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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Have been going here since they opened. Thoroughly enjoy the pizzas and the authentic american-pizzeria-type salads!.

The staff, while not always attentive, is at least very nice and patient with language difficulties. Their English is pretty good compared to almost anywhere else in KM. Earlier service problems referenced below have long since been dealt with.

(Restaurant management tip: make sure that whatever place your front-of-house staff has to hang out while working, it has view of the tables so they can occasionally pick their heads up and see what's going on.)

New! They have revised their menu recently, with the option to have fresh tomatoes instead of tomato sauce! This is excellent, as I've previously had to order this myself so they seem to have gotten the idea.

However: Since they changed the menu, I have ordered pizza 3 times, both with sauce option A (just fresh tomatoes), and I have received option B every single time. (They aren't just reversed— I've ordered B and gotten B, also). Very frustrating!

The B sauce isn't terrible, but it's not a standard Neapolitan sauce (uncooked canned crushed tomatoes, a little minced garlic or garlic powder, sugar, and salt), but more of a Sicilian sauce (cooked tomatoes, onions, oregano). On a Sicilian thick-crust pizza it'd be great, but a Neapolitan crust deserves a Neapolitan sauce. Yes, I am a spoiled NYC food snob, but when the kitchen gets it right, it's quite fantastic, and I forget that I am in KM!

(Almost. Except for the cheese. If I opened a pizzeria I'd fly in Mozzarella di Bufala nightly, and each pie would cost 250RMB. Back to reality.)

New! they now have proper takeout pizza boxes, so I can grab a few pies to go and eat in front of the TV.

However: The pizza oven only fits one pie at a time, so it takes forever, especially if there are other customers ahead of you. By the time I get home one pie is still warm but the other is quite cold since it had to sit and wait while the other one cooked.

Please, Lost Garden, get your sauce ordering system right, and build a bigger pizza oven!

And delivery! Delivery would be unspeakably awesome, even though I'd probably gain 50lbs and go bankrupt since I'd use it so often.

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The Sunday Brunch was delicious. The place is beautiful. The service was great. Bravo!

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I used to go to lost garden pretty often but recently, i was forced to stop. First of all, i am not sure if it is because of the high food price which has affected the quality of food. Everytime i went there, i ordered vietnamese chicken salad. It was good in the beginning but recently it looks more like cabbage salad with teeny bit of salty shredded chicken and five peanuts. Secondly, the wifi sucks. It is so bad i can barely go online. Its really frustrating that it takes more than ten minutes to load one page. I live close by green lake and now i would rather walk all the way to the cafes in wenlin st instead.

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Mouthwatering pizzas. Easily the best pizza in Kunming especially the Californian Barbecue Chicken. Sitting on the rooftop on a balmy summer evening is fantastic even without much of a view.