Went here for lunch at 12:05 pm. I was the only one in there ?? Ordered Chicken lo mein. Chicken was hard on outside and rubbery inside. So they microwaved it from the freezer. Noodles were gross and feel apart like mush so they were overcooked sitting in a pot somewhere. This isn't exaggerating I can feel my throat swell a little which means their shellfish is mixing with the regular food, whether its surfaces or utensils etc . Im allergic to shellfish. Im taking a Benadryl now to be safe. Server was on the phone chatting away in another language and was the hostess. She was terrible. 13 dollars for a lunch, im never coming back. The place is really bad. Your choice whether u go or not. You have been warned.
Martha W.
Went yesterday with coworkers. Food was fantastic! Very large portions! I'm a westsider, but will definitely make the trip to Solon often to go there.
Diane W.
Hey, I like this place! It's never busy, though. At least not the two times I've been there anyway. They must do a banging lunch and/or take-out business. Anyway the food is good (Shrimp Lo Mien and Yom Ka Gai soup). The service is nice, too. Please patronize.
Pankaj K.
SO INEXPENSIVE, AND SO KIND! The food they serve is authentic Chinese food, not some watered down American version. On top of that the food is soooooo cheap, you can go all the time. The employees are so nice, they give me a free bottle of Sprite. And it was a 2 liter bottle! If that is not a good reason to always get Chinese food from there, I don't know what is!
Patrick J.
I eat red bowl about once a month for lunch since it is right by work. They have great quality food and they are super fast. Can dine in and out quick too. I always order the hunan beef lunch special that comes with an egg roll. Good Chinese food, fast service, reasonable prices.
Irene Y.
Love their fried rice and sesame chicken. Nice service and a good atmosphere is never very crowded and also delivers which is very nice!
Danielle S.
First, I have to say this.. 1 Star is being extremely generous. Unfortunately there is no 0 option so 1 it is. Whatever might possess you to try this restaurant, despite the poor reviews. STOP. Don't do it. It's not worth it. I know what you're thinking "oh it can't be that bad. It has a few 5 star reviews!" You're wrong. It is that bad. I imagine the people who left those reviews suffer from a medical condition known as anosmia, meaning you lack the sense of smell and therefore your sense of taste is equally affected. That's the only possible reason I can come up with that anyone could give this restaurant a good or even mediocre review. My husband and I pass this restaurant regularly and always comment about having dinner there. I checked out the reviews on yelp and because they weren't stellar, for months we avoided it. Tonight, I said what the hell... let's try it. We walk in and are greeted by a boy who is about 10 years old. He seats us at a table and gets us a high chair for my son. He takes our drink order and the waitress brings us our waters and kind of rudely just places them on the table. She asks if we're ready and we say yes. She didn't introduce herself and wasn't warm or polite. Literally the first thing she said was "are you ready to order?" We order things that are pretty hard to screw up. Even the worst Chinese restaurants make these dishes that are standard American Chinese food. For an appetizer we order fried vegetable dumplings because I've never had a bad potsticker in my life. Until tonight.... She brought us our dumplings and didn't give us appetizer dishes so we just ate off of the serving dish. They were horrible. The wonton wrapper was rubbery and the filling was mushy, wet and disgusting. There were corn kernels in what looked like a raw vegetable mash. It was inedible. I saw another review that said they were store bought frozen dumplings. I believe that. They didn't look or taste like homemade potstickers. The sauce it came with was okay. I ate half of one and my husband ate one and we decided we wouldn't eat the rest. For dinner, we ordered, again, things that are fairly difficult to mess up. Standard American Chinese entrees. I ordered sesame chicken. what should be a breaded, crispy, deep fried chicken with a sweet sesame sauce was a breaded, mushy chicken with a thin, bland, not sweet brown sauce over a bed of lettuce. I took one bite. It was inedible. I don't know how you can fry breaded chicken and have it come out mushy but they managed to do it. The only good thing about it was the plain steamed rice. The rest was horrible. My husband ordered Kung pao chicken. He asked for it medium spicy. It was not spicy at all. I tried it. A standard brown sauce without a drop of spice. Kung pao is supposed to be spicy. It was bland and also inedible. He took about 6 bites before he gave up. The only pros to dishes were large serving portions. So if you're looking to get a giant heaping plate of crap, go for it. I went to the register to pay. A woman asked me what was wrong. I told her we didn't like the food. She asked if we wanted something else. We said no thanks. She asked what was wrong with it. I told her it just wasn't very good and not what we're used to. Then our waitress handed us the bill. She didn't take anything off and didn't even offer. I even tipped her $3.00 because I felt bad that she'd likely be out of a job soon because the restaurant can't possibly last much longer. $34.00 for two bites of the worst Chinese food I've ever eaten. My husband and I left and got take out from another restaurant.
