For all the Californian! Do not come to this restaurant, worst Chinese food ever! We got stuck in the snow around Christmas time, the owner was super rude and unfriendly. The food was bad, the old man is rushing us to order, we ask for some recommendations, he refused. We are Chinese, and came to support some local Chinese restaurants, we came in a large group with babies, the overall experiences and food quality are just a nightmare. The ribs are too sweet; overcooked; the shrimp was not fresh; we asked for couple dishes, the owner said they sold out, etc. If you are from California for travel and want some Chinese food, go somewhere else! read more

Very authentic Shanghainese food. Very friendly staff who made recommendations and even stopped us from ordering too much. Great find for ski trip. read more

Seven of us decided to try this newer restaurant behind the black bear diner of south virginia. This is a northern Chinese restaurant with their menu interspersed with some Cantonese items on the menu. First of all, if you decide to try a different restaurant and you are not familiar with, ask the wait staff what to order. What comes to mind is "when in rome". Certain items should not be ordered for dinner because they are lunch items, like fried rice and chow mein for instance. We ordered beef fried rice, like I said, this is a break in protocol when white rice is normally ordered for dinner, it wasn't bad but I wouldn't be the one to order this item for dinner. The drunken chicken was a pretty authentically prepared dish, this was a specialty which many restaurants will not serve because of the complexity of preparation. a winner in my book! Lemon chicken was the next item, I would never order a dish like that, it just shows lack of imagination in what to order, come on chicken in batter deep fried with a lemon sauce, pretty gross. Mongolian beef, this was a pretty good dish to order. This was a pretty authentic dish with lots of green onions which is the star of the dish. Sweet and sour pork was the next item, i must admit i would never order this dish either, but the dish wasn't all terrible. Curry chicken was not too bad, but it did use white meat chicken which is not normal for this dish. Asian dishes normally do not use white meat, this is used because of the different clientele preferences have changed. Another item ordered is a spicy beef dish, I have no comment other than it was okay. Beef belly or brisket hot pot with chilies and Shanghai bok choy and sweet potato noodles. This is an item that one should not order if you cannot tolerate extremely spicy dishes. This is an item I would never order also because it's simply too spicy for most people to tolerate. I did enjoy the sweet potato noodles because they do not absorb the spiciness of the chile broth. The last item is a deep fried flounder. This was done exceptionally well and a bonus, the fish was a female so lots of eggs were in the fish. This dish is best eaten as soon as it is presented, you just simply cut it up and eat everything with the exception of the head and the internal rib bones. Together we ordered four beef items, three chicken items, one pork and one fish. Ideally only one of each item is ordered and a lamb dish and a vegetable dish or two should be ordered but then again it just shows that ordering an asian meal is difficult if one doesn't wish to experience a true meal but are stuck with familiar boring items. I would return to try some of their true Shanghainese menu items but with a much more crowd that is willing to try some of their specialties and not some items which I have mentioned above. read more

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Had high hopes for this place, but it fell short. Wife and I were here Saturday afternoon, not busy at all. The menu has your typical Chinese food items plus it has the authentic menu in the back of the menu. Decided to try the beef noodle soup, salt n pepper tofu, generals chicken, chicken and salty fish fried rice and sweet and sour pork ribs. The beef. Noodle soup was a clear broth type which really didn't have the typical beef noodle flavor. It really didn't have a lot of flavor and the beef was very fatty. The noodles seemed like pre cooked noodles. It was ok but just not flavorful. Salt and pepper tofu was ok. Pretty good flavor if you got a piece w seasoning on it. Generals chicken was very tough dark meat. Flavor was ok but meat is way too tough. Fried rice was ok. Worst part of the meal was the sweet and sour ribs. Most places that make these traditional sweet and sour ribs will make it so the meat falls off the bone. Not so here. Very rough and not even close to coming off the bone. Pretty sure they missed a step In the cooking process. Very disappointing dish since other places in town make it perfect. Told the waiter and they didn't even offer to take it off the check since it was barely eaten. Most place would do this. May or may not be back to give this place another try. read more

Now my favorite Asian restaurant in Reno. Good food, good service, easy parking, clean.

