Excellent friendly service & great foods - it's like partying at your family place - a must for…read moreeveryone.

Great wings with very tasty wings and cooked to perfection. A good happy hour, the place is clean…read moreand has great service. The cafe part of the business opens 6:30 for coffee and they make awesome coffee as well. Overall well worth a visit.

There is a rule of thumb with local Asian restaurants. The quality of the food is inversely…read moreproportionate to the friendliness of the staff. When I walked into Pho Sam and I was hit with a palpable wave of indifference, I knew it was winner winner crispy skin chicken with tomato rice dinner. Which was delicious. By the way. Of course to accurately judge a Vietnamese restaurant I had to try the raw beef pho. It was very good. They must have read previous reviews because they now give you all the trimmings as standard. Well most of the trimmings. Owing to my gingerness I had to request chilli. Bill got salty fish and chicken rice (oh so nice) and a chicken laksa (ok but there's better nearby). Pho Sam is a pretty casual affair. You're there for the food not the atmosphere. Get in, eat, get out, repeat. We did go back again tonight for takeaway. We got more of the same plus Sichuan Beef. My brother reckons that wasn't very good. He's a guts and he didn't finish it. The lemon chilli chicken wings are not bad. Verdict: delicious Vietnamese but stick to the Vietnamese options on the menu.

You know a place is great when you have a 'usual'. At Pho Sam, mine's the Prawn Vermicelli - fresh…read moreand light with plenty of king prawns stirfried in a rich and slightly spicy sauce. Crispy skin chicken with tomato rice, pork chop with rice noodles and raw beef pho are on high rotation for many of my friends. Or really, tomato rice with anything. Servings are bigger than your face with some like the Nasi Goreng just seem endless. Just like any good Asian restaurant, the service is brusque but efficient. The owner is an unsmiling lady with a fierce bob. She may seem scary at first but deep down she's a real softie, known to slide a free plate of spring rolls or a glass of red bean ice onto the tables of her regulars. Because in the end, it's all about good food at good prices.

Great place and cozy environment. The service was excellent and the staff was very friendly…read more Food came out in a reasonable amount of time. It was delicious and the owner gave us some sort of off menus Armenian sausage dish. The pizzas were delicious and the wings were very tasty. Being an American and used to our American pizzas this was an exciting and different experience for a pizza filled with taste and flavors.

I hate to give them 3 out of 5 but I have to, since the garlic bread was simply a garlic sandwich…read more(I didn't eat it). The traditional vegetables pizza was good but almost no flavour. It also worth to mention that I placed my order at 8 pm which almost the end of the day. I may gave them another chance :)

A club that is always open without attitude. I needed to have some dinner between clients one night…read moreand most places were closed between Christmas and New Year. A quick meal is all I needed. Yes, they have a small bistro that has either Australian or Chinese meals. The spicy prawns salad with rice... was quite hot, but it was delicious. The bar was open. But just water for me tonight! Oh dear! The atmosphere is very comfortable and quiet. Big high lounge chairs to read for just relax. I also love that they do have a courtesy bus for their members.

I'd heard the advertising. The friendly club. Well the Epping Club certainly delivers on the…read morepromise. I met up with a girlfriend for dinner. After we had both had problems parking anywhere within cooee of the club we shared the brilliant idea to become members which entitle you to park under the building. Membership was inexpensive and became cost neutral with vouchers etc. I was so impressed by the staff at the membership counter, as well as throughout the club. These staff were not just going through the motions, they actually showed warmth & interest in the patrons. Been here a couple of times since joining. Always the same friendliness throughout the place. And, of course, you are only a short stroll from my tax agent, my financial planner and a massage place I've been told about!

I grabbed some takeaway from Thai place on Thursday night on the way home. I have been to this…read moreplace many many times, and the food is consistently good especially the curries. I ordered through Menulog and my order was ready five minutes early. I ordered the red curry beef and my wife ordered pad Thai. It's quite hard to get Thai food wrong but it's also not easy to make it fantastic, but as for the curries they definitely know how to make some good curries. Thick creamy beautiful Red curry with a nice spicy kick and my wife said that the pad Thai was the best that she's ever had. I have got takeaway many times as Well as eaten in, The Decor is really nice with traditional Thai seating on the ground on cushions however if you have bad knees go for the chairs. The price and service is very goodalways polite And nothing really above 15 bucks. I wouldn't hesitate to go back to this place many many more times if I lived a lot closer but I would highly recommend it.

