Golden Dragon Restaurant in Vancouver Island

Fast friendly service and good food.

Hot and spicy szechuan shrimp plus other favorites. Liked it.

This place is great now! I used to avoid it because the food was greasy and service was poor. The New management and menu have got me going back now though. Great Chinese food!

It's a good place to eat. Awesome when Jennett is working. Probably the service person I've ever had the honor of witnessing in action

We havent been to GD in a long time, this was a great first experience with the new owners, the food was excellent and fresh, and service was good.

Delicious food, tuns of flavor. I will definitely eat here again

Best buffet in town.

MENU HAS CHANGED!!!HAMBURGERS + FRIES ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE!! They're off the menu.6FRIED RICE HAS CHANGED! SWEET + SOUR SAUCE HAS CHANGED + TASTES GROSS!PRICES HAVE DRASTICALLY INCREASED FOR SMORGASBORD + THERE'S LESS FOOD!!RESTAURANT ONLY OPEN TO 9:00 EACH NITE!! EVEN WEEKENDS!!The staff is still friendly + place is still clean. New owners bring new changes.

I'd rate it a 2 but my friend liked it alright so I bumped it up 1. Smorg did not satisfy me. Look for yourself, maybe you are not picky.

Wonderful lady works here named Jeanette. Very good food.

Hot and tasty.

Awesome Food! Check out the Dragon's Chinese New Year Brunch. It's epic!

Haven't eaten there in years. Apparently new owners so we gave it a try. Phoned at 6:15 on a Friday night for delivery and was told the kitchen is backed up. " Not taking orders". Okay then , no problem. So actually 0 stars.

Great staff good food everytime

Food was delicious and service was great!

Really miss the old owners .prices are high foods ok at best

Great buffet. Mussel and squid are excellent

We were here in May. Ownership changed in February, and now the food is absolutely amazing. We had the buffet. Each dish tasted different, because each dish is prepared individually, so each flavour is unique. LOTS to choose from and absolutely delicious. We’re south of Ladysmith, but the next time we want Chinese it’ll be absolutely worth the 90 minutes it’ll take us to drive there. Clean. Great staff, and the food was the best Chinese we’ve ever had! Thank you

It's about what you'd expect from small town Canadian Chinese food. It tries to be as inoffensively flavoured as possible. Which is a shame. It's no longer the 1970s or 80s. Small town palates have come a long way since those days, they can handle spices and flavours.

Not as good as the last time we were there. Was disappointed overall most food trays were empty and low. The girl who took us to the table was nice and friendly but we waited for the bill to come and decide to go up front and pay . We stood for a while before some one came and there were servers watching us who never approached us or got anyone to come ring us through. Also while I was paying and waiting for them to finish sale they started serving other customers transactions before finishing mine and made me wait till the newer customer were taken care of. Over all was not happy with the experience especially when we were so happy with the last time we were there. So big thumbs down this time!!? :(

New owners have made great improvements to the food! The buffet was amazing!!

Best Chinese smorgasbord around. Lots of fresh seafood. Very happy, great value. Come hungry.

Delicious and fresh buffet!

We came for Sunday lunch, visiting from Victoria. The buffet is good, better than the buffet in Victoria. Lots of shrimp, hakaw, siomai. The food is freshly cooked. The place is large, with two private rooms. Not sure why there were not a lot of people though.

Food is always good and lots of it

Love the wor wonton soup here and the buffet is good too

Long time customer just a bad experience tonight. Order for pickup and said it will be ready in 20minutes and it takes 45minutes and had girlfriend sitting there waiting forever. The food wasn’t very good.ordered pork fried rice and it had frozen vegetables in it. Not good. Breaded almond chicken had no almonds.

Loved the variety of food in the smorgasbord

If you're really hungry and you don't care what junk you eat - this spot is for you. I have been to good Chinese buffets and this one 1-2 out of 5. Not too many entrees to choose from, low quality shady deep fried chunks of something, half dirty plates, a bit weird ppl... This place has it all.

Faster service and friendly staff

Great service and wonderful new smorgasbord, very fresh.

Sevice great, food i would say 2 out of 5 and price is too high I will not be back.

Good food, we did a pick up order, got all the way home and they missed 2 parts of the order. They delivered the missing items; charged us for it; then tried to make us feel guilty for not tipping the driver. Husband gave a tip on the first order. Not our fault they didn't check to see if it was all there.

Hate this place. Food is always old tasting and they are really expensive

Delicious buffet. A bit pricy.

Just a FYI - they are under going renovations ATM. I haven't stopped by during the day to see if they are open but definitely closed at night. I know that they are trying to get open ASAP, even if the reno is completely finished. Looking forward to smorgasbord in the near future. I'll post some new pictures of the new look as soon as I get my foot in the door. Owned and operated by Ken and his wife Lee. Daily smorgasbord plus full menu of both Chinese and Canadian cuisine. Full bar service. Senior staff are long term employees. Available for private functions in two banquet rooms that are separate from the main restaurant. Special smorgasbord on Chinese New Year - I try to never miss out this event. Side street parking is available (it's all free).

My 8 year old son LOVES this place. He says "Everything here is SUPER delicious."

Great buffet! Super selection, tasty and fresh. The pan fried shrimp were especially nice and spicy. What struck me most about this establishment was the cleanliness, totally spic & span. I enclosed a pic of the waitress who was friendly and superbly fashionably dressed! I will be back!

Ordered at 6:15pm they said about an hour but not it's 8pm and I'm still hungry lol

Excellent customer service & enjoyed very delicious food from the smorgasbord!

Greatly improved food with new ownership. Friendly service

Awesome smorg nite (peeled prawns)

Or server was very friendly nice food wasnt what I expected

New menu, lots of seafood , great food and service!

The food was acceptable. The service could have been better. Everyone looked sad except one woman who ran the check when we paid (she had two buns on her head. Very cute). I overheard a man who was unable to pay being chastised and it seemed like they were going to charge the server for his bill. I sincerely hope that isn't the sort of thing this restaurant does. If you want a quick meal, this will work.

Lunch buffet is a very good value at $11.95. Variety of traditional canadiana chinese food. Salad bar had my favourite jello. Service was excellent. It is also clean. Family friendly. Maybe i should give it 5 stars.

Great food, great service and friendly staff.

inconsistent pricing in the last few months, ordered the same food multiple times for it to be different totals for the same dishes on multiple occasions. Ordered delivery, person who took the order wrote down the dishes for two of my items wrong and its taken over an hour for it to be fixed. Was told it would go out with the next delivery and over an hour later (over 2 hours since original order time) it is still not here.2.5 hours after our order the food is yet or be here. We called once more to find out the delivery driver was not notified of the mistake as well as our food wasn't even made. Not happy and won't be ordering again.

I've known the new owner for years and she's been an upstanding member of the community the whole time. The food here has improved immensely under her, one of the best buffets I've had.

Order for delivery waited hour and half and called back to see where the food was and it still didn’t leave the kitchen, Terrible customer service