Non La Restaurant

I have been here a couple of times, and they reminded me why I shouldn’t be there every time. Now I understand the current staffing issues. There might be unavoidable delays in serving food; however, the waiting time was unacceptable. In my two latest visits, I had to wait 1 hour just for a simple order of 2 bowls of bamboo duck noodle soup, then the next time, we waited for 30 minutes for just a pho and a noodle soup. The food was alright but definitely not worth that wait. Will never be back again.

This is my second visit at Non La.. if you are new/travelling to Darwin City and craving for Phò at night you can come here. The place not busy so you don’t have to wait too long for the foods coming to your table. Frankly, food in Darwin is much more expensive than other city like Sydney & Melbourne, (base from my experiences) and the portions here also less. 😜 what to expect we’re remote!! 🤓 Ordered: 1 Special Phò $21 1 Spicy Beef stir-fry $22 1 Rice $4

such a bad experience tonight. we order from here often and we mostly get the same thing every time. the duck had no flavour what so ever and the salt and pepper squid was absolutely disgusting. they usually make both dishes fairly well but tonight was just dreadful, so much so that I had to return the $28 beer batter like squid. my partner is a chef so we know what we're talking about. the salt and pepper squid we usually order looks exactly like the one pictured on their menu, it's usually light and crispy made from light flours such as semolina, cornmeal or rice flour which gives it that light batter that's unique to salt n pepper squid. anyway, tonights batter was extremely heavy like it was made from plain flour and water mixed with a heap of black pepper thick and undercooked we were not prepared to pay the ridiculous $28 for fish battered squid! it would of been okay of they just owned their mistake and refunded our money but instead they insisted it was a matter of taste and preference and nothing to do with them insisting that its the same recipe they've always used. even after showing them how completely different their menu picture is compared to what was in front of us they still insisted on gaslighting us. its like going to a fish and chip shop and them insisting that you have a crumb fish when you're clearly looking at a beer batter fish. we will never be back because of this. own your mistake instead of switching the blame that's all. we graciously kept the rice and duck and only returned the inedible squid.