
Rainbow House
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About Rainbow House
Rainbow House is a Chinese takeaway at 278 Manchester Rd E in Manchester, and it pairs its Chinese menu with a fish and chip counter. The Chinese side includes sweet and sour chicken balls, while the chip shop side serves fish in batter with curry and peas as sides. A banana fritter is also on the menu for dessert. That mix lets one order cover both styles of takeaway food. The shop opens Monday to Saturday and closes on Sundays.
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Reviews
What reviewers say
Reviewers most often mention fish and chips, thick batter, chicken balls and curry.
What reviewers say
Reviewers most often mention fish and chips, thick batter, chicken balls and curry.
Customer Review Summary
Reviewers split sharply on Rainbow House, and the fish and chips draw the most detail. Positive reviewers call it the best chippy and the best Chinese takeaway, praising good food, excellent service and a good price, and one describes staff who went the extra mile and quickly sorted a missing item. The negatives are more specific. Several describe fish that was a funny colour, not fresh, with hardly any fish inside thick, hard batter, and the same batter on sweet and sour chicken balls and a banana fritter despite a request for light batter. Others mention undercooked peas and dry chips. Longtime customers say quality has declined since the change of owners, though one finds the new owners nice. One reviewer describes a phone call over a missing side and an unrequested portion of chips that ended with the woman shouting and calling them a liar. Another reports food poisoning after an order. One reviewer's order arrived missing a condiment, and a replacement was sent when they rang.
Customer Review Summary
Reviewers split sharply on Rainbow House, and the fish and chips draw the most detail. Positive reviewers call it the best chippy and the best Chinese takeaway, praising good food, excellent service and a good price, and one describes staff who went the extra mile and quickly sorted a missing item. The negatives are more specific. Several describe fish that was a funny colour, not fresh, with hardly any fish inside thick, hard batter, and the same batter on sweet and sour chicken balls and a banana fritter despite a request for light batter. Others mention undercooked peas and dry chips. Longtime customers say quality has declined since the change of owners, though one finds the new owners nice. One reviewer describes a phone call over a missing side and an unrequested portion of chips that ended with the woman shouting and calling them a liar. Another reports food poisoning after an order. One reviewer's order arrived missing a condiment, and a replacement was sent when they rang.
Featured reviews
- Danielle Farrand
“We placed an order which we have done any times normally cook it good but myself and my other half has woken up this morning with food poisoning we can’t stop throwing up and the rest 🤦🏼♀️ it’s completely floored us couldn’t imagine if this was a child or an elderly person”
- Megan Calvert
“WOW avoid this place! We placed our usual order last night, it arrived missing a condiment. We rang to ask for the condiment, and they sent us one out fair enough! We then found to be missing a side too, but had an additional portion of chips on our bill that we didn’t ask for. I rang again to explain this, and the woman on the phone started shouting at me, calling me a liar amongst other things, stating we got it wrong not her. We always order the same meal; we know the error was on her part AND she’d charged us for food we didn’t ask for. The woman was so intimidating and rude, especially knowing her delivery driver was on his way back, it was a really scary moment. She full on screamed at us and threatened us, then put the phone down. Even her delivery driver was in shock. We never did get the full meal we ordered, cost us £30 and all we got was abuse. So sad really, I’ve been coming here since I was a child but since it changed hands clearly they are as good and don’t care about local customers!”
- anthony taylor
“Best chippy ever.absolutly beautiful. Good price as well”
- Brook Ferdinales
“I use to go about 20 years ago and food and staff amazing, I had a takeaway recently and it was still amazing, I didn’t pick it up so not sure it’s the same staff I would still recommend”
- Rosemary Ackson
“I have just had a delivery of fish and chips for my elderly mum and the batter was so thick hard and inedible the "" fish was a funny colour and stuck to the batter. Also ordered sweet and sour chicken balls which also had the same thick and inedible batter and the chicken inside so dry banana fritter also came with the same horrible batter not cheap either we ate a few chips then the whole lot went in the bin so disappointing when it's supposed to be a treat as its not cheap . In reply to owner s input below I did ask for lightly battered fish on all food orders ie the fish, chicken balls and fritters when I ordered the food which was obviously ignored. I'm sorry but everything bar the chips was inedible.”
Hours
- Monday
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- Saturday
- Sunday
- Closed
Highlights
- Popular for dinner
Amenities
- Free street parking
- Delivery
- Takeout
- Casual
- Late-night food
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- Offerings· 1
- Quick bite
- Dining options· 1
- Dinner
- Parking· 1
- Parking
Location
Chinese restaurants near Rainbow House
- Golden House4.12401.4 mi£10–20
burnt food, gravy, battered fish and chips
- Tung Sing Fish & Chips4.35021.6 mi
fish and chips, generous portions, chips
- Little Buddha Swinton4.22073.4 mi
sweet and sour chicken, duck in plum sauce, salt and pepper chicken
| Place | Rating | Distance | Price | Mentioned in reviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow House | 4.5301 | — | £10–20 | fish and chips, thick batter, chicken balls |
| Golden House | 4.1240 | 1.4 mi | £10–20 | burnt food, gravy, battered fish and chips |
| Tung Sing Fish & Chips | 4.3502 | 1.6 mi | — | fish and chips, generous portions, chips |
| Little Buddha Swinton | 4.2207 | 3.4 mi | — | sweet and sour chicken, duck in plum sauce, salt and pepper chicken |
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