Over the past couple of years, we have become regulars at Sichuan Gourmet House. We enjoy the food very much, we always have great service, and the cocktails, while not particularly excellent, do you get the job done! There are some standout dishes that I return to on a regular basis. The braised beef with Napa cabbage, the Chengdu style Kung Pao Chicken, and the dry cooked spicy chicken, are three examples of delicious, flavorful, and nicely spiced entrées. During our last visit, one of the owners, who goes by Benjamin, chatted with us and gave us two small dishes to try on the house. One was a small bowl of Sichuan pickled vegetables for us to nibble on, and the other was a Sichuan spicy beef jerky, and both were absolutely delicious. Ben was a delight to chat with as well. The restaurant itself is large, spacious, and quiet. It's a pleasant place to spend some time, have a good conversation, and enjoy some delicious food! read more

Great food in a wide ranging selection. Dumplings perfectly steam fried, shrimp with cashews carrots and celery delicious and basil eggplant were standouts. read more

The food here was fine: not bad, but not particularly tasty either. The service was acceptable: polite, efficient but not friendly. My biggest complaint was the atmosphere. I came in at 7:30 on a Thursday evening and it was dead. I was the only person in there the whole time, which was unnerving. The service and the morgue-like ambiance are enough for me to avoid this place in future. read more

Not great! Ordered tofu in brown sauce. Came with white sauce an no flavor All good no flavor read more

Went there for the first time with a friend as he loves their Dan Dan noodles. We ordered two appetizers. The teriyaki beef, which was amazing. So tender. Best I ever had. We also got the pork soup dumplings which were tasty. First time ever I saw this on a menu, and I ordered the duck fried rice. So delicious. Perfect amount of seasoning. In the mood for duck and don't want order a 1/2 duck, try this. So flavorful. Will definitely be back just for this. The Kung pow chicken was delicious with just the right amount of heat. I am not a huge fan of Dan Dan Noodles, in general. I like them, but usually order chow foon. These were very good. My friend's favorite and he devoured them. Quick efficient service. read more

In March, I ordered take-out from the lunch menu, shrimp with vegetables, vegetable fried rice, hot and sour soup, and spring rolls. It was the worst Chinese food I have ever had. I knew something was off when the aroma in the car on the way home was a bit off, like something gone slightly bad. The first thing I tried was the soup. It was just liquid, no mushrooms, no eggs. One slender something that I think was a bamboo shoot was the only thing in the liquid. It definitely tasted like it had passed its prime. If I had found it in my fridge as leftovers, I would have discarded it from the smell. In this case, I went so far as to taste it before I trashed it. I guess they thought the spicy heat could mask the spoiled taste. Then I looked for the spring roll, thought it had been omitted, but found it inside the container with the shrimp and rice. Needless to say it was totally mushy from being placed in the wet sauce. Flavor seemed ok, but a big part of the appeal of a spring roll is the crispiness, and this was just soggy. The vegetable fried rice had zero vegetables, not even a single pea, and obviously had not been fried. It was simply white sticky rice with a bit of scrambled egg mixed in, and no seasoning, so it was tasteless. The serving of shrimp with vegetables was smaller than I have had at other restaurants (lunch) and contained only 2 shrimps with tail shells on and 2 empty shrimp tail shells mixed in the veggies. The flavor would have been ok, except the sauce was extremely salty. I ate it with the bland "fried" rice and that toned down the saltiness enough to make it edible, just barely. I am disappointed, will never order there again, and definitely do not recommend the place. Would give it zero stars if that were an option. read more

We found this place by chance-- the food was great and the staff was so friendly! We can't wait to go back. Our order came out quickly and they even brought us some samples to try of other unique items. So fun! read more

Everything was great! The wonton soup though was awful. I had to spit it out and the first taste of broth tasted like cigarettes. But besides that everything else I would order again. read more

Food and service was amazing. We were a party of 7. Food came out staggered, but it is a family cooking the food. Worth every penny. Byob

About as good as Sichuan food gets in the Boston area. Service is fine. Ambiance is nothing special. Try the Cumin lamb, soup with fish filet and pickled vegetables, Chengdu dry chicken with capsicum, boiled fish filet in hot sichuan spicey sauce for a sense of what Sichuan dishes should taste like. read more

