Not flash, I really feel for the people who are taken here for a special event, not even very good value. However still seems to be enjoyed by many. If you like the 1980′s American buffet format give it a go. The one redeeming thing about this place was the staff, they appear to have competent management and floor staff, who really try to look after you, pity about the kitchen.

Had my birthday tea and what a lovely little surprise with glitter down the centre of my table and a delicious free birthday drink of my choice. Always a good selection. Have been many times before and will be back for many more visits

We do love valentines for birthdays the kids love it too the lady who took care of us Tania ? was wonder full and made our visit very enjoyable thanks

Excellent service and great presentation of tables, food was fresh and tasted delicious….always eat far too much! Loved the photo op and balloon for our birthday boy (5) was a nice touch, he loved it and they managed to conicidently get his fave colour, which he thought was awesome! Definately recommend to any group, big or small!

it was my daughters 14th birthday and it was amazing!!!! The staff treated her so well and really made it special for her….I loved the photo and the lady that took my booking (sory dont remember her name ) was the best maitrde i have ever come across…..she made the night in my opinion…thank you very much

good family restaurant as the kids can try things they would not normally have and we can eat our favourites.

Great place to take all the family to suit many types tastes and great puddings as well service was tops as well, there was no complants from all the family
Great place for birthdays etc

Thanks Valentines and special thanks to the manager very good with the children eg: Balloons etc.

My partner and I went to Valentines for our anniversary because it is an excellent restaurant.
It offers a wide range of food that appeals to everyone.
You know all the food is fresh as you can see the chefs cooking.
The service from the staff at Valentines is fantastic.
I would highly recommend Valentines Restaurant to everyone, especially for a birthday or anniversary they definitely make the event more special.
10/10 for everything.

3 Adults and 5 Children booked in for my daughters 4th Birthday party, we absolutely enjoyed ourselves and staff definitely earned 2 thumbs up, Quick efficient service and catered to our needs. They have a wide variety of foods that caters to everybodys taste buds. The kids had so much fun making their own deserts!! Thank you Valentines!!

We made a booking for 13 people for lunch to celebrate a 70th birthday last Sunday despite having to change the number attending a few times there was never a problem when talking to the staff. The food was wonderful with a great selection of everything on offer. All of those who attended had an experience to remember thanks to the wonderful staff.

Craig F

I enjoyed having my birthday at valentines with my whanau. I like all the food they have there and so does all my Whanau. I would dine there again. My grandson particularly likes all foods and the traffic light coloured drink, and when that makes him happy…it makes me happy.

We have had dinner for a 65th birthday at PN valentines last night. Everything was perfect. We really enjoyed our food, stay and hospitality of the staff there.
Just one thing which all of my 4 clients stated would be good if we were provided with small birthday cake, so we could sung happy birthday to Lyle.

Sarah Hussain
Idea services
PN

I dined here last Wednesday as a guest for a Birthday Party. I particularly enjoyed the fish and dessert selections and the way they were presented. A most enjoyable eating experience. I will return. K.G.

A party of eight of us came Wednesday 16 Nov 2011 to celebrate my sister’s birthday. All eight of us easily found food to our liking, and the desserts were great.
The two cashiers were really friendly, the free photo was an awesome and unexpected idea.
All in all, a great night was had by all.

My whanau of 8 dined here Saturday night at the 7:30pm sitting, the service was great with cheerful helpful waitresses, however, the food and presentation was less than desirable – dry pizza, tasteless pasta, lack of hot vege selection, hot food counter looked unimaginative, untidy and more like a selection from the mall in town! We have been coming here regularly for the last 5 years and have noticed the deterioration of the menu & presentation we will be coming back as it is ideal for kids but I do hope they improve on things as it is a really neat concept for whanau dining!

We ate at Valentines Palmerston North last Saturday night. We hadn’t booked but Tania was a great host and sat us in the lounge area for a short time until a table was available. We are from Rotorua and were celebrating the birthday of our son who lives in Levin. Other family members joined us also including 3 children. All staff were great and helped to make it a good night. Food was excellent, especially the Roast Beef! We will definitely be dining here again. Thanks to Tania and the rest of the team at Valentines.

