This place is amazing.. 1. The food is great here they have a wide and tasteful variety, their drinks here are endless. ( a drink for anytime weather a hot summer day or a cold winter night) 2. Jessica (owner) Is the nicest person ever :D and everyone else there It feels like family to me 3.I go there almost everyday, they have Wifi and awesome service..whatever is most convenient for you they have it. Check this place out!! For Sure You will probably see me there :D read more

Everything/anything you order is great! They have a great variety of Asian food. The menu seems endless! Also, you must try their teas and their natural smoothies. The service here is great and too even though they're always busy -people in the neighborhood love coming here. read more

The amount of rice you get at this place, it's worth the money. First time I ordered was for carry out.. I had the chicken friend rice, orange chicken because everyone raves about it..and it was good not great for me. The amount they give you is a little less than what I imagined, but still good. Beef and broccoli was basic beef and broccoli..the egg rolls were huge..compared to regular sized egg rolls that I've seen. But they are pretty tasty with the hot sauce, I also ordered an order of the crab Rangoon not enough crab for my liking..I've had better. The rice was probably the only thing I would go back for and the bubble tea read more

Had my mother inlaws bday party, it was awesome. Too much food and great flavor. Guess had a grand time. Very accomodating. Will surely come back anytime... read more

We order from Jess Cafe at least once or twice a week. They know us and treat us very well. Delivery is so fast I'm shocked most of the time! I'm talking like 15 minutes from the time I hang up the phone to the time my doorbell is ringing. They always throw in free almond cookies too. I order everything with no MSG and it tastes so much better. Everything is delicious, you get great portion size for the money, and they have lots of variety for whatever you have a taste for. read more

Just plain good. No fancy BS where you're paying for ambiance and food presentation. The place is comfortable, the price fair, and the food meets high expectations for the usual Chinese and other Asian fair. The drinks are good too! read more

Very good place. The staff is friendly. The food is fantastic. Their smoothies are fresh fruit. I had their Vietnamese iced coffee and Thai coffee, both were superb. read more

Excellent clean food. The server was excellent with describing food based on our dietary restriction. Great flavors. I highly recommend this place. read more

Cheap, I guess I have to try another meat dish. I heard a lot of people ordering chicken orange

So many choices on the menu. We try and order something different each time, but every once in a while I have to get the traditional Korean Rice Bowl and Watermelon Smoothie. We've tried so many things and can only think of the Short Ribs being not so great. If you order delivery, they will pack your smoothie on ice. Ingredients are fresh and there are many healthy options. These guys really care about their food and it shows. read more

I wanted to update that I am beyond addicted to Jess Cafe now! I love the Thai green curry chicken chow fun and I like to add the spicy chili oil to it for added heat (not that it needs it) I don't know what they put it in but I can't go a week without it! I've also recently got around to ordering a smoothie (strawberry/watermelon with tapioca pearls) and it was awesome just needed to give them an additional thumbs up!!! read more

I love the crispy salt n pepper smelt!

Ehh this place has huge portions which is good but food is very bland.When coming here I had the padThai , though it looked delicious wasn't the best. Their smoothies on the other hand are pretty good. read more

The food here is really delicious and authentic. Sometimes it might take a while but thats due to the business. Ive tried multiple bubble teas from various asian restaurants but jess so far has the best! read more

First I would like to give thanks to a previous fellow yelper's suggestion of the Thai iced Tea...super tasty! My sis ordered the Thai iced coffee and agreed it's now in our top favs. Food was good... Highly recommend read more

This place never fails to please me. Best smoothies and Mongolian Beef ! Not to mention they have great lunch specials.

Outstanding Mongolian beef. Come here at least twice a week. Haven't been disappointed yet.

