There's indoor seating and plenty of parking in a lot in the complex, but my friends and I ordered takeout from here. The popcorn chicken was flavorful and crispy, which paired well with a sweet and sour sauce. The stir fried string beans were also a good portion for the price and cooked and seasoned well. The chicken fried rice, chicken lo-mein and veg lo-mein were bland and dry. However, the price was good for the quantity. read more

3.5 stars. A Thursday in mid-December is when I tried this place for the first time. I got takeout. Overall, I liked the food and would go there again. chicken fried rice - I asked them to make it using brown rice which they did and it was good chicken lo mein - tasty mushroom chicken - good and a lot of chicken, but hardly any mushrooms cucumber salad - not as vinegary as I like vegetable egg rolls - got free with my my order and they tasted ordinary coconut pineapple smoothie - I asked to make it using (non-dairy) coconut milk, but I think that confused the employee, so I don't know if they used coconut milk instead of regular milk, but there was no pineapple flavor at all read more

What happened to Upper house and their amazing cook Andy? The place has been replaced with a different restaurant. I miss upper house! read more

The Upper House - Lunch special delicious - Chinese Near Me - Claremont, California

Our go-to place when we want cook to order meals for pick-up. Our family enjoys their sweet and sour pork, shrimp with broccoli and sweet pea & popcorn chicken. The place is cute and cozy. They also own the Mongolian restaurant in Claremont that I have yet to try. read more

Where did you guys go????? Me and my fam went yesterday and sadly you where no longer there read more

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Oh my gosh this place is permanently closed. I'm so sad. The food was very tasty. Sad that's it's now gone.

The staff were friendly, the food was hot. I really liked the selection on the lunch menu, and the hot and sour soup! The Thai tea with boba was also yummy. I highly recommend! read more

The Upper House - Orange chicken with hot and sour soup (which I had eaten half of before taking this picture) and Thai tea with boba. All super yummy! - Chinese Near Me - Claremont, California

This is definitely a hidden gem! We had lunch here on a college touring day. We finished everything. read more

they are a small walk in restaurant. Well maintained and comfortable seating with excellent service. The food is outstanding! gourmet style and excellent plating! delicious! all kimds of different dishes to get and it's all made to order and fresh! They have great lunch specials for under 20 bucks! wow! I found a great place for lunch and dinner! read more

The food was expensive but in seeing how many stars and remarks thought I would try. I have always tried to fine sour and sour pork in so many places like The House of Louie before it changed. The House of Bennie was closed. I have found nothing but crap.... The food from this place is not worth your money!!! Also The Great Wall Restaurant was the best !!! read more

Sadly, our friends at Upper House have closed their doors for the duration. We will miss their personal warmth as well as their delicious cooking. 再见我们的好朋友。我们很想你们。再见。 A new Chinese restaurant, Chuan Yue", has opened in the same location. The waiter is friendly and eager to give good service and their menu options are quite different. Surprisingly they don't offer Hot Sour Soup. And Egg Fooyoung is also not offered., which of course, isn't even Chinese. read more

Prices are way too expensive. Use to be decent priced but order string bean chicken dish and it was $18.56 for light amount of chicken and green beans. Plus this dish comes with no side rice compared to other local Chinese restaurants that give you a small side white rice. read more

Located in a small strip mall in Claremont, between the Dollar Tree and Fitness 19. This is a great boba tea/ Taiwanese cuisine restaurant! This is the best braised beef noodle soup that I have ever eaten! Rich beef broth, perfectly seasoned, with pak choy cabbage, thin noodles, and tender braised beef chunks. Amazing dish! Highly recommend this shop! They have both counter ordering for boba teas, and table service with full food menu. Clean men's and woman's restrooms. read more

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Located in a quiet strip mall, this boba & dessert shop has a great lunch special! I'm pretty sure they have a Chinese chef, and each dish had plenty of protein! The lunch special comes with white rice, some pickled cucumbers (not listed on menu), and your choice of hot and sour soup or egg drop soup. We ordered Mushroom Chicken, Pineapple Beef, and Shrimp with Broccoli and Snow Peas. The food came out hot and delicious! Service was excellent! read more

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Excellent American chinese and Taiwanese food at this little mom-and-pop hidden gem in Claremont. Good selection and the lunch special is a great deal. The people who own the place are very friendly and courteous and the restaurant is family friendly. read more

Food was good. Lands between chinese fast food and a nice sit down restaurant. Staff was friendly and took great care us.

