This place is great. The food is incredible and the value is great. The service could use some improvement and although it's a small restaurant there's usually only one waiter doing everything - from serving, cleaning tables and cashier. The ambiance is nothing like the high end Vij's in Vancouver but at the same time it also doesn't come with the high end prices.

If you want a good meal I'd definitely recommend this place. Love their chicken tikka and their paneer stuffed naan. And their weekday lunch specials are great for under $10.

This place is just weird. For a restraunt/reflectology (what the heck?!?) establishment in the middle of nowhere which looks like your walking into someones house they sure seemed to charge a lot for a below average meal. I got the veal with a small bowl of rice for $30.00...i've had better veal at an ABC restraunt for half the price. Overall it was a very poor experience, the food was lousy for the value, the ambiance was just plain weird, and the worst selection of over priced beer i've ever seen. What do you have on tap? Canadian and Coors Light for $8 or bottled beer for $9, come on. Last time I go there...

Me and my friend went here for a saturday lunch
My friend ordered a box and I ordered their lunch special.
Their lunch special was pretty good, there were about 20 items you can order for $2.89 each. My food came out pretty consistently, item by item, but my friend's food didn't come out until I was almost finished.

I was not impressed with the food quality. The rice under my tuna nigiri fell apart when picked up, my dynamite roll had brown avacado in it and the tempura was ridiculously oily. I would say that the food was all-you-can eat quality at best.

I didn't try any myself, but my friend said that his beef teriyaki was the saltiest he'd ever had and his sunomono was just noodles, with no vinegar dressing.

On the plus side my goma-ae was pretty good, and i can't complain about the service either. But this is not enough for me to come back for.

I've heard alot of good things about this restaurant and the dinner menu looked really good so I might consider going to a different location for dinner sometime. But i won't be returning to this particular location.

Pasta is my favourite food and when i first heard about the new pasta place i was so excited to try it out. But maybe my high expectations didn't help...

The service is alright. They're fast at seating you and taking orders but after that there isn't much. They waitresses are around but don't give much service.

The pasta portions are VERY big.. which can be a good thing but at the same time it takes away from the presentation. I find that there isn't a lot of meat or veggies in the pastas. I would rather not have such a big plate and have a few more ingredients.

For some reason i always find that the food is cold when served.. which also sucked.

I gave this place two tries and the second time didn't impress me much. Maybe i'll give it a try later on..

This restaurant was a disappointment. They gave me 1 day old BBQ duck as a cut of meat that was so fatty and lots of bones with hardly any meat. Then the BBQ pork was burnt that I couldn't eat 33% of it. Parts of the meat were also quite fatty that I couldn't eat. The meat looks big in the picture but only about 40% of it is actually edible.

I would say that this place is a rip-off and not a good value at all. I've had way better places to eat at for Chinese BBQ. At least the meat didn't taste like it had much MSG. That's all that I could say.

Will not be returning, ever.

I been there for a few time already and it has never dissapointed me. This is the only place i would go for sashimi, sushi and robata.

First I was expecting very expansive food from what my friend told me, but it wasn't as expansive as I thought it would be infact, it was cheaper then many other Japanese Restaurant I had been to.

Today I just went there again, and I had Red Tuna O-Toro. The quality of that fish was exquisite, it had pinkish like color and it was really fat. And it wasn't expansive at all. I payed 9 dollar for a piece, and the other restaurant i been to and tried was ranged from 10-14 a piece.

I would order the robata everytime I go, and I always order the pig-neck, and beef tongue. So good.

This is probably the only Japanese Restaurant I would go if i were going to eat in Richmond, and for having parties(because they have beautiful rooms and it is big.)

Not recommended to others.

-Area.

We went there around 6pm and there weren't many others inside the restaurant.
The interior design for Carver's were good, very comfortable place. Overall, high end good comfort place.

-Food

Ordered steak and wine. When the steak came...we were shock....The outside were burn to black while the inside is still in cold temp...Guess they did not defrost it properly...Ask the waiter to change it...the second steak was cooked into medium well instead of medium rare....BIG disappointment. How can their chef cook the steak wrong 2 times in a row??? There weren't many customers inside the restaurant so they should have all the time they needed to make it right. BIG disappointment

-Service

The facial expression that our waiter gave us make us feel like we were the bad couple that complain about their food and want to get discount from them.

-Value

IF they can get things right, I will give them 3/5..As for now, can't very give anything other than 1. How can you hire a chef that cook the steak wrong 2 times in a row??

Little Mexico Cantina claims on their website:

"These are families who cook the same food as their mothers and grandmothers — a menu is inspired by the cooking of northern Mexico and southern California."

I spent 25 years of my life in Southern California, and the food served at this restaurant resembled nothing I had ever experienced at countless Mexican restaurants throughout Southern California and U.S. border states, such as Arizona.

