Szechuan Chef Chinese Restaurant

My wife and I first patronized Szechuan Chef when it was brand new in town, having just taken over Noble House 's space. We were the first to review it in TripAdvisor. It was our introduction to Szechuan cuisine. We followed when it moved to its current location. For a while, quality and consistency faltered but it got its mojo back. We have consistently enjoyed eating here we find that its shao long bao (soup dumplings) rank among the best and its regional specialty cold mixed beef outshines any we have tried in this region, British Columbia, San Francisco and New York. The homestyle lamb dry pot is to die for. There was a brief time we felt that Sichuan City or Szechuan Garden were slightly better but our visits over the past year have returned Szechuan Chef to the top, in our opinion. The only issue we have with it is its loss of patronage early on, it was always bustling with largely Asian families. I don 't know what happened, but it deserves to be tried. Hint you can probably get a meh American Chinese meal here, but you wont find better Szechuanese cuisine!

Five stars for the food. Crispy garlic chicken and ma po tofu (no meat) we're outstanding. The hand shaved rice noodles are special. Six of us ate seven mouth watering dishes. Parking is easy. The ambience is so so in this former Japanese restaurant. The service is inconsistent and a little confused but rendered cheerfully and enthusiastically. We will definitely return. If it was closer to home it would be my choice for takeout.

We came on Chinese New Year, with my brother-in-law and his girlfriend. Mike is 79 and has a hard time wiggling into a booth, so they graciously sat us at a large round table. We ate family style, and ordered the pot stickers, cumin lamb, dry green beans, kung pao chicken and smoked duck. Everything was delicious! Mike, who has some short teem memory loss, kept saying: i didn’t know we were going to have such a feast! This is all so good! It was a lot of food, but so tasty, we kept picking at it after we were full. As a result, we only brought home rice and a few green beans at the end.

Food used to be better. Kung pao chicken wasn’t like it used to be Didn’t taste fresh either Pot stickers just okay. Better ones around town Not a fan of hand shaven noodles chicken breast meat was good but had hoped noodles were regular chow mein but that’s on me . Beer choices were not what menu had — badly needed to be updated

We arrived and your restaurant was closed on Valentine’s Day.