The front desk woman is the definition of the word disgusting. She is rude. I always order take out I have never had any major problems. This time I got the wrong order and she refused to make it right screaming over the phone. Low class with anger management issues and a thief. Food is way over priced. And portions are small. Will never visit again not worth it. read more

NASTY overpriced, overly OR under seasoned slop! They took away the extras that you would normally get with the lunch menu and charged more. IF the food was good, I could see it, but it's not! It was a total waste of money... It was tossed! read more

Chef Lee's is one my favorite places to get Chinese food in Columbus. I'm a little surprised by the large amount of negative reviews. The service is fine. You are usually greeted and seated immediately upon entry. They're not the most enthusiastic bunch, but they get the job done, which is all I really need. The food comes out within 10 mins of ordering, and your drinks are filled frequently throughout your stay. They offer to pack you more rice to go at the end of your meal. I do prefer coming during lunch over dinner since the prices then are much more budget friendly with great portions. You can't go wrong with any of the seafood dishes. Pictured below is the Seafood Delight, which while it is great, I do think is a little more pricey than it's worth. The Mongolian beef is excellent. The interior of the restaurant is nice and clean. Outside in the pond are a large amount of koi fish. You can get food at the entrance to feed them if you have spare change. Parking is never an issue since there are ample spots. Overall, I highly recommend this place. read more

Chef Lee's Peking Restaurant - Chinese Near Me - Columbus, Georgia

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food poison. been suffering for 2 days. eat at your own risk. no one warned me until after the fact. City of Columbus should send health inspector. read more

The chef'Lee Peking Restaurant is beautiful with fish pool,Dining Room is comfortable. It serves Mongolian beef . House chicken . Peking Duck . Hot and sour soup****** everything Dishes is delicious. It also serves special food no on the menu. That was Asian people favored. Like: Seafood noodles soup . Special big egg roll . Sea cucumber with mushrooms****** Seafood noodle soup was home made noodles . With great chewing. Light hot spicy. It is the best Noodles soup in world. I can have it every day. Chef' lee have been doing wonderfully work. read more

Inconsistent. We had a wonderful meal here a month ago. Today's lunch they refulled the wro g drinks, soup was luje warm and I ordered Chow Mein and got lo man AND my husband got an egg roll that looked chewed and burned. read more

Chef Lee's Peking Restaurant - gross egg roll that actually make it out of the kitchen - Chinese Near Me - Columbus, Georgia

I wish there was a no star at all button. The food was DISTGUSTING. Ordered sesame chicken and green pepper steak. I can't believe the price. Don't make the same mistake I did. This is probably my only review but I hope it deturs others from making the same mistake. read more

My whole family loves Chef Lee's. We love the Mongolian Beef and the Hot Sour Soup. The egg rolls, the chow mein, the fried rice. The black tea. The location, the staff, the host who seats us, the bar tender Ed, the servers and even the cashier! We love feeding the fish and banging the gong on our way out! This restaurant and the staff have always treated us with great care. Lunch and Dinner is always quick and delicious. I accidentally came across a negative review about Chef Lees and was personally offended because I eat here very frequently and never once in my 35 years of eating here have ever received cold rice and if I did I would ask for hot rice and they would bring it to me. Its unfortunate that people usually only come here to leave bad reviews. So here is my contribution, Chef Lees is a staple in our city and loved by many many people. Whats worse than not being able to eat Chick Fil A on Sunday??? Not being able to eat Chef Lees on Monday!!! Thank you Chef Lees for serving our area!! read more

This restaurant has really changed. The robots are useless and get in the way. The food does not come out hot and fresh like before.

I visited today eager to try the food again, I sampled things a few years ago and noticed their claim of being one of the best restaurants in the world. With BS button in hand I ordered the lunch special of garlic pork, my father had the shrimp in lobster sauce. All said the pork was excellent and extra spicy as requested the complementary hot and sour soup was typical but tepid. Our sever was a bit testy and rushed our Saturday lunch, then I read another reviewer comment about Mrs Lee and rushed service so I popped the question, are you Mrs Lee? Indeed she was and the pace slowed and will look forward to trying the egg plant. However I will never agree with the world's greatest claim but I'm sure Chef Lee would be successful in any city and clearly rules Columbus, Ga. read more

Chef Lee's Peking Restaurant - 4 star - Chinese Near Me - Columbus, Georgia

Wonderful food Americanized to a high standard. Do not miss the crab toast or spring rolls.