The food is ok I wouldn't say great.. The prices are good so I see the point right most customers are happy

I think that Jess Cafe serves consistantly great food. Their Kung Pao chicken is my favorite, but everything I've tried has been good. They have a really big menu, the staff is friendly and the service is fast. It's a great little neighborhood place. My only complaint is that they don't serve brown rice, but it's not really a big deal. read more

Really delicious reasonable time frame for really great food! Staff very nice and attentive, accurate descriptions and timing for preparation and all service in general. Highly recommend! read more

Horrible, horrible management!!!!!! Its been good for the last couple years but things are not what it used to be. Ordered our food for pick up at 5, and waited for an hour and half to pick up food that was called ahead of time. This has happened multiple occasions and management doesn't seem to strive for any improvements. Take your money and your precious time elsewhere. read more

I was EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED because I was really excited when I read all the reviews of all these people loving their food. I spend $45 on CRAPPY FOOD‼ I order Shrimp Pad Thai, 2 sets of meat egg rolls, Governors Chicken, Chicken Basil, wonton soup, and chicken skewers with the peanut sauce! Even with all that food ALL OF IT tasted as if it was frozen and reheated. I order late an hour before closing! That's NO EXCUSE to provide crappy pre heated and reheated food!!! In our household we are Asian food fanatics and I can cook better authentic Asian foods than what they served us. NEVER AGAIN‼ I don't believe it deserves ANY stars! I hate paying for over priced food that taste horrible! If they couldn't accommodate and provide fresh food then they shouldn't have taken my order! NOT GOING TO EVER ORDER FROM THEM AGAIN! I wouldn't even give the food out to homeless person because it was that disgusting! read more

Jess Cafe - All the food because we couldn't even eat after the first bite! Had to order pizza instead! - Chinese Near Me - Chicago, Illinois

I tried this place two times a while back and this was truly terrible asian food. Like so many other restaurants in this area that have so much potential but completely suck! read more

I must say, the best wonton soup I ever had! Shrimp pad Thai, Beef Basil, Amazing. Coconut Shrimp terrific. The service was outstanding! I would Higly recommend this place. They also deliver and do party trays. Ending with a great bubble tea! read more

I love this place... close by, immaculate, fast, quality food, great delivery service... if there is room for improvement i would say its in the design of their website. Just tonite i thought i ordered green curry chicken, and i ordered a chicken curry dish but not what i was hoping to get. Their smoothies are amazing and the food is of great quality. read more

so so.... I would rather have Chinese down the street than this. I assumed it would actually be a fusion asian restaurant as they advertise, but sure enough it wasn't. The korean kalbi was boiled/steamed, when was korean kalbi boiled or steamed? read more

Favorite Asian food at the moment. The pad thai, chicken fried rice, basil chicken, lo mein...it's all great. The bubble tea is too good. You can't go wrong with mango/pineapple. Definitely one of my favorite restaurants in the city. read more

Jess Cafe has never let us down! HUGE menu and everything tastes different and delicious. I don't know how they do it! They have excellent bubble tea. The Japanese potstickers are great. I almost always order salt & pepper tofu. It's incredible! Their soups are all great, especially egg drop. Like a hug in a bowl. We do delivery which can take long, but that's because it is so busy. So know that going forward. I would skip grubhub and just call your order in directly. The dine-in experience isn't very charming, but the food and service always make up for it. read more

We both ate in and ordered from Grubhub.com so far. We have gotten a mix of a few things since we had a big order each time. Some of my favorites included: Pad See Eiw with Tofu, Tom Yum Vegetable Soup, Veggie Spring Rolls, and the Bubble Drinks. The taro and honey dew (try adding rainbow jelly to the later too) bubble drink are my standing favorites. We even got a few bubble tea virgins to imbibe and become huge fans. Overall, just a solidly good Thai food to get your grub on. It's also great that they deliver since it was freezing the night we ordered in...don't worry I left the huge a huge tip for his trouble. read more

My roommates and I order from this place at least once a week. It's not something you'd go out of your way to get to but if you live in the neighborhood, it's pretty convenient. Plus, online ordering makes everything so much easier. So far, my favorite is the basil pork :] PS. If you're ordering smoothies from the website, let them know if you want tapioca or not in the comments section so they don't have to call you to ask. read more

I've been in living this area for a couple of years and have always passed by this small little place thinking it was merely a cafe but turns out they have Thai food and amazing fruit smoothies. The menu has a lot of options and worth the prices. read more

Reasonable prices, big portions, great food! I love their pad Thai!

