Loved the pork chop soup. Came back three times for it. Will be back again too. It has a nice seaweedy broth and plenty of meat to satisfy. The staff are attentive and the atmosphere is casual and unassuming. Dig it for any occasion. read more

Second time coming back here in a week. Got the chili bean noodle (suan la fen), cumin toothpick lamb, and mala tang. Everything was great, especially enjoyed the lamb - reminded me of Tapioca Express popcorn chicken. read more

Service is subpar. Food is pricey and serves lots of spicy food. Portion could have been better and the food is alright. Good for family style eating. read more

First time was great. Food is excellent and authentic. Customer service is appropriate (if you have been abroad in Asia then you understand). read more

This is a wonderful restaurant right across the street from the campus. It is much better than most places in Berkeley. The service is a little bit rushed, and the place is full of people from the campus. When I went there on a weekday evening most of the customers were Asian. The food is very very good. It has a very authentic feel. read more

Very interesting experience. The Sichuan spices were tongue numbing but made eating much more fun for me. If you never experienced such a thing be wary of the foods with chili I suppose. The Kung pao chicken was amazing. It was very savory and wasn't chewy at all. We also ordered fish in chili oil. Be careful! This ones very strong with the tongue numbing spices. I recommend eating ice cream after your meal. It will help with the numbness :) overall good service. read more

My birthday today! If you think you love spicy food, you need to come here. So delicious.

Food was excellent! 7 days Chinese restaurant at Regents Street, Cambridge UK was the best Chinese food I had tasted, in the world! UNTIL, I visited Chengdu Style in Berkeley which is an eatery in another world altogether. We ordered Kung Pao chicken, girdle cooked beef, fish in hot chilli oil...and hot and sour soup. Soup was out of this world! Highly recommended! read more

Real Sichuan food!! If you wanna try real Chinese food please check it out! Highly recommend!

Food is good: the online menu does not denote what is spicy and what is not..also they did not accept creditcards. I think it was sent by uber delivery! read more

Bad for larger groups. Food is okay, management is not as great. Go to Great China Restaurant instead.

We had the scallion pancake, fish in chili oil, mapo tofu, egg drop and tomato soup, and chengdu style potatoes. The numbing chili sauce on the potatoes creates a very foreign but interesting sensation on the tongue... I would definitely recommend it if you are looking for something different. Of course, fish in chili oil is a must for every visit. read more

Chengdu Style Restaurant - Mapo tofu, scallion pancake, egg drop and tomato soup, fish in chili oil and chengdu potatoes. - Szechuan Near Me - Berkeley, California

The toothpick lamb, spicy boiled whole fish, and black chili "fungus" are go-tos for the place. Price is medium, definitely shouldn't eat here more than once a week. Inconspicuously located, underrated. read more

Loved the chengdu style beef soup noodle: tasty beef, chewy noodle, and spicy soup. Yummy pumpkin cake. Will definitely return. read more

no doubt this is the best place for chinese food in the area. authentic chengdu style food gives a unique taste of hot and spicy that you can hardly get from elsewhere in berkeley. In the light of price to quality evaluation，this is the place you shouldnt miss read more

Came to Chengdu for the great lunch special and got the spicy boiled fish. Sooo good. It came with a nice cabbage soup and rice, and the dish itself is unbelievable. The fish is tender, numbingly spicy, and comes in a huge quantity. I highly recommend. read more

Chengdu Style Restaurant - Spicy boiled fish lunch special - Szechuan Near Me - Berkeley, California

We came for lunch, they served fast, recommended Toothstick lamp and 干锅鸡杂，very taste!