This place just opened today and it's great. If you want a step up from good Reno Chinese-American food or have fond memories of wonderful Chinese food in San Francisco, this is the place to come. We have eclectic tastes so we went for some of the more adventurous items from the chef's specials at the back of the menu. And WOW! WOW 1: Ox tripe with green peppers. We love menudo and order tripe dim sum whenever we visit the Bay Area. This was some of the best tripe we've ever had. WOW 2: Chengdu egg soup. We saw a dish on the menu that we've never eaten, so we ordered it. Tender balls of scrambled egg with two kinds of mushrooms, cloud ears, tender strips of pork, and Chinese greens in a delicious broth. WOW 3: Salt and pepper shrimp, in the shell fried to perfection so the shell is crispy-yummy. There are two version of this dish on the menu. This was from the specials in the back. The other might be less adventurous--probably worth asking. WOW 4: Pork with tofu. This is a special wow because it's hard to find anywhere. It uses a special super-firm tofu. Delicious. Yum 5: Just for fun we ordered one dish not on the chef's specials--beef chow fun. Not a bit adventurous and very tasty. This place is brand new and off to a great start. Next time we'll order one of the call-ahead dishes like lion's head or duck. NOTE: This is a new restaurant in the location where 2-D Wok used to be. read more

Shanghai Bistro - salt and pepper calamari - Chinese Near Me - Reno, Nevada

The food was so delicious. This is my first time here and already love it. The customer service, the food, the cleanliness of the place excellent. I totally recommend this restaurant 100 % read more

Shanghai Bistro - Boil fish fillet with chili oil - Chinese Near Me - Reno, Nevada

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The place seems like a hole in the wall but it offers good food that is hot and yummy. We are 4 people and ordered 3 dishes - it was plenty and delicious. We ordered: Eggplant with schezuen sauce General chicken Schezuen chicken 2 bowls of rice It all had a good taste (maybe a tad too much starch) and hit the spot for when you want comfort food on cold days. read more

Ordered different things this time and wow. What great flavors. Salt and pepper chicken wings are the best wings I have ever eaten. Perfect seasoning, perfect crispiness. Also ordered some standards: mushroom chicken, beef with broccoli, vegetable fried rice. Spoons and forks were flying for a bit more of this and that. Seriously nothing "standard" about their flavors. All around great food. The one change I hope to see in the future is some details in the menu: what is in the house fried rice? [did not order it since they told me it has shrimp, and when I asked if I could get it without shrimp, was told they have shrimp fried rice... ] Also would be good to know that the wings come on top of some vegies including jalapenos! Will definitely ask for no jalapenos in future!] Still, a fabulous find. read more

I don't do a lot of low star reviews. Went for lunch today. We ordered the salt and pepper tofu. Not much flavor and was bland. It was fried good. The chicken salty fish fried rice was good. The sweet and sour ribs had good flavor just couldn't chew the meat. Was hard to even get a bite. I prefer mine to be tender and fall off the bone. The general chicken had good flavor but as well was tough. The inside had no changes from the prior business. Service was ok except we did let him know that the ribs were not editable. Didn't offer to take off or even a discount. Knowing was so bad that was still complete plate and we did NOT want to even take any of it home. read more

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Amazing food! Amazing customer service. Accidentally arrived a little too early before my friend arrived. The lady who sat me to a table waiting didn't seemed to mind just me sitting at the table waiting for my friend. I ordered the beef stew with noodles. I had higher expectations for the beef stew. I was not a fan of the noodles at all. I prefer they had the real egg noodles or the flat rice noodle. It was alright 3.5 . But my friend had the beef sizzling platter which was "AMAZING" like 4 or 4.5 . What I really want to try is their hotpot. Unfortunately they didn't have any at the time. Definitely would come back. read more

Shanghai Bistro - Beef Sizzling Plater - Chinese Near Me - Reno, Nevada

Food was super oily. I ordered a noodle dish, a fried rice dish, and a pork belly dish. Of all three I don't recommend any, there was a funky after taste to all of them. My party and I walked into the restaurant (completely empty) and there was no wait staff in sight. We walked out and walked back in because there's a bell when you walk in and again there was no one in sight. We waited for about 10 minutes before someone came out from the back and greeted us. They took our order and the order came out fairly quickly. We were taking it to go and there was no one that greeted us for 10 minutes so we decided no tip. The mood suddenly changed when the waiter gave us our change and we did not leave a tip. She snatched their copy of the receipt from my hand and stormed off to the back of the restaurant again. We were on the toilet for the rest of the day after the meal- we also only ate about a quarter of what was given to us. Only positive note I can give is that the restaurant was clean and it looked nice. read more