Save your money don't go there. Service was bad there was no flavor at all. Very skimpy portions. Specifically there were no prices on the menu you had to ask what everything cost. read more

Had lunch there today and the food was horrible. The chicken was undercooked and instead of replacing the order with another cooked order they gave me the original back saying it was cooked. read more

Real Chinese food, freshly made. Dishes were light but very flavorful. I have a food intolerance to garlic and onions and they were able to accommodate on most dishes. You can select the level of spiciness on the Sichuan dishes. We especially love the cold noodles, beef chowfun and whole sea bass. Service was excellent. read more

This place is wonderful! My family and I come here all the time and the food is always so delicious. We got great service and the staff were kind like always. read more

Crab rangoons are housemade and delicious, love the sauce that comes with it too, very fresh Chenghdu spicy beef soup is phenominal, great big bowl, so flavorful, plenty of beef read more

I have come to Sichuan Gourmet House a few times and the food is good although expensive. My complaint is there was a black hair in our soup dumplings today 10/19/2024.. The chef should be wearing a hair net. read more

Food was great, although portions could've been bigger. The service was slow, and it took a long time for them to sit us down and take our order. The ambiance was nice though, themed around a traditional Asian restaurant with cool decorations. read more

I have heard such great things about this place from others, so I had to check it out myself. Safe to say that I wasn't disappointed. Some of the best authentic Sichuan food I've had in the US hands down (trust me on this, I'm well traveled). But what's better than the food is the people at the restaurant. Our waiter, Angel, was the nicest person I've met this whole pandemic, and her mom is a complete gem. I'm full not only from the amazing food but also the kindness of everyone at this restaurant. It sucks that I live so far away from Boston. Trust me Bostonians, you don't wanna miss Sichuan Gourmet House! read more

Sichuan Gourmet House - A1. Sichuan Spicy Beef Slices - Szechuan Near Me - Newton, Massachusetts

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This a very authentic Chinese restaurant with a wide variety of dishes. Very close to Route 9 right outside of Newton Center with a decent sized parking lot. Spicy dishes is a favorite and the lunch specials are pretty big. read more

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This is my go to fav right now for real Chengdu cuisine ...made exceptionally well... dumpling game is strong with these people... the Force is with the stir fry as well; we enjoyed a credible Peking duck! Very solid understanding of spice.. really fascinating menu .. a must try, please excuse any lapse of service, they correct their mistakes with honor ...and we are patient for this food! read more

Sichuan Gourmet House - L5. Cumin Lamb - Szechuan Near Me - Newton, Massachusetts

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Another exceptional meal at Sichuan Gourmet house for my wife's retirement party with our close friends. Started off with garlic Cukes, bamboo shoots in chili oil, scallion pancakes, chicken pot stickers, soup dumplings , and cumin lamb skewers. Every dish was extremely well executed. The lamb skewers and soup dumplings were amazingly tasty. Followed by Cheng du ma po tofu, Cheng du kung pao chicken, Cumin lamb, Yu Hsiang eggplant, dan dan noodles and a few more smaller dishes. Not a bad dish all night. Here's a big hint - They also have very quaffable wines at very reasonable prices. !!!! Definitely, our go-to Sichuan restaurant. read more

We love the food at this restaurant. The dumplings are light and tasty--not the doughy type served in some restaurants. The fried rice is excellent and we love the scallion pancakes. Ingredients are always fresh. Service is efficient and friendly. read more

I was craving some Chinese food so I tried this place out and got the Beef Lo Mein and Chicken Tenders it did not disappoint. The Chicken Tenders are pretty doughy but I like it's great with the sauce and Lo Mein was pretty good. Would recommend if your looking for good take out in Boston. read more

Sichuan Gourmet House - A16. Fried Chicken Fingers - Szechuan Near Me - Newton, Massachusetts

Everything here is amazing. Our favs are the spicy dishes and the Dan Dan! Can't go wrong with those. We've always had a lovely experience with all the folks that work at the restaurant. read more

