Good restaurant. Service was great. Restaurant clean. They have a nice menu selection. I got combination #5 which is chicken chow mein, sweet & sour chicken, 1 egg roll and fried rice. Egg roll was my favorite followed by sweet sour chicken. The chow mein and fried rice were also good. Coke products served but in a can so you will pay more if that is not enough for you. There is plenty of parking. I enjoyed my dinner and would go back.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Egg Rolls and Dipping Sauce, Sweet and Sour Chicken
Chris Kranz
The food was prepared fresh and it was delicious! Walnut shrimp and potstickers. Good stuff!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Fortune Cookie
VaVa Love D
Beat Chinese food in Minneapolis rt now..I know the meat is real chicken! And its deliciously made ..Taste like St.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
Rainbow C.
The fried rice was very good and had some of the small shrimp at least. General Tso chicken was also very good. We had the regular (not sub gum) bbq pork chow mein. it didn't have much taste, it lacked bbq pork, and had huge cuts of celery.
Google User
Would be zero, you advertised you have a buffet and you don't, wasted time driving to your building all to see a sign "no buffet"
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
SBuzz 16
Hopes has the tastiest Chinese food this side of Hong Kong.Their beef chow mein, egg foo young, and sesame chicken is outstanding.
I have been eating here for 13 years, never had a bad dish whether I have dined in or taken out. I am sad that due to low staff there is not buffet after Covid, but the individual dishes I have had have been FANTASTIC. As far as food poisoning no worries, I have gotten sick several times from the local McDonalds up down the street from Hopes.
Lyn W.
Good food, good prices for the times. Not sure if they still have their buffet. But that used to be awesome!
Buffet closed (due to low staffing) until further notice. They are available for dine in and take out from their menu. With the buffet, I would usually give it 4 stars. I have been coming here since I was a kid and have been bringing my kids here for years. We have only eaten from the buffet. The food is typical Americanized Chinese food. It is a cozy atmosphere and we like to sit by the fireplace. The buffet was nice because there was a variety of foods to try--something for everyone. It is much smaller, and more affordable, than other Chinese buffets around the north metro. To me, the dishes have been hit or miss, depending on the day and the time of day we came; however, my picky teens always like it, so that says something. The staff have always been friendly and helpful. We came a month ago, but they were closed for remodeling. We have family in town, so we came today for the buffet, at their request, but the buffet was closed due to low staffing. Unfortunately, my family didn't want to order from the menu and hope they liked it. The nice thing about a buffet is that you can try a small sample of an item and, if you don't like it, you can choose something else without extra cost. If you order from the menu and don't like it, you waste food and have to order an additional dish, wait for it while everyone else eats, and have to pay double. Or you just eat it and don't want to return. We like a little bit of several items here, but not an entire dish of one thing, so we won't be back until the buffet is open. On the other hand, a typical Chinese meal has a few items that are shared among the group, so you could all order a different entree and a couple of sides to share. My group was not keen on this idea today, but maybe your group will create your own buffet. The reviews that mentioned food poisoning could actually be due to eating items with their hands without sanitizing after handling the serving utensils and immediately prior to picking up the finger food (donuts, wontons, cones, etc... ) since we naturally have a ton of bacteria on our hands and gather more from everything we touch. Hand washing only decreases the number of bacteria, it doesn't eliminate all of them. (Even antibacterial soap must be scrubbed for 2 mins before rinsing to actually kill the bacteria.) Also, only staphylococcus bacteria can cause food poisoning soon after eating. Other bacteria can take 12-72 hours before causing symptoms, so just because one gets sick soon after eating, doesn't mean that their last meal was the culprit. I used to assume that also, until I studied microbiology. Also, as I can attest to myself, some people's GI tracts are more sensitive to certain foods than others. Sometimes fried Chinese food upsets my stomach but the rest of my party is fine; it doesn't mean it's food poisoning. But, it is important to ensure foods are kept temperature controlled (cold or hot, not lukewarm) and don't sit out too long. You can usually tell by looking at them or testing their temp. If a "hot"item feels room temp, you probably shouldn't eat it.
