Mapo tofu: very authentic. I love Sichuan food and this place doesn't disappoint. Beijing duck: quite expensive for the portion size. Fish dish: spicy in a satisfying way. read more

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This restaurant has great, authentic Chinese cuisine! With that being said not everything here is a hit - I've had both really great meals and really mediocre ones depending on what I ordered. I like the iPad for ordering and calling over the waiter as needed. Some of my favorites here includes the hong sue beef noodle soup, Yunnan fried flat noodles, Peking style noodles, and hong sue pork belly. My most favorite was the Beijing roasted duck - I appreciated that it includes a vegetable soup using the duck bones. The flavorful broth was a nice accompaniment for the meal! Some duds for me includes soft noodles (lo mein), crab and pork soup dumplings (they don't taste handmade) and egg drop soup (don't like the sweet corn in it). read more

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Always delcious ! highly recommend going for the lunch special because it's amazing and all you can eat is always a plus! Many broths to choose from and so many options for toppings and to fill your bowl with! I absolutely love it ! read more

Legendary Spice - Szechuan Near Me - Minneapolis, Minnesota

I recently tried Legendary Spice and ordered a little bit of everything .. scallion pancake, popcorn chicken, cucumber salad, crab rangoons, Tony's chicken with three chili, Szechuan green beans, fried rice, and a few other items. Everything had great flavor, but my absolute favorites were the cucumber salad and popcorn chicken. The cucumber salad was fresh, cool, and full of that perfect balance of tang and spice. The popcorn chicken was crispy, flavorful, and just the right amount of heat. The rest of the food was really good too. Generous portions, bold flavors, and everything came out hot and fresh. Definitely a spot I'll be revisiting when I'm craving good Szechuan-style food. read more

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The food is always delicious and hot. The service is good. The space is bright with color and big windows alto bring in light. I am never disappointed when I visit. My only thing is that the food comes out at different times. It's ok because soon as they make it they send it out. Just is nice to have everyone eating at the same time. read more

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Food: just okay this time Service: good Ambiance: modern and Chinese-themed I've had the their twice cooked pork and crispy chicken before. They were good! I've also had the spicy sour pickled fresh fish fillet, which I thought was very rich and salty. This time, I got the Szechuan string beans, the spicy sour pickled fresh fish fillet, and the cold appetizer pig ear. The spicy sour fish fillet was extremely salty. The fish tasted like it sat in a salt bath, and the soup-y sauce also was overly salty. I went home and put all the ingredients into boiled water. I love pickled soup with fish fillets, but not from here. I will go somewhere else to order this dish so I don't have to do so much work just to be able to eat it. The Szechuan string beans were delicious. I loved them the first time and I loved them again. They're flavorful and have a good mix of soft and crunchy textures. The pork ear was not the best I've had... the flavor is more like garlic chili oil than Sichuan peppercorn. I think it would taste so much better if it had more Sichuan peppercorn powder. Also, the slices were extremely thin and there were more fillers than actually pork ears, so it was a very expensive appetizer. I want to come back and try some other dishes, but the saltiness makes me hesitant... The Roseville Potluck location had extremely salty Lao Ma wontons and salty shrimp dry pot too. Please put less salt in your food!! read more

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Don't sell two for 1 fried noodle. I picked vegetable. One piece of broccoli and one spiral of carrot rind. I asked for pea pods. Completely wasted the order and offer. No more sorry you had a chance read more

Legendary spice is such a good, authentic meal. I really felt like I was teleported back to China while I was there. Wait staff were friendly, food was exceptional, ambiance was nostalgic (for me since I have spent prolonged time in China). FOOD: flavorful, authentic, and satisfying. There are so many fabulous choices here. I've tried many dishes and don't quite have a favorite to share. AMBIANCE: authentic, comfortable. Good for friends hanging out. SERVICE: perfectly friendly and helpful. Note that much of the order by can take place on a tablet. read more

The food is not good- Rice tastes like toilet water- no flavor to the chicken dust and the egg rolls are very bad . Do not recommend at all - this is awful food I threw it away, read more

Always gotten this as takeout so can only speak to the food but I am addicted to the dry chili chicken. SO good.