We've become a regular customer. If you love Chengdu dishes, you'll love this place. We still haven't found any place that prepares these dishes better. read more

Thought this was part of a high quality consistent chain- Sichuan gourmet in Framingham and Burlington, but it's not! Food came out warm but closer to room temp. Chengdu dry fish -was wet and not crispy! Dan Dan noodles -taste more like Hong Kong chow mein, thick noodles. There was no sesame paste or red chili oil. The only thing that was decent were the green beans and even that came out slightly warm. Service was slow and front desk person seemed very stressed even though there were only three tables that had guest. Take out person was very nice but my god the food is really bad compared to the other Sichuan gourmets I have been to. They really should change their name. This is very confusing. It's a Friday night and the place was pretty empty. Only had three tables. read more

We got here on the later side - around 845 on a Sunday night. They close at 930 pm. The service was very attentive but they couldn't wait to serve us and get us out of there. Waitress rushed over to get us to pay so they could close out the register. We were still eating. Had they just said we're closing up - come another time -we would've gone to any other number of places in Chestnut Hill. I understand they wanted to make a sale but it was the most rushed and unrelaxed dinner. Considering we spent over $60 for the two of us it really was a very big disappointment to be rushed like that. Despite that, the hot and sour soup and the wonton soup were very good. We had a salted shrimp dish which was also pretty good. The experience? Not so much. read more

My friend took me here and I was very impressed. They have your traditional foods then your American Chinese foods! They had Peking Duck, so next I will be trying that. There cold noodles are great with a little spice. There Mongolian beef was packed with flavor and portions were great. Service was shockingly nice, they are very polite and proper. It is an open floor plan with a room for larger parties. The lot is kind of tiny but we found a spot. read more

Sichuan Gourmet House - Szechuan Near Me - Newton, Massachusetts

Second time here. Dinner service again. Saturday night 6pm. About 70% full of people. Adequate parking at lot. Chilli noodle is served cold. Noodles are slippery and goes well with the spice but not something I would recommend. Kungpao chicken was the least favorite dish of all the ordered dishes this time around. Cant really describe what I dont like about it. There is just a taste that is throwing this dish off. Not recommended. Eggplant tasted great with the cilantro. One of the best eggplant dish I've had. Recommended. Green beans are okay. Nothing unusual for Chinese restaurants. Recommended. Maos pork wasnt as good as I thought. I liked the fattiness of the pork but not too crazy about the sauce. Not recommended. Cumin lamb is good. Nothing special but recommended. Sichuan fried rice was okay. No complaints. It was unusual to me because I've never had this type of fried rice before but it's not bad. Recommend to try. Overall, the second time eating here was about the same as the first time. Very average. When the menu is big, it means they are not a master of any of the dishes so you are getting more misses than hits. Same ratings as before. Nothing special besides the eggplants. I would only come here with older generation Asian people like my mother or uncle. Otherwise, I wouldn't bring my friends here. Hope that helps. read more

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No pics today but a frat busy place with awesome food and staff! Delicious meals here!

Decent place, with dishes that hit or miss. The ox tongue appetizer was decent, nice and spicy, a mix of beef and tripe (there was some tendon, but it was maybe tougher). It's nice that there were peanuts in it too. There were small bits of cilantro, while I wish the cilantro to be cut more long. The mala flavor was present and noticeable. Weaker were the "Ants on a Tree" (small portion, meat not small enough, and the noodles too chewy) and the Szechuan boiled beef (had slices that were too thick, almost 1980s-style beef with broccoli thick). Good that the place has been around for a number of years, but I hope it gets stronger in the cuisine department. I'm looking forward to maybe trying out the dumplings at a later visit. read more

I like how organized and quick the service was. One of my favourites because there were many dishes to choose from. Super tasty dishes for a good price. I would recommend others and will go back there when I can. read more