So my fiancé and I tried this place today and he and I have our own opinion of experience. He was disappointed of the food but for me, it was good. I ordered the spicy beef soup and really enjoyed the spices. The salt and pepper chicken was really good, had the same taste like anywhere you'd go. The owner was very friendly to us and the rest of the customers; he'd check up on you making sure you're ok and or if you needed anything else. I recommend for people to give this place a chance! read more

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Tucked in the back of the shopping center by Black Bear Diner, Shanghai Bistro is quite the pleasant surprise (for Reno). Trying to avoid the Americanized Chinese fare, I go straight to the chef specialty section of the menu to find immediately get a half chub from the sheer selection of awesomeness displayed in front of me. Where tf do I start? My companions may not be (definitely are not) the heat-seeking capsaicin junkie that I am, so the sweet sweet pepper sign of destiny next to half the menu items may be a little off-putting. We settle on the braised lamb hot pot, salt and pepper shrimp, braised pork belly, and the couple's delight (My personal favorite dish). The service is friendly and punctual, food comes out faster than expected- no complaints there. Food was flavorful and fresh, couple's delight could have been spicier, but that could just be me. Definitely will come back and try out all the dishes at some point, and you should too. This sounds like a five star review, which it could be, but the water tasted like there was a lemon sitting in it for way too long and got a little funky. Totally willing to return that last star If it doesn't happen again. Until next time, cheers! read more

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Came here @6:30pm on a Sunday (Father's Day) it was very quiet. I had a party of 8 which was easy to accommodate! They probably had about 4 big round tables. Service was awesome and food spoke for itself!! anyone looking for a nice Chinese dinner this is the place to go!! Don't expect it to be cheap cause they deliver great quality food! Prawns are big! portions are large! So bring a group!!! Will definitely be back. They are in a great location for all the new development! The owner looked like he cooked most of the food so you know he takes pride in his food! read more

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Delicious! Unique food for Reno with plenty of flavor and spice. Service was attentive and the portions were generous.

Good food and if you like really spicy dishes then I would recommend this restaurant. The staff is welcoming and they're nice people. Cozy place to eat with a group of four people. read more

I didn't care for the food we got, luckily the portions were small to not a lot of waste when I had to toss the whole order after tasting it. Please put more pride in what you are serving. Please read more

What an amazing find. Super friendly staff and possibly the best authentic Chinese I've ever had. We ordered a bit of everything and it was fantastic. My favorite was the twice cooked pork and sautéed snow pea tips. read more

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We arrived and the servicer asked how many. I said 5 and his answer has we are really busy there is a wait 30min to one hour. The place was half empty. I'm not sure if they did not want to take us in or not. read more

Dine in option perfect for us.... we went at an off hour and the service was excellent. The twice cooked pork belly was spicy and delicious. The house fried rice was good. The potstickers seemed a bit off as they were deep fried? All in all we will be back read more

The most authentic Shanghai dishes I have had in the whole area!!!! We ordered Shanghai style shrimps and eels and sautéed pig liver. The ingredients are soooooooo fresh and soooooooo tasty~~~~ lick-fingers tasty!!!!! The best Shanhainese food in the Truckee-Reno-Spark area!!!!!! We ordered take-out as my husband had a concall at evening but definitely eat on-site next time!!!!!! I feel like being back in Shanghai again!!!!! read more

This place is very good authentic Chinese food in Reno!! I like everything about it. Service is awesome I am so happy we found this place. read more

Shanghai Bistro - Fried fish , zheshuan shrimp, boiled beef - Chinese Near Me - Reno, Nevada

First time here. Food came out quick and hot. Very fresh ingredients and large portions. Friendly staff too! We will definitely eat there again. read more

Probably the best Chinese food we've had in Reno. It's more homestyle: we got the boiled fish with pickled mustard and the sliced cold beef with chili sauce. It would have been better with more of that mala taste, but I get that they try to cater to a wider audience. read more

Not authentic but slightly better than most American Chinese restaurants. Recommend spicy vermicelli and salt and pepper calamari. The spicy boil beef is pretty terrible. It has a very strong herbal smell and taste. Bad. The salt and pepper wings are not good either. They should marinate the chicken wing first. It taste very fishy/shifty. Not great. read more

