Kingston Restaurant Guide
Chinese Gourmet Restaurant
(3 ratings)
(845) 338-0033
907 Ulster Ave, Kingston, NY 12401
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March 10, 2013 @ 11:13 PM
a diner from Rhinebeck, NY
Crucifying a restaurant in a review is something I take very seriously and haven't done before. I don't do it now without a lot of thought, HOWEVER, this was the worst meal I've ever had at a Chinese Restaurant. Bad food. ridiculously high prices, strange vibe, strange ambience.
Maybe it was the chef's night off -- it was Sunday. Maybe it was a slow, sad night for the waitress, who was very inattentive.
Maybe we were in a bad mood. Maybe, maybe, maybe.
But, in the end, it was lousy food for too much money.
The story of the night can only be told with snippets:
-- There are single bottles of top shelf liquor in tall display cases in the dining room -- bizarre. And the presence of high priced liquor bottles does nothing to justify the prices.
-- Although we didn't order sushi, I can't imagine it was good enough to justify @5.50 for tuna sushi a la carte. (but, we didn't order it so it's possible that sushi is their forte, i guess)
-- The potted plants next to the front door were covered in discarded coffee cups and unappetizing trash
-- The dining room was empty and silent until we asked for them to turn music on. The waitress put on Christmas music. That might have been the high point of the night, for desperately needed comic relief.
-- On our first, and last visit, we took about an hour to eat on a Sunday night and not one person came into the restaurant while we were there. After the meal it was obvious why the place was empty.
-- Hot and sour soup had little taste at all and surely not any a hot or sour taste. We had to send it back. (Which they did, gladly. This is to their credit, I guess)
-- Chicken dumplings were surely the poorest quality frozen dumplings available. We ate them because we were hungry.
-- The free crunchy noodles were the very good kind, not the thin stale ones.
Maybe it was the chef's night off -- it was Sunday. Maybe it was a slow, sad night for the waitress, who was very inattentive.
Maybe we were in a bad mood. Maybe, maybe, maybe.
But, in the end, it was lousy food for too much money.
The story of the night can only be told with snippets:
-- There are single bottles of top shelf liquor in tall display cases in the dining room -- bizarre. And the presence of high priced liquor bottles does nothing to justify the prices.
-- Although we didn't order sushi, I can't imagine it was good enough to justify @5.50 for tuna sushi a la carte. (but, we didn't order it so it's possible that sushi is their forte, i guess)
-- The potted plants next to the front door were covered in discarded coffee cups and unappetizing trash
-- The dining room was empty and silent until we asked for them to turn music on. The waitress put on Christmas music. That might have been the high point of the night, for desperately needed comic relief.
-- On our first, and last visit, we took about an hour to eat on a Sunday night and not one person came into the restaurant while we were there. After the meal it was obvious why the place was empty.
-- Hot and sour soup had little taste at all and surely not any a hot or sour taste. We had to send it back. (Which they did, gladly. This is to their credit, I guess)
-- Chicken dumplings were surely the poorest quality frozen dumplings available. We ate them because we were hungry.
-- The free crunchy noodles were the very good kind, not the thin stale ones.
June 19, 2010 @ 5:49 PM
a diner from Kingston, NY
WOW, the person who wrote the review from Red Hook must work at China Rose in Rhinecliff, haha. Talk about a scathing review.
We've eaten at C Gourmet off and on for 8 years. The food is always predictable, not incredible, but not awful. Delivery is always prompt, I've never had rude service. I do have to say that we avoid the appetizers, as their egg rolls definitely are tough and chewy and mostly cabbage.
I wish I could find something in between the greasy-but-more-traditional Engs and C Gourmet which tends to be lacking a bit in flavoring. I think we've tried ALL of them around here.
We've eaten at C Gourmet off and on for 8 years. The food is always predictable, not incredible, but not awful. Delivery is always prompt, I've never had rude service. I do have to say that we avoid the appetizers, as their egg rolls definitely are tough and chewy and mostly cabbage.
I wish I could find something in between the greasy-but-more-traditional Engs and C Gourmet which tends to be lacking a bit in flavoring. I think we've tried ALL of them around here.