San W.
My husband and I LOVE this place. Family owned, everyone is SO nice all the time and the food is always delivered on time and fresh as can be. It's never greasy which is amazing and I've never had non greasy Chinese food. there's literally nothing on the menu I don't like. I'm a recently converted vegetarian and switched from chicken general tap to tofu... AMAZING.
Lee E.
Typical take out Chinese food nothing special. Food ok at best. Really friendly staff.
Michele G.
I've had take-out from Red Bowl several times and while the food is nothing special, it does the trick if you're just having a hankering for mediocre Chinese food. Where I have an issue is how Red Bowl handled a recent experience. I ordered take-out and brought the food home. Once while eating my meal, I bit down on something that was clearly not food (it was hard, so thinking a tiny rock or bit of plastic?). As I more closely examined my meal, there were other black hard "things" in my meal. Naturally, I was turned off from my meal and stopped eating it. Plus, my tooth hurt from when I bit down on whatever hard object it was. My husband did the same with his meal just because the whole experience left us questioning the safety of the food we were eating. I brought the food back to the restaurant and explained what had happened. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to speak directly with a manager, but after explaining to the person working there what had happened, she got the manager on the phone. She initially offered to cook me some new food and I explained I was sort of turned off from eating from there and that I would just like a refund. Where I have a problem is how the situation was handled. Rather than apologizing, the woman working there proceeds to examine the food (I'm thinking to better understand what the foreign objects in the food may have been). I had even collected a few of these "objects" and put them into a small container for the restaurant to more easily examine what they might be. Nope. She was trying to measure how much food I had already consumed so only that percentage could be refunded. She explained that there was still food left in the containers, so she wouldn't be able to refund the full amount. I asked her if there was any concern on their end that they had just served food that contained foreign objects in it and she just sort of chuckled (I'm guessing out of nervousness). I told her I would come back when the manager was present so I could speak directly with him about my concern. I left to return to my car and she came out to the parking lot and asked me to return inside. She eventually refunded my money, but I am concerned with the ethics behind how this restaurant operates.
Very disappointed with such all the good reviews. I really thought it was going to be good food. There was only six shrimp in the curry shrimp order. The fired rice look like it was reheated. The cost is $$$$ for what I order. I would not recommend it. I travel for work, this is one I would stay away from.
Kelly M.
I have had food from here before that has been good enough but tonight I got takeout and was extremely disappointed. I had the garlic chicken and it was flavorless and the vegetables barely cooked. I also got a side of lo mein and perhaps it's my fault for assuming it would have something more than just noodles.... no veggies or anything... I got there in the time he told me it would take and the food was cold. There were no sauces in the bag and worst of all, no fortune cookie! I ended up throwing it all away after trying a few bites of everything.
Marta K.
Our go-to place for Chinese food. The Genral Tso's Chicken is wonderful as is everything else we've tried. No disappointments! Of particular note is the Orange Beef...simply delicious. Friendly staff.
Will L.
This is what you would expect. Just nothing unusual and nothing with any flair. Most of the sauces at our table of four were the same even though listed as different "brown" sauces on the menu. It was salty, plain, and covered in rice. The chicken in mine was clearly frozen shaved chicken and nothing that resembled high quality ingredients. This was my second time dining in. I refrained from my first review as I wanted to give a second chance. It likely was my last time. If you want some quick chinese take out, this is your place. If you want a nice lunch or dinner, pass.
Carlos P.