Enjoyed a family meal. Grandchildren loved it. Good food at a fair price. Best of all was the friendly service from everyone. Very impressed with the person in charge for the night.

Recently for a 77th birthday a group of 13 of us attended lunch. The service we received was outstanding in a highly professional and friendly manner. The food was delicious and a nice selection of mains and desert. The offer of having a photo taken was a pleasant surprise. We will definitely go back

My husband, myself and our two daughters went to Valentines again last night for my ‘free’ birthday tea! (We always go on mine and my husband’s birthdays). We are fans because we all get to eat what we like, as much as we like at a reasonable price and enjoy a fun, child friendly dinner together! Our girls enjoy the spaceman lollies and making their own ice creams. They liked the pizza, chips and hot ham. We enjoyed the steak and garlic butter and fresh fried and crumbed fish, etc! We will be back!

We had a big group of 26 we all enjoyed ourselves it was nice and relaxed the kids had a blast! Everything was nice could do with more meat selection and more seafood. But everything that we had when we dined was nice. Thanks for the photo was such a good idea.

i had a great time there i like that they take Photos on special occasions the food was great only thing i would love to see is a more selection of hot meets but apart from that the food was nice and the service was lovely thanks Valentines P/North for a good time

Our family of 6 adults dined here recently – Thursday night so not many patrons. Receptionist very friendly and efficient. She intervened when she saw we were kept waiting too long by the waitress. Waiting service was adequate, as was the food. We have dined at Valentines on numerous occassions over many years around NZ but the std has deteriorated from very good/excellent to adequate. The range has also depleted. The photo was a nice idea and ws great to receive by e-mail.

We have been coming to Valentines for the last 5 or 6 years, and each time find as always excellent food, warm friendly and relaxed atmosphere,and most of all, the best staff of any restaurant we have ever been in.
Value for money unbeatable.
John

After hearing a few horror stories and after a couple of bad visits a few years beforehand my partner and I decided to give Valentines another go. It was my birthday and there was only two of us so understood I wasn’t eating free BUT I received a free drink instead which was an unexpected bonus. Service was GREAT,we were shown to our table, got an explanation on how we go about getting our food, asked if we wanted drinks (which arrived promptly) and left to it. Our plates were cleared no more than 2minutes after finishing and was an overall pleasant experience. After tucking in to our wide range of foods, we were both pleasently surprised. Will definitely be returning with more family next time, so they can enjoy the experience as well. Thanks Valentines

good service and good food at alow price very happy as they made my dad feel looked after on his birthday all the family in joyed it and even got a photo taken of us all together aw some

Great meal, lovely relaxing atmosphere and the staff are lovely. Would be good to see another roast meat at lunchtime!

Had a family birthday lunch at Valentines in Palmerston north on Saturday 18th September. Great family atmosphere, nice fresh food and a good selection, although another choice of red meat would have been appreciated, eg, steak or roast beef, rather than just the casserole and hocks. The dessert bar was great. Overall a great meal and a good time had by all.

Hadn’t been to Valentines for years, but we had a really fantastic time last night. There was so much food and it was excellent! The kids loved their flashing glasses and bottomless drink. When finished eating, they were able to play in a private room on the computer games so that they didn’t disturb anyone, and they even won a teddy bear & lollies. We were sent a free photo, and my meal was free due to it being my birthday. The staff were friendly and not intrusive. We all came back on a high. Honestly Valentines made my day! I would recommend it to anyone.

me and my family have dined here numerous times especially birthdays. i have noticed that u have improved the seafood chowder as its more creamier instead of watery! good for you. the oysters are always scarce. this is disappointing as your staff always say oysters are on the dinner menu. i have watched the chef re fill the oyster bowel and i actually counted 10, um this is a restaurant seated for 150? hello! those would be my only 2 hang ups as the staff are always lovely…with a bill of $180 for my fams i come back cos my children love the desserts!!! Sorry Valentines improve the quality of your food cos if u dont then we off to STEAKOUT cuz