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Nine out of ten Chinese restaurants I used to like had gone downhill after the Covid pandemic. As a result, I go out a lot less often because I don't want to spend money on food that is not even good. Today, we decided to go Sichuan Gourmet for lunch as it was close to my in law's house. We just got three lunch sets and they definitely exceeded my expectations. They were all cook to order and the flavor was authentic and delicious. Mulan, which was used to be one of my favorites, didn't do that anymore. I'm not going to spend my money on food that is pre-made. Portion is normal but all I care about nowadays is the taste of the food. I didn't take any pictures of the dishes because I was prepared to be disappointed. I chatted with the waitress there and she told me that the chef was over sixties but insisted on not getting retired. She was attentive and spoke fluent English and Mandarin. By the way, the restroom is the cleanest I have seen among Chinese restaurants. So stop by if you get a chance. Good restaurants are hard to find now and we need to give them support as much as we could or we will lose them forever. read more

We loved the food it was delicious and we will definitely be coming back and very good and nice service we sincerely love it

I ordered the pork dumplings and the sweet and sour chicken, the latter being my test entree for first time Asian restaurant visits. The dumplings were tasty although I didn't expect them to arrive in a bowl of broth; but it was also tasty. The chicken was a different story; first off you have to order your own rice with this dish. Plus, you should know that I have a prejudice against heavily breaded, deep-fried chicken pieces accompanied by a thick, neon-colored sauce, which was exactly what was delivered to my table today in the late afternoon. (I prefer light or no breading; breading is just empty calories; see the photo for what I removed, essentially 3/4 of the volume.) More details: most of the remaining chicken strips (the size of fast food French fries) most were white breast meat but two of them were impossible to chew and didn't even look like chicken. The tea was good. Throughout my dining experience my server was very curious and told me she had only been there 3 days; I gave her a nice tip. There were only two other tables taken and there were two loud guys at the bar; the noise level with these few patrons made me wonder how loud it must be if they ever have more than 6 talkers in attendance. read more

Sichuan Gourmet House - Breading removed from sweet and sour chicken. - Szechuan Near Me - Newton, Massachusetts

IMO, because of the many wonderful options, one should never eat alone at a Chinese restaurant; however, it is what it is and since I am traveling alone for work and don't know anyone in the area, here I am - alone. I came because they offered several versions of whole fish. I came at lunch and realized that a whole fish and some sides would be too much. Instead, I opted for the lunch special of a black bean fish filet. This meal also included soup (hot and sour), rice, and crab Rangoon. They had soup dumplings and since I could not resist, I ordered them. I was greeted by the very friendly hostess who seated me and chatted about missing her former home in Orange County, CA. The menu is beautiful and must have cost a pretty penny to produce. The pages were large, in full color, with many pictures and descriptions of the many menu items. I started with the hot and sour soup. It was hot and has a perfect spiciness. The crab Rangoon were just ordinary. No crab flavor - real or imitation - was detected. I do not know what kind of fish was used in my main dish, but the consistency of the fish was like that of softly scrambled eggs and I found it rather off putting, though I ate it because I was hungry. The portion was generous and the red and green bell peppers, onions, and black bean sauce made it more palatable. Next, the soup dumplings. The dough was rather thick. I presumed that it was to hold all of the delicious soup inside. But, no. Not much broth at all. The meatballs were flavorful, but more broth was needed. read more

A regular for me & melady. One of the best Hot & Sour soups in Greater Boston & never been disappointed by their entrees (Orange Beef excellent, btw). Good value, decent prices, waitstaff has been pleasant & prompt. We'll keep coming back for sure! read more

Spicy Fried Rice... Trust me It's not traditionally flavored fried rice. So don't start eating with those expectations just try it. It is the most unique fried rice I've ever had. And I'm not a fan of fried rice. But the SFR, my mouth is actually watering thinking of it at 8am. Husband likes insane spice and has the capsicum chicken. I'm afraid to try it (delicate constitution). He loves it, while eating..... ... ... Dan Dan noodles were my thing. But now that I've had the spicy fried rice. I can't get anything else. read more

UPDATE: I mentioned I wished the portion for fried squid were bigger...I asked and they granted!!! So happy!!! It's yummy!!!

Westlake soup was surprisingly good in texture & taste with aromatic herbs. Cumin lamb skewers was disappointing: many of the chunks were just gloppy fat. Not fatty meat but pure fat. Ugh. Server was unfriendly to begin with but later warmed up. Not as attentive as expected given there were only 3 other tables occupied mid afternoon. read more