Clinton Gourmet

Best Chinese food in town… My favorite dish in general gao’s chicken with pork fried rice & crab rangoon’s… Best crab rangoon’s around, hands down. Also, they serve incredible fruity beverages… The head hunters here are absolutely bomb!

Manager is extreemly rude and there’s usually a 9 year old boy that answers the phone and handles the register

The best Chinese food around. All the food I order are fresh & delicious every time. The staff are friendly &helpful. The place has updated a lot &look very clean.

The owners, husband + wife were NOT business friendly. The order for pick up had a missing dish when arrived home to sit down eat it. I brought the receipt in to show them
for a credit. They refused to replace it, based on our not having phoned in to tell them, like
all the other notes from other people taped on the wall-​more screwed up orders.
The customer is always right, but since we were wronged, we will no longer be customers.
The place is a dump, anyways.

I used to eat here before moving back to nyc. I decided to eat here when I came down for memorial day, wish I hadn’t! The food was so bland. The chicken a broccoli was watery. The rice was bland! My boyfriend lived in china for 5 years so he knows the real deal, but even he cuts the chinese food a lil slack in the US since it is American Chinese. Well he thought it was thee worse chinese he has ever tasted in his life lol There’s too many other great places around. Step it up guys!

Delicious food and huge portions! I wouldn’t sit down to eat here but takeout is great!

I have eaten here quite a bit. The veggie lo-​mien is good. The Peking ravioli and the crab Rangoon are also good, but it’s not always fresh. It’s best when it’s fresh.

This should be considered for take out Chinese food only as the the seating area isn’t worth visiting. The food is very good an definitely the best in the area. I usually go with the Kung Pao chicken and the General Gao’s. The kids like the sweet and sour chicken and the crab rangoons. If you live in the Clinton area then this is the place to go for take out.

Love! The best part is the horrible atmosphere filled with «Clintonians», people from Clinton. It makes for a fun and entertaining experience. Food is great, my favorite are the combo platters that allow you to get a bit of everything. Only reason I can’t give 5 stars is because it can sometimes be a bit inconsistent.

Good peeking ravioli and moo shi, not the nicest place to eat — nothing in particular to complain about but most people do take out. Very quick service

Great service, and good prices. They give you a lot of food for a reasonable price, and while it isn’t amazing it’s still pretty good. The staff did a great job at putting up with our somewhat random requests

Just had take out and it was terrible. Soaked in grease kind of a funky after taste. I didn’t order anything off the beaten path just your basic fare. Do yourself a favor and head out of town for Chinese

Last time I ordered from them, we all got sick. I thought perhaps enough time had passed and maybe we just had the flu. Ordered tonight… within 30 minutes I was sick.
Never again

No thanks! This place is DIRTY, food was ok but for a week I was scared I was going to get sick. I’m all set I wont be back again.

I took a trip to the Clinton Gourmet yesterday with my husband and our son. I’ll admit that I was a bit nervous because the last time I went there with a few friends, the service was awful. (Tip: don’t go on a late Saturday night.)
I have to say that my experience was better this time around… probably because of the time that we arrived. (Around linner time. Not quite lunch, but not dinnertime either.)
When we arrived, there were a few cars parked in the parking lot… though I am unable to say how many people were sitting at the bar, the dining area was practically empty. And I lost count of how many times the phone rang for takeout orders.
We were seated and asked what we’d like to drink in a timely matter, and the drinks arrived just as promptly. And it didn’t take long for our orders to be taken. We decided upon some appetizers: boneless spare ribs, beef teriyaki, chicken fingers, crab rangoons, french fries (for our son. He’s not really into Chinese food much. Only the fortune cookies. ;), and an order of pork fried rice.
While I know that it takes a bit of time to cook the food, my son had a hard time waiting. After telling him that the food was cooking, he settled down a bit… but he was slightly fidgety because there wasn’t really much for him to do outside of sitting in the booth, waiting patiently. (I should have packed some crayons and a small coloring book for him since the Gourmet doesn’t offer anything like that.)
I am unsure how long it took for the food to arrive after ordering, (I need to remember to wear a watch next time!), though it was long enough to finish a small drink.
Our food arrived in twos: the beef teriyaki (6 of them) and the boneless spare ribs (a rather generous portion!) arrived first. The next dishes: the crab rangoons (oh my goodness, there was a lot.) and the pork fried rice (which was pretty much like a mountain) were served a few minutes later. A couple of more minutes pass and the chicken fingers (a pile of them, really) were placed on our table.
It was around this time that our son was wondering where his french fries were. My husband and I wondered as well, and my husband made the joke that maybe the kitchen workers had to go to an outside source to get some fries.
About five minutes later, the french fries arrived… however my son still had to wait because they were extremely hot. My husband and I looked at the fries, and thought how eerily similar they looked to McDonald’s fries… and when I tried one, I was stunned. I swear that one of the workers went across the street to McD’s and ordered a medium fry, then served it to us. My husband agreed. But at least our son was happy while eating his french fries. He said they were «mmm» and gave a thumbs up.
The rest of the food wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t the best. The chicken fingers were a little more greasier than I expected; the boneless spare ribs were fairly good but some pieces were too fatty; the crab rangoons and beef teriyaki were very good, and the fried rice was decent. We couldn’t finish it all, so we had the rest placed into boxes to go.
When we received our bill, we were a little shocked at the price. But now that I’m writing this review and thinking about what we ordered, everything was probably ordered as a large because we didn’t specify on the sizes. (Though I know that there are some items on the menu that don’t have sizes…)
Overall, I do enjoy this restaurant, and the food, and will be back again in the future.

I’ve only had vegetable fried rice and egg rolls here. Those are hard things to ruin, but they just don’t do them very well here at Clinton Gourmet. Everything was overly greasy and the rice had a very strange taste. I don’t think I will be rushing back.

Some days I’d give these guys an enthusiastic 4 stars but there is such inconsistency in the quality I gotta give ‘em an overall 3 stars.
About 75% of the time food is fresh tasty American Chinese — crisp veggies, doesn’t seem to have MSG overload. Good hot and sour soup. When it’s bad, food is super greasy, lifeless — like big quantities were made in advance, not cooked to order.
The owners Joe and Katie are really nice people working really hard so we want to support this place. We often get the combo platters — take out or eat in. Very inexpensive.
A note to reviewer Ayo T: When we eat in, we are the drunks at the bar playing a little keno. We think it is fun! The bar is well separated from dining room — I don’t think folks need to worry about bringing their kids.

Probably the worst Chinese food I’ve ever had.
I’m totally serious… and wait, is this a Chinese food restaurant or yet ANOTHER Clinton bar in disguise.
I ordered the beef and broccoli, a spring roll and the general Tso (or Gau, who can remember). The breading on the chicken was soggy, the broccoli was obviously wilted before it had been cooked. The spring roll contained NO vegetables, greenery or anything else that remotely resembled spring. It should’ve been called a winter-​roll. Or a depressing-​roll. That would’ve been more appropriate.
Don’t ask me why I decided to give them another shot.
This time I order the fried dumplings. I call well in advance and they say it will be 15 minutes