Typical Chinese restaurant where you get a big portion for a pretty good price but the food is a lil mid. It's what I crave when I want Chinese food but not as tasty as other places. Still I had a great time and the waitress was very nice and the place had great seating and wasn't too loud so my friend and I had a great talk! read more

The Upper House - Bok Choy beef rice, pork vegetable rice, potstickers - Chinese Near Me - Claremont, California

This place is a local gem. The food is delicious and fresh. They are open on Mondays, too, when I somehow get my craving for their dumplings and soup. Try their walnut shrimp if you like shrimp. It is our favorite. read more

The Upper House - The best beef and egg rice . - Chinese Near Me - Claremont, California

At first I was going to give a 3 stars because Food tasted too salty. Did not think I would be able To finish my dish. Soup. No. Won't get again I saved 1/2 my food for evening and food. Although At room temperature. It tasted very very good I will get back. Not often but will go back read more

EVERYTHING we ordered was so good! The menu is extensive. The food is authentic. The chef is Taiwanese and serves up the best Chinese cuisine! The server was also wonderfully attentive! We were in the area for 3 days and dined here twice. Will definitely come back whenever we are in the area!! read more

Upper house had been our stable for Chinese food for 10 years. It was arguably the only authentic Chinese food within Claremont city limit. We've always kept one of their menu in our drawer when we crave for Chinese food but didn't want to drive to Chino Hills or Rowland Heights. But it has gone down hill since pandemic. First, major price hike, but that's understandable. Everybody raised their price. We started going out less and less. But the most recent trip to Upper House not only 3 dishes cost me $50 but they tasted so blend. It felt like they changed chef or something. Pineapple chicken, shredded pork with sweet sauce all taste the same! Shredded pork supposed to have this unique sweet and tangy spicy taste! All I can taste was salt and starch. What happened to them?? read more

Food is always fresh! The wonton soup is full of veggies and wonton's, fried rice is outstanding, and kung pao chicken is spicy and yummy! The service is always friendly and nice. It's always clean and family friendly. They have great slushies with boba. Son has tried mango, coconut, Thai ice tea, and Taro is a family favorite One of our favorite places to go when we are craving fresh coffee food. read more

Really enjoyed The Upper House. My husband just did a quick google search of Asian food near where we were and found this place. It was bigger than expected and the service was great! The server was attentive and kind. We ordered the combination soup, orange chicken and egg rolls. All was really good, I would come back to try other dishes :) read more