The food very consistently good. I love the spring rolls and the pad Thai the same better than a lot of Thai restaurants.
Went here for lunch at 12:05 pm. I was the only one in there ?? Ordered Chicken lo mein. Chicken was hard on outside and rubbery inside. So they microwaved it from the freezer. Noodles were gross and feel apart like mush so they were overcooked sitting in a pot somewhere. This isn't exaggerating I can feel my throat swell a little which means their shellfish is mixing with the regular food, whether its surfaces or utensils etc . Im allergic to shellfish. Im taking a Benadryl now to be safe. Server was on the phone chatting away in another language and was the hostess. She was terrible. 13 dollars for a lunch, im never coming back. The place is really bad. Your choice whether u go or not. You have been warned.
Went yesterday with coworkers. Food was fantastic! Very large portions! I'm a westsider, but will definitely make the trip to Solon often to go there.
Hey, I like this place! It's never busy, though. At least not the two times I've been there anyway. They must do a banging lunch and/or take-out business. Anyway the food is good (Shrimp Lo Mien and Yom Ka Gai soup). The service is nice, too. Please patronize.
SO INEXPENSIVE, AND SO KIND! The food they serve is authentic Chinese food, not some watered down American version. On top of that the food is soooooo cheap, you can go all the time. The employees are so nice, they give me a free bottle of Sprite. And it was a 2 liter bottle! If that is not a good reason to always get Chinese food from there, I don't know what is!
I eat red bowl about once a month for lunch since it is right by work. They have great quality food and they are super fast. Can dine in and out quick too. I always order the hunan beef lunch special that comes with an egg roll. Good Chinese food, fast service, reasonable prices.
Love their fried rice and sesame chicken. Nice service and a good atmosphere is never very crowded and also delivers which is very nice!
First, I have to say this.. 1 Star is being extremely generous. Unfortunately there is no 0 option so 1 it is. Whatever might possess you to try this restaurant, despite the poor reviews. STOP. Don't do it. It's not worth it. I know what you're thinking "oh it can't be that bad. It has a few 5 star reviews!" You're wrong. It is that bad. I imagine the people who left those reviews suffer from a medical condition known as anosmia, meaning you lack the sense of smell and therefore your sense of taste is equally affected. That's the only possible reason I can come up with that anyone could give this restaurant a good or even mediocre review. My husband and I pass this restaurant regularly and always comment about having dinner there. I checked out the reviews on yelp and because they weren't stellar, for months we avoided it. Tonight, I said what the hell... let's try it. We walk in and are greeted by a boy who is about 10 years old. He seats us at a table and gets us a high chair for my son. He takes our drink order and the waitress brings us our waters and kind of rudely just places them on the table. She asks if we're ready and we say yes. She didn't introduce herself and wasn't warm or polite. Literally the first thing she said was "are you ready to order?" We order things that are pretty hard to screw up. Even the worst Chinese restaurants make these dishes that are standard American Chinese food. For an appetizer we order fried vegetable dumplings because I've never had a bad potsticker in my life. Until tonight.... She brought us our dumplings and didn't give us appetizer dishes so we just ate off of the serving dish. They were horrible. The wonton wrapper was rubbery and the filling was mushy, wet and disgusting. There were corn kernels in what looked like a raw vegetable mash. It was inedible. I saw another review that said they were store bought frozen dumplings. I believe that. They didn't look or taste like homemade potstickers. The sauce it came with was okay. I ate half of one and my husband ate one and we decided we wouldn't eat the rest. For dinner, we ordered, again, things that are fairly difficult to mess up. Standard American Chinese entrees. I ordered sesame chicken. what should be a breaded, crispy, deep fried chicken with a sweet sesame sauce was a breaded, mushy chicken with a thin, bland, not sweet brown sauce over a bed of lettuce. I took one bite. It was inedible. I don't know how you can fry breaded chicken and have it come out mushy but they managed to do it. The only good thing about it was the plain steamed rice. The rest was horrible. My husband ordered Kung pao chicken. He asked for it medium spicy. It was not spicy at all. I tried it. A standard brown sauce without a drop of spice. Kung pao is supposed to be spicy. It was bland and also inedible. He took about 6 bites before he gave up. The only pros to dishes were large serving portions. So if you're looking to get a giant heaping plate of crap, go for it. I went to the register to pay. A woman asked me what was wrong. I told her we didn't like the food. She asked if we wanted something else. We said no thanks. She asked what was wrong with it. I told her it just wasn't very good and not what we're used to. Then our waitress handed us the bill. She didn't take anything off and didn't even offer. I even tipped her $3.00 because I felt bad that she'd likely be out of a job soon because the restaurant can't possibly last much longer. $34.00 for two bites of the worst Chinese food I've ever eaten. My husband and I left and got take out from another restaurant.
