Grand Sichuan Eastern

"I normally don't write restaurant reviews because I don't care. But this place has the best hot and sour soup in NYC. Just had lunch special, chicken with broccoli w/white rice and hot and sour soup. The Chicken with broccoli is also best in NYC, period. I took off a star for the atmosphere but mainly because it was empty and as I was one of the first two eat-in customers on a rainy day in NYC. The place, however, was 1/2 filled up by the time I was done. You can tell food is good because there were many many many take out orders and pickups. Excellent food."

"Don’t let the negative reviews deter you from trying out this cute local restaurant. Had the General Tso chicken and sichuan beef with cabbage. Had the steamed pork dumplings which were awesome and hot and sour soup that was delicious. Would eat there again."

"AVOID! This place used to be really good, but friends and I have noticed a major decline. Chicken has gotten fattier and the food quality just isn't what it once was. The service was never outstanding but the other day I ordered online (2 dishes 2 soups), it said it would be ready in 20 mins. I went to pick it up and the guy told me it would take another 10 minutes. I ended up waiting 40 minutes in the store for a pickup - IT TOOK AN HOUR! I told the guy it was unacceptable and he just stared at me blankly. Good riddance."

"Went there on my lunch break hoping to have a nice lunch away from work, given that I always eat in. I had a terrible lunch, first the menu says that they have daily lunch specials it doesn’t say no weekends and they wouldn’t serve me it unless it was ordered to-go, I was disappointed. I still stayed there to order the steamed dumplings they informed me after I had already put in the order it would take 20 mins to prep. So I waited and also ordered the Diced fried fish, it was one the worst foods I’ve ever eaten, very dry, fried with hot peppers. The menu didn’t specify the ingredients. I ended up leaving super angry due that I still had to pay very pricey meal I didn’t eat nor enjoy."

"Really friendly, quick, and great local Szechuan spot. While not on Szechuan row, this place makes several dishes really well and even makes it extra mala for me when I ask. I order here usually at least once, sometimes twice a week. I really like: -ChongQing Spicy Chicken -Parched Chicken with Three Pepper -Gui Zhou spicy Chicken -Spicy Whole Green Pepper I am less of a fan of their cucumber salad and their mapo tofu, but plenty of other dishes to keep me happy. If you like spice, I recommend you skip the American Chinese Food and try something off the special dishes menu, which is primarily Sichuan style food."