Description

Our café is open 11:30am-9pm, seven days a week.

We serve an assortment of dishes inspired by the places we've lived and traveled. Our specialty is tacos and burgers, but you'll find a wide variety of Western-style dishes on our menu, many influenced by the tastes and culinary traditions of China, Southeast Asia and the Caribbean. We also mix up some of the best cocktails in town, as well as serve a nice collection of imported red and white wines.

We are located in a quiet neighborhood, just steps away from Green Lake Park. Come visit us and enjoy our unique, comfortable, and quiet little place.

Listing info
  • NameLost Garden Café
    花园西餐厅
  • Address7 Yiqiutian, Huanggong Dong Jie, Kunming
    昆明黄公东街一丘田7
  • MOBILE18287128449
  • Phone(0871) 65111127
  • Hours11:30am-9pm
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Last updated by scally,
Lost Garden Café • 7 Yiqiutian, Huanggong Dong Jie

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Been there 3 times, never had a good time with the service. Tonight, was served by an extremely sour, grumpy immature and unhelpful waitress. When entering was told that we couldn't sit on the rooftop because everything is broken upstairs and it was too windy for candles. When going upstairs to show my friend the rooftop, I found that this was far from the case, and there was hardly a breath of wind. The waitress also later brought her friends to the rooftop, giving them the service she felt we did not deserve. We were also rushed when making our food order at 8pm, and told that the kitchen would soon close.

She also sulked and complained when there was a few drops of water on one of the plates she was clearing, even though we provided help with clearing the table. When asking her what the matter was, she ignored us, only to later come back 5 minutes later with a rant that she yelled at us.

We won't be back until the service improves.

PS- Get some boxes for leftovers instead of the shitty plastic bags that you use.

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Today I ate here for the Sunday morning brunch. I can say without a doubt it was by far the best breakfast I have had in Kunming. I will definitely be returning here every sunday.

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I am a huge fan of the Lost Garden. I come here often to eat, and as everyone says the pizza is excellent, even for American standards. I also love the gnocchi, Thai chicken salad, soup, and the chicken sandwich. The staff is friendly and accommodating, and the prices are reasonable for the quality.

I also recently stayed here in a dorm room for 10 days and had a great time. The location is excellent, the hotel is quiet, and they really paid attention to details when designing the rooms. The dorm beds are very large and cozy, and there is a ton of storage space around the bottom bunks. The drapes make the beds feel very private. All of the rooms have wifi, and the bathroom was clean and modern.

I have stayed in 6 small hotels/hostels in China and this one was definitely my favorite. And as a Kunming resident, whenever I am craving pizza this is the only restaurant I will settle for! Great job all around.

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Environment - excellent 5/5! Great roof top, excellent indoor area, perfect lighting and cosy! I hope your rooms are like this, I will recommend friends to stay!
Food, we had gnochi, Vietnamese salad, mushroom pizza. The Vietnamese salad was the best (lacking some ingredients, but hao chi!), the gnochi was not tasty and tasted like it came from a can or jar or something. Not good.

So I was looking forward to the pizza which apparently is excellent! Well... it wasn't for us. The base is excellent, however we got the mushroom pizza and it had soo much garlic and onion on it, it was pretty much all we could taste. The sauce they use must come from a can or something as it has a metallic preservative taste to it that doesn't add to the flavour. The pizza looked good, but the garlic & onlion overload killed any other taste. We couldn't taste the cheese on it even it was that strong! Definitely no mushroom taste! We didn't finish it.

Recommend:
Make your own sauce (if you already do, change the recipe!). Don't use too much, at times it overloaded the onion and garlic flavour.
A SMALL amount of garlic and onion.
More mushroom or fry the mushroom in a little butter first to bring out the taste.
Perfect base and cheese.
Don't make the pizza topping so thick (you will save money and it will taste better)!

Great shape (loveheart for valentines!) and texture.

So sorry, won't be back for the food for a while, there are much better western places.

The staff are attentive and friendly and bilingual (at least!), however you should WRITE DOWN ORDERS. OK, so you might think its cool not to write orders but forgetting what people ordered is much less cool. A simple order ticket system is needed.

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I went there yesterday afternoon with every intention of getting a pizza. But when I got the menu it said very clearly that pizza and pasta are not available until after 5pm (the wood-fired oven has to warm up). Just a heads up to everyone. The brisket sandwich was an awesome substitute for the pizza.