Harbour Inn Chinese Restaurant

Now called "Sea View Chinese Restaurant". A large eat in or take away restaurant in the heart of Altona. Have dined here many times with the old name and now new. Always found this to be a reliable restaurant with nice typical dishes to be expected at a reasonable price and pleasant atmosphere. The staff are always nice and helpful the meals are always sufficient. Not a restaurant to write home about, but if it's regular Chinese cuisine you want you won't be disappointed with this one. Was pleasantly surprised to be given a complimentary glass of port at the end of my last visit. I will go back and do recommend to others to try. The Chef's suggestions page on the menu is always a good choice.

The honey chicken here is amazing. At first I did not expect much on entering the restaurant but when I sat down, the merry go land began. It was amazing! The food! The service! I was so happy. The rice is also good. The portion size was also good. What more could you expect? Really. Food = Excellent. Service = Excellent. Thank you. I wish other chinese restaurants could follow your example.

Been here twice since it re-opened/was taken over. Once take away and once dine in. Bluntly it is BAD VALUE FOR MONEY. The average price of $19 per main meal is overpriced for a restaurant decked out in paper tablecloths and plastic plants serving average FOOD COURT QUALITY food . When they bought out chicken and cashew nuts instead of garlic chicken we said that wasn’t ours so it went back to the kitchen where they sneakily took the cashew nuts off and bought it back to us as garlic chicken. Just as well we don’t have a nut allergy!! When we questioned the waiter he admitted that is what had happened, then (what we assume was ) the head waiter came over, he denied doing it until he spoke to the other waiter in foreign language at our table in front of us (which made us feel as though we were being deceived) and then to us said ‘oh it is pretty much the same dish” and still denied taking the cashews off until I pointed out one still on the plate. His resolution to that was to bring me raw cashews “at no charge”!! After this happened we heard another lady asking the same head waiter for a fresh soup after they had done the same to her – bought out one soup, took it back to the kitchen and re-served it to her!!! The service was average given there was clearly a language barrier. The staff discuss you and your order in their own language at the table and when it comes to paying, felt very cautious and like I was being misled. Unfortunately I would not recommend this restaurant. Overpriced, average service & food and lame décor which is a shame given the top location.

The restaurant used to be known as Harbour Inn before it became Seaview. The food used to be good, but now it is terrible - the chicken satay skewers were deep fried as if they had been dropped in dirt and left out in the sun. The special fried rice seemed to be made with frozen vegetables and the duck was very fatty. We will not be ordering takeout from here again. It was a complete waste of money.

Got takeaway from here and it was lovely. didnt have to wait long. only complaint would be is that it was quite expensive, $15 for chicken curry and rice was extra