Ancient Szechuan

Reviews about Ancient Szechuan

• 5 / 5

  By zecmo zecmo
  Enjoy the food here lots.
  Many items are good and they have an excellent fried rice.
  November 14, 2016
• 1 / 5

  By Lillian Ma
  Me and my boyfriend come here a lot but this time was the worst experience ever. Not only the quality of the dishes gets worse, but also the service of the waiter. We may not come here anymore. Here's why.
  
  Every day, they have the daily special. There was one called special shrimps with eggplants. It sounds good so we gave it a try. It turned out to be awful.. The dish doesn't look tasty already. It's basically just mixing shrimps and eggplants together with some salty sauce. I suggest that never try something not on the menu. Those might be something that they don't want to put it on the menu (since no one would order when they see the picture).
  
  If it was just the food, it could earn a 3-star until the waiter (the old man with glasses) asked us to pay for the bill. He worked here almost every day. He used to be really nice too. But today, after he got our bill back, he was judging us with the tip. I knew that we didn't pay as much as usual but the food was just bad.. He said "why did you give so little? Is it because of the food?" I then told him that the food was too bad today. He then said "did you just say it because I said it? If you really didn't like the food, you would have said it." He also judged that we don't know American style. (since me and my bf are both Chinese. Okay, so the old man is too) As a waiter, how can you judge your customers like this? It just didn't make any senses to me. He wasn't even the one who served us today. It was a young waitress who served us the entire time. We ended up giving an extra $5 to her before we left.
  
  I think we may not come here anymore. The food is always like average. But we just cannot stand this kind of service.
  September 09, 2016
• 5 / 5

  By Brandy Esparza
  This is a fantastic place! I would have claimed that I "don't like Chinese food" if you'd have asked me in the 10 years before moving to El Cerrito. This Szechuan place changed my outlook! Delicious family style food, lots of flavor and texture, no sticky sweet dishes typically found in American"Chinese" food. I've had their spicy short ribs-- great, pretty spicy. Their veggie delight is light, simple. Onion pancakes are always good. The soups(wonton rulz!) are huge, and good. They have a gigantic menu. Most of the staff is friendly and attentive. The kimchi appetizer is awesome. The hot pot is great, and celery with pork belly is great. The only thing I didn't like here was the crab Rangoon, too chewy. Try this place. Reasonable fprices for family size portions.
  July 05, 2016
• 5 / 5

  By Eclipse
  This place has a large variety of high quality dishes with big portions. Very helpful and friendly staff. The delivery is very fast . I recommend doing delivery with this place only because the restaurant is always busy and so it can take a while sometimes to get served
  June 13, 2016
• 5 / 5

  By Jeff Dairiki
  Very tasty and unique food. Try the Uighur lamb! (But everything is good.)
  June 04, 2016