For over 30 years Chef Lee's has been my favorite restaurant. It just isn't what it used to be. I realize there is new ownership and so many businesses suffered from the lock down, supply disruptions, and now inflation. I really hope they will be able to recover most of what they used to be. Understandably prices have risen, but unfortunately here quality has fallen. My luncheon meal here yesterday was OK but not worth the price or effort. Gone are the wonton, bamboo in the kung pow beef (replaced by carrot), beef tender enough to cut with a fork and the delightful "wok hei" taste from skillfully cooked food in a very hot wok. My last dish was simply somewhat scorched. I'll wait a while and give it one more try. I sincerely hope they can recover and wish them the very best. read more

The place is lovely. Definitely gives you nice Asian vibes and is very authentic looking. The soup is awesome and the little chip things they bring out is always a win. The rest of the food (main dishes) are just okay. I got vegetable egg foo yong, and it wasn't the best one I've ever had but not bad. I'd come back but I wouldn't be the first one advocating for this place if that makes sense. It's average. read more

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We haven't been here since the new owners took over. Glad we gave it a try. The food was really good. Large portions and food was cooked fresh. read more

Love Chef Lees for the last 20 years even on Buena vista and their speed of service but over the last 2 years they have really stopped frying their rice and putting any veggies in it. This is probably the 10th time it has happened. No egg and only two specks of carrots and peas. Sad for a. Columbus staple. read more

Chef Lee's Peking Restaurant - Chinese Near Me - Columbus, Georgia

Today my son and I visited Chef Lee's. He was very excited to see the robots at the entrance and the water flowing under the walk ways. But what wasn't exciting was the service or lack there of. We placed our order and waited for lunch. First we attempted to use the facilities before our food arrived but they were out of order. I asked if there was a different restroom to use and was given a big NO, all restrooms were out of order because the water is not working. We go back to our table and waited for over 30 minutes. Our drinks, soup or lunch were never brought out. We watched 3 other guests be seated and served and we were over looked by all the staff. Even the couple next to us noticed and was getting frustrated with their waitress over this concern. She never offered to check on our food or get management, she just stood and looked at us. We quietly walked towards the door and left. My son was confused as to why we were treated differently. And couldn't get our food. read more

After 40+ years we finally walked out of this restaurant. Two conditions finally got to us. First, a glass on the table had food stuck to it and the server said it was not dirty ...."and that all of them were that way". A normal place would have said "sorry" and replaced the glass...not argue if it was really dirty especially when they just flicked off a crusty item from the glass. Also, in the mens bathroom it was gross dirty and the inside door handle was a large string of twisted wire. Last year their dishwasher broke and they went 3 months before they fixed it. I always wondered what they did....This place has been a fixture in Columbus for many years and it was part of the experience to deal with the rude wait staff....however enough is enough. This place is dirty and needs serious attention from the health department. This is too gross to ever return. read more

Service was great. Food was decent and you get a TON of it for the price so don't be scared to share. This is very much Americanized Chinese food...BUT they seem to use good fresh ingredients so it all tasted better than normal american chinese food. read more

Dishes weren't clean and we were not in time for the lunch special so the meals ended up being outrageously expensive. The food was not good. MSG for sure. Staff was friendly and nice. read more

I gave it one star because, I don't see a zero. I have gone to Chef Lee's for over 25 year including the, Buena Vista rd. location we stopped in the Northside Whittesley location tonight. Huge disappointment! the food was disgusting!!!. The fried rice isn't fried rice white gooey steamed rice with a few peas and some egg served cold Lemon chicken is fried tempura greasy with lemon slices on side no flavor. and lo mein noodles were suggy over cooked. I couldn't stomach it. Worst dining experience ever. Needless to say we didn't eat and expressed our concerns to manager he took care of it and apologized. I hate that one of our best Chinese food restaurants here has declined in food service. On a positive note it was still very clean. And great server. read more

Pretty good place for Chinese food. This place is run by Chinese-Koreans, so they do have some "off-menu" Korean food. Nevertheless, the Chinese fare here is also really good. The ambiance is definitely top-notch, and it was great to see other Chinese/Korean patrons here as well. read more

Chef Lee's Peking Restaurant - Chinese Near Me - Columbus, Georgia

One week ago, while visiting family in GA, we were told from a few people about this restaurant. This place is gorgeous inside and out. Fountains, fish, the interior - beautiful. The waitress came and though she was nice, I felt extremely rushed. Now we were a family of 10, but still..... for some of us it was our first time. They provided water, wantons, egg rolls and your choice of egg drop soup and another. I ordered the Mongolian beef, hubby-general pso chicken, daughter sweet and sour shrimp. Needless to say the food was Meh.. no to go boxes necessary. The younger ones got a kick out of feeding the fish outside - that was nice. read more

I love this place , every time I come to visit my family in Alabama , from Texas it is a must I come here . The Mongolian beef is so yummy service is great & I love the decor! read more

