Honestly a great local place for some chinese cuisine. I've gone there a few times, most recently with a big group of friends. We gave them a list of things we liked, and asked for two of each, with various meats or vegetarian choices. The appetizers were out within 10 minutes, steamy dumplings and scallion pancakes etc. Then the actual food starting rolling out - steaming hot and delicious. We got a few different noodle dishes, chicken dishes, fried rices, etc. DELISH! and easily accessible off of the B line, it's only a few stops up from Kenmore Square. Will definitely order again! read more

Terrible service. Mediocre food. When we said bye, they didn't say bye back. Fortune cookie did not contain fortune in it. Some worker was playing loud noises on their phone. Overall a terrible experience and do not recommend anyone going there. read more

Although Hugh's meal was all celery, mine was "vegetarian chicken." It didn't taste like chicken, or like much of anything, though. It was strictly meh and weirdly crunchy. Next time I'm in the mood for takeout Chinese, I'll try the tofu. Actually, next time I might just go somewhere else. read more

This place is awesome for filling the void of dongbei (northeastern) cuisine in Boston. However, most of the things (dumplings, pork, cabbage) I've tried were just OK and nothing too specular so far read more

During my college days, the super cheap lunch specials were much appreciated. Of course it's not the best Chinese food, but when you're in a rush, looking for a good and affordable lunch, I was quite happy here. read more

I came here for a quick meal and that was exactly what I got. It was not only fast (in terms of service) but also economical. Best of the all, the food was pretty decent and the service was attentive. If I am a student here in BU, I would probably come here everyday! read more

Really good location right on Comm Ave, and good food as well. They have specials during the week before 4pm where you can get an entree, appetizer and soup for $6 or so. Really yummy. Not the nicest place inside- it just looks old and run down. Still, the food is great and filling- a good choice. read more

After spending all day touring the city I wanted to relax in my hotel room. The man that answered the phone was so kind. He answered all my questions and was patient with me. We ordered beef lo mein, crab rancoons (amazing), and pork with ginger and scallions. They delivered to our hotel in under 45 minutes. Food was delicious and neatly packed in a brown bag. Extra silverware and fortune cookies were in our bag. I was thankful for this late night delivery company. :) read more

Exceptional value. The lunch and dinner specials are below $7 and very filling. The best item on the menu is the General Gao's special, served with your choice of rice (white or fried) and soup (egg drop or an exceptional hot & sour). I went to BU, and this was, by far, my favorite restaurant on campus. read more

If you are a college student on a budget and in need of a great tasty meal, this is the palce for you. I agree, with Jane, the facility itself is not the best, but the location, price and food selection make it well worth it. read more

Order this: General Gao's Chicken, Fried Rice, and Egg Drop Soup (or Crab Rangoons for lunch) as the Lunch or Dinner Combo. Under $5/6 and you have a filling meal that tastes great. Fried rice is obviously old white rice, but the chicken is plentiful (just the right kind of sweet and spicy) and very juicy. I've had that combo almost every time I'm there and it's hard to resist (especially since some of the other dishes are no where near as good...). read more

Very authentic Chinese food here! I come here a couple of times every week. Fast and kind service. And it is also a place where you can connect to BU wifi. read more

Best Chinese food in the area!!!! The lamb and cumin is out of this world!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The only time I tried this place, which is really called Beijing Cafe see the other post on yelp, my friend ordered Chinese food of campus food and he received was should have been egg foo young. Instead of real food we got some purple mush in a Chinese take out box. GROSS. read more

They do have food taste line real homemade Chinese food' . Recommand for beef noodle, so good! And I like the bun

Service was incredibly fast not to mention the the waitress was very kind! The food came very quickly and was put together perfectly without a flaw. I had the spicy squid and it was cooked very well, not a chewy piece to be seen. The reason I'm giving it a 4 star is BC I didn't really feel comfortable in the location. Don't get me wrong the inside was beautiful but the outside just looked dinky and unappealing read more

Good food! I had an order of white fried rice and orange chicken, and these were okay! Everything fine!

I'm not sure what it was but certainly not chinese food. Inedible. We were desperate during the storm and they delivered. I don't leave a lot of negative reviews but I recommend going somewhere else. read more

Beijing Cafe - I'm not sure that looks like fried rice, even with some soy sauce added. And the crab rangoon is great if you don't like crab. - Chinese Near Me - Boston, Massachusetts

