I have been there 3 times this year, for my birthday , a 1st birthday and for a 80th birthday
On all three occasions we had a great experience, the food was great, lots of salad selections, lots of oysters/fresh! good variety of hot selections, great desert's, great tea/coffee/cheese/crackers selection, awesome variety of Lollies available for the kids.
Friendly staff, great service, child friendly, parking free, ample time allocated for your meal.
Highly recommended, well worth for your money, right price, not expensive.
Had been to this Valentines quite a few times, the quality of food has been consistently good. Seafood is fresh and cooked to order. Food is refilled in time. I love the variety of desserts and fruits in particular, as well as my favourite Mocca！ Definitely recommend it to anyone.
Staffs are really nice. Food is with plenty of variety considering the good price. Will definitely come back again with friends.
I love the dessert range there and now they provide ice cream in cone!
Three of us and we all enjoyed ourselves. Service Nice ambience. The food was varied and well prepared from soup to main to dessert. For 30+dollor with oyster it was excellent value form now .Highly recommended. Will come back.
We enjoyed the meal. This was a good eating place ，staff was nice and helpful .rushing dinner will come back if invited or a birthday party.
Myself and husband visited on 19th September 2017 and I was absolutely stunned at the place. It is by far the best valentines I have visited in Auckland to date!! Because of this amazing experience we returned on 3 November 2017 to feast as a reception for our wedding with our close family members! They too enjoyed the experience! We again returned before we flew out of NZ on 12 November 2017 and again, it was an amazing experience, although our last visit it was quite busy, I believe this is because it was the weekend which is to be expected! Each visit was pleasurable, the atmosphere was amazing, the cleanliness was great and the food selections were average but delicious and filling. I ready did enjoy each visit and I look forward to returning when I return home. THE BEST VALENTINES IN AUCKLAND HANDS DOWN!!!
This place is a sensational luxurious place to have a wonderful meal. When You arrive at Valentines you do not have to wait you just go to the front of house and then you enter into the one of a kind Valentines.
I love their food and their buffet because they have a variety of different delicious scrumptious types of food at Valentines. Their dining area is a 5\5 star rating. Everything is in place and there are lots of amazing inspiring photos to come and look at. At the front desk there are fresh mints for you to secretly eat.
There are lots of types of desserts to choose from like hot yogurt, Mcdonalds vanilla ice cream, chocolate fountain and much much more.The type of desserts they have are baked desserts cold desserts and fresh fruit and trust me there are lots of them.
By Kathrine, Laylah, Vuka
I have sampled only the finest foods in all of Auckland and this has got to be the finest cuisine my tongue has ever laid taste buds upon. If Jesus was to return and he were to ask me for a recommendation of where to have his Last Supper 2.0 with his pals i would not waste the smallest measurable increment of time to strongly suggest he go to Valentine's Mt Eden.
DO NOT MISS OUT ON THIS INTERNATIONAL FOOD BANQUET.
I went to this Valentines sat nite and we found the food is great. Salads and Seafood are good except you have to wait for the oyster. Hot food are good selection and desert are nice. Overall it is value to dine.
been there for a family dinner 2adult and a child ，my son love the place with fresh hot chips and fish.we do really love the salads and the fish name baked creamy fish. staff were very halpful and friendly.anyway will come back again
I have been to the Valentines buffet couple of times now. Each time has been great! My most recent visit was three weeks ago when I took my daughter for a lunch for her birthday. She was very excited and loves rich choice of food very much. The place is by far a above average (good) buffet restaurant. very easy location and affordable for a variety of choice. I mean come on it's only around $30 for a fine dinner.
Overall, great service, nice food with fear price. Go there regularly with mates. I enjoy the desserts very much. The price we paid for the buffet is worth while. And sometimes they offer special deal, even better😃
Had dinner with my colledgue last Friday. overall it was great, especially the seafood and the service quality. quite a lot choice for reasonable price. 🙃
Come Valentines every year with my sons birthday. Still love these place. very good service. I am so surprise they make lamb shank, good job guys. I will come back next year.
