Re: Chinese food in Brookline

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4 total messages Started by Ellis S. Cohen Fri, 08 Jan 1993 19:50

#741

Author: Ellis S. Cohen
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 19:50

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> Any suggestions about Chinese restaurants in the Coolidge
> Corner area?  Thanks.

My suggestion is to head down Beacon to St Mary's (where the
C line comes up) and go to Chef Chang.

But if you really need to eat in Coolidge Corner,
head up Harvard towards Brookline Village.  There's
a restaurant a block and a half up from Beacon on the
right hand side (forgot its name) that is quite good.

I've eaten at Noble House on Beacon St.  It was ok,
but overpriced.

If you go up Beacon toward Washington Sq, there's Yu's
take out place about 2 blocks up, which now has tables
so you can eat in.  I like their hot & sour soup.
They also have a buffet which looks good, but I
haven't tried it.

  -- Ellis

Re: Chinese food in Brookline

#742

Author: Fawn Fitter
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 22:36

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Chef Chang's Place, right by the corner of Beacon and St. Mary's Street,
which is right over the Boston-Brookline line. Best Chinese food I've had
in Boston, and I've had a lot.

Re: Chinese food in Brookline

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Author: Barry Shein
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 07:46

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>so you can eat in.  I like their hot & sour soup.

Is it me? Or is almost every hot & sour soup in this town identical?

I have this theory that there is this one place that makes this
concoction by the vat, portions it out into buckets and rushes it to
chinese restaurants all over town. It's not that bad, but it always
seems exactly the same wherever I go.

The few exceptions I've run into tended to be, unfortunately, awful
concoctions reminiscent of vinegar with a splash of gravy and some
odds and ends floating about. Perhaps that is why.



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Re: Chinese food in Brookline

#753

Author: Mark D Hessman
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 05:48

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In article <1993Jan8.195016.29940@osf.org> ellis@osf.org (Ellis S. Cohen) sez:
>But if you really need to eat in Coolidge Corner,
>head up Harvard towards Brookline Village.  There's
>a restaurant a block and a half up from Beacon on the
>right hand side (forgot its name) that is quite good.

That would be Chef Chow's; see other postings in this thread
for more info. Been there once last year and it was your standard
decent suburban Chinese restaurant.

Now if you go a couple blocks further up Harvard towards Brookline
Village, you come across Orchid Garden, a relatively new (<1 yr) and
IMHO quite good place. It leans a bit towards the "gourmet Chinese" in
atmosphere etc, but the prices are quite good--most dishes are in the
$7-$10 range. The food is a tad Westernized, but it is great; I've
never had a bad experience and have been going there since the
summer. And the service has been uniformly excellent and friendly.

Finally, a more iffy Chinese place in Brookline Village is Bo Shing,
on Washington Street. Hit-and-miss, very suburban, though the
lunch buffet can be decent on occasion.

                                              -- Mark

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