. The food does all the talking. Staff are always very obliging.

The food and the drinks were amazing! The staff were lovely. Have already recommended to friends. Will come again.

The food was very average, I'm sorry to say...

Fantastic meal yum cha ! They couldn’t do enough for us and the food was amazing 🤩

Music was good, though there was a lack of ambience! Most of the food was yum

The Yum cha menu was very delicious but maybe a little too filling? The lychee and citrus ice tea was amazing and the service from all the staff members was incredible!!

Could not recommend David’s more. Amazing food and outstanding service. We had the vegan yum cha and there were such variety- we loved every single dish served. We are already rebooking! 10/10

The food was delicious and the staff were wonderful. We had a few dietary restrictions and they were able to make it work for us flawlessly

Booked for the 8PM yum cha, started a bit late.

Drink orders weren’t taken until we were finally able to catch a server’s attention around 20 minutes in.

We didn’t get served food until 8:40PM while other tables were already on their 3rd-4th serve. We had to ask a server where our food was especially considering how we were seated first, and other tables seemed to have all their drinks and food in order.

once food came out it was all quite rushed, dishes were all coming out at the same time. I had barely gotten the food off its plate when someone would come in and grab the plate to replace it with another one. Again, it all felt rushed. We haven’t had everything yet when we were already asked for our last orders. One dish (the lacklustre crab noodles) came out the same time as our second orders which was a bit irksome.

Food was okay (only the buns stood out for us, duck was good but tiny). Crab noodles was honestly a waste of good crab meat because it was quite bland and had zero flavour. We were just eating the crab for the sake of the crab, we couldn’t let it have died for nothing.

overall meh, won’t go back for the yum cha for sure. We were a bit disappointed considering how I was talking David’s up so much from the last time I went there for pre-covid ala carte.

Yum cha was delicious every single dish I could not fault. Amazing value for the price we paid for Yum Cha and the staff were exceptional. Will definitely be going back again.

very enjoyable, good value and great service all around. Food delivery felt a bit rushed though but understood that it might be so to fit into limited time window.

Yum cha was delicious! Highly recommend!

Best value and quality for all you can eat yumcha you can possibly get in Melbourne! The staff were also super friendly and hospitable! Highly recommended and will definitely come back!!

Fantastic food! Just got a bit confused with my drink order but the servers were very attentive.

David’s has been our favourite Chinese restaurant in Melbourne for some 15 years BUT not on this occasion.
It was very disappointing not withstanding that the layout to cope with Covid is excellent , food is good but has been better & it is good value.

The issues
1. We ordered a bottle of Grosset Polish Hill - waiter returned to table with a bottle non chilled bottle from the cellar
So we asked for. Bruner Vetlinger - same result - not chilled
So we asked for a Yarra Valley Chardonnay - same so me so the waiter arrived at the table with 3 chilled bottles & we selected a
French Chardonnay
THIS IS JUST UN-ACCETABLE - 3 quality wines which had not been chilled!

2. Food Service
We felt like we were ‘force fed’ . The food came far to quickly with several courses on the table at once, no time to relax a enjoy the food - it was a non stop rush. The Kitchen staff need fix their schedule to enable the patrons to enjoy & savour the food

3. The Food. The new menu is not up to previous menus:
flavourless san choi bow,
Carve your own Duck Maryland to make your Peking Duck pancake,
Noodles with crab - with minimal crab & a mass of stuck together noodles
The dumplings were up to David’s standard & the fried oysters were good

CONCLUSION
Disappointing & attention to get the offering back to Davids’ high standards.

One of my favourite restaurants in Melbourne for fusion Asian cuisine.
Covid has definitely changed the ambience. The food was exquisite and variety was great!
I’ll be back again once COVID is no longer around and we can enjoy Melbourne’s hospitality industry at its best!!
Thank you.

Very attentive lovely staff. Great vegan menu. Will definitely be back.

Saturday lunchtime al you can eat yum cha was fabulous and incredibly good value.

Loved the food...especially the Tooth fish & the dumplings in the chicken & ham broth.
Service was terrific as usual. Champagne was flowing. All very good. Could not fault it !!

A great night, the Yum Cha was fantastic. Cute little place and worth the visit.

Went for the NYE'S bottomless yum cha and sparkling. The food was good, the service was exceptional and all-round it was a lovely evening. Can't wait to go back!

We have been at David’s quite frequently. Always very happy with the food and the service. Never had a bad experience. This was the first time after the lockdown was removed. Food was surprisingly not as good as it always is. We still ate. Back home all of were very drowsy, and it felt as we would have eaten something with too much of MSG, or something that didn’t suit us.
We will go back again, hoping that food will be as delicious as before.

Had to cancel my booking. I requested to have my booking changed to another night. This was granted, but then they gave my booking (paid in advance) to another party. And now, they ask for my review as if I had shown up myself. Bad communication and false promises on David’s part. I do accept some responsibility though. I tried to change my booking date half a day in advance of the booking time.

The food came out all at once and we had pressure to finalise our order. Last drinks was called 45 minutes prior to the end of our booking time. The restaurant had no atmosphere for a Saturday night and asked us to leave at 10pm. We weren’t that impressed overall but plenty of good food for $55 each

Enjoyed the vegan yum cha. Great service and a nice atmosphere.

Amazing!! Such nice service and the food was amazing. Great value for the price too.

Fabulous experience! Great value & exceptional food & service.

Beautiful food, great service (not too much, not too little) fantastic bar staff. Do NOT snack at all before yum cha!

We've been enjoying David's Yum Cha as a family for years. Hands down the best Yum Cha in town.