Family of 10 went Valentines Dominion Road last Sunday. Didn't expect fine food here. However family get together, kids had fun, we enjoyed dinner. Good family buffet restaurant.
Service: 3.5/5
Wait time: 4/5
Environment: 3/5
Food Quality: 3/5
Food Quantity: 5/5
Price:4/5
Overall: 22.5/30
been to valentines mt eden for my friends birthday. As always, is a good deal for a birthday person lol.the seafood and BBQ was the highlight of the menu also salad is very fresh and considering that the restaurant was relatively busy, the waiting time for a BBQ wasn't so bad. The chocolate mousse is also a nice addition.
And on to the lowlights of the night. Foodwise a lot of the dishes really empty and take time to refill - some seafood didn't seem to be fresh (some of the mussels had a bit of a funny smell) . staff is friendly and helpful but should wear same uniform at lease.
Service: 3/5
Environment: 3/5
Food Quality: 3/5
Food Quantity: 4/5
Price range: $30+ pp (dinner)
The price is reasonable as you have a variety of food to choose. The seafood chowder is nice and the chocolate log is quite tasty. The menu for Christmas is nice and hopefully the normal menu can be improved.
I have been this place many time, the service is also good. The desserts are so beautiful. The only problem is when I come after 8 clock, the food are nearly empty. I understand it is very hard to add more food when the restaurant is close soon. In the end, I am so happy the front manager gave me some discount for there are not too much food. also suggest me come earlier next time. Very nice service.
I and my girlfriend are all like the restaurant . The service and foods. I like their seafood salad and BBQ, my girlfriend like the dessert. We will back again.
My family and I went to Valentines Dominion Road on Mother's Day. We felt lucky we had made reservation beforehand. The restaurant was heavily packed on the dinner session.
However the family members and I were very satisfied with service and food. The waitresses are very polite with nice smile.s They acted and collected very fast once the plates were finished. Cooks in the hot food replenished food very fast.
All the food is professional presented. The seafood chowder was thick and flavored. The best soup I ever had before. The oysters are so fresh even I only had three of them. They have gone very fast once get topped up. Steak was beautifully cooked and very tender. Just medium rare. Fried dumplings and lasagne were my favourite dishes on that night. There was huge variety of dessert could be chosen such as brandy snaps, panacotta?, cheesecake, jelly and lots of extras. Here is the best value for your money.
Recommended to everyone. We will be back in a very short time.
Use to come here for lunch on weekends after church. Great value for money, I mean.....its a buffet..come on. Lots of selections of food. ESPECIALLY the baked and raw fish. The staffs arevreally helpful. I bumped a lot of friends here, so Valentines must be doing some right. fantastic place to take your family.
Great variety, great service.
Went there for a birthday.
There are lots of bad reviews regarding it, but what I saw, I believe that the comments arent fair.
People are obviously comparing the food to a more expensive restaurant... thats like comparing Rainbows End to Disneyland. There is nothing wrong with Rainbows end. For the money, it is very well priced. Many of the reviews are form people who probably go to restaurants and pay $30 for one plate of food. ... but thats all you get.. one plate.
Friendly attentive staff, great selection. Would go there again
I was a bit wary of going to Valentines on Valentine's Day but I was pleasantly suprised with their buffet. They had a wide variety from the seafood chowder, pumpkin soup, salad and seafood bar choices to hot food including lasagne, curries, roast meats and fried dumpling. Their desserts range from chocolate log, fudge, brandy snaps to trifle, ice cream and cheesecake. You get a lot of variety for your money.
Great value place to take the whole family. We have eaten there with small and fairly large groups and always find the food to be very good. Highly recommended to family.
Dec 25, 2014
The best buffet I've ever had. There are so many choices and the extrême good taste of different cuisines and desert buffet. In spite of the long waiting time to get in the restaurant, it's worth it to eat there. Very good quality of food and personnel is helpful and quick. We'll definitely come back there.
We came to Valentines Mt Eden to celebrate our son's birthday on Sunday lunch. Although the restaurant was extremely packed, the service was fast, the food was absolutely fantastic. There is a huge range of selection of food. We love seafood chowder, roasted lamb, roasted ham, baked fish... yummy all the desserts are just great. homemade cheesecake and chocolate cake is my favourite...superb. Also raw food station is a brilliant idea in the buffet. Everyone enjoyed lunch. We will definitely go back in future.