I'm very happy to see a Joy Yees type restaurant out in the northside of Chicago close to home, serving many types of Asian cuisines from Chinese, Vietnamese, Filipino, Korean, Thai, etc. Overall, I thought the food was okay, and the service good. It's always hard to cook many dishes great, which I think a couple items we tried fell short. A couple things we ordered were the Vietnamese Egg Rolls, Beef Kalbi, Lo Mein, Crispy Pata or the Filipino Style Knuckle, and Fried Smelt. The kalbi was more flavored on the Chinese side rather than more traditional Korean, still okay, but not the flavor I was looking for. The Vietnamese egg rolls were a little mushy inside, not quite as tasty with the noodles, meat, etc, found in their traditional eggrolls. The Lo Mein, though, was very tasty, along the the Crispy Pata and the Fried Smelt. The Crispy Pata did have that fried fast food Chinese taste, but overall, I was very pleased. They also offered tapioca shakes/smoothies here...which I tried the Mango tapioca smoothie which was very good. Overall, a wide variety of okay / good food, good service, okay / budget friendly prices. Will definitely try them again. read more

I have had a lot of Asian food in my lifetime. I've tried a ridiculous amount of Pad Thai from a ridiculous amount of places and this is the BEST! The Korean hot plates, Korean fried dumpling are tasty..its never ending there!! All I have to say is I live 25 miles from this place and I'm royally pissed about that :/ read more

I was seriously impressed by this place. I was a bit hesitant to try this place since the menu was 5 miles long and I figured there was no way it could be good. They proved me wrong. First the Kimchi Beef got my wife's full seal of approval which is no easy task considering she's Korean. Second, the bun was surprisingly good. Not quite argyle quality, but not too far from it either. I was overall very impressed and seems to be my new go to spot for asian in the area. read more

Yes, the best Chinese in the area hands down. The menu is enormous...which would really make me wonder about the place, but I love Asian food too much to ignore a decent review in the area. I tried some kind of fired chicken in a sweet and spicy sauce...yum, and a noodle dish with beef...also yum. Everything came out lightning speed and was pretty tasty. The dining room is not very cozy an the TVs can be distracting, but they give the place some character, so I vote yes to the TVs (surprisingly). read more

Ordered chicken fried rice, Mongolian beef, orange chicken, egg roll and wonton soup. I didn't like anything except for the fried rice to be very honest it just was not very good. The orange chicken was over cooked, Mongolian beef wasn't good quality had a lot of fat, found bones in the beef of the wonton first for me and egg roll had too much seasoning perhaps basil or cumin. Overall wasn't too happy spent around $50-$60 Which I wouldn't mind if it was good. Have two stars because customer service was good and the rice was fresh. I recommend to try the place ling hi across the street they seem to have the same menu and I ordered the same thing it was very very good. read more

I'm a big fan of Jess Cafe! This spot is way better than your standard local Chinese spot. The food is fresh (as you can observe from seeing the chefs at the long table taking the ends off of mountains of fresh green beans) and really tasty. Also, their lunch special is a great deal--you'll spend ~$9 to get a soup, appetizer, and great dish. read more

Jessica and the whole Jess Cafe staff are awesome. We are grateful to have them so close to home. The food is delicious, the staff is uber friendly. And you can't beat their strawberry smoothies. Thanks Jessica! Keep up the great work! read more

Several yelpers have compared this place to Joy Yee's and I would have to agree. When I lived in the loop, I would make the trek to China Town to go to Joy Yee's. Now that I live on the Northwest Side, China Town is a bit too far to go for dinner. My only regret about Jess Cafe is that it took me over a year to learn of its existence. This place has an amazing assortment of pan Asian food and so far everything I have tried has been excellent. I would highly recommend giving this place a try. Its a hidden gem in the Portage Park area. read more