Oh goodness this was the worst Chinese food I've ever had, everything was extremely salty it was inedible. The fried dumplings and eggs rolls were so greasy they weren't even crunchy. We didn't eat them. The rice soup was just salt water with rice and two shrimps. I don't know what the "fried rice" was but it wasn't fried rice. The Mongolian beef was so salty we couldn't eat it, the sweet and sour pork was drowning in sauce. It was terrible. We didn't eat any of our food. The server asked if we wanted to go boxes and when we said no he looked at us like we had two heads. Probably because ALL of the food was there on the table. The server however was very polite and attentive. The one star is for him. I wouldn't go back to Chef Lee's and don't recommend it to anyone. They need to ease up on the MSG. read more

The building, grounds, and decor are impressive. Service was sporadic and unpredictable, which was especially noticeable since it was mid-afternoon with very few other customers. Hard to know exactly who or how to pay. The food was good. I suggest that just one dish is enough for two trying to limit their weights. read more

The only place i'll eat chinese food from in this small city. The food is delicious, close to the chinese food my taste buds are used to. Their pecking duck and mongolian beef is a must. They also do take-out. I usually phone-order and pick up after work on my way home. They also make my vegetables the way I ask them to (black mushroom and bamboo shoots) to pair with the pecking duck. read more

It was ok. Guess I am so used to eating at the store front type restaurants and that type of Chinese food that. I was underwhelmed by the food read more

I took my son here for his birthday last night night (11 May 2016). We were excited to see Peking duck on the menu but required 24 hour advanced noticed. I took a chance and inquired with the waiter. To our surprise he said they had two available. We ordered one whole Peking duck, two orders of seafood soup and eggplant stir fry. About 5 minutes later the waiter brought our soup and then out whole Peking duck showing us that it's ready. Asked us if we wanted to take its picture. That's an odd question. We said no, we eaten this before. He brought part of the duck back cut up with 6 pieces of tortillas to roll it up in... Yes, I said tortilla. Seriously, who uses tortilla instead of steamed Chinese buns for Peking duck and has the audacity to claim "Authentic Szechuan Cuisine"? Absolutely ridiculous!! We didn't even get the whole duck back either! read more

The Food is not good anymore, I will not be going back. I had already heard that the food was not same but I wanted to try it for myself. The chicken was tough and the rice was hard. read more

Some people in the comments have their taste buds burned out. The food was without flavornvery salty and cheap quality. I tell cheap cheap. Even the rice is that generic dollar tree one minute rice. It half cooked! Greasy disgusting and much more to complaint about. We left the plates full and they didnt refund one. Never ever going back therr I have traveled the world and tried different Asian food. This restaurant just about looks it fools you. Waiters bring you food with their thumbs or finger touching your food. One star because yelp wont let me not give a zero star! read more

Chef Lees never disappoints. Love their pot stickers and spring rolls. They always have the freshest food. This time I decided to try something different. I had the mooshu chicken with plum sauce and my was it delicious. read more

So, I was in Columbus on business a few days ago, As I was leaving downtown one afternoon, I see Chef Lee's big billboard which advertises it as "the best Chinese restaurant in America." I am intrigued by the audacity of the Chinaman. Actually claiming that one of the Best Chinese Restaurants in America is located in the suburbs of some one horse hick town where the average resident considers a "big weekend" as one where you ride over Auburn to tip some pigs. That leads me to ask the question, "Is there some other country called America? Or maybe a parallel American universe somewhere in which an American Chinese place in Columbus could possibly be the best Chinese food in that universe? Let's be honest. I was born...but not yesterday. The fact that I knew that the claim wasn't true didn't deter me from visiting the audacious den of liars one night for dinner. Once again, the marketing campaign worked on a big city sucker. Having eaten at some of the truly great Chinese places in the US such as Tong Kiang in San Francisco, Lao Sze Chuan in Chicago, and Joe's Shanghai in New York, I consider myself to have a fairly good knowledge of good Chinese food. When you drive up, Chef Lee's is impressive. It looks like some kind of Asian palace resplendently surrounded by little fish ponds that one must cross over to enter the restaurant. The food at Chef Lee's is standard southern American Chinese, mostly deep fried, sauced with colorfully sweet sauces, The eggrolls were pretty bland even when topped with the marischino cherry colored duck sauce and very potent Chinese mustard. The egg drop soup, while tasty, had this weird concentrated piss color to it. The menu features traditional Ameri-Chinese dishes like Wor Su Gai (deep fried chicken covered in brown sauce and topped with almonds)interspersed with a few seafood dishes that stretch a little closer to authentic. There were no soup dumplings or shark's fin soup on this menu. Honestly, the food was below average, even in comparison to other southern Ameri-Chinese places I grew up eating in. Management should get an award for having the most audacious marketing plan of any Chinese. But, not for their food. Caveat Emptor read more

