Man Bo Restaurant

The food was delicious and very flavorful. We took my dad for his birthday and got a private room which was very quiet and made the conversation between 15 people much easier. My father lived in Singapore for 15 years and is quite picky but he enjoyed the food. I was pleasantly surprised that they could do most of the dishes gluten free! Polite, patient, and helpful server.

Well where do I start Went there this evening for dinner with my wife and mother in law. I honestly don’t leave reviews I usually just never go back to places. But this needs to be said. First of all new management which usually says it all, I understand with covid it has been tough times. We got there at 6pm a young girl came and gave us menus and took our order, my mother in law who is allergic to gluten asked the waitress some options she didn’t know which was fair enough so she called a guy from behind the bar who happened to be the owner.he Came and spoke to us about some options he had no clue about gluten free etc as the options he gave was gluten. He even said and I quote “ I rather not have your business then risk giving you something that’s got gluten” I was mind blown as the last management had gluten free options and were very accommodating. It gets better (an hour into service not even offered water) A lady then comes from the kitchen her name was Rebecca she was amazing she told us that what the owner told us to order is not gluten free at all and gave us some options of what she could do in gluten free. She cooked it and had it out to us asap. But even after all this we got satay chicken sent to the table that wasn’t gluten free the order which the owner previously took. my mother in law almost ate it until I realised wait a minute that’s not what we ordered with the lady that came from the kitchen. Very close call Pricing (way over priced) I understand inflation atm Fried rice $28 (what a joke) the rice we got was definitely not a large it barely passed for a small Sizzling beef $34 for a few strips more onion and spring onion than beef Lemon and honey chicken $26 ( how the f**k is rice more than this) Anyways we went to pay and I gave them some very honest feedback which the owner obviously did not want to hear. He asked me how was everything and I told him that was the worst experience I have had in a very long times I told him the rice was definitely not a large also he needs to know more about gluten free options. He was very defensive his response was we prefer not to serve gluten free because it’s too risky haha it’s 2022. He took $10 of the bill hahaha what a joke. I even told him not looking for anything free and that he was actually lucky I’m paying the bill. He replied with yeah try it I’ll video you lol I said I’m happy to video it and send it to you. Then he felt bad saying sorry I’m just having a bad night I’m sorry but that’s not a good enough excuse. Then kept apologising as we were walking out. Will definitely not be back unless something drastically changes at this restaurant. Do yourself a favour please and don’t waste your time