Completely tourist trap. The portions are abhorrently small especially when you're paying 25$+
Food: 1
Service: 1
Kathy Hill
We had the steak fried rice and it was great. It is well worth eating there when in downtown Seattle. Prices good, service good & food great.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Sherrill Gossett
Get the duck!! WORTH IT
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Pasado C
What a tourist trap! Our mistake! The hot sauces were not hot. The soft shell crabs were way way over coated. The cucumbers had not marinated long enough and only tasted of cheap sesame and chili oil. We ordered the whole duck too, which I failed to take a photo of, but it came with wilted cilantro and lumpy plum sauce. Definitely an overpriced tourist trap.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 3
Jessica C
What a tourist trap! Our mistake! The hot sauces were not hot. The soft shell crabs were way way over coated. The cucumbers had not marinated long enough and only tasted of cheap sesame and chili oil. We ordered the whole duck too, which I failed to take a photo of, but it came with wilted cilantro and lumpy plum sauce. Definitely an overpriced tourist trap.
Robert Nance
Excellent food in very nice environment. We had pumpkin curry and ginger/lemongrass fish. Strongly recommend. Service wonderful as well
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Jake Mojeski
Great food with every order. Recently ordered take out and accidentally ordered to the Mercer Island location and the Seattle location still honored the order despite my careless mistake. Thank you!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Mallesh Murugesan
Excellent Chinese food in Seattle! Great drinks and amazing food! We brought it back and ate it the next day. Highly recommend it!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Simeon Muller
Great Chinese food with a variety of dishes that will make you want to come back and try something else next time. The Forbidden duck looked amazing, but saving that one for a fun date night.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Courtney Lee
I LOVE VIVIENNE’S SO MUCH IT IS SO SO SO SO GOOD!!!!! EVERY SINGLE DISH IS ✨ELEVATED✨ EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. Genuinely I am always impressed and everyone is so kind this my favorite restaurant ever! I’m asking my family to take me to celebrate graduation 😁
The service was really good! The waiter/ bartender Jack To was very friendly and made good jokes. The food was good, it came out fast and hot!
Service: 5
Elena
Good food, our waiter/bartender Jack was welcoming and positive!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
aakanksha Sinha
We went to Vivienne's for a lunch celebration for my in laws 50th wedding anniversary. We had made a reservation. They had the table ready on time including a little high chair and plate for my daughter. We ordered the duck, noodles and toothpicks lamb. All the food was delicious. The service was great. We had multiple people serve us and all of them were extremely sweet and courteous. They even had a small cake/ dessert with a candle for my in laws to celebrate. All in all a great place to go eat. Thanks for making the celebration a great one.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Farhad Azimi
Great food an and great service. I have to thank Fawa for being so nice.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Chris Pitts
This place is good but not good enough to justify the price... especially for their signature duck. The flavor from it was inconsistent with rare bites having strong citrus but most of them just being a normal roasted duck. I didn't care for the sauce it came with and 6 buns is not enough for a whole duck. It's good duck, don't get me wrong but I can go to almost any other Asian restaurant and get close to the same duck for $48 on average compared to their whopping $75. At this price I expect to be blown away. Their duck fat old fashioned is way out of balance with the main flavor being simple syrup. I didn't feel like the duck fat wash changed anything from mouthfeel or even flavor which was drowned out by sweetness. The sweetness also masked the smoke they used which is a very hard thing to do. The orange beef does not hold back on flavor and I would recommend it. The pork belly confused me and my Asian friends as it had a kind of breading on it which masked all the character of the pork belly. Usually pork belly is seared to render the fat down and create a crispy outside, no batter or breading. My husband (Thai) described it as an abomination. The 9 flavor beef was ok but nothing to write home about. I got the pork bao appetizer which was doughy and didn't have much pork sauce flavor on the inside (or maybe I couldn't taste it past the uncooked texture of the dough). My husband sent back some brown rice which had obviously been scraped off the bottom of the rice cooker as it was dried out and overcooked which had the expo been paying attention it should never have made it to the table. Don't get me wrong, I don't regret going here at all and my being this critical is a matter of price vs what you get. At what they charge (on our bill roughly $90 per person) I expect much better service and mind blowing dishes and we got average at best.