From the outside this a tourist Chinese restaurant. The food is not very impressive. This is a very American style Chinese food, the dishes I had are not authentic. The first time I went there, we had the Mu Shu pork with 4 pancakes. This was not hot and it tasted terrible. There was no taste of the ginger, garlice, scallions or bamboo shoots. It is a big mess thrown together. You did see the eggs, pork and I think mushrooms but those are usually sliced thin. The greatest part was when we found a piece of either granite from a bowl or something else. It didn't belong there. Fast forward a couple of months and we ordered the Sesame Chicken. That tasted terrible, nothing Sesame about it. It was mushy, bland flavor and there was more breading than chicken. The best part was the fried rice that came with the Sesame Chicken. It had a nice surprise of a Cockroach. We called them to tell them about it and they responded with "You bring it back we give you a new one." This is not a good tasting Chinese restaurant. read more

I'll lead this off by saying I'm somewhat obsessed with Chinese food, both in terms of quality and authenticity. I've scoured the Chinatowns of NYC, San Francisco, Toronto, and Boston looking for true Chinese cuisine. My first meal at Chef Lee's was good; the standard general chicken, fried in batter. The service was excellent--friendly and fast. Two stars off, though, because not a thing on the menu is Chinese; it's all American-Chinese food. Granted, what I ate was a cut above your average place that serves shredded pork with garlic and General Gau/Tsu/Tswhatever's chicken (points for not giving in to the myth of the superiority of the chicken breast over the thigh); it's similar in concept to PF Chang's: better versions of the stuff you get at the takeout place, but like PF Chang's, it's about as Chinese as McDonald's. Chef Lee's food is also not as good as PFC's. Put some spicy salted pork chops, shrimp in shell, 8 delights, fish maw, duck web, pig's ears, or thousand year old eggs on the menu, and then let's talk about Chinese. I know I'm being a snob, but I really wish that Americans would be more open-minded and demand more from ethnic cuisine, and I wish that Chinese chefs would put at least a few authentic dishes on the menu to help open those American minds. EDIT: I went back and got the Princess Prawns, which was listed as deep-fried shrimp. What I got was shrimp in that thick, heavy, corndog-looking batter that I only find at hole-in-the-wall takeout places. And it was swimming in what looked and tasted like canned duck sauce. The egg rolls are also like what you'd find in a dive (or a Costco freezer). Not Chinese and not good. I'm not going back. The shrimp that the local buffets serve on Sunday is closer to what real Chinese (Szechuan) fried shrimp should be. read more

Chef Lee's whole fried fish is an excellent choice as is the Mongolian beef. The service is always good as are the drinks.

Not so good. My family and I travelled to this restaurant because of a great experience 2 years ago. Things were different this time. The food tasted like sugar crystals in everything we ordered. My Mongolian beef had raw meat in it. The monotone personality of the staff didn't help either. Could have been a bad day but we will not be back. read more

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I went here pre-covid and there was nobody at the front desk. When I finally got my table, I was treated to used silverware with pieces of rice still stuck in between my fork. I obviously was disgusted. Never going back lol. read more

Very unaccommodating to those with allergies. I have Alpha-Gal, which is a meat allergy that prohibits me from eating beef or pork. The egg roll and fried wonton both contain pork. For lunch you get the meal to include both. I asked for an alternate and was told that there no substitutions despite the allergy. The very friendly server apologized and offered me extra napkins and orange slices. I am very disappointed in the lack of understanding shown by management. I asked to speak to the manager and was told that he was busy in the back. However, I could have extra rice if I would like. read more

Chef Lee's Peking Restaurant - Chinese Near Me - Columbus, Georgia

Looks very authentic Chinese from the outside and inside! However, they only serve Americanized Chinese food. What the heck is Princess Shrimp, if not made to please the uninitiated American palate. Service good. Food for context, not good for someone wanting an authentic taste. Maybe great in the "Fake" Chinese food category, but my rating is based on their presentation's bait and switch. read more

I have no idea why this restaurant doesn't have better reviews because the food and the service was excellent, the only complaint I have was the stickiness on the floor and the humidity smell on the dinner side. I ordered the pineapple chicken and the Coco loco as the beverage; both were great. As appetizers we had the BBQ ribs and the pot stickers, make sure you use the sauce that comes with the pot stickers...it's delicious. The ambiance and decor is very beautiful and reflects their culture very well. read more

Chef Lee's Peking Restaurant - Entrance - Chinese Near Me - Columbus, Georgia

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