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not a great place. gets 3 stars largely for sentimental value. never tell the guy who resurrected it when chef lee's was closed for (yet another) health code violation and owned it between 2001 and 2004, but the only reason I was really a regular in 2001 and 2002 is that a beautiful girl from taiwan was a waitress there and was as flirty with me (and actually was quite personable and garrulous) as I was with her. OK, three reasons: the general gau's was pretty good and the owner and the beautiful girl from taiwan and one guy from beijing who was studying American lit and one young waitress who was also a student at BU were all super friendly and always remembered my order. and, of course, the cheapness. OK, FOUR reasons. Damn... I'll start again. The Phoenix rated this the best General Gau's in the city. But that's because the Phoenix offices are so close, this is cheap even on a journalist's salary, and Chef Chang's (also subpar) is so... depressing, as one friend said to me once, unless you're there with a group. First: GENERAL GAU'S IS NOT CHINESE! Second, Chef Chang's is better. Third, since the new owners took over, it's gotten both dry and oily simultaneously. haven't eaten there in three years, and except when I think back to when the friendly staff was there, I don't really miss it. read more

I stupidly was feeling adventuresome in ordering Chinese food tonight, and they just mailed a menu to my house so I ordered. Never mind the hour it took to get here, but my pork and eggplant looked and tasted like gruel. I paid $20 for one dish and scallion pancakes, before delivery fee and tip. I'm tearing up the menu right now. I'm just hoping my stomach doesn't reject what I was able to eat. read more

I don't understand why this place don't have higher ratings! I am particular about Chinese food and overall have found chinese good in Boston to be pretty bad. I have tried other places in the area like Shanghai gourmet that are disgusting in comparison. If you are looking for tasty, decently priced, takeout Chinese with great service, this is the place for you. read more

haochi！很棒的家常菜！红烧肉炖粉条简直一绝。very delicious!!! Real Chinese food. You should definitely try. But if you like American Chinese restaurant, this restaurant might not be a good choice for you: read more

This is actually a pretty decent place. Food and environment are good. A little bit more expensive than I expected. There is no problem in attitude of the waitress as some comments suggest. The service is good according to my experience. So the current rating is probably too low for the overall quality of the place. read more

It's pretty expensive. They seem to offer a range of dishes but some of the dishes are extremely similar. The food is not authentic. The quality is not consistent. You won't be missing out if you don't try it here read more

I love this place, the food, and the staff. They have lots of options, and they are all authentic and well made. This is my go-to place for chinese food! Also, there is one waitress who works the entire floor wednesday-sunday who is kind, patient, and makes great recommendations. I really appreciate her service, and will keep coming back. read more

This Chinese food is HORRENDOUS! If i could i wouldn't award it a single star so consider the one star as good as nothing. I was misled by the two 4-star reviews and upon trying my food wanted nothing more than to ban those eaters from further reviews and or eating in general. The Lo Mein was terrible and the Sesame Chicken was the worst i have ever had! The only enjoyable part of my meal was the tap water and white rice. Even the duck sauce was bad! TAKE MY WORD AND DON'T EVER ORDER FROM THIS PLACE! read more

I ordered from this place a few times, and tonight will be the last. The food has always been mediocre and the service long, but the service is terrible. I ordered soup and a few other items. First, the delivery driver called and asked me to walk outside to pick up the order - that defeats the point of delivery! Why would I walk outside in the cold an in my pajamas if I ordered delivery? Then, when I got the order and the delivery guy rushed off, I found out that the soup wasn't properly sealed and it has spilt out into the entire bag. Soup was leaking onto my floor out of the bag, and moreover it was in my other food. I called the restaurant and asked to not be charged for the order. First, they offered to send me another order, but I didn't want to wait 45 minutes for something that was OK to begin with and something that may be just another bag of soup. So, I just asked to not be charged. First, they put me on hold for 10 minutes. When I finally called back, they said I had hung up. Then, they did the exact same thing again, only this time after a long hold they hung up. I called back again several times, only to have them hang up on me. This service is terrible, and they don't stand by the customer at all. I have ordered from them before only to have semi-decent food at a cheap price, but nothing is worth the $15 I wasted tonight on a bag full of soup and a nasty woman who answers the phone. read more

I hate to sound like an echo, but I too experienced the meatless meat entree here. The vegetables were borderline unidentifiable and outnumbered the meat by a factor of 15:1. Also, Beijing Cafe's conception of fried rice is white rice covered in what looks like a bucket of soy sauce. That's the only difference there. Sure, it's not expensive, but so is not eating, and not eating is much more satisfying. read more

I'm a sucker for a good sesame tofu and this place has some of the crispiest around. The dumplings are mysteriously good, the scallion pancakes are the perfect blend of delicious, salt and guilt, and the hot and sour soup is always a winner. As a very picky chinese food eater, I support ordering from the Biejing Cafe. Not to mention-- they often break speed records from the time you order to the time they appear at your front door. So, go crazy and bring home some sesame tofu today. read more