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March 10, 2013 @ 11:13 PM
a diner from Rhinebeck, NY
Crucifying a restaurant in a review is something I take very seriously and haven't done before. I don't do it now without a lot of thought, HOWEVER, this was the worst meal I've ever had at a Chinese Restaurant. Bad food. ridiculously high prices, strange vibe, strange ambience.
Maybe it was the chef's night off -- it was Sunday. Maybe it was a slow, sad night for the waitress, who was very inattentive.
Maybe we were in a bad mood. Maybe, maybe, maybe.
But, in the end, it was lousy food for too much money.
The story of the night can only be told with snippets:
-- There are single bottles of top shelf liquor in tall display cases in the dining room -- bizarre. And the presence of high priced liquor bottles does nothing to justify the prices.
-- Although we didn't order sushi, I can't imagine it was good enough to justify @5.50 for tuna sushi a la carte. (but, we didn't order it so it's possible that sushi is their forte, i guess)
-- The potted plants next to the front door were covered in discarded coffee cups and unappetizing trash
-- The dining room was empty and silent until we asked for them to turn music on. The waitress put on Christmas music. That might have been the high point of the night, for desperately needed comic relief.
-- On our first, and last visit, we took about an hour to eat on a Sunday night and not one person came into the restaurant while we were there. After the meal it was obvious why the place was empty.
-- Hot and sour soup had little taste at all and surely not any a hot or sour taste. We had to send it back. (Which they did, gladly. This is to their credit, I guess)
-- Chicken dumplings were surely the poorest quality frozen dumplings available. We ate them because we were hungry.
-- The free crunchy noodles were the very good kind, not the thin stale ones.
Maybe it was the chef's night off -- it was Sunday. Maybe it was a slow, sad night for the waitress, who was very inattentive.
Maybe we were in a bad mood. Maybe, maybe, maybe.
But, in the end, it was lousy food for too much money.
The story of the night can only be told with snippets:
-- There are single bottles of top shelf liquor in tall display cases in the dining room -- bizarre. And the presence of high priced liquor bottles does nothing to justify the prices.
-- Although we didn't order sushi, I can't imagine it was good enough to justify @5.50 for tuna sushi a la carte. (but, we didn't order it so it's possible that sushi is their forte, i guess)
-- The potted plants next to the front door were covered in discarded coffee cups and unappetizing trash
-- The dining room was empty and silent until we asked for them to turn music on. The waitress put on Christmas music. That might have been the high point of the night, for desperately needed comic relief.
-- On our first, and last visit, we took about an hour to eat on a Sunday night and not one person came into the restaurant while we were there. After the meal it was obvious why the place was empty.
-- Hot and sour soup had little taste at all and surely not any a hot or sour taste. We had to send it back. (Which they did, gladly. This is to their credit, I guess)
-- Chicken dumplings were surely the poorest quality frozen dumplings available. We ate them because we were hungry.
-- The free crunchy noodles were the very good kind, not the thin stale ones.
June 19, 2010 @ 5:49 PM
a diner from Kingston, NY
WOW, the person who wrote the review from Red Hook must work at China Rose in Rhinecliff, haha. Talk about a scathing review.
We've eaten at C Gourmet off and on for 8 years. The food is always predictable, not incredible, but not awful. Delivery is always prompt, I've never had rude service. I do have to say that we avoid the appetizers, as their egg rolls definitely are tough and chewy and mostly cabbage.
I wish I could find something in between the greasy-but-more-traditional Engs and C Gourmet which tends to be lacking a bit in flavoring. I think we've tried ALL of them around here.
We've eaten at C Gourmet off and on for 8 years. The food is always predictable, not incredible, but not awful. Delivery is always prompt, I've never had rude service. I do have to say that we avoid the appetizers, as their egg rolls definitely are tough and chewy and mostly cabbage.
I wish I could find something in between the greasy-but-more-traditional Engs and C Gourmet which tends to be lacking a bit in flavoring. I think we've tried ALL of them around here.
May 2, 2009 @ 8:02 PM
a diner from Red Hook, NY
This is one of the worst Chinese restaurants we have been to. We sampled three appetizers, which all tasted like they had been thawed from a value brand frozen box. The scallion pancakes were grainy disks of dough flavor served with peanut butter sauce and the dumplings were so thick with dough that we could barely bite through to the tasteless wilted cabbage inside. We tried a sushi roll, which was not bad, but it was made with Chinese jasmine rice not Japanese short grain. The taste of the food, combined with the exorbitant prices and the indescribably jarring music mix made for an experience so bad that it became a comical satire of its self.
