The Lemon Chicken is amazing. I've had it about 10 different times and it's always perfect. Yummmmmmy

Bernard's is great! All the staff are very kind. Me and my dad had a very nice conversation with the bartender and the owner. The food tastes sooo good! The pork dumplings and the Singapore angel hair noodles are really tasty! read more

Bernard's - Piña colata :) - Chinese Near Me - Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

I agree with previous posts that the food was rather bland. Not terrible, just not flavorful. Our waitress, Amy, was extremely nice I would give her 4 stars but the food only gets 3. read more

My favorite place period! ! Thanks best Chinese food in Brookline. My kids always want to go there and we live in Stoughton

First time with friends and family. Food and Service top notch! Worth the ride from the south shore. Yelpers are just not nice people!!!!!

Among the very best Chinese restaurants in the Boston area. Fresh ingredients, well prepared, and excellent service with good memories for returning customers. Low grease - very few deep fried items, and the spices and flavorings are always well balanced, even on a crazy busy night, a talented kitchen staff. Go and enjoy. read more

new addition to the street in chestnut hill. Food was execellnt ,proportions were good. but the service is way too pushed and we did not like at all. We were hurried all along by our server. I think considering the location and the price ,the servie should be on the polite side. wehn asked for dessert, the server said they do not serve desserts. :x read more

Went Saturday night and it was mobbed. Wanted to sit at the bar and we eventually got a seat at the Bar. Most of the time there was just one bartender and he was overwhelmed. He brought me my wine and not my girlfriends drink despite we said it was her birthday. It took a while just to get him to recognize we sat down and to clear the plates. The food is always good here but the service on a busy night is lacking. Dinner with drinks came to just under $100 including tip for the two of us. We had the pepper spiced dumplings which are delicious. A vegetable dish cooked just right and the duck which was tasty but not really a ton of meat on ducks. Very good though. read more

This place has been around for years... healthy Chinese food... prices are a nit high but mall parking made it an easy choice.

we have been going to this restaurant for years and although it is a bit pricier than others it is worth it. Even for take out it does not disappoint. We like the beef chow foon, the noodles are tender and delicious, the spare ribs which we get on occasion are amazing and very meaty. Also a dish of years gone by is wonderful there... shrimp with lobster sauce (hamburg meat). One thing maybe not to get for take out is the soup.. doesn't travel that well... but is great in the restaurant. Their lunch specials are also fabulous.. Also the staff is very kind and friendly. read more

The place is smaller then I unticipated and quiet plane. The food is OK. Good but in my opinion not worth the money. I excpected more. We have 7 people ordering soups and main dishes and few were just bad, 1 was VERY good , the rest were solid OK. The service was good but I don't think I would go back . For this money there are plenty of other Chinese places with better selection and quality . read more

Disappoint ! Will not come back for cold tasteless food the comments in yelp are misleading (see other low rating reviewers) read more

Best gourmet Asian food I've ever had. A little pricey but not unreasonable. Decor is plain and ordinary but very clean. I wish it was somewhere else besides the Chestnut Hill Mall. read more

This is the only Chinese restaurant in town where I reliably expect to end the evening happy and satisfied with the food. I especially enjoy their wonton soup, which has a very special flavor. It is also a very special place in that over the past five years that we've been going there, the personnel (managers, servers..) hardly ever changed. Great employee loyalty, which says something about the place being very well run. read more

Had a very disappointing lunch his week. Food was bland, rice was hard and in clumps. Steamed broccoli was cold. I ordered " shredded chicken with Hoisin sauce", but more than 1/2 of the meal was made of scallions and onions neither my favorite. These ingredients were not listed in the menu. The diet coke was flat and was not replaced. When I spoke to the owner about my experience, all he did was to say" I will speak to the chef". He didn't even apologize. I will never return there. read more

Bland. I don't mind expensive Chinese, but this was Americanized Chinese. Slightly hot wasn't. Crab rangoon was nice and gooey but the amount of crab was visibly tiny and had no taste. Chicken Soong= lettuce leaves with filling were OK. Ditto Double Happiness. Only good thing was hot and sour soup. Staff were OK. Ambience: What was not even slightly OK was the noise, my wife and I couldn't hear one another over the unexpected din. read more

Amazing food! Always have only take-outs, chicken teriyaki is the best! Fried rice is awesome, crab rangoons are delicious, everything is WOW!!! read more