My office is around but this is my last choice every noon ---------------------------------------------------- I have decided to change the rate from 2 stars to 4 stars, because the new home made steamed bun is spectacular!! It is the only thing I order there now. ----------------------------------------------------- Laoban, you tried Different dishes that I like, but the quality goes down when they are out of advertising timespan. The Jianbing is smaller now, the mushroom chicken gets smaller and had less time boiled. The lamb with pancake had stone like pancake which is hard to chew. Please, please, bring back all the stuffs at their best, thanks! read more

I know that this place hasn't gotten the best reviews based on its dungeon-like interior and whatnot but honestly, this place is no different from any other hole-in-the-wall cheap Chinese food places. I grew up in restaurants like this and they make dumplings the way I love them so I don't have a bone to pick with them. San Francisco and New York City are filled with places just like this. They're open until 11pm every day and I randomly went in to satisfy a craving I've been having. I've lived in Warren for 2 years and never went inside until tonight. The staff was nice and I couldn't find the dumplings I liked in English so I asked for them in Chinese and they were very sweet about it. $5 for a plate of home-style dumplings is okay any day in my book. read more

Simple the worst Chinese delivery food I've ever had. I'm traveling on biz and had the food delivered to the hotel in copley square boston. No rice in the bag and one of the dishes I ordered was missing. Meanwhile, the food was inedible. Boneless spare ribs dripping in honey and grease. Ma Pao Dofu, completely inedible. I threw it out. Steamed dumplings: wrapper worse than playdough. Don't order from this restaurant. read more

I like Beijing Cafe for its great location, tasty food and reasonable price. My favorites are their homemade stemming dumplings, Kung Poo Chicken and the newly introduced Chicken mushroom stew, which is so great and delicious ! I don't think you eat so nice Chinese food anywhere else around BU campus. Well, I never hesitate to try new stuff , sometimes you lose but most of time you win because it's usually more than satisfactory. Oh, I think the beef noodle soup is really big and very much filling, ~$5 dollars, a good deal. My any other suggestion ? Order an egg drop soup first, and then you can sit down enjoy a real Chinese meal. read more

Beijing Cafe... where do I begin? As an undergrad at BU in a new city I needed to find a suitable place to stave off my Chinese food cravings. What I found instead was an Eden of sultry flavor: a Mecca of tasteful delights. I thought things couldn't get any better... I was wrong. My sophomore year was revolutionary. My boyfriend had moved into the campus apartments above Beijing. Life was good. The food we had both began to love to the point of obsession was now only a 30 second walk down a flight of stairs. The problem was no longer finding time to eat their wonderful food-- the problem was fighting the craving to eat it every day. Graduation had come and I moved off Comm Ave to Beacon Hill to start grad school. There's still not a place in Boston that I'd rather order my food from. Thankfully they deliver across town. I may not live as close to the restaurant as I once did... the bricks, cement, and mortar that enclose that wonderful palace of gustatory pleasure may be farther away now; but their spirit, their soul, their passion, all of which so epitomize great Chinese food, is forever a part of me. read more

Used to love the hell out of this place. But I've now had three awful experiences in a row since this new woman with a bowl cut took over as server. The first--my date and I weren't served for 10 minutes, only ordered four orders of spring rolls. We were given egg rolls that took 15 minutes (?!). Sent them back, finally got the right order. Had to wave the check in hand for 15 minutes before bowl cut lady acknowledged us. Second time--more serving issues with the same woman. Other customers were taken care of before me despite her seeing me coming in first. This was a month later & I looked completely different so I don't think she remembered me. Third time--tonight. Tried to call in chicken with broccoli. May as well have gone to sit down it took so long, and I even killed ten minutes. Get home, there's not as much food as usual and there's tofu mixed in. This place has gone completely down the crapper and I hope bowl cut lady gets canned because she's awful. read more

The lunch specials offer great deals -- General Gau's was pretty good, but I was really disappointed with the Chicken and Broccoli, which I thought was very bland and flavorless. read more

Very delicious! The dumpling and pickled Chinese cabbage are surprising. I love this place.

For starters the person who took the phone order did not take my card number before she hung up and I had to call back and ask if they'd like to charge me... was noon time on a Sunday not late on a weekend night or anything... 1.For what you get the prices are too high 2.Make sure if you do order you have thier CURRENT menu as (even though i know the one i used was under a year old) they have increased their prices. 3. Noodle soup so bland and fried rice meh veggie rolls are like $2 a piece, and from the freezer. 4. They messed up something in the order that i repeated 3 times on the phone 5. lastly, our delivery order took an hour which was definitely unnecessary given our proximity to the restaurant and our order. read more

I have lived in the area for a while and have been looking for a go to Chinese Restaurant. This is BY FAR the best food I have had in Boston. I will never order from another Chinese Restaurant after trying Beijing Café. Great food and great service!! read more

Location is right on BU's campus. A place where a lot of students go for food and the price is cheap!