My husband and I LOVE this place. Family owned, everyone is SO nice all the time and the food is always delivered on time and fresh as can be. It's never greasy which is amazing and I've never had non greasy Chinese food. there's literally nothing on the menu I don't like. I'm a recently converted vegetarian and switched from chicken general tap to tofu... AMAZING.
Typical take out Chinese food nothing special. Food ok at best. Really friendly staff.
I've had take-out from Red Bowl several times and while the food is nothing special, it does the trick if you're just having a hankering for mediocre Chinese food. Where I have an issue is how Red Bowl handled a recent experience. I ordered take-out and brought the food home. Once while eating my meal, I bit down on something that was clearly not food (it was hard, so thinking a tiny rock or bit of plastic?). As I more closely examined my meal, there were other black hard "things" in my meal. Naturally, I was turned off from my meal and stopped eating it. Plus, my tooth hurt from when I bit down on whatever hard object it was. My husband did the same with his meal just because the whole experience left us questioning the safety of the food we were eating. I brought the food back to the restaurant and explained what had happened. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to speak directly with a manager, but after explaining to the person working there what had happened, she got the manager on the phone. She initially offered to cook me some new food and I explained I was sort of turned off from eating from there and that I would just like a refund. Where I have a problem is how the situation was handled. Rather than apologizing, the woman working there proceeds to examine the food (I'm thinking to better understand what the foreign objects in the food may have been). I had even collected a few of these "objects" and put them into a small container for the restaurant to more easily examine what they might be. Nope. She was trying to measure how much food I had already consumed so only that percentage could be refunded. She explained that there was still food left in the containers, so she wouldn't be able to refund the full amount. I asked her if there was any concern on their end that they had just served food that contained foreign objects in it and she just sort of chuckled (I'm guessing out of nervousness). I told her I would come back when the manager was present so I could speak directly with him about my concern. I left to return to my car and she came out to the parking lot and asked me to return inside. She eventually refunded my money, but I am concerned with the ethics behind how this restaurant operates.
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Very disappointed with such all the good reviews. I really thought it was going to be good food. There was only six shrimp in the curry shrimp order. The fired rice look like it was reheated. The cost is $$$$ for what I order. I would not recommend it. I travel for work, this is one I would stay away from.
I have had food from here before that has been good enough but tonight I got takeout and was extremely disappointed. I had the garlic chicken and it was flavorless and the vegetables barely cooked. I also got a side of lo mein and perhaps it's my fault for assuming it would have something more than just noodles.... no veggies or anything... I got there in the time he told me it would take and the food was cold. There were no sauces in the bag and worst of all, no fortune cookie! I ended up throwing it all away after trying a few bites of everything.
Our go-to place for Chinese food. The Genral Tso's Chicken is wonderful as is everything else we've tried. No disappointments! Of particular note is the Orange Beef...simply delicious. Friendly staff.
This is what you would expect. Just nothing unusual and nothing with any flair. Most of the sauces at our table of four were the same even though listed as different "brown" sauces on the menu. It was salty, plain, and covered in rice. The chicken in mine was clearly frozen shaved chicken and nothing that resembled high quality ingredients. This was my second time dining in. I refrained from my first review as I wanted to give a second chance. It likely was my last time. If you want some quick chinese take out, this is your place. If you want a nice lunch or dinner, pass.
The food very consistently good. I love the spring rolls and the pad Thai the same better than a lot of Thai restaurants.