Came here on a Thursday evening, very nice modern Chinese ambiance. The food was very spicy in a very authentic sichuan way. We ordered mapo tofu, dry hot pot and squid. Will be coming back for grilled fish and the rest of dishes. The staff is very attentive and the service was very fast and pleasant. read more

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1) their crab rangoon is amazing 2) Loves there Vegetarian Hot & Spice Pot I enjoyed but realized that I am not a big fan of a Sichuan peppers - for those who do - get it (for me it has a spicey then cooling effect after) 3) Chicken and noodles were really good read more

Excellent food! Delicious flavors very similar to my visit to China last month, as long as you can handle some spice. Cute Asian inspired decorations are fitting for a date night. Service was efficient but not so friendly and ordering was via an iPad at each table. Recommend the Sole Fish Fillet w.Mapo Tofu and the Legendary Dry Chili Chicken. read more

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Just so do nothing to go back for just blah Room cold no real service food all looked the same read more

Ordered 2 combo lunches-----twice cooked pork and sesame chicken--------both substandard. Pork was loaded with jalapeños (clearly Mexican not authentic Chinese) and Chicken was all dark meat, little to no sesame or sauce---not flavorable by other restaurant standards. Stick with Hunan or Yangtze. read more

We have been here before and really enjoyed it. This time was not quite as good. My partner had the stir fried beef w chili pepper rice bowl. It was quite tasty and well spiced. My dish wasn't as good. I had the braised pork with rice bowl. It did not have much spice, the pork was belly pork which had a lot of fat and tasted somewhat greasy. I upgraded to the fried rice which was bland enough that the white rice would have been just as good. The hot sour soup was pretty good and the spring roll was actually a fried egg roll. Service is getting less as you order from an iPad and servers don't come by much. read more

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Ordered takeout and will 110% be ordering from here again!! This is a new go-to spot. To start, everything was delivered in a fabric, insulated bag, keeping it hot and making takeout feel a bit fancier than usual. The portions were large and everything was absolutely delicious, especially the dry chili chicken! read more

Legendary Spice - Green beans, dry chicken, H01Szechuan Wontons(8 Pcs) - Szechuan Near Me - Minneapolis, Minnesota

We tried the lunch special rice bowls today-both were good but my Stir-Fried Beef with Chili Pepper was superior! It was fresh and spicy (you expect that at "Legendary Spice", right?). Order from the iPad at your table & the server brings it to your table. The lunch special rice bowls include hot appetizer, soup, rice bowl. Szechuan cuisine and flavor and vibe in this clean and decorative restaurant! read more

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The food is outstanding. Loads of heat as you would expect, but also plenty of ma la numbing and cumin garlic flavor. They will try to sell you on their hot pot dishes, and in fairness, these are great. The variety of things in them will make you eat far more than you should. The pepper in them will make you regret them in the morning, but oh goodness are they good that night. Ok, so why four stars? Because everything is quite high priced AND the entrees are just huge. I'd much prefer smaller portions at smaller prices, and the appetizers (at least the hot ones) are not great value. Main dishes are where this menu is at. read more