I have been to Shanghai bistro 3 times and every time has been excellent! I can never figure out why they aren't more busy! Maybe the best kept secret for Chinese food in Reno! Get over there and keep these folks in business! Tip: food comes out extremely fast. If you want a little time between appetizers, soup, main course, space out the ordering!! read more

WOW! Can't say enough good things! Personalized our food & it was so delicious! Just visiting but if we lived here there would be no reason to even try other restaurants! You are so lucky! The pic is just to legitimize...yeah I asked for spicy read more

Shanghai Bistro - Spice! - Chinese Near Me - Reno, Nevada

Ordered through postmates & what a disappointing meal. Ordered general chicken & crab rangoon. The crab rangoon had almost no filling & were mostly overcooked bits of emptiness The General chicken was plentiful abd mostly inedible. It was obvious that it had been under a heat lamp for hours & not fresh. The chicken bits were hard & shriveled up. Quite gross for a $30 meal. Never again. read more

Sadly we did not even get to try the food. We came 30-20mins before listed closing time. From what I saw, there were a couple of tables that had not even begun to be cleaned. Guy in front said the entire restaurant was reserved, despite being very close to closing time and most of the tables being empty or not cleaned yet. He even denied us takeout and said they were all booked. He was very dismissive and we were very disappointed. read more

- BYOR (bring your own rice). Like a lot of Asian restaurants around here you don't automatically get steamed rice with your entree that should come rice. Rice is an up charge. . - good food - fair prices - nice service - good parking read more

Shanghai Bistro - Mapo Tofu - Chinese Near Me - Reno, Nevada

Great water boiled fish, Chinese veggies and beef chow fun are our family favorites. Shanghai shrimp and rice cakes are also fun and hard to find in other restaurants nearby. read more

Recently opened Shanghai Bistro's menu has plenty of typical Chinese American dishes. The lone noodle dish served during dinner (vermicelli with spicy minced pork for $13.95) is on the chef's special menu of authentic Chinese dishes, many of which sounded exotic and enticing. With my friend and her twin boys in tow, we started with egg rolls ($5.95, four pieces), crab rangoon ($8.95), and pot stickers ($8.95, six pieces). The egg rolls were average and a little on the small side. The rangoon's pinched "crown" of wonton wrapper was overly crunchy, and there wasn't any sense of crab in the pouch's cream cheese filling. The potstickers were quite large, crispy, and stuffed with plenty of meaty filling; definitely the most satisfying of the trio. Beef sizzling platter ($12.95) was the lone entree ordered from the non-special menu. A hot, cast iron platter was brought to the table, then piled with food and covered with a steel cloche. A few minutes later our server came back to reveal the sizzling, steaming mix of velveted strips of beef with bell pepper, onion, and mushroom in a savory sauce. It was delicious, and definitely my favorite part of the meal. Moving on to the chef's menu, we tried a chilled jellyfish salad ($12.95), strips of marinated jellyfish mantle tossed with chopped scallion, and a sauce redolent with toasted sesame oil. Being a fan of pretty much every bit of seafood I've previously tasted, I really wanted to like it. Unfortunately for me, the crunchy/chewy/squishy texture was unpleasant, and the sharp, bitter sauce wasn't helping. My friend wasn't new to this dish and really enjoyed it, so it's apparently an acquired taste. Sweet and sour pork ribs ($15.95) were unlike the Korean variety, or any other. Cross sectioned rounds of rib bones were covered in a sticky, viscous sauce, topped with sesame seeds and chopped scallion. The sauce wasn't bad, but what meat was on the little bones was tough and difficult to chew off. Definitely not my favorite treatment for ribs. A dish of napa cabbage. pork, and rice cake ($13.95) included sliced rice cake, mushroom, scallion, and shoestring strips of pork, on a bed of cabbage. The savory sauce was good, and most of the ingredients were enjoyable. Apparently I just don't dig on rice cake. Just as with Korean rice cake, I found it to be a weird mix of chewy, gummy, and generally flavorless. Starchy carbs without any discernible reward, at least to my palate. Braised pork lion head ($14.95) turned out to be two giant meatballs--said to resemble a lion's head--ringed by baby bok choy, drenched in a sauce heavy with Chinese five spice blend (cinnamon, cloves, fennel, star anise, and Szechuan peppercorn). Seriously, the pair were each the size of a baby's head. The cabbages were perfect, the sauce was a bit overspiced, but it was the meat texture that threw me. Apparently a mix of fatty pork shoulder and belly is ground, marinated, and massaged into a paste. The end result is what I can only describe as "fluffy", and I've never encountered anything similar. Definitely not your run-of-the-mill meatball. Service was excellent, and I'd really like to sample their selection of "hot pots", wherein you cook a variety of ingredients at the table. Having seen a few folks enjoying it, I regretted not ordering one. read more