I was shocked by reading the past reviews. We went to Valentines Mt Eden on Sat. night for the ABs game. This is our first time to Mt Eden branch. The restaurant is nice and warm. We have been led to a nice window table. Staffs there are super friendly. After ordering the drinks, we started to have our meal. Wow, fresh salad and seafood, huge selection of main course, fantastic desserts. Everything has been well prepared and decorated . The fish in BBQ section was beautifully cooked seasoned by lemon and pepper. This buffet is the best value for the money. Recommend to all of you.
Why it is only three star for this business?? some people judge the business with their single half an hour experience. We been there for buffet and they deserve more than three stars. Great value for your money. Buffet restaurant so we did not expected fine dining experience for what we paying. Service was fair for the busy restaurant. Of course, we noticed hard work done by the staffs from the preparation to plate on table. The food was great and fresh. Great selection. Get what you pay so happy to recommend all. Cheers..
I was shocked when I read some of the bad reviews. However I had fantastic evening with my girl friend in Valentines day here. Am living in Australia, my girl friend booked about 7pm. The restaurant was pretty packed. it was a nice touch as they prepared a little gift for us. Salad and seafood were fresh. Huge selection of the hot food, beautiful cooked, nice presented. We found BBQ was the best section even the waiting queue was so long there. I don't eat dessert, but they looked pretty impressed. Service was good and fast. I would definitely come back if I am in Auckland again. BTW, its much cheaper to eat here than Mel.
Good place for family gathering. You can dine in for free when it's on your birthday. We had small birthday party last month. The restaurant was packed. Dinner is much more worthy than the lunch.
Service: 4/5
Wait time: 4/5
Environment: 3/5
Food Quality: 3/5
Food Quantity: 5/5
One of the best valentines for quality. The seasonings that they use are awesome and the crab and garlic prawns cooked fresh
Favourite dishes included the surimi salad, the battered fish, (hot, crispy and perfectly done) the bbq lamb, the thai beef salad (very tender beef), and the chocolate mousse. But in fact I really enjoyed everything I ate, (except just the baked fish was way way too salty - like inSANEly salty, and the texture of the chilled chicken-spaghetti pasta salad just wasn't my thing).
There was ample quantity of an enormous range of hot, cold, juicy and tasty things. Also nice green broccoli - fresh, hot and colourful, with a cheesy sauce on top.
Just the carpet and chairs are probably the only thing that lets the place down a bit. They definitely need renewing.
The serving guy was very good - meal-checking me twice, and being very welcoming and attentively clearing my plates away very quickly each time I left the table to get another serving of something, which I thought was very impressive! He seemed to have a certain enthusiasm and dedication to his role that quite shone :)
Me and my partner decided to dine out on Monday and I had a great time..I loved the food. Plenty to choose from. We enjoyed out dinner and the staff were really friendly and welcoming. I loved every bit of the night and I recommend it to friends. And next week a group of me and friends will visit again. :)
Thank you so much
We went to dine on the spur of the moment and hadn't made a booking. We were pleased that there were tables available for casual diners. There were two of us and we both enjoyed our meal very much. There were two celebrations happening and large crowds at both. So there was some queuing past the servery and some waiting for another batch of food to be cooked, but wait was only 10 mins. The kitchen staff did a very good job of keeping up with demand and the food was fresh and well presented. Well done Valentines.
We went here today with my mum to celebrate. We always go here, we were so surprised they put our favourite oyster and salmon. Live BBQ is always great, my kids love desserts. It was very busy today, we understand food was not the best today, but the staff tried their best. They were super friendly. We enjoyed very much, it is a nice place to get everyone together.
I went today with my family and my friends on my birthday it was really a great dining with this restaurant with many different types of food and awesome types of deserts, fresh and variety of salads. I even loved the BBQ specially the salmon and steak wonder full and yummy dinner and the price which I paid was really worth to me. Staff working there are really good they are professional in there service and I really love the decor of that restaurant and they suggested me good wine with my meal.. I really love it thanks to Valentines Mt Eden for making my day.