I almost didnt want to write this but I hope this may help the staff and particularly the cooks at the PN valentines. Me and my (large) family have been dinning at the PN valentines since it opened. I have to say we have always had awesome service and awesome food. The guy there (manager) is always nice and remembers us by name, as with the staff there. However we went last Wednesday night just me, my husband and 10 month old son and I have to say the food was really bad. One hot meat ham and it was dry and nasty. Fish (mussels and shrimps) were really old tasting so we didnt finish it. If Im honest the only thing I enjoyed was the soup however the wee bread rolls were hard like they had been there a while. Just really disappointing. Unfortunately the manager this time was a little less cheery and made a point of saying ‘your child is free (with a nice smile) however we ask that he doesnt make a mess if he does have something to eat’. Im like what, there was no reason for him to even mention this (we hadnt even entered yet) and this was the first time my son would be actually eating with us as last time there he was still on the bottle and prior to that breast feed (which I done in private) so yeah was a little confused at that comment. Just a shame have told my family and we will no longer be dinning there. PS we use to come all the way from Levin and all our b’days, anniversarys or just a night out were at Valentines. Real shame.

The staff were great but the food is very disappointing, all very tasteless, won’t be back.

we had the buffet dinner. It was very dissapointing. The roast beef was like rubber and couldnt cut it. the salads were old wilted and stale. the potato salad was hard and stale. The gravy had a thick film over the top as it had been there a long time. shrimps were of a poor grade and still frozen. the butter chicken was revolting in flavour and the steak was on the grill dried out and shriveled up. The food looked old tasted old and not fresh. will not go back as better value for money at other palmy restaurants

Our family often dine at Valentines through the year and this is the third year we have dined there for Christmas dinner. Even though we were booked for the final sitting of the day the range of food selections was great and the food itself was both appetising and tasty.
The atmosphere was very welcoming and we all enjoyed both the food and the overall experience.
Our thanks to the entire Valentines team for a wonderful – (hassle and dishes free) – Christmas dinner.
See you again next Christmas!

an absolutely outstanding meal we had at valentines palmerston north we arrived at 12.30pm the staff were great the service excellent & the menu outstanding wonderful hot vegetarian choices & fantastic salads, seafoods, we dine at valentines around the country & palmerston north is far superior cheers

Ive been there twice now, in june it was brillant! staff were great, food was tops, really excellent. then we went again on fathers day.. a huge let down! we are big eaters, and i only had 1 plate fill, bland, tastless and boring, deserts was good.. but thts not hard. actual food was crap. although the staff were excellent, couldnt fault them at all very friendly, a shame the food was crap

Ok so it is not Haute Cuisene but still good for the price.I had a $14.95 luncheon which seemed ok to me.Not the usual large selection but I was told this is because it is a luncheon special and that the “works” came out for dinner.I didnt find the food bad at all and the quality much as expected for pre cooked food kept hot.Loved in particular the spicy meatballs and the ham nice too.Waiting staff were friendly and helpful.Went out after feeling well fed and I would go back again.Good value.
BTW this is the first time I have been for thee years yet the Duty Manager recognised me.

very poor food dry and boring ataff lazy shruged shoulders and like they not even want to be there !
payed full adult price and its a total waste of money !!!
Will NEVER dine there again we now go to breakers or chinna town

Over the years the standard of food serve here have dropped! Everything is now dry, not seasoned very well, the buns taste very old, the chips were over cooked, I didn’t even bother to have pudding.

My family usually always come here for birthdays but we will not be anymore!

Hideous food, just bland and tasteless. But if you just want to stuff your face at an O.K price this is the place to do it.

took wife and kids to there 7.30pm sitting . waste of time .. very poor food . washed out & tasteless.. they never bothered to refill even with most things empty. staff were more interested in cleaning up early and going home ( 1 staff said this out very loud ) rang and complained. Got the big brush off and told the staff are very bizzy at that time of the night.like really cear when im looking to enjoy a night out . but they did give me a free round of drinks the next time im there … NOT THAT WE WILL EVA GO BACK!!!!!!!!!

I was so dissapointed with valentines last nite, we went there as a group for my husbands birthday, 7.30pm. The food was dry and everything looked second hand, no seafood left and nothing was topped up. Perhaps at that time of the night you should offer a cheaper dinner if you are not going to replenish the dishes.
The only dish that was of descent taste was the seafood chowder, pity it cost $29.95 a plate.
AND we wont be returning again, neither will the couple from wellington. !!