Completely tourist trap. The portions are abhorrently small especially when you're paying 25$+
Food: 1
Service: 1
We had the steak fried rice and it was great. It is well worth eating there when in downtown Seattle. Prices good, service good & food great.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Get the duck!! WORTH IT
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
What a tourist trap! Our mistake! The hot sauces were not hot. The soft shell crabs were way way over coated. The cucumbers had not marinated long enough and only tasted of cheap sesame and chili oil. We ordered the whole duck too, which I failed to take a photo of, but it came with wilted cilantro and lumpy plum sauce. Definitely an overpriced tourist trap.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 3
What a tourist trap! Our mistake! The hot sauces were not hot. The soft shell crabs were way way over coated. The cucumbers had not marinated long enough and only tasted of cheap sesame and chili oil. We ordered the whole duck too, which I failed to take a photo of, but it came with wilted cilantro and lumpy plum sauce. Definitely an overpriced tourist trap.
Excellent food in very nice environment. We had pumpkin curry and ginger/lemongrass fish. Strongly recommend. Service wonderful as well
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Great food with every order. Recently ordered take out and accidentally ordered to the Mercer Island location and the Seattle location still honored the order despite my careless mistake. Thank you!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Excellent Chinese food in Seattle! Great drinks and amazing food! We brought it back and ate it the next day. Highly recommend it!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Great Chinese food with a variety of dishes that will make you want to come back and try something else next time. The Forbidden duck looked amazing, but saving that one for a fun date night.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
I LOVE VIVIENNE’S SO MUCH IT IS SO SO SO SO GOOD!!!!! EVERY SINGLE DISH IS ✨ELEVATED✨ EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. Genuinely I am always impressed and everyone is so kind this my favorite restaurant ever! I’m asking my family to take me to celebrate graduation 😁
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Restaurantji Recommends
The service was really good! The waiter/ bartender Jack To was very friendly and made good jokes. The food was good, it came out fast and hot!
Service: 5
Good food, our waiter/bartender Jack was welcoming and positive!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
We went to Vivienne's for a lunch celebration for my in laws 50th wedding anniversary. We had made a reservation. They had the table ready on time including a little high chair and plate for my daughter. We ordered the duck, noodles and toothpicks lamb. All the food was delicious. The service was great. We had multiple people serve us and all of them were extremely sweet and courteous. They even had a small cake/ dessert with a candle for my in laws to celebrate. All in all a great place to go eat. Thanks for making the celebration a great one.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Great food an and great service. I have to thank Fawa for being so nice.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
This place is good but not good enough to justify the price... especially for their signature duck. The flavor from it was inconsistent with rare bites having strong citrus but most of them just being a normal roasted duck. I didn't care for the sauce it came with and 6 buns is not enough for a whole duck. It's good duck, don't get me wrong but I can go to almost any other Asian restaurant and get close to the same duck for $48 on average compared to their whopping $75. At this price I expect to be blown away. Their duck fat old fashioned is way out of balance with the main flavor being simple syrup. I didn't feel like the duck fat wash changed anything from mouthfeel or even flavor which was drowned out by sweetness. The sweetness also masked the smoke they used which is a very hard thing to do. The orange beef does not hold back on flavor and I would recommend it. The pork belly confused me and my Asian friends as it had a kind of breading on it which masked all the character of the pork belly. Usually pork belly is seared to render the fat down and create a crispy outside, no batter or breading. My husband (Thai) described it as an abomination. The 9 flavor beef was ok but nothing to write home about. I got the pork bao appetizer which was doughy and didn't have much pork sauce flavor on the inside (or maybe I couldn't taste it past the uncooked texture of the dough). My husband sent back some brown rice which had obviously been scraped off the bottom of the rice cooker as it was dried out and overcooked which had the expo been paying attention it should never have made it to the table. Don't get me wrong, I don't regret going here at all and my being this critical is a matter of price vs what you get. At what they charge (on our bill roughly $90 per person) I expect much better service and mind blowing dishes and we got average at best.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 4
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