A restaurant that lacks empathy. We chose this restaurant after reading the reviews. Our target was to enjoy the Legendary Spice Dry Chilly Chicken that so many reviewers recommended. The restaurant has an iPad ordering system. I am all for technology, but with the caveat that there should always be a human in the loop. We order the Legendary Spice Dry Chilly Chicken. What arrives is a Dish with potato fries with some pieces of chicken with bones. Immediately realizing there's been some confusion, we seek clarification. Apparently they have a new dish Legendary Spice Chilli Chicken Winglet. The iPad screen doesn't show the word Winglet in full. The iPad doesn't have any description of the dish. The reaction of the restaurant, not trying to solve that issue and replace or redo our dish was not right. They said we ordered it ourselves on the Ipad so we were stuck with it and can come again another time to order what we wanted to order in the first place. Things can go wrong in the service industry. How a situation is handled can make a big difference. This experience left a bad taste for us. To avoid confusion for future customers, I would recommend changing the name of the new dish so that it doesn't resemble their marquee dish the Legendary Spice Dry Chilly Chicken. I recommend training the employees to repeat the order placed to avoid any confusion. If there's some confusion, train the employees to handle it with listening skills and empathy. The rest of the food was very tasty. Service was poor. Water glasses were not refilled. We had to ask for cutlery and utensils. I'd have loved the evening to have been better. The opportunity to make it a great evening was when we pointed out the confusion in the dishes and that was brushed off. Your mileage may vary. read more

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Great food- great service, and beautiful decorations. You order through a tablet and pay at the table. The food time can range from 2 minutes to 12 minutes depending on what you get. Worth it and there is food for people of every price range. read more

Legendary Spice - Szechuan Near Me - Minneapolis, Minnesota

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We were so excited to try legendary spice! But not sure if our expectations were too high or if it didn't hold up in the car since we got takeout or something else. Overall I would've expected more spice / flavor from a place called "Legendary Spice". But we'll have to try again another time to see if this was just an off night Items we ordered: Pork Steam Bun (Xio Long Bao) - decent fresh / light pork flavor, definitely would order again Szechuan Wontons - a bit of a disappointment...we were excited for some spicy wontons when we saw they came with chili crisp / oil - but could use more spice. Luckily this is easily remedied by adding some of your own but still Stir-Fried Eggplant with Green Beans - another item we'd order again, eggplant got a bit mushy on the drive home - but they had more flavor than anywhere else we got (not spicy at all though which we prefer spice). We also LOVE Szechuan style green beans so these are always a staple. Dan Dan Noodles - same kind of story here, they were decent but needed some more flavor. read more

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The parking lot is quite small, especially sharing with 2 other facilities. The atmosphere when you walk in is cozy and inviting. The decorations are cute and homey while remaining authentic to the cuisine. The staff is mostly friendly, some staff members didnt smile back or say excuse me or even acknowledged anything. The waitress was nice, though she did not respond that fast when pushing "call waiter/waitress" button. She also didnt explain the concept, or how to use the tablet very well. Speaking of which, the tablets UI (User Interface) is VERY confusing at first, it took about 20 minutes to fully understand how it works, and what to do with NUMEROUS questions in between. There are so many different tabs, and options that are just thrown in your face. The tables are criminally small for how fast you can rack up dishes when it comes to using the hotpot, the waitress hardly came by to help. In fact, the whole principle is quite autonymous, you order on a tablet, you get your own drinks, you get yournown meats for the hotpot, its quite crazy. Me and another person both had the All You Can Eat Hotpot, BBQ and Dim Sum. The options are quite overwhelming at first, especially with the confusing UI, but the food was surprisingly fresh for an AYCE (All You Can Eat) style restaurant. The (very limited) spices were fresh and fragrant. The actual ingredients (IE shellfish, vegetables and fruits) were also pleasantly fresh. The beef and lamb kababs were delightful and had a very nice dry rub. The dumplings were fluffy and delicious. On the contrary, the Shu Mai were dreadful though, the center had the texture of baby food and was unpleasant to finish. The pork kababs were dreadful, they were 90% fat, so they were decent for the broth, but not to eat. If you DIDNT have the hotpot, they would have been completely inedible. Lastly, the beef noodles were not good either, that dish was lacking in flavor, and tasted more like hot water. Lastly, there are very limited selection of desserts that come with the AYCE options. There are also not a lot of classic desserts in general, mostly jelly and/or puddings. With all of that being said, if you season your broth correctly and know how to add and enhance flavors, most of the food will turn out lovely. The total came to over $110 for 2 people having the AYCE everything. read more