By far the best Chinese in the city! Worth the extra drive to Chestnut Hill. Amazing chicken and noodle dishes - combines classic and inventive, and consistently tasty. read more

the best Chinese food period. do yourself a favor and order the wontons in hot pepper and peanut sauce read more

Bernard's - Chinese Near Me - Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

Always exceptional service. The food here is fantastic and always hot! Absolutely the best in New England. My favorites are the chicken corn soup and the pork spare ribs for appetizer. read more

I have been going to Bernard's for the last 20 years or more -- it is by far the best Chinese restaurant in the area. What distinguishes it from others is that they use the best ingredients and the best cuts of meat -- this (according to their staff) does indeed make it a bit higher priced than your average Chinese place, but I think you can really taste the difference! Their greens are really green and fresh and they use very little oil and grease to produce a flavorful meal. Another aspect I love is that they treat their staff very well -- they have had the same waitstaff for 20 plus years, and they all look happy and hang out to chat. Mr Bernard himself (the owner) is a gracious, elegant, gentle man who cooks himself from time to time in the kitchen and moves from table to table to enquire whether you enjoyed the food or not. Dishes I recommend: Chilean Sea Bass, black bean chicken, calamari (very fresh), pan seared angel hair noodles with mixed veggies, peanut wontons, shrimp with vinaigrette. Although I love their dishes I do wish they would include more variety in their dishes -- but even if they don't I will continue to be a patron! Anjie read more

We've done take out and have been very pleased. It's more exspensive than other Chinese restaurants, but I'll pay the premium for good food.

Ordered one item for takeout. The person on the phone asked for my name and then hung up. Never exchanged pleasantries, never gave me an estimated time. This was my first time ordering takeout here, I was nearby. Terrible time getting a parking space, but arrived 15 minutes later. The man at the front desk told me there was no record of my order and it wasn't him and went on to say there are two other people who take orders. He had already asked me what I had ordered so he started to ring it up. I said.. Whoa. How long will this take? He replied 10 to 15 minutes. (It was soup. $15 soup, but it was still soup.). I mumbled that I didn't have a lot of time, and he replied in a very agitated manner, What do you want me to do? Do you want it or not? I said okay and paid. His only comment at that point was that it really shouldn't take long (no kidding) and said he would put a rush on it. Now mind you, he had no reason to be exasperated. No one came into the restaurant that needed to be seated. The phone never rang while we were talking. When the food came out, he handed it to me and said he discovered who forgot to put in my order. I opened my mouth to say something and he interrupted me and said, don't worry, I will talk to him about it. So I looked him in the eye and said..."An I am sorry or I apologize for the inconvenience coming from you would have gone a long way." He looked down at the counter made a sound and I took my bag and left. Even after being prompted, he couldn't offer up an apology. In this day and age, who doesn't say I am sorry, even if they don't mean it. Just plain rude. They need to cleanup their act as there are plenty of restaurants around. read more

Bernard's has clean Chinese food relative to most. However, compare prices as this is expensive. I have very good dishes, and some mediocre. Tonight's mistake was a lightly battered shrimp. The shrimp were big, but the batter was dripping with it's sauce. read more

Great asian food. All dishes fine quality and no msg. The duck is my favorite dish. The waitstaff are very pleasant. Only drawback is that it is pricey and the portions aren't very large . read more

Dear Mr. Bernard.... SHAME ON YOU! I have been dining at your establishment since you opened in the Chestnut Hill Mall. I recently went to your new location a couple of times with my daughter and decided to return with a friend in who was in town over Easter weekend. It was Saturday night around 6 PM and I'd say about 1/3 full. Table for two please - you took us to the bar side and to the last table? Strange I thought... I really, really was praying this was not about skin color, but my friend is BLACK. When we asked to be moved to the dining room side, we were told "all for reservations" and then somehow, magically, we were taken to an open table in the front of the restaurant. Well I'm sure you all know how this ends ----we left. No thank you. I will NEVER EVER dine here again. NOT COOL MR. BERNARD! read more

Nice restaurant, the food is good and the service is fast. We enjoy family dinners at Bernard's, the food is quite good and they almost never make you wait. The one issue you might encounter is not too friendly servers. However they still will serve you well, maybe just wouldn't seem as welcoming. Still, most of the servers are nice and once again, the Chinese food seems good for an alright price. It gets quite loud during dinner, but lunch is usually just fine. Would recommend. read more