Having lived in Chengdu for 5 years, Chengdu Style definitely helped to recreate that experience for me. I don't remember most food names in English but only Chinese, so bear with me. My favorite part about Chengdu Style is that it offers Chengdu street food(which is weird in a dining hall setting but it works), namely the Chengdu Street Style Potatoes 成都街边土豆, which I can find nowhere else in the vicinity. They also offer cold noodles 伤心凉粉, which was true to the Chengdu taste. Another favorite of mine is 毛血旺(I don't know what this is in English), which is basically a dish filled with offals, chitterlings, blood cubes, and all that good stuff. Also, they have good sausage. Good Chinese sausage is kinda rare here. Overall, an authentic experience. Would always go whenever I visit Berkeley. Though, one down side is they there's a lot of oil and MSG. I don't know if the cheap-looking interior decor counts as a downside, but to me it is akin to a typical Chengdu-style dining hall. read more

This palace is a best Sichuan restaurant in Berkeley,If you like Chinese spicy food ,come here!!!!!

Foods are really good and authentic but the old lady who looks own the restaurant really like money. She pointed out where the tip recommendation was on the receipt to me even though I left enough tip there. read more

Decently authentic and reasonably priced for a Chinese restaurant in the university area. My party and I didn't need to wait long for our order. However, the orange chicken was a bit salty and the waiters took a little while getting us three cold waters (we had only asked for one). read more

I made sure two waiters knew that I am allergic to MSG and I asked if there was going to be any in the food. Yes, they usually put MSG but were not going to put it this time. Some appetizers are already made with it so I just avoided those. Result: I got a huge headache from MSG because they put it in the food. read more

I had the worst dining experience here. The food was actually not bad for a Szechwan-style Chinese restaurant. The menu lacks varieties on what really makes this place "Chengdu style". But it still offered flavors that satisfied my Chinese palate. However, the defining moment of making it my dining nightmare came when the waitress gave us the bill which lists $14.95 for a pea shoots stir-fry. I asked the waitress why the pea shoots were so expensive. She said that since they were seasonal, they bought them for like $8/lb. Not remembering reading $14.95 for pea shoots on the menu, I took a menu from the counter, and it clearly says $10.95 for pea shoots. I compared the bill with the menu and it turned out that they also overcharged us $1 for the lamb stir-fry. I took the bill with the menu to the register and asked the guy in charge about this. His explanation was that they recently moved from LA and haven't updated their menus yet even though they had it done in their system already to reflect the price change. As a result, he took $5 from his register as refund. Had I not gone up to ask about the price difference between the menu and the bill, I would have been charged extra from an act of deceiving the customers. I will not come back to this restaurant again. read more

