Ambrosia Express

About

Ambrosia Express is a Chinese takeaway at the Oakfield Shopping Centre in Shrewsbury, opening at 5pm and never at lunchtime, hygiene rating 3 of 5. The full address is Unit 3, Oakfield Shopping Centre, Rad Valley Road, SY3 8BD, serving the Meole Brace and Radbrook side of town, and the number to ring is 01743 351511. It publishes no opening times of its own, and the listing sites that carry times do not agree: one gives 5pm to 10.30pm Sunday to Thursday and 5pm to 11pm on Friday and Saturday, seven days a week; another gives 5pm to 10pm on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, 5pm to 10.30pm on Friday and Saturday, and closed all day Tuesday. The one point every source agrees on is that it opens at 5pm and does not serve at lunchtime, so a Tuesday trip is the one to ring ahead about. It is collection and delivery only, with no seating and no drive-through, and the food is Anglo-Chinese and Cantonese: chow mein, curries, crispy duck and pancakes, egg fried rice and the usual set meals. Food hygiene is rated 3 out of 5, "generally satisfactory", from an inspection by Shropshire Council on 1 July 2026, which is the most recent entry for it on the register. The three component scores are unusually even at 10, 10 and 10, for hygienic food handling, the condition of the premises and confidence in management, 30 penalty points in total. That matters, because a rating of 3 can be earned two ways: one bad area dragging down two good ones, or, as here, the same middling mark in all three. If you searched for Ambrosia Chinese in Shrewsbury and found two of them, this is the one still trading. The other name that comes up, Ambrosia Oriental at 1 Haughmond Square, Spring Gardens, SY1 2TA, on 01743 271888, is still carried by takeaway aggregators and review sites, but the company behind it, AMBROSIA-ORIENTAL LIMITED, company number 04714435, was dissolved on 14 March 2023, and there is no entry under that name anywhere on the Food Standards Agency register as of 14 September 2026. Every food business selling to the public has to be registered with its council, so an absence from that register is a strong sign the shop is no longer open. Ambrosia Express at Oakfield is the Ambrosia to ring.