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Ordering off a tablet with no details of dishes? Food was boring, bland. Maybe they Americanized it for us? If I hadn't just come off a 48-hour fast I wouldn't have eaten it. Bill tries to force minimum 18% tip ... for what? Walking a dish over? I put in the order via tablet. read more

Great service! It was an adjustment to the sechuan peppercorn flavor, but I got over it and enjoyed the meal! read more

Paid street parking in front of the building and behind. The ambiance was pleasant and It has a large interior with lofted ceilings. Not at all busy on a Saturday around lunch time. You can wait to be seated and they have a pickup window right inside the front door for tasty takeout. The flavor of my noodle soup was delicious! The chicken fried rice was decent, and the dumplings were yummy. The portion sizes are HUGE so we had leftovers for days! I thought they served alcohol, but I didn't see a menu for it so we stuck to water. Their menu is massive and the server gave us plenty of time to explore it. Good service. We placed the dumpling order first, but they take a while to make, so it was the last thing to come out. Overall worth a try and plenty of food options to explore! read more

Legendary Spice - Szechuan Near Me - Minneapolis, Minnesota

I've been here a few times when they first opened and I absolutely loved it. It was so nice how they had the boba place inside the restaurant as well. All the dishes we ordered were a hit. I remember this eggplant stir fry was memorable. The service was quick and friendly as well. I'll have to stop by again soon! read more

I used to live here but now live in a place where there really aren't that many authentic Asian food options. Chinese food is one of them. The variety of food I can pick from is incredible. With help from our two Chinese friends, we picked good dishes. Loveeeed the flavor. Twice Cooked Pork and String Beans are my favorites! The service was good. read more

Legendary Spice - Wood Ear - Szechuan Near Me - Minneapolis, Minnesota

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Have been frequenting Legendary Spice for years. Don't let the name scare you if you aren't a fan of spice and if you love spice don't expect the standard dishes to deliver a ton of heat but ask them to spice it up. Staff has always been attentive and service is good. They have moved to an iPad ordering system which is a bit impersonal but also very efficient. Dining area is nicely decorated and clean. Be warned they have a very large menu with tons of options. We have our favorites and they never disappoint but it can take some time to find the gems. Some of our favorites: Yang Zhou fried rice is simple but so full of flavor with nice big sweet shrimp and beautifully salty sausage. Chengdu Kung Pao chicken is my quintessential Kung Pao dish with chunks of chicken and peanuts in a tongue tingling ginger and pepper sauce, no added filler. Mongolian beef tenderloin is tender and full of flavor. On our last 2 visits we have found another favorite Tony's Chicken w/ three Chilis. It's lightly breaded chicken in a sweet and peppery sauce that was delicious. Love the Uni Uni bubble tea that shares the space as well. If not for a lack of appetizers/dim sum that we have liked, the exhaustive menu and most dishes coming in at $18+ this would be a solid 5 stars for me. read more

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I came here with a friend for a quick dinner. I don't love a tablet ordering system. On request we were given printed menus but I went ahead with the tablet, ordering the daily spicy bean noodle special appetizer, Sichuan green beans, and chow fun. (I know, not a Sichuan dish but my friend wanted something non-spicy.) A server brought our order to the table, minus the appetizer. When I asked, he went back to the kitchen and a few minutes later came out to tell me that it wasn't available. He asked me to substitute a different day's special, but none appealed to me, so I told him just to skip it. The green beans were limp and bland. We asked for salt and chili oil, which made them better. Ironically, the chow fun was the best part of the meal, although the portion was small. When it was time to pay, I tapped the screen for our server, and when she handed us the bill, the appetizer was still on it. I had to ask to have the charge removed. The decor of the place is nice, but there are Sichuan restaurants in town with better food, better service, and larger portions, so next time I want a Sichuan meal, I'll go elsewhere. read more

