Paradox Restaurant

this was THE worst I have ever been to !!!
Went for dinner last night with a large group of friends.
The ambiance & decor are terrible--it was like eating in back room of a dilapidated house.
The 4 course meal was $65 pp---which is reasonable if you could eat it!
I had the pate to start which was ok,then the quail--dry as a bone,disgusting sauce,no garnish
main was barramundi--it certainly waan't tastied like frozen silver dory--mushy with again a vile sauce--I sent it back and asked for the duck. That was terrible too,overcooked.bad sauce,nil presentantion. finished with the creme brulee--so so bad,very sweet and not cooked.
No one cold touch it.
Overall I gave it a score of NIL out of 10.
The chef (if he is one) should be ashamed to present this food--obviously he uses the cheapest low grade ingredients and thinks he can get away with it as it is supposedly French cusine.
Definitely the worst restaurant in Sydney.

This place has been here for way over 20 years, so they must be doing something right! Cute corner building, you can only park of Falcon st at night, and so this place does not open for lunch. We've always found it to be good honest French food, serving, yes, snails, duck, but also things like fish. Good desserts and good value.

Hard to rate. Some food was excellent (steak was perfect), some food was terrible (prawn starter was dry and over cooked). Taken there by a friend who first went there 20 years ago and only had great things to say about it. We arrived at 6.55 for a 7 pm table. Our orders were taken promptly by a nice french staff. 3 prawn starters (for first starter course) and 2 snails, 1 scallops (for second starter course). 45 minutes later we still had nothing, even though customers that came in well after us were eating theirs. 55 minutes later we received out second starter .. yes, second .. our first had not come. The french staff chased up our first course starters. After 2 hours, we finished our two starters, but mains were no where to be seen. The 92 yo gentleman we were with was tired and wanted to catch a cab back to the hotel. We were told we couldn't cancel main course as it was already cooking. We told them we definitely would cancel dessert. By the time ...read more

good food

The food is simple and almost perfectly executed. Forget glamorous decor, pretentious service and ridiculously high bills for small portions. Paradox is the opposite. You get generous portions in a simple setting with homely service for an very reasonable $53 per person for four courses. They don't even charge corkage if you take your own wine. Expect the classics such as rustic pate, escargots, delicious duck interspersed with excellent creamy soups, prawn bisque, succulent scallops, poached barramundi and a very good lamb shank followed by a cardamom infused creme brle. Yum. Paradox is open for dinner only each night expect Sunday. We'll be back.