Landmark Restaurant - Logan City

I was a bit mortified at the low score of Landmark, if you look carefully at the reviews here, people who are regularly reviewing are giving it 3.0- 3.5 (with 1-2 exceptions) whereas the disgruntled one time zomato reviewers are lowering this restaurant to a dismal 2 point something. To give Landmark such a low score is an insult to the many Asian people who frequent this place. We came on Monday lunch time and it was PACKED. Yum Cha to the uninitiated can be confronting, the hustling waiters wheeling the trolleys, the line up, struggling to get someone's attention but that's part of the appeal of this place. They are here to serve food and we are here to eat it. The yum Cha dishes are the usual classic dishes you expect at a yum cha, cooked correctly. We like the prawn dumplings, the flat rice noodles, the vegetarian dumplings... and chicken feet! There's enough variety to find things you'll like. Service is efficient, the interior feels like a ball room, this place could (and has) served hundreds. I've been going here for years and it feels like home. I've tried others in Brisbane but we keep on returning to Landmark. All up we spent $75 for the 3 of us and we all needed naps afterwards. Landmark is a Sunnybank institution and you need to treat it like you treat your Aunty... with respect.

I was a bit mortified at the low score of Landmark, if you look carefully at the reviews here, people who are regularly reviewing are giving it 3.0- 3.5 (with 1-2 exceptions) whereas the disgruntled one time zomato reviewers are lowering this restaurant to a dismal 2 point something. To give Landmark such a low score is an insult to the many Asian people who frequent this place. We came on Monday lunch time and it was PACKED. Yum Cha to the uninitiated can be confronting, the hustling waiters wheeling the trolleys, the line up, struggling to get someone's attention but that's part of the appeal of this place. They are here to serve food and we are here to eat it. The yum Cha dishes are the usual classic dishes you expect at a yum cha, cooked correctly. We like the prawn dumplings, the flat rice noodles, the vegetarian dumplings... and chicken feet! There's enough variety to find things you'll like. Service is efficient, the interior feels like a ball room... read more

Landmark has a very strong claim to being the worst restaurant in Brisbane. Its rating really ought to be negative. The decor is Hong Kong Bling and looks good from the outside, so I took my wife there to celebrate her birthday. BIG MISTAKE! We ordered the set-piece banquet for two. The food was only so-so, the portions were small and the service was sloppy, off-hand and appallingly slow. There was a delay of about twenty minutes before the first of the food arrived which was surprising because the restaurant was barely a third full (in hindsight, not a good sign at 7pm), and chicken and corn soup, prawn crackers, curry puffs, and spring rolls are stock items requiring minimal preparation. The soup arrived before the appetisers, but no matter. However, the waiter slopped the soup over both himself and my wife, then withdrew, leaving her to clean up as best she could. There was nothing to particularly like or dislike about the soup or appetisers. They were competent enough, but not worth having again. The teapot was “incontinent” in that neither of us succeeded in pouring a cup of tea without significant dribbles. As staff changed table cloths on the tables around us in preparation for the next day’s trade, all revealed extensive dark brown stains on the table tops, so I suspect that all the teapots are similarly defective. After about a half hour wait, the dishes were finally cleared away and the main course arrived. The special fried rice was a bit dry, but acceptable (“special” seemed to be code for “we sprinkled five tiny prawns on the top”). The sizzling steak special chinese style had a distinctive flavour that did not appeal to my wife. The special seafood combination was disappointing – the prawns were flavourless, the calamari was tenderised rubber with no discernable flavour, the scallops were pleasant, the fish tasted strongly like rotting seaweed and was not at all pleasant, but the vegetables were acceptable. We ended a long wait for the main course dishes to be cleared by asking one of the staff to do so. We had to ask for desert to be brought, although when it came (coconut jelly and ice cream), it was pleasant. Not so pleasant was the dish that mine was served in. It had chipped edges at two places (about 1 cm long and 1 to 3 cm deep), that would not have passed muster with any health inspector. Each operation seemed to be done by a different member of staff, all of whom were off-hand and disengaged. The slow service was clearly not attributable to any staff shortage. Only one party arrived after we did and, by the time main course arrived, there were more staff on the floor than parties of diners, but the staff were more preoccupied with clowning around amongst themselves and setting tables for tomorrow’s guests than with attending to existing guests. The Sunnybank restaurant precinct (Market Square, Sunny Park, and Sunnybank Plaza) has over seventy sit-down asian restaurants, some of which have queues of diners on a Saturday evening. On reflection, I should have realised that Landmark’s being only a third full at 7pm on a Saturday was a sign that most other diners had already drawn the conclusion that we were soon to be drawing, namely, that numerous far superior eating experiences are readily available within a 200 metre radius of the Landmark. After we paid the bill, we asked to speak with the manager, a man called Henry, who had to be summoned from a back room and whom we had not seen at any other time of the night. The conversation with Henry was cordial, but futile. He seemed to have no real understanding of the role of table service in making a successful dining experience or that it might be a good idea for a restaurant manager to spend some time on the floor to see that things were being done properly, rather than cloistering himself in a back room. Henry offered nothing in the way of apology for a truly dismal dining experience, but, as we departed, he offered to “really look after us” on our next visit.  Don’t hold your breath, Henry!

Landmark has a very strong claim to being the worst restaurant in Brisbane. Its rating really ought to be negative. The decor is Hong Kong Bling and looks good from the outside, so I took my wife there to celebrate her birthday. BIG MISTAKE! We ordered the set-piece banquet for two. The food was only so-so, the portions were small and the service was sloppy, off-hand and appallingly slow. There was a delay of about twenty minutes before the first of the food arrived which was surprising because the restaurant was barely a third full (in hindsight, not a good sign at 7pm), and chicken and corn soup, prawn crackers, curry puffs, and spring rolls are stock items requiring minimal preparation. The soup arrived before the appetisers, but no matter. However, the waiter slopped the soup over both himself and my wife, then withdrew, leaving her to clean up as best she could. There was nothing to particularly like or dislike about the soup or appetisers. They... read more

Good food! 7 adults 2 children and we totally enjoyed the food! Xiaolongbao is so tasty and the prawn dumplings are yummy. Will go back again surely