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In twenty five years of dining out together, my bride and I have been very blessed to discover, then enthrone, a handful of very special restaurants among our HOLY GRAIL of go to restaurants. If we're craving Mexican, we KNOW that our friends Susan and Paolo Diaz at Casa Moreno in Claremont will leave us both with a "estómago lleno y corazón feliz" (a full stomach and happy heart). Pursuing Chinese? We've been die hard partisans of Happy Kitchen in Chino Hills for 15 years. Tempted for Thai? You cannot possibly go wrong with Hoy-Ka Thai in Hollywood's Thai Town. Today, and with special thanks to my fellow Yelp reviewers for lavishing this establishment with consistently very good reviews averaging mid-fours over 225+ reviews, we discovered The Upper House in Claremont. In my experience, Chinese food is either off the charts, belch contentedly and order more, damned good OR pedestrian. In the past we loved the Golden Gate in LA's Koreatown before it sadly went out of business. Whenever we are in the Newport Beach area we try to stop by Aaron and his friendly staff at Mandarin King. And, yes, Tai Shan in our nation's capital is worth risking a missed flight during a layover at Reagan National just for their legendary cuisine. The Upper House is a small, simple and family run restaurant. The decor is clean, bright and uncluttered despite its cozy (read: small) dimensions. And no, despite the nearly endless loop of Whitney, Mariah and Celine's greatest hits wafting through the air, you DID NOT accidentally stumble into your favorite Pinay friend's Karaoke party! As prior reviewers have noted the chef brings over three decades of experience to his recipes and the proof is in the stellar reviews he repeatedly earns. We started with a quintet of the sharpest looking egg rolls I may have ever seen. These five could've easily come adorned with little "Miss Claremont" banners wrapped around each one, that's how golden brown and luscious each one looked. They positively explode with texture- the glassy shatter of the paper thin wrapping as it splinters against your mouth competing with the crispness of the slivered cabbage, onions and carrots. Next up a sizable vessel of Hot & Sour Soup. The Upper House throws a curve ball here, cleverly deploying finely minced scallions and velvety little mushrooms as part of their piquant, oh so savory broth. Next to arrive was our trio of entrees, a Vegetable Medley, Kung Pao Chicken and Orange Chicken. The vegetable medley's star is the sweet sugar snap peas which, true to their name, literally clink with audible joy when eaten. The Upper House deluges their take on kung pao with a generous allotment of water chesnuts with spartan pieces of finely cut bell pepper and of course enough peanuts to drive Mr. Peanut himself destitute. The Kung Pao Chicken is very good, but not quite up to the par of the kung pao ladled up by Tai San in WDC. The orange chicken is a revelation! Take perfectly sized chunks of white meat chicken, dress them in a tight fitting breading then lavish each with a shimmering, velvety smooth sauce that literally glistens. Visually a 5, with flavor a very close second at 4.5 stars! Leave room for a sweet finish, 'cause The Upper House features a staggering SIX DOZEN CHOICES for every sweet tooth to choose from! Between smoothies, milk snow icees, cold and hot desserts, it's as hard to choose JUST ONE dessert as the first time you ever visited Baskin Robbins as a kid and were blown away by their 32 varieties! We ultimately shared a large Taro Smoothie, which was very good but in a spirit of total honesty must disclose that they inadvertently made WITH boba after I had requested "no boba." I'm almost positive the friendly, service focused staff would've gladly remade my drink, but since we took our drink to go we didn't discover the small faux pax 'til we were headed home. On our next visit I am dying to try out their "Milk Snow Ice," and will likely ask for their "Taro plus egg custard" flavor. All in all, I confer The Upper House 4.5 stars on taste, 4 stars on service, 4 stars on pricing and 3 stars on cleanliness. Note: the bathrooms were suitably clean and tables freshly wiped down but we had to request a second soup cup for my wife after the one they first brought out had a little bit of caked on food sediment on it. Overall verdict? A very high 3 stars which I've bumped to a well deserved 4 on the merits of their outstanding food and friendly, super efficient service! The Upper House has anchored the Peppertree Square at the intersection of Arrow Hwy and Indian Hill in Foothill since January, 2017. Judging from our delicious, well priced feast today, they certainly belong in the upper echelon of Chinese restaurants this side of Monterey Park. read more

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My first time here! Visited on 08/22/21. I got the beef fried rice ($10.95) and beef lo mein ($10.95). Both were great but I liked the beef fried rice better! I ordered to-go. There were a lot of people picking up their orders but the customer service was superb! Very quick and I only waited ~10 minutes until my food was ready! The to-go foam boxes look small but it is definitely a lot and fulfilling. I recommend this place! read more

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Craving for some beef noodle soup and found this place in the area, let's give it a try! I appreciate all the restaurants open for take-out during pandemic. Thank you! FOOD: -1 (gave me wrong dish) Beef noodle soup. 8/10. The beef is tender and the noodle is soft, the soup itself is good but made me thirsty, which I assume they put quite amount of MSG. Overall, it is pretty satisfying. Hawaii Fried Rice. 10/10 Good portion with various ingredients, it tastes good! Shrimp Egg Foo Young. ????? They gave me the wrong dish.... I'm not sure what this is, but it is definitely not the shrimp egg foo young. :( Assorted Vegetarian Delight. 9/10 All various veggies, very light and satisfying taste. SERVICE: The food was prepared pretty fast, around 15 mins on a weekday night~ The food is well packaged. PRICE: Good portion with good value, around $10/dish. Overall, good Chinese food, I'd like to come back again to try more dishes. read more

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Was a quiet weeknight when we stopped in for dinner. This had been on my list of places to try for some time so I am glad we finally stopped in! We were seated and helped right away and were treated to some springrolls before we even placed our order. We felt very welcome and attended to. We ordered String Beans, Kung Pao Chicken, Orange Chicken and some Fried Rice and all of the food was great. Portion sizes were perfect for two for both dinner and leftovers! They boxed everything up for us and we were in and out in about a half an hour! Would certainly come again and next time early enough to get a boba too! read more