You know a restaurant is insecure about its service and quality when its administrators respond to negative reviews on Yelp within minutes of its posting, constantly trying to defend themselves rather than admitting they did something wrong. Oh, and not responding to the positive reviews? Not saying thank you? This can only mean one thing: the restaurant hires people to write those five-star reviews just to make themselves look good. How fucking pretentious. Yes I'm using the word "fucking," Chengdu staff. You're in Berkeley, get the fuck over it. Anyway, this little five-star façade is coming to an end. This place is disgusting. In more ways than one. Fucking up reservations? Yeah, I can get over it. We got a table. That's fine and dandy. Mediocre food? Whatever. I'm a college student and frankly, I'm not really sure what good food is. Making ramen in an actual pot is pretty fucking gourmet for me. Who knows, maybe the food was amazing and I just couldn't tell. But shitty service, disrespect, and inability to own up to mistakes? Now that's where we have an issue. So my group and I get to the restaurant around seven. When we finally get our seats, we order and we don't get our food for an hour. (Wait, no. We got some cold chicken feet within about 30 minutes and, let me tell you, it was quite the spectacle watching my friends eat those. I would never.) I'm a pretty laid back person. I get it. It's a busy night. Everyone in the restaurant needs their food. I'm not trippin'. Basically, my mentality was that as long as we all got our food, I'd be happy. And then we got a filthy tea cup. And weird bowls for rice that are obviously meant for ingredients (you know, that mise-en-place shit). And then they give one member of our party a styrofoam plate because they ran out of stoneware. And they give us tea with used and abused tea bags (like literally, our tea was really starting to look like dishwater rather than tea real quick). And just to put the cherry on top, it took forever to get our food. See, I would have been okay with our food being hella late, but then the shitty service happened. Finally, after this terrible dining experience, which left us all pretty dazed in disgust, two members of our party went up to pay. I'm not even going to try to go into the details of what went down because I'm not exactly sure. All I do know is that my friends tried to tell the cashiers about their terrible experience, and they got extremely defensive, one of them constantly edging forward with his chest out as if he were ready to fight (seriously, one of the employees was holding him back. WHAT. THE. FUCK.), and one of them being very disrespectful and hostile with tone of voice and attitude. These employees can go ahead and try to defend themselves all they want, but there is absolutely NO EXCUSE for arguing with a customer. WE are paying YOU for good food and good service. How dare you have the audacity to yell at a customer with a credit card in hand, ready to pay for the meal? It doesn't matter what the customer is saying, especially when the customer is simply criticizing your restaurant, the customer is always right. We left this restaurant feeling particularly shitty. Which is pretty counterproductive since this is the start of a new year and we wanted, as a group, to start it off right. Please do know that we will NEVER be coming back to this restaurant and we definitely will not be recommending this restaurant to anyone. Actually, we'll probably completely advise against this place. I'm pretty sure anyone would prefer even Lotus House over this joke of a dining experience. Actually, Lotus House is fucking delicious and, on top of that, the employees aren't rude!!!! Holla. I understand that sometimes restaurants have bad days. I really do. But disrespect to a PAYING CUSTOMER is a whole other deal. Go ahead and defend yourself with your laughable responses. Go ahead and answer my "questions" (which I have none, by the way). It will only make you look that much weaker as an institution. The most dignified thing to do in this situation, really, is to come to terms with the truth: that you obviously do not know how to handle customers, and that your service is seriously lacking. Just a word of advice, do NOT try to turn this thing around on the customer. I assure you, any and all complaints from customers are rooted in a deficiency in service and business tactics. So please, I implore you, stop embarrassing yourselves, take this one-star review with some dignity, and move forward with your business. I do hope that the Year of the Horse is as horrifying for your restaurant as this dining experience was for me and my party. TL;DR: Fucked up reservation. Shitty service. Untimely food delivery. Disrespectful employees. Always blaming the customer for their shitty experiences. P.S. I can use whatever "fucking" words I want, thank you very much. read more

This food was disgusting. This is the first negative review I've ever written; don't usually like to speak ill. But this was so bad I have to express my frustration. Every item was covered with tasteless, glutinous slime. The chicken was like airplane food. The eggplant had so much sugar (and I l have a sweet tooth) I couldn't eat it at all. Would never go back and am sad they took over such a prime spot. read more

Bad service, bad food, it is very bad! For the first time to go to a restaurant so bad! Something is terrible, service attitude is not very friendly ~ I guess the man is the boss, he asked me what the problem for the foods, I told him the foods taste to bad! He also used skeptical retort where I come from, he won't listen to my advice, also said that food is no problem! I ordered four food, no a delicious. Let me the most is not satisfied with the attendant attitude is really bad here, when I pay. the waiter asked me by cash or by credit card, I said to pay cash at the beginning, and then she took the two bowls of very cheap and bad dessert to us, don't want to eat! Results we haven't enough cash to credit card, she said to want us to give her the cash, the rest of the money credit card, but when we say to want to charge, the waiter a face of said discontentedly cash cannot free for the dessert, we say we don't care! You can take away, she turned away in syrup! Mama of, who CARES that cheap dessert.we're the guest, isn't that cheap dessert in front of us don't free? Of course, we don't care! But can see out completely no service in this store! I can tell you the honest, the shop is cheating on americans shop! Food are not authentic, as a consumer. I won't visit the store again read more

It was the worst meal I ever had in my life. The lowest quality beef, had to chew for half a minute. Terrible experience with terrible waiters. Never come back, do not recommend. read more