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March 10, 2013 @ 11:13 PM
a diner from Rhinebeck, NY
Crucifying a restaurant in a review is something I take very seriously and haven't done before. I don't do it now without a lot of thought, HOWEVER, this was the worst meal I've ever had at a Chinese Restaurant. Bad food. ridiculously high prices, strange vibe, strange ambience.
Maybe it was the chef's night off -- it was Sunday. Maybe it was a slow, sad night for the waitress, who was very inattentive.
Maybe we were in a bad mood. Maybe, maybe, maybe.
But, in the end, it was lousy food for too much money.
The story of the night can only be told with snippets:
-- There are single bottles of top shelf liquor in tall display cases in the dining room -- bizarre. And the presence of high priced liquor bottles does nothing to justify the prices.
-- Although we didn't order sushi, I can't imagine it was good enough to justify @5.50 for tuna sushi a la carte. (but, we didn't order it so it's possible that sushi is their forte, i guess)
-- The potted plants next to the front door were covered in discarded coffee cups and unappetizing trash
-- The dining room was empty and silent until we asked for them to turn music on. The waitress put on Christmas music. That might have been the high point of the night, for desperately needed comic relief.
-- On our first, and last visit, we took about an hour to eat on a Sunday night and not one person came into the restaurant while we were there. After the meal it was obvious why the place was empty.
-- Hot and sour soup had little taste at all and surely not any a hot or sour taste. We had to send it back. (Which they did, gladly. This is to their credit, I guess)
-- Chicken dumplings were surely the poorest quality frozen dumplings available. We ate them because we were hungry.
-- The free crunchy noodles were the very good kind, not the thin stale ones.
Maybe it was the chef's night off -- it was Sunday. Maybe it was a slow, sad night for the waitress, who was very inattentive.
Maybe we were in a bad mood. Maybe, maybe, maybe.
But, in the end, it was lousy food for too much money.
The story of the night can only be told with snippets:
-- There are single bottles of top shelf liquor in tall display cases in the dining room -- bizarre. And the presence of high priced liquor bottles does nothing to justify the prices.
-- Although we didn't order sushi, I can't imagine it was good enough to justify @5.50 for tuna sushi a la carte. (but, we didn't order it so it's possible that sushi is their forte, i guess)
-- The potted plants next to the front door were covered in discarded coffee cups and unappetizing trash
-- The dining room was empty and silent until we asked for them to turn music on. The waitress put on Christmas music. That might have been the high point of the night, for desperately needed comic relief.
-- On our first, and last visit, we took about an hour to eat on a Sunday night and not one person came into the restaurant while we were there. After the meal it was obvious why the place was empty.
-- Hot and sour soup had little taste at all and surely not any a hot or sour taste. We had to send it back. (Which they did, gladly. This is to their credit, I guess)
-- Chicken dumplings were surely the poorest quality frozen dumplings available. We ate them because we were hungry.
-- The free crunchy noodles were the very good kind, not the thin stale ones.
June 19, 2010 @ 5:49 PM
a diner from Kingston, NY
WOW, the person who wrote the review from Red Hook must work at China Rose in Rhinecliff, haha. Talk about a scathing review.
We've eaten at C Gourmet off and on for 8 years. The food is always predictable, not incredible, but not awful. Delivery is always prompt, I've never had rude service. I do have to say that we avoid the appetizers, as their egg rolls definitely are tough and chewy and mostly cabbage.
I wish I could find something in between the greasy-but-more-traditional Engs and C Gourmet which tends to be lacking a bit in flavoring. I think we've tried ALL of them around here.
We've eaten at C Gourmet off and on for 8 years. The food is always predictable, not incredible, but not awful. Delivery is always prompt, I've never had rude service. I do have to say that we avoid the appetizers, as their egg rolls definitely are tough and chewy and mostly cabbage.
I wish I could find something in between the greasy-but-more-traditional Engs and C Gourmet which tends to be lacking a bit in flavoring. I think we've tried ALL of them around here.
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