Really good food! There's a huge menu and most sound very interesting and delicious. Definitely worth several visits. The space itself is bright, open and clean. Service was good, but that's also because we were the only ones there. Not busy at all on a Tuesday night. Since I love pork belly, I had to order the braised PB on the menu. I have a favorite version of this from another restaurant so I was curious how it would hold up. They definitely differ in presentation, but the tastes are pretty much even. Shanghai's version has less garlic, but still very tasty. There's a good balance between meat and fat, and the bok choy was a nice touch. I would order this again but only after I've tried other things on the menu. My hubs ordered the sweet and sour pork. I know. I couldn't convince him to go for something else less familiar, but no dice. I haven't had S&S pork in such a long time that I actually enjoyed it this time. But, it would not be my first choice, given all the other options on the menu. We paired that with the house fried rice, which was yummy, and I rounded everything up with a cold sake recommended by our server. Overall, an enjoyable meal. The portions were huge so we got lots of leftovers. I would've happily give 5 stars, except for the fact that at some point, one of the staff was playing their personal device on the dining room, sans headsets. She probably didn't think much of it since we were the only ones there, but still, we are still considered customers, no? Perhaps a background music will help, too. It just sounded so dead. They could've filled the place with music instead of something from a show on someone's IPAD, or some such device. Good thing this has nothing to do with food, so I might go back to try some of their other more interesting offerings. And I do hope the lack of any other patrons on this particular Tuesday night is not the norm and as hubs said: 't's a stiff competition out there. I hope they survive.' read more

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Came with my sister as I'm visiting from out-of-town and was pleasantly surprised at the selection of options for a Chinese-American restaurant. We came quite early so it wasn't busy but service was quick and easy. We received our dishes within 5-10min after ordering 4 dishes. We tried the veggie of the day (an-choy), House braised tofu, Szechuan beef and napa cabbage rice cakes. Overall, all the dishes were good. The Szechuan beef was on the sweeter side which is not my preference and these rice cakes were more rectangular-shaped rather than oval so the consistency wasn't as chewy as I like and was a little less flavorful than other rice cake dishes I've had, but all-in-all, we enjoyed our meal. Decor is clean and nice and I appreciated that they played Chinese music. Prices are good and on par with the area. Parking is easy with a large lot and only a couple of other competing businesses in the same complex. Good option for Chinese food in the Reno area with decent array of options. read more

I called ahead an order to be picked up at 6pm only to arrive on time and be told that they had forgotten. The man laughed and was incredibly rude. I am stunned by their lack of service and disregard. read more

It's tough to find good chinese food in cities with lots of tourism.. most places near the casino area had wait lists of 40-90 minutes long (at least per Yelp) and expensive (this includes all types of food). We found this place on Yelp, and were wary at first because of some of the reviews speaking of too salty, or same sauce. I think it's more how you order. We ordered all our items from the Chef's Menu -- which included a lot of authentic dishes. We had the baby pea sprouts, hot boiled fish in red chili oil (very good!), sizzling beef, beef fried rice (for the kid), pot stickers, and garlic / soy pork belly. They were all very tasty and offered different flavors. We didn't try the hot pots. The owner said they have them, and offer individual hot pot, with a selection of items / meats. Too bad we aren't in town so often - I would put this place into the rotation :) Service was fast, and the owners were super nice to us. I totally recommend this place. 4.5 stars. read more

Not very busy on a Saturday lunch, but the food was phenomenal. I got a spicy boiled fish with red and green peppers and my wife and I shared some chicken fried rice and general chicken. Very friendly service and nice decor. Try the spicy fish!! read more

We brought our kids here and ordered egg drop soup, chow fun noodles, white rice, crab ragoons and sweet and sour chicken. The kids are usually picky eaters but loved it all, even the baby enjoyed some dinner! I loved it all too, plus we fed the family at a good price! We will be back for more :) read more

Food was alright. Staffs were friendly. Restaurant is beautiful and clean. I was disappointed in the food. Won't go back again.