We get takeaway here regularly & the food is always great!…read more Service is sometimes a little slow ie pickup time 15mins then you arrive in 15 mins and wait another 10-15 mins for your order but usually worth the wait. I've eaten in once & couldn't fault them. Soft shell crab is brilliant

Living nearby I just searched for 'steak' near me. Rawsons…read morepopped up and with $$ as a guide I booked fir 6pm. On approaching the location I realized it's inside the Epping Club. We loved the restaurant great appearance, well spaced. We ordered a couple of glasses of wine the Kilcoy Beef & the Kilcoy Sirloin some mushrooms onion rings and chips. The food was wonderful, service excellent. We enjoyed it so much we stayed for dessert. Chose three cheeses from the offering and more wine (which, in hindsight, I shouldn't have had:). I'm dubious of the $$ rating. Given the prices you'd be hard pressed to get out for less than $90 (we spent $157). Now, there are their specialist 'Aged' steaks available which sound fabulous, maybe next time:) This is a great place for special night out. We loved it.

The steak I ordered was cooked sous vide, hence was completely lacking in char flavour. For the…read moreprice this was extremely poor, given the Filet Mignon at the Blue Gum hotel is far superior.

Not too far down Oxford St from Epping Station, just past the post office, you'll find what at…read morefirst you might think is a hole in the wall cafe. Instead, a huge array of fresh sandwiches, quiches and salads lets you know you've at a place that loves to keep things fresh. Unfortunately, I am not here for food. It is coffee that I crave. Seems they are using Adore Estate coffee which I recall having tried at the Aroma coffee festival not too long ago. When the coffee came, the service was perfect. Came with a glass of water, which I really appreciate, and a question if I would like more milk. Here is where it falls down. Given the coffee already looks like a piccolo latte I refuse the kind offer. It is really sad there is so much milk as the guy making it had a great crema going, and the coffee is not bitter at all. As it seems with many cafes, this place would be great for people who drink caps and lattes. Just not great for me. It is interesting to compare the clientele between here and Pablo & Rusty's ( http://frid.co/nYKfxS ) It seems there are more SME business owners here and older couples. Where as a little closer to the station P&R's seem to get a lot more students, hipsters, and young mums. What a difference a couple of hundred meters makes. Cafe Summary ------------------------ Passion for Coffee - 6/10 Coffee beans - Adore Estate coffee Crema (1=burnt, 10=velvet) - 7/10 Special coffees avail? - N/A

For some reason, Korean food in Sydney doesn't offer much when it comes to sundubu jjigae, a hot…read morestew filled with tofu and other goodies. Why? I don't know...but these restaurants really need to step up their game! Why do you have to go all the way out to Epping to get a legitimate bowl of sundubu? Who knows...but it's a travesty. I'm not even a big sundubu fan but the stuff here is pretty damn good. Came with a group of people and I ordered the pork sundubu with special rice for around $19. Others ordered the kimchee sundubu and bulgogi sundubu. It was pretty good and super filling. I was going to order the kalbi+sundubu combo but unfortunately you can't choose the type of sundubu with that combo, default is mushroom. We also ordered seafood pancake and that was plenty of food for everyone. Only gripe here is it's out of the way and the sundubu can take some time to come, but it's well worth the wait.

Used to be much better, but still worth going to. You definitely go here for the soft tofu stew…read moreover anything else, as the name suggests. I always get the al tang (fish roe) tofu stew with special rice because nothing else beats this. Must get it with the special rice, I feel like my colds always go away after having this warm meal. Recently tried the vegetable tofu stew and you could taste the difference in soup depth and flavour, but nonetheless enjoyable. Comfort food when it's cold or you have a cold, but I feel like the portions have shrunk somewhat. And if you think about it, it's actually not that cheap.