It is very unfortunate to report that one of the few authentic Chinese restaurants in Berkeley has such terrible service, and yet another owner with no common sense, manners, or care for the health and well-being of its customers. Our guests almost swallowed a metal wire that was found in our soup, left over from a wire brush. When we presented this to the owner, he apologized and offered to refund the cost of the soup. Speaking to us in Chinese, he proceeded to say that this was unavoidable and it happens all the time. We said that his team simply needs to be more careful, and he responded by saying there is no time to be more careful, because they need to do things fast. All of this was shocking, as the owner showed no understanding of the gravity of the litigable offense his staff had committed, particularly if his customers were to fall gravely ill. At the end of our meal, we were humiliated by a second embarrassing scene. Our credit card had already been swiped, but the owner returned to say that he wanted us to pay in cash instead. When we asked why, he said because he needs to process our refund for the metal wire in the soup. We replied by stating that he could continue with charging our card for the full amount, and then refund us the cost of the soup in cash --- that would be simplest. But the owner did not agree, resulting in an awkward conversation and a scuffle amongst all of us to pool together enough cash. The owner then clarified his reasoning to those of us who could understand Chinese: the original full price of our meal had already been reported to the government when the the card was swiped, and so if he were to refund us in cash for the soup, he would end up having to pay unwarranted business income tax for the cost of the soup! The soup itself is on the order of 10 dollars, so the owner caused this whole ridiculous scene from fretting about merely one or two dollars. Although the food is very good, other restaurants in Berkeley with much weaker chefs have better business, and from this incident is clear why --- the service is to blame. Considering their large real estate, unappealing interior decorations, blase and uncouth wait staff, distinctively 'fobbish' menu language (e.g. "black fungus"), and the complete and utter stupidity of the owner, I would not be surprised to see Chengdu Style Restaurant shut down in the near future, either due to bankruptcy or a food poisoning lawsuit. read more

This is a freaking authentic Sichuan food!!!!! I always asked for delivery and they always came within 20min. The food are soo good. We celebrated my boyfriend's birthday here too. And every server was so nice. Everyone was so satisfied with the food. This is definitely my favorite restaurant in Berkeley. read more

Great place to have lunch and dinner during school time and weekend! Love the fish and stirred vegetables there!

(The most reliable approach to look for authentic Chinese food in the Berkeley area, is to identify the places where Chinese people hang out with each other lol) It deserves the reputation for its spicy fish! I couldn't resist it especially when it came with rice! Price was reasonable at least for the items I tried. However the waiting time was a bit longer than expected so hope that can be improved in the future. read more

Had greasy, over-sugared fast food like eggplant dish infused with sodium, over-priced snow pea tips dish ($15 for a plate of greens), won't go back unless being dragged by somebody who likes the greasy, over-spiced food. read more

Everything was SUPER greasy. That being said, their mapo tofu and fish in spicy sauce have very good flavor. But definitely don't come here if you're looking to cut back on oil. read more

I love Sichuan and Chengdu style food, and my wife has taken me to many many different restaurants to eat it, but this is the ONLY one I've ever been to that did NOT give me diarrhea! I've eaten here 3 times and the food was consistently excellent, and didn't give me diarrhea at all! My wife asked the owner why I had this problem at other restaurants but not here, and he said others add some sort of preservative to their food that doesn't agree with certain people, but he doesn't add that stuff. I am amazed! I thought it was just because it was too spicy for me, but the food here is plenty spicy and I can eat it any time! read more

Love this place. For their lunch special, it's only $6.50 after-tax for two items and a huge portion of rice. If you go late it might not be as hot but you get a larger portion it seems. The string beans and wood ear mushroom with pork are my favorites. read more

So salty that the food is almost inedible. My mouth ached. It was so salty that when I try to drink of water the water tasted like chlorine. It incomprehensible. read more

I ordered the Brocolli Beef lunch special at 7.95 and it was very good, came with steamed rice and delicious green tea. I enjoyed their free wifi and service. read more

Worst service ever! There was an old lady waiting to be helped next to me. And none talked to her for like 20 minutes while she is constantly trying to get helped. All the waiters just ignored her. read more

Food is okay but it feels a bit overpriced for the quality. Warning do not get the spicy food reason, it leaves an awful zing that isn't the burning sensation but more of a soda after taste affect. Personally not my type of restaurant but does have a very lively atmosphere read more

Appetisers and kidney dish was surprisingly good and authentic. We'll be back to try other dishes.