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    Colala Grind Express

    3.7 (18 reviews)
    Open 10:00 am - 8:00 pm

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    My dishwater flavored soup
    Meg D.

    Do you ever think maybe you got the wrong thing on the menu? I have to wonder due to good reviews on Google and 1 here. It was a cold, rainy day. I have someone in hospital nearby and just wanted a warm bowl of soup. Yelp pointed me to this place. I almost didn't go in because it looks like a coffee shop, not a Chinese bistro. Nothing much else is around though. It was enter or go back to the hospital cafeteria (which isn't half bad, I just wanted a change of pace). Got the "duck broth" soup with noodles and won tons. You order at the counter and they bring it out. It should've been mildly spicy; couldn't taste spice one. More essentially, it tasted like dishwater. Without the soap. Not kidding. Strange tasting mystery meat in the won tons. Some weird "vegetable" that looked like spinach way overcooked and tasted awful. Determined, I added chili oil and soy sauce. Still pretty awful. A few more bites and I gave up. Went up to the counter and described my plight to the chef/ owner in more diplomatic terms. Guess what he did: Gave me another dish to try? Refunded my money? Nope. I trudged out, into the cold rain, dismayed, still hungry, and about $15 lighter.

    Shrimp Steamed Shrimp&Pork Chive Dumplings (8pcs)
    Rodney D.

    The restaurant is clean and neat. The atmosphere is chill and laid back. Food is a little pricey but the food is amazing!

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    Tong S.

    Best Chinese food in Baltimore for sure! Very authentic, clean and fresh. Recommend it highly

    Chongqing Noodles(pork) ((Spicy)

    Inedible food. I ordered Chongqing noodles and pork, meijun pork buns, plum drink and the rose cake. Buns had a single meatball that tasted ok, but the noodles were just an oily, tasteless bowl of nothing. I can't recommend.

    Chef Lee's Spiced Pig Ear

    Finally get to try this place after it moved from Rockville to Baltimore and glad to see it offers dine in as well as take-out. The only place in Maryland that offers crispy omelette pancake wrap! And it's so yummy! Feels like home in China. I also ordered tofu soup, spiced pig ear, famous steamed buns, braised spareribs, shrimp and pork chive dumplings, as well as house special combination fried rice. Everything is very good. Their steamed buns sell out fast so make sure you call before you go there. Will be back soon!

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    Chinese pancake was so bad and extremely overpriced. Soy milk is also overpriced and it is not cold.

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    Great food in a hidden location hidden on the UMB BioPark campus - all of the discuss i had were excellent and flavorful.

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    Excellent food and wonderful service!! Excellent jazz, too, to listen to while you wait for your fresh, excellent food.

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    Original large cannolis - 4pcs. Coconut Napoleon - 1pc…read more Vanilla Napoleon - 1pc. Chocolate cream puffs - 3pcs. Arrived in the afternoon during a busy weekend and decided to take out for desserts. My first visit and was underwhelmed by the service received. Rushed and transactional. Packaging was very sloppy and my napoleons were shoved to the side, making the clear clamshells very messy when I arrived home. If only the desserts were saving grace, but was left disappointed as well. As others have mentioned, the pastries do not taste fresh. The ricotta cream in the original cannoli tasted warm and gritty, the shell was stale. I noticed these were sitting out. The puff pastry in the Napoleons were soggy. The cream puffs shell was stale and chocolate topping was super sweet, unfortunately these were far from heavenly. Maybe another day, Vaccaro.

    I was excited to try this place out. The positive is that the service was very friendly. The staff…read morewent out of their way to treat us well and were so kind to our kids. The vibe inside was relaxing. We were here for a few hours enjoying our coffee, tea and desserts and it was a nice place to pass the time on a cold, freezing day. The thing that dropped the review was basically the coffee and desserts. The coffee was fine, but just your standard coffee that you'd find at any gas station. The cannoli was overly sweet and the cookies we ordered felt stale. Interestingly, they charge more for sit down desserts vs. takeout. The servers were very sweet to share that we could order takeout and not have to pay the extra fee. Finally, not sure why, but there was not a lot of heating inside the restaurant. We ate with our jackets on, which was fine. But found that to be a little odd. Nobody seemed to know why they couldn't get the heat on. When it's below freezing, it would be nice to escape the chill. Overall, it was a nice stop. My kids loved it. But it was not without some quirks.

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    Diablo Doughnuts

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    4.4(402 reviews)
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    The doughnuts at Diablo are good - the dough is fluffy and they have a ton of flavors but I like my…read moredoughnuts lighter and these are pretty dense. I also prefer stuffed doughnuts (like a good Boston cream, etc) but they don't have many options for those. Instead it seems they prefer to put a dollop of the cream in the hole on top. I tried the cookies and cream and the cream cheese in the middle was odd.. it had a stretchy consistency. I like their Cinnamon Toast Crunch one, that one is probably my favorite. They're good and I love the variety but I've had better doughnuts.

    Diablo Doughnuts moved locations to a plaza in Nottingham - way easier to park than before. Went on…read morea Sunday morning and it was really busy - no indoor seating but there are 3-4 tables outside. There were only 2 people working, so there were a bunch of people waiting for their orders and service was slow. One person was at the cashier, the other was packing doughnuts, making breakfast sandwiches, and the coffees. We waited 5 minutes in line and then another 10-15 minutes for them to pack our 4 donuts. I wanted to get a sandwich but figured the wait was too long. On to the donuts - I liked the blueberry basil and blackberry lime donuts. The blueberry basil flavor wasn't super strong but it was well balanced. The blackberry lime was my favorite - sweet and a little tart. The crobar (croissant-donut) texture was awesome but I did not rally taste the cranberry or orange advertised. The buttercream frosting on top was sickeningly sweet so ended up scraping that off...finally the coffee donut. Not my favorite but not bad - it tasted like instant coffee and was kinda punchy coffee flavor, bitter. But I liked that the bitter offset the sweet. Overall, it's a fun place for a gourmet donut but be sure to not get here when it's too busy and to come early - they sell out of fun flavors fast!

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