Moonstone Modern Asian Cuisine & Bar

When there to have a nice dinner, and I was generally satisfied. The food is not bad, as they offer immense amount of options. Desserts were fabulous. They serve Chinese food is French style, which is a new experience for me. The environment is pretty nice, except for the music, which have no pattern and is probably all from playlists called “chill music for restaurant” or so.

It was a great experience. Pros: Food quality was good, service was good, decoration was nice. Its a modern twist Asian restaurant. The desert pudding was outstanding. Cons: fried ice cream was pre-made. I was expecting a warm crispy crust with cold ice cream inside. I was a little disappointed. Another reason for a star off is too many choices on the menu, its like reading a book. It takes very long time just to finish reading the menu. Suggest to keep the menu shorter and delete some unpopular dishes.

A beautiful dining room and several mini sections of more intimate tables nestled in a corner or side of the bar. There's a full bar on site as well. Dim sum served all day and a lot of appetizers to choose from (scallion pancakes, shrimp dumplings, Gyoza and the like). My favorite entree here is the Tangerine scallops or the casserole of fish with eggplant and mushrooms. Cantonese flavors mostly but there are some fusion choices as well. Sushi and sashimi on the menu too!

The food here used to be outstanding, now it still better than average but the new management's penny pinching has affected the food. For example, the Fish Kew used to have a lot of leeks in it, now I could barely find any. The egg drop soup used to have small mushrooms which added a subtle flavor to the soup, now they just used the standard, cheaper, sliced button mushrooms. The lettuce wrap came with just 4 modest sized pieces of lettuce, when we asked for more lettuce, they brought out just one more small piece of lettuce and tried to charge us $1.50 extra. We made a reservation on Open Table and checked in when we arrived at the restaurant, but the restaurant reported that we did not show up. Apparently, they didn't want to pay Open Table for handling the reservation. I can understand penny pinching if you are charging $15 for a main dish. But if you are charging $35 per dish, you need to be more generous, maintain high quality standards and make your customer feel welcome. I've always found the service here to be cold and indifferent. Again, this might be less annoying in a low-priced, local restaurant. But if you go out of your way to travel to a more expensive, elegant looking restaurant, you expect to be greeted warmly and made to feel appreciated. Despite the above failings, I will come back here again because the food is still very good and they have gluten free options. However, I feel sad that I have to lower my rating from 5 stars to 4 stars.

I went to Moonstone last week and I had to take the time now to write a review saying this place is hands down some of the best Chinese you will eat at least on Long Island. I especially feel the need to write this being some reviews here had me hesitant to go and drop money there on a meal but I knew to give it a shot since for every one negative review there were 4-5 more positive ones. I knew going in that it is definitely pricey BUT you get what you pay for. For example, the Beef Terkiyaki is $46 but it is filet mignon that is prepared tableside on a sizzling platter. It was worth every penny - all of it. We had that, the Mongolian Feast, General Tso's Chicken all after Wanton Soups and Spare Ribs. All VERY good. I ordered multiple entrees to share and had plenty to take home and make 3 more meals out of so the pricepoint didn't bother me. Don't listen to the nay sayers here - this place is amazing!