I went to Valentines Mt Eden with my family on mothers day. My family really enjoyed the food there. Especially the bbq! We had 4 beef steaks and some prawns. My kids also love the desserts and icecream. We come there to celebrate mothers day every year. I think they improve a lot. Good job! Wish next time they will give me more surprise.

I went to Valentines Pakurange with my husband for dinner, i didn’t know what to expect as this was my first time in this restaurant.

Generally, the stuff were lovely and helpful but the food was ‘not good’ … hot dishes were not even warm, and lots of the dessert plates were empty..it just felt like the food was sitting there for a while although we were there just just before 7 ..you’d expect the food to be fresh and hot.

Basically, this is a VERY BUDGET restaurant and I’m definitely not going back again.

I came here a couple of months ago for a special occasion during lunch time and I was disappointed with the food they offered for the lunch buffet. The desserts were great and there was a wide variety of sweet treats to choose from. However, the lunch dishes did not seem to be carefully selected and did not taste that great or that fresh.

Hence, I was a bit apprehensive about going there again for a Birthday dinner. But I was pleasantly surprised. The dinner buffet was excellent (29/3/12), there were a wide variety of dishes to choose from and it was a dream come true for meat lovers like myself. The roast pork was really nice and tender, the salads were great and so were the other dishes we had. But the best part of the buffet had to be the live barbecue. The steak prepared by the chef to your liking was amazing and so were the garlic prawns and fish. I really loved the whole live barbecue idea! The dessert too was awesome, especially the chocolate cheesecake and here again there was lots to choose from. All in all, it was a great dinner.

The buffet was well worth the $30 and I would rather spend the $10 extra and have dinner there instead of lunch as there are so many more meat and seafood dishes to choose from. With regards to their lunch menu, I think they need to improve it a bit or have a option where you can just have the coffee and desserts for a set price.

Judging by some of the other reviews here, I am wondering if I happened to go there on a good night. I am really hoping the next time I go, I will have the same great experience, as I am really looking forward to going again sometime, especially if they are still doing the live barbecue.

Valentines Dominion Rd, Mt Eden, certainly failed to deliver, this is certainly not an experience I hope others will not have to go thru!!!! Where do I start: seafood chowder only had surimi meat no other seafood and the soup mix looked like glue!! Mussels were frozen, still in the shell with the beard attached to it, meatballs sauce FOUL, hot ham slices soaking in water, no longer HOT & tasted water log!!, cheese board not even a cheese board, only 1 choice as the others were slices wrapped in plastic and u could buy a packet of 12 at foodtown for $2.46!! only crackers were salada that u break into 4, other choice short bread!! broccoli mushy, cheese sauce another foul dish .. pool tables also shared the same space felt like you were in a games room and not a restaurant!! and finally for the 3 hours were were there with a party of 6 the same music played twice obviously on repeat!! i will NOT recommend this venue to even my pets thats how disappointed we were..what did we eat your probably wondering after sitting there for so long…ICE CREAM and it wasnt tip top either!!!

I usually like all you can eat restaurants but this one was a little bit dirty for me! I love the desserts!

quite nice family restaurant~~We have been there last Sunday lunch after church for the birthday part. Service was nice, food was all good except pizza was a bit dry. $21.90 is a good value!

went there for family birthday party last week. quite a lot change from last year. good salad selection, very fresh. bit disappointed there was no oyster in seafood part. nice butter chicken and baked fish in hotline. kids enjoyed desserts and ice cream. worth to go. recommended!

Took my young family here for a birthday dinner on June 7th. A lot of the food was dry and Italian meatballs don’t really go with Chinese noodles. Put some casserole chicken on my plate only to discover that it was actually fish that didn’t taste very fresh. Kids enjoyed the desserts though.
Won’t be going back.

went there for dinner yesterday. Nice place to go. good selection. very good steak ect. very friendly service. kids love desserts. worth it. recon to all. will go back again.

the quality is really poor comparing with the price we pay, the 2 star is for the salad only, but the main food is poor quality

We went to this restaurant as it was our sons birthday and thought you can’t go wrong with Valentines family restaurant…..well we were so wrong!
We were very disappointed at the selection of food and the taste was not great.
The coca cola drinks machine broke down so our son could not continue to get drinks after paying for the deal and it did not taste like the proper coke, more like a budget brand.
But the WORST thing about our experience was the children dining there were eating from the main serving spoons in the dessert area and putting them back in the bowls. Eating watermelon and putting half eaten bits back in with the main plates.
Other diners near us were complaining and telling each other not to eat the desserts!
When I told the waitress she said it was the parents fault!
I said that they should have staff in the food service area making sure it wasn’t happening because they need to consider all diners. The staff were too scared to tell the parents and so it continued and of course we among other diners left very disappointed!
Will NEVER return.

Valentines have definitely gone downhill. Dined at the Henderson restuarant. Poor service, dirty cutlery. At the same time we noticed the dirty glasses we could hear a woman at the next table over complaining about the same thing! Won’t be back.

Decided to come here for my birthday as I hadn’t been to Valentines in years….but left feeling pretty disappointed. This is not the Valentines that I remember. The menu was pretty crap, not many options to choose from and the food wasn’t that nice. Was shown to our table on arrival and that was it, no offer of drinks or how our meals were going. Won’t be coming back here in a hurry.

This restaurant has gone down the toilet. Since the change of owners who I suspect work here as well, the service was lax except when it came to talking money. A random and potentially dangerous man wandered into the restaurant and the staff sat there, too cowardly to do anything about him. It took my mum who is 66 and had one of her hips replaced to complain about him and get rid of him.

The food was below average with many of the cooking staff looking as miserable as the diners. Go here at your own peril.