We booked a reservation at this place to celebrate my birthday and we were seated upon arrival. There is parking in front of the restaurant and it wasn't too expensive. It was once we were seated that we had trouble finding our server or having any service at all. We were seated right in front too so they couldn't miss us but they served everyone else but us. It was horrible. Beef Szechuan Noodle: 5/5, THE BEST THING THERE. Mai Tai Drink: 5/5, so good! Orange Chicken: 2/5, I prefer the ones at the mall. This did not taste good. Hot pot: 4/5, not bad. They have a la carte or AYCE for $34.99 per person. Shrimp stir-fry: 1/5, not tasty. Overall, the food wasn't bad. Service was so lacking bad and I wouldn't mind coming back but it wouldn't be anytime soon. read more

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The fod was neatly packed, but it was not fresh. I think it was generals, tos was actually dog meaty stomach was hurting and I had the runs I will never eat from legendary spice needs to be inspected by the health and safety. read more

Came here to try their lunch menu. It has a good selection of lunch menu (includes a bowl of soup and a small appetizer). The list has the normal Szechuan food that we Americans come to know but the taste is authentic. We have sole fish with black bean and shrimp. Order placed using an iPad on the table. To our surprise, they also has a small liquor bar (and has a daily happy hour as well). Ini Uni boba tea is also available (I think it is owned by the same owner). Parking is free for the first 2 hrs entrance to the building parking is right before the restaurant. read more

Good Szechuan food, numbing spice a bit much but that's to be expected. Dry chili chicken was interesting. However, I did not like the iPad ordering interface, but they offer paper menus. read more

Legendary Spicy does it all. From dim sum items to hot pot, they have an array of different Chinese cuisines, but they are most known for their Schezwan style of food (spicy & numbing). Also, the boba place, Uni Uni is located inside there! My friend and I got the 3 cup chicken ($16), Yunnan Fried Flat Noodle ($14), and Green Onion Pancake ($8). The flat noodles were super delicious! By far the tastiest thing we had that night. However, the 3 cup chicken was extremely overcooked. It was so overcooked it was practically inedible. That is what is making this review a 3/5. I will definitely be back to try more of their flat noodle dishes though. Not too shabby if you're looking for a Chinese restaurant in town. read more

Legendary Spice - Y03. Yunnan Fried Flat Noodle - Szechuan Near Me - Minneapolis, Minnesota

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Delicious food and great service! We ordered the cumin lamb, eggplant, chili fish, and beef hot pot. We loved all of these dishes, and the spice level was perfect. read more

We didn't even make it fully inside - proudly displayed at the front of the store is the most crowded, hellish fish tank I've seen in my life. It's cramped, filthy, and could barely house one of the species kept inside, let alone the dozens they've crammed in there. Places that show so little care for living beings cannot be trusted to care about their customers, and this is some of the most flagrant animal abuse I've ever seen in person. Fish feel pain, and I can assure you that every day for those animals is a waking nightmare. read more

I've heard about Legendary Spice and their "Dry Chili Chicken"for the last year.Decided to go give it a try today since I was near the U of M.Huron,the street that the restaurant is on is a very busy street.Parking is by meter. I walked in around 13:00 and it was relatively quiet.My server was friendly and very smiley.I ordered the chicken egg rolls right away because I love egg rolls.They were tasty,but not the greatest.They were oily and overcooked.Next I got right to the main entree.As stated,a lot of my colleagues said that they love the dry chili chicken.Today the dry chili chicken was way off in my opinion.There were way too many chili's and the chicken was very salty.It was overpowering. My wife ordered the General Tao chicken and was not impressed at all.Her chicken was sweeter than other General Tao and we aren't use to it.The white rice was really dry to the point that we had to keep asking for glasses of water. I know restaurants may have bad days??! So I want to try them again since so many of my colleagues enjoyed their food. read more

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Super delicious and good vibes! Loved the scallion pancakes and the dumplings! Good deals and delicious tea.

Great chicken.intresting music. Worth the visita.andbi loved the green bean jelly appetizer.the wings are amazing.