The Upper House - Kung Pao Chicken - Chinese Near Me - Claremont, California

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Near the Claremont colleges, this small Chinese restaurant serves up authentic dishes. My son loved the char siu fried rice, and my pork chop noodle was pretty good too. I hoped that the vegetables would be all Chinese cabbage (bok choy) in my noodle, but half of it were American broccoli. The spicy wonton was just okay, and not all that spicy. We also ordered a passion fruit smoothie and shaved ice. Both of these were mediocre. The boba was a bit on the firm side, and they lacked most of the options for the shaved ice toppings (no taro and no mango). It hit the spot after our long hike, but otherwise we would not make a trip just for the food. read more

The Upper House - Chinese Near Me - Claremont, California

Let's see.... Milk tea bobas..yes please. Hawaiian style fried rice with all the fixings??! Uh yeah! Such a yummy rice combo with shrimp, chicken, pork and beef! Add some chicken chop Suey, kung pao beef, fried wontons and you're set for the evening. The woman at the register was super friendly. I love friendliness. I can't wait to try something new here. Such a cute place. read more

This place has become our go-to for chinese. Great food either take out or to-go. Large portions and sooo good! I especially like the bbq pork, in all the possible dishes. Bbq pork lo mein was great. read more

This place is soooooooooo good. The food is fresh and delicious and the staff is so friendly and welcoming. A must try if you're in the area. read more

If you are craving some good Chinese food this is the place to try. The place is small and the service is good.

Food is okay! I don't feel welcome here, they are rule and not too attentive Won't come back again!

Ordered take out black bean sauce fish which I normally am satisfied with. But this time they played a fast one on me and gave me fish with a dark kungpao chicken sauce? Normally it comes with green peppers but there was hardly any green peppers and the fish apppeared like a rehash. Their dishonesty in shoving an inferior product on take out customers has been mentioned before. Unless they clean up their act I am going to stay away. read more

I have been going to upper house for years now. The claremont area doesnt have a ton of great chinese food like you would find in the sgv. But, this is one of few in this area that are aftually quite good! It is located in a strip mall a short drive or 10 min walk from the claremont village. This time around i got chicken broccoli, mapo tofu, walnut shrimp, and taiwanese style vermicelli. I also got a large white rice for $2. The portions were big (!) Except maybe the shrimp. Each dish was excellent and will probably last for another 2 days or so. I recommend you try it out if youre in the area! read more

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Came here for lunch today and ordered the king pao chicken and the beef fried rice.King pao chicken had a lot of chicken, water chestnuts, and peanuts in it. It had minimal spice on it which was perfect for me. The beef fried rice was fluffy. Had good distribution of vegetables, egg, and protein. It was a lot of food so I ended up taking home half of each dish for another meal. Also got the passion fruit tea with Boba. Total was about 38 bucks. Service was great. Booth was comfy. read more

I'm taiwanese so I know my Asian food... I ordered popcorn chicken and a preserved vegetables noodle soup. The popcorn chicken.. don't even call popcorn chicken.. doesn't have the crispiness, basil and taste. The popcorn was over fried. They should just removed this from the menu.. even if they call fried chicken it's not even good. The noodle soup it's just average. Nothing special read more

I've been wanting to come here for awhile now and don't know why I was waiting this long. I was craving Kung Pao Chicken and decided to finally come and it definitely satisfied my tastebuds! read more

The Upper House - Kung Pao Chicken - Chinese Near Me - Claremont, California

Today had the lunch special first time here and brought a friend. Can I just say, this place is clean. Food came out fresh. The staff was nice and helpful. Now on to the entrees. My buddy ordered the shrimp fried rice which looked amazing. (How come no one told me about this place?). I had the kung Pow (not correct) Beef extra spicy with only veggies (no rice, zone) mixed in, flower drop soup (you know this), and a side of pork dumplings for appetizer or meal because it takes 20 mins to prepare the dumplings. If your in a rush order this with your beverage. Not disappointed, not one bite, and I will be back. I even told my wife (who was hungry when we spoke) to stop by on her way home. She said, "how come no one told you of this place?" (Exactly) The hunger knows, buddy. The hunger knows. Thanks Upper House read more

The Upper House - Lunch specials coming up. First time visit and excited to try the food - Chinese Near Me - Claremont, California

Amazing food the service is wonderful they are very friendly and greet you as you enter I got the pot stickers today yesterday I got the honey walnut shrimp potstickers and egg rolls delicious I had to go back again and get the pot stickers definitely recommend I wish they were a little bit more busier it makes me sad hopefully they continue to do the awesome job that they're doing!!! Support local businesses!! read more

The Upper House - Pot stickers - Chinese Near Me - Claremont, California