Gatwick Oriental - Mole Valley

Situated within Sofitel at Gatwick Airport open to residents and non residents. Superb Pan-Asian food in a delightful restaurant. The food is delicious but even with a reservation you have to queue for your table along with those without a reservation. Once seated, drinks order was taken quickly, food order less so. Without doubt the food is worthy of a 5/5 rating but the service let it down. Once we had ordered and the food arrived, we felt very hurried to finish and leave. For that reason I have rated this place 4/5.

What a diamond this place was. We came here, purely because we staying at the hotel. There are 3 restaurants and this one stood out for us. Our waitress was Elena, she was a star, had a lovely smile and very pleasant. We had a starter each. I had Vegetarian spring roll they were amazing. My main meal was Pad Thai Jay this was yummy and first time having tofu. My husband’s stater was Hot spicy soup he said this was WOW! And main meal was Singapore noodles. He loved every minute of it, lush he words were. Great service, fantastic atmosphere. Will definitely come again.

We booked two months ahead but on arrival they didn’t have our reservation. Fortunately they still gave us a table but it wasn’t a great start. When we asked for a kids menu, as advertised on the website, we were told to go next door, order food and wait for it to then bring it into Vanda. A shocking experience for a family trying to eat together.

Excellent Chinese restaurant. Food cooked to a high standard and generous portions. Unusual to have such a good quality restaurant in an airport. We always try to eat there when using Gatwick.

We ate whilst staying at the Sofitel. Service was very quick probably too quick for the prices and they were very keen to whisk dishes away after service. I think we were in and out within an hour. Food is very expensive for what is comparable to a tasty Chinese takeaway in quality. We were a group of 9 so lots of things on the bill. Luckily I checked as they added two bottles of £50 wine on the bill which we did not have. This may have been an innocent mistake but I'm not convinced. Especially as they were not at all apologetic....