Bill's Peking House Restaurant

I absolutely love this restaurantIt is the only Chinese food restaurant I have been to because I love it so much and don't want to go anywhere else.

Bill's Peking House is located in the Lake Bonavista neighbourhood in a small strip plaza.

One of the best restaurant in south Calgary. Nice atmosphere and decor. Sitting by the window with a wonderful view . Mouth watering starter- Dumplings. Main course - Peking Duck and Ginger Beef . They were exquisite and best quality of ingredients. Thanksfully the owner is always around to exchange good words with his clients. Attentive service and pleasant dining experience with food and highly recommended for casual diners.

This has always been a good place to go for Chinese food, but over the past two years it has gone downhill quickly. This was always a central place for family to meet to eat, and the food was good. This past week we went, and it was awful. We have our favorite dishes, dumplings, ginger beef, the skinny noodles with veggies and meat, pecking style pork (I think it's called), sizzling rice, and a chicken dish. To start off the sizes are smaller, the dumplings were just wads of dough, the noodles (and this dish was really small) were just okay, the ginger beef tough and tasteless, and the sizzling rice was really small in portion and not very good either. Even worse were the horrible, horrible cookies at the end. We all took a bite and instantly opened our mouths to spit them out, these aren't delicious fortune cookies, but some cheap coconut disgusting cookie. It's shocking, even the décor has been cheapened by plastic table clothes. This is not a fine dining experience, but like eating at a mall food court. I knew it had been sold, but for the first while it was still good, but nope not any more. I'd assume cutting corners will cost this place a lot of both old a new customers. I certainly would never recommend this place. It breaks my heart, as I use to crave this food and rave about how good it was, operative word "was".

Years ago this was the place to go, now it's horrible, what happened? Granted I haven't been here in several years, but what can go so drastically wrong in just a few short years. The portions were much smaller as well, not that it mattered because I didn't take any of the leftovers with me, (I didn't want to remember the horrible meal I just had), but the Cantonese were once a huge dish with lots of veggies and meat, now this little dish with next to nothing. I'm sorry, I won't be back, nor will I ever recommend this place again. So very sad!