It is a complete thumbs down from me and I will never go to this restaurant again. I would not even give one star however the system would not allow me to put in a review without at least picking a star. I liked the restaurant when it was in the Chestnut Hill mall. Tonight for the first time I went to the new location with my daughter. The middle aged Asian male host is not just NOT Friendly, he suggested to me and my 10 year old daughter to sit at the bar when there are plenty of two people tables available. I am Asian and what is wrong with him! The waitress was nice and polite. Other than that, it is a thumbs down from me and I will never go to this restaurant again. read more

My review was not published, so I will try entering it again. Let's start with the service. The maitre d' should win an award for being abrupt and just plain rude. The waitress was invisible once the food was served. As for the food, the chicken was hard to chew and didn't taste fresh. All of the dishes were poorly seasoned and just not good. The cheapest entrees were $17-18 and portion size was very skimpy. There isn't anything positive I can say about this restaurant. Panda Express would get a better review. read more

I've been coming here for years, friendly staff, amazing food, chicken with black bean, shrimp with ginger and scallion, house fried rice, so good! read more

My family used to come here all the time until my elderly mother was verbally assaulted by another patron and the staff here did nothing. My disabled mother had asked a group of teenagers to hold the door open for a woman with a walker. The teenager got up in her face and started screaming at her calling her racist because she was Chinese (which made no sense). The teenager was so out of control and went on and on causing a huge scene. My mother calmly asked her to stop yelling at her repeatedly. The staff here not only didn't intervene but laughed! They should have not served the out of control patron and apologized to my mother. She was only trying to get another elderly couple help with the door. She left the restaurant without eating. read more

I hope that the managers or owners of this restaurant see this because we were highly disappointed in our dining experience. We ordered chow foon noodles with vegetables and we received a plate drenched in about a cup of oil. After going home, i got sick from all the oil. We also ordered hot and sour soup which was full of black pepper and too spicy. When we mentioned it was too spicy for our taste, I thought the waitress would take it back but she asked if we wanted it mixed with egg drop soup to cut the spice and we aid okay. She brought it back and still terrible. She clearly saw we didn't touch it and still charged us for it. I've never been to a restaurant before that charged us for a good we said we really couldn't eat! Highly disappointed in wasting our time, money, and calories! read more

Wouldn't go there again unless I wanted re-heated tasteless $15 dishes. You could clearly tell they put no effort in my dinner. The noodles on the sides of the dish were burnt and crusted while the middle was still soft from the heated vegetables they added on top. The Mongolian beef was chewy as if it was heated a second time. Would not recommend this place for dinner at all. read more