8 adults and 5 kids here for lunch to celebrate my dad and mum's 40th weeding anniversary last week. This is 3rd time we are here since mid of last year.
The salads are always fresh. There are huge of selection of hot food. The authentic butter chicken and rice with a bit spicy taste and sweet & sour pork are my favourite dishes. All the kids enjoyed dessert very much. The best mud cake with fresh cream I ever had. The service was excellent. The staffs were really helpful and friendly.
We are very appreciated you gave us a moment to remember. We will expect to see valentines mt eden again.
I took a close friend of mine to Valentines last Thursday, and she had never been there. I have been there several times and each time have thoroughly enjoyed the food, the promt attention to customers and clearing the tables. The selection of food is great for lunch and always being refilled. The seafood dishes are just great, meat is always hot and sliced, and you are able to help yourself as much as you want. The hot and cold desserts are amazing, fresh cream and not mock cream, choices of ice cream, too much to mention them all. As far as getting great value for money, it is certainly great value, and I will return again soon
I have been here before with friends for lunch and once again found the staff to be friendly and helpful. The food was fresh and plentiful with a good variety to choose from. The desserts were also good. Overall I found it to be a very good choice of restaurant for lunch and would not hesitate to go back.
Trish
We had dinner with the kiwi friends in Valentines Mt Eden a couple of days ago. The buffet food is much much better than lots of cuisine in my city. The salads are fresh, I like the shrimp cocktail. BBQ idea is great, the beef steak is so tender. Roast ham, beef and lamb were best part of the entire meal. There are huge selection of desserts. The chocolate mousse is my favourite. The staffs are super friendly. If there is another chance to visit this city, I will be back here for sure.
we went there 27th July 2012 for dinner...yum yum yum food and desserts...and the staff were nice:) only downer was having to leave to go to our movie...hahaha...
I went to Valentines Mt Eden on Tuesday 13, July. I had not been here for a year because of my last bad experience, however, this time i was very pleased. It has been changed a lot. I love the BBQ idea. Keep up the good work.
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 ice cream. 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.
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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.
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!
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.
Three of us and we all enjoyed ourselves. Service Nice ambience. The food was varied and well prepared from soup to main to dessert. For 30+dollor with oyster it was excellent value form now .Highly recommended. Will come back
We haven't been here in a few years, but were pleasantly surprised. Food was better then we expected, everything clean and staff lovely. Just need to top up hot food more regularly. Otherwise, we will return. Thank you
Six of us went today, 28/11/14 and we all enjoyed ourselves. Clean and the service was polite. Nice ambience. The food was varied and well prepared from soup to main to dessert. For $14.95 it was excellent value. Highly recommended.
Much better quality of food to my previous visit. Pork a wee bit dry, but the ham was really nice. Disappointing no oysters available, but top marks for the courteous staff over that, and in general.
Gustavo Andres Herrera
+4
The food is fresh and well prepared, although not very varied. It doesn't have any hot meals. The desserts are also nice but again, not super varied. All in all, a nice family place for buffet food.
went tonight for a surprise Birthday tea. I cant understand why this restaurant has had a few bad reports because we found everything lovely, nicely presented, with very attentive professional staff. My only regret is that I didnt have room to try all the yummy things.
been to valentines mt eden because valentines Henderson was closing down, i haven been here before. BUT!!!now i think this is the better one,everything lovely ,nice service. for $26.95 dinner it was excellent value for salad hot food and dessert . recommended!!!!
been to valentines mt eden because valentines Henderson was closing down, i haven been here before. BUT!!!now i think this is the better one,everything lovely ,nice service. for $26.95 dinner it was excellent value for salad hot food and dessert . recommended!!!!
Reasonable price for a buffet with oyster. Come here for my buddy’s birthday, still get free though it was one day difference with the real brith date. Nice!
This place is just right for family's to relax with there kids and enjoy time together，been to friends wedding party is great price and nice service to stay. Quite like the fresh cook prawn and fish.Four star form my opinion.
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