I was pleased, however, to be served the traditionally complimentary chips and salsa, and not terribly surprised to find the salsa uncharacteristically mild. It was comprised only of chunks of very very lightly flavored stewed tomatoes, topped with a sprig of cilantro. it was tasty and juicy.:)

My husband and I ordered the chicken fajitas and Mexican pizza. The chicken was chunky and tender, but very bland under the sauce that dressed it, which was more like the sweet and sour sauce one might find in a Chinese restaurant. A small dollop of cheese, sour cream, and "guacamole" accompanied the "fajitas," but the "guacamole" was just mashed avocado- no spices, onions, tomatoes, etc.. All in all, edible, but not worth 12.95. As for the Mexican pizza, the menu description was this:

"MEXICAN PIZZA - Best in town! 10" thin crispy crust covered with mole sauce, chorizo. Feta & Jack cheese, onions, tomatoes and sasame seeds."

What I got was thin cripsy crust topped with mole sauce, a tiny sprinkling of what actually looked like cheddar and jack cheeses, garnished with a little bit of chorizo. Completely absent were the onions, tomatoes, and sesame seeds, although, there was a sparse scattering of green onion slices across the pizza. The flavor was decent, but not at all substantial enough to be worth 10.95.

When someone that I'm thinking was the owner came by to ask, "how is everything?" i replied that i expected a bit more for my money. She just shrugged me off, mumbling something like, "this is how we've done it for years..." Later she asked if we enjoyed the chips and salsa, stating that no one serves a free appetizer. Ha. Complimentary chips n salsa are pretty much standard!

If you're looking for a very bland, slight resemblance to Mexican food, and are not that concerned about value for price, give this restaurant a try. It won't make you sick, and maybe we just ordered the wrong things.

I really wish I didn't love this place so much. The service is so awful but the food is so good that I keep going back.
My boyfriend had heard about Tandoori Kona and so for our first try we tested out some simple dishes, the butter chicken and the garlic naan. Both were phenomenal. I'm used to Indian food as done in Africa, so I was surprised by how liquidy the butter chicken was, but was assured that this is what Butter Chicken is all over N. America, which makes me wonder what its like in India!
Since we have been back for various dishes, almost always trying something new. I have never been disappointed with the food but the service certainly leaves something to be desired. One time we did pick up and got our food home to realise that we were given the wrong order, when my boyfriend called the owner just told him he was wrong and hung up so I called back and he ARGUED WITH ME! I know what peas and potatoes look like in my Naan when I ordered it plain, it was sitting in front of me, this man couldn't even see it and he was telling me that I was wrong! Sheesh! It was probably the worst customer service I've ever experienced in a restaurant!
They're nice enough when you eat in, and it isn't busy. But check your take-out orders in front of him, cause he'll fight with you about it!

As we walked in from the parking lot, you see this house with glowing lights, it was very pretty inside the restaurant, it was dim, the interior decor was well done, the stars on the ceiling was beautiful. They had live music playing, the women had a beautiful voice, great ambiance!

The hostess greeted us as we entered, our waitress was not that experienced, she never smiled, didn't seem like she enjoyed working there, for a high end restaurant I would expect high end service but service did not meet the expectations. At one point I tried waving at the man in a suit to get our server, he looked at me but didn't even flinch. I just ended up waiting for my server to come. The chilled Dungeness crab cake with mango appetizer was really good, it was light and refreshing. However I did find pieces of crab shells in it, yikes! The seafood chowder was satisfying, there was some salmon oil or some really tasty fish oil drizzled on top and bits of fish eggs around it, and it was filled with bits of salmon, cod and mixed vegetables, at first it tasted kind of bland but then you slowly taste a kick of pepper, its really hard to describe this but the pepper taste comes and goes..very interesting! I really enjoyed the soup, very well done!

The coffee crusted ribeye steak was nice, it was grilled exactly to perfection and it was very tasty but the sides sucked, it came with mashed potatoes top with some kind of spice which was not that special and the so called deep fried onions were hard and chewy, it was so hard to eat!

The pork loin schnitzel which is like a Taiwanese or Japanese deep fried pork dish was crispy and tender, they give you a bowl of sesame seed to grind yourself which was fun and they put Tonkatsu sauce on top of it, this came with a bowl of rice and 3 small sides of veggies (spinach, chinese mushrooms in a spicy sauce and a pickle like dish) however I lost interest in this dish after the 3rd piece, maybe because we can eat this all the time in other restaurants or even some BBT houses where its only max $10 for an entire entree and it was not that special for again over $30 here.

Finally, dessert! We got the cheesecake spring roll, interesting mix however it tasted off, the spring roll was kind of salty and the warm cheese inside was kind of mushy and sweet, the strawberry, strawberry syrup, chocolate drizzle and whipped cream was a nice touch though.

There seemed like something was missing after dinner, perhaps we had high expectations and expected too much before coming after reading the raving reviews.