After reading Phantom Gourmet's online show video raving and suggested dishes to try, I decided it was time to try out this "Chinese Restaurant" located in chi-chi Chestnut Hill, and thinking it MUST BE good for Phantom Gourmet to feature, and for this restaurant to be around for nearly 30 years. I made a reservation on a Tuesday for a Thursday evening for my party; arrived on Thursday evening to a surprisingly full restaurant, which was smaller than I expected; had to wait at least 20 minutes, we looked at the menu beforehand, and my husband said: "Did you SEE the prices?!"--90% of the food items--entrees, dishes, except the Appetizers (but they were also quite expensive compared to other Chinese Restaurants I've been to) were in the double-digit price range!---hence another set-up in my mind that: "The dishes must be GREAT!". We ordered as highly recommended/featured on Phantom Gourmet: The Scallion Pancakes: which my daughter remarked:"WHERE are the scallions?!"; The Chicken Fried Rice: Which were too salty, and the portions on the plate for sharing amongst the family was SMALL--again compared to other Chinese Restaurants, and didn't live up to the hyped Phantom Reviewer of "Soft, delicate texture...of how Fried Rice SHOULD be prepared and taste". Lastly, the Hot Pot Sizzling Chicken in Black Bean Sauce: VERY salty, and nothing spectacular tasting/appealing to vouch for its almost $20 cost; served in a small hot pot, with small, very salty chicken swimming in the black bean sauce(?). We ordered other dishes also, not really worth mentioning/memorable, including overpriced Chicken Fingers, pan-seared Peking Raviolis (small plate), with portion & cost which have been half the price charged at another restaurant which I will suggest instead, later in Review. The ONLY two "saving grace" from this first and LAST, PAYING dining experience at Bernards were: Our Waiter, who was young, friendly and helpful in understanding and accommodating to our first time experience, and to beverage refills, inquiries. Second, was that our waiter cleared the table of all empty plates, dishes, and brought out new plates after we finished our appetizers in the beginning, which seemed like Bernard's on-the-mark protocol to present a "clean, uncluttered dining table" for diners to await the Entree portion of their dining experience. For 4 entrees, 3 appetizers, (2) glass-poured, over ice Cokes, the bill came to $147 with tip!!!---Holey Mackerel!---Thank God I got paid today from work!--was my reaction. Came away feeling "ripped off", non-satiable from food portions, and knowing that Bernard's meal prices were so overpriced so that they can pay their monthly commercial rental location, and their other overhead costs, and profit; My family I agreed that we would never go back to Bernard's as elective, paying diners---IF a friend wants to invite and pay for us to join them--that's the ONLY way we'd ever dine at Bernards! The Chinese Restaurant that I had in mind in comparison, which I HIGHLY recommend to all Newton/Chestnut Hill and other surrounding town Chinese Foodies, who don't care for and can see past the "new, ornate, chi chi" dining room decorations, location of physical location of restaurant--please try: Green Tea Restaurant, 24 Elliot St, Newton, MA 02461 Phone:(617) 965-2260; the food quality, portions, and PRICES are reasonable, and you will leave with a more satisfying tummy and dining experience, and GUARANTEE, your bill at the end would still be less than HALF of the $147 bill from Bernards! Also Yelp should CHANGE the "$$" to more like "$$$" to reflect the TRUE cost of Bernard's food items on their menu. UPDATE since my last review: Unfortunately my above-recommended, preferred Green Tea Chinese Restaurant has closed---and I unfortunately STILL see Bernards Chinese Restaurant; STILL able to stay open with their overly-priced, mediocre food to unsuspecting/non-savvy, Chinese food-consuming customers who are willing to support/pay this restaurant to remain in Chestnut Hill leased space. read more

I don't get all of the accolades that Bernard's receives. The food is okay at best (some of it tastes pretty processed) and is usually pretty greasy. We've tried a good portion of the menu and have found some dishes to be better than others, but, in my opinion, there are many better options in the area for fresher ingredients and better cooked Chinese meals. We've never had great luck with service at either of their two locations (the former mall location and the current location on The Street). In fact, unless you are one of those families who has been dining at Bernard's forever (such that all the people there know your whole family), you should expect substandard service (both to be seated and to be served). That seems to be a consensus among our group of friends (who are all transplants to the Newton area). I know this may sound a little tasteless, but my wife once joked that it will be interesting to see how far Bernard's falls down this list of favorite Chinese restaurants once its clientele starts dying off. We had one recent experience where we went to a half-full Bernard's and were told it would be about 2.5 minutes to be seated. We checked in 10 minutes later (after 2 families who appeared to be chummy with the owners walked in) and were told it would be at least another 10 minutes and that they never promised us it would only be 2 minutes. After another 10 minutes (and more regulars walking in) we were told it would be yet another 10 minutes. So we took our toddler elsewhere. If the food was really good we would have considered waiting, but it's just not good enough to wait for. I also want to second an earlier review that was left that the people at Bernard's are very arrogant and act like they are doing you a favor as opposed to selling a service. read more

Never had a bad meal here. High quality, fresh ingredients. The roast duck is divine! In season try the soft shell crab. Very friendly servers. PS: I live a couple blocks away, so I eat here often! read more

I was really happy with our delivery order from here. Yummy Chinese American food that may have been a little too salty, but otherwise not gross-feeling. Reminded me of childhood Chinese takeout! read more

Everything was great here. Food, Service, Atmosphere. If you go to the shopping mall, this is a dependable place.

My friend attends the school around this area and she recommended this place because we both love Chinese. Food was amazing. The best shrimp lo mein I've ever had. Not salty, not bland, and very flavorful. Crab rangoon was very filling and crispy. The chicken fingers were good. We ordered these three dishes and the food came out in under ten minutes I would say. The workers were very nice. I gave this place 4 stars instead of 5 because our waiter asked me what to drink and didn't ask my friend. It seemed like she was in a rush although we went on a slow night. read more

Just wanted to add that my co workers who have ordered food there have complained about their phone etiquette. They are very rushy and it makes people uncomfortable with calling back. read more