Pagoda Restaurant 8617 Baymeadows Road, Jacksonville, FL 32256

"Went in tonight to order takeout. Asked the host if we can go to the bar for drink while we wait for our food. Host informed us not very pleasantly that we could not go to the bar, we needed a reservation weeks in advance...weeks in advance to order one drink while we wait for out takeout? I asked for a menu, he seemed like it was such a bother since he had to go out to the back to grab one. The menu was so limited to about 20 items on the takeout menu. We were so taken back by the entire, short, ignorant experience that we decided it was not worth giving them our business. From reading other reviews, looks like we made a great decision!!"

"First impression walking in here I was confused where I was, then saw many people being seated to a private area with reservations, the host then handed me a small menu with some dim sum items and various fried rice dishes and a few other items he said there was no cook available to make the main dishes so it would have to be this limited menu this was on a Saturday night at dinner time. The restaurant itself is a very unique place and was like going back in time I would recommend to come here for drinks or just to experience the uniqueness at least once it would be a fun place for some cocktails or something. The food here on the other hand is not so great. Ordered Hawaiian fried rice and fried rice showed up in a spam can with spam in it and was not good, they do have spam fried rice on the menu so somebody messed up my order, shrimp har gao(dumplings) had mushy shrimp in it had to spit it out and didn't finish it not to mention the dumplings had no taste just the taste of steamed chlorinated water, ordered some pork buns but quickly canceled it, the salt and pepper shrimp was not bad but still lacking in flavor, it was fresh and that was a plus. My server was great and food came out quickly, I guess they are having problems with having a full time cook if they would make improvements to the food this would be a cool place to visit."

"We came here 2 weeks ago for The Hidden Tiki Room and LOVED the small plate foods and the drinks were amazing (and I don’t even like rum)! So had to come back and try the food in the dinning room side. THE BEST Asian food IN JAX! We live in Oakleaf and now we will always drive there for food!!!! The server, who I believe is the owner, was THE BEST!!! We LOVED her. She sat and chatted with us while we finished our wonderful drinks after dinner! Such a sweet person! We can’t wait to go back!!! Only took pics of my braised tofu, not my husbands chicken. Portions were sharing size!"

"Amazing! I ordered take-out food from here thinking it was like a standard American Chinese food place. There decor was unique and eclectic and charming! I thought I was getting 4 dumplings, but I got 18 dumplings! I watched other people get their food and the portions are bigger than I expected for their cheap prices! I ended up choosing to eat it there instead of carry-out. I lived in Asia teaching English for a while, and these delicious dumplings are authentic and homemade and brought back so many good memories! Thank you for a wonderful meal!"