Bruno H
Big dishes, great service.. Food was good too.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Beef Broccoli, Butterfly Shrimp, Sweet and Sour Chicken
Rainey Fall
Called in an order of shrimp fried rice. It was a lot of shrimp ? in my rice and enough for 4.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
Joel Wales
The worst attempt at anything resembling Chinese food I've ever had. The "Mongolian Beef" was 90% under cooked vegetables smothered in some sort of instant brown gravy.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
lucy streich
Food is always delicious!This place has always been around forever ❤️
Good restaurant. Service was great. Restaurant clean. They have a nice menu selection. I got combination #5 which is chicken chow mein, sweet & sour chicken, 1 egg roll and fried rice. Egg roll was my favorite followed by sweet sour chicken. The chow mein and fried rice were also good. Coke products served but in a can so you will pay more if that is not enough for you. There is plenty of parking. I enjoyed my dinner and would go back.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Egg Rolls and Dipping Sauce, Sweet and Sour Chicken
The food was prepared fresh and it was delicious! Walnut shrimp and potstickers. Good stuff!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Fortune Cookie
Beat Chinese food in Minneapolis rt now..I know the meat is real chicken! And its deliciously made ..Taste like St.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
The fried rice was very good and had some of the small shrimp at least. General Tso chicken was also very good. We had the regular (not sub gum) bbq pork chow mein. it didn't have much taste, it lacked bbq pork, and had huge cuts of celery.
Would be zero, you advertised you have a buffet and you don't, wasted time driving to your building all to see a sign "no buffet"
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Hopes has the tastiest Chinese food this side of Hong Kong.Their beef chow mein, egg foo young, and sesame chicken is outstanding.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Fortune Cookie, Sesame Chicken, Roast Pork Fried Rice, Beef Chow Mein
Prices were more then we thought.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
I have been eating here for 13 years, never had a bad dish whether I have dined in or taken out. I am sad that due to low staff there is not buffet after Covid, but the individual dishes I have had have been FANTASTIC. As far as food poisoning no worries, I have gotten sick several times from the local McDonalds up down the street from Hopes.
Good food, good prices for the times. Not sure if they still have their buffet. But that used to be awesome!
Gone here for years. Really enjoy their lo mein.
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Buffet closed (due to low staffing) until further notice. They are available for dine in and take out from their menu. With the buffet, I would usually give it 4 stars. I have been coming here since I was a kid and have been bringing my kids here for years. We have only eaten from the buffet. The food is typical Americanized Chinese food. It is a cozy atmosphere and we like to sit by the fireplace. The buffet was nice because there was a variety of foods to try--something for everyone. It is much smaller, and more affordable, than other Chinese buffets around the north metro. To me, the dishes have been hit or miss, depending on the day and the time of day we came; however, my picky teens always like it, so that says something. The staff have always been friendly and helpful. We came a month ago, but they were closed for remodeling. We have family in town, so we came today for the buffet, at their request, but the buffet was closed due to low staffing. Unfortunately, my family didn't want to order from the menu and hope they liked it. The nice thing about a buffet is that you can try a small sample of an item and, if you don't like it, you can choose something else without extra cost. If you order from the menu and don't like it, you waste food and have to order an additional dish, wait for it while everyone else eats, and have to pay double. Or you just eat it and don't want to return. We like a little bit of several items here, but not an entire dish of one thing, so we won't be back until the buffet is open. On the other hand, a typical Chinese meal has a few items that are shared among the group, so you could all order a different entree and a couple of sides to share. My group was not keen on this idea today, but maybe your group will create your own buffet. The reviews that mentioned food poisoning could actually be due to eating items with their hands without sanitizing after handling the serving utensils and immediately prior to picking up the finger food (donuts, wontons, cones, etc... ) since we naturally have a ton of bacteria on our hands and gather more from everything we touch. Hand washing only decreases the number of bacteria, it doesn't eliminate all of them. (Even antibacterial soap must be scrubbed for 2 mins before rinsing to actually kill the bacteria.) Also, only staphylococcus bacteria can cause food poisoning soon after eating. Other bacteria can take 12-72 hours before causing symptoms, so just because one gets sick soon after eating, doesn't mean that their last meal was the culprit. I used to assume that also, until I studied microbiology. Also, as I can attest to myself, some people's GI tracts are more sensitive to certain foods than others. Sometimes fried Chinese food upsets my stomach but the rest of my party is fine; it doesn't mean it's food poisoning. But, it is important to ensure foods are kept temperature controlled (cold or hot, not lukewarm) and don't sit out too long. You can usually tell by looking at them or testing their temp. If a "hot"item feels room temp, you probably shouldn't eat it.
Big dishes, great service.. Food was good too.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Beef Broccoli, Butterfly Shrimp, Sweet and Sour Chicken
Called in an order of shrimp fried rice. It was a lot of shrimp ? in my rice and enough for 4.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
The worst attempt at anything resembling Chinese food I've ever had. The "Mongolian Beef" was 90% under cooked vegetables smothered in some sort of instant brown gravy.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Food is always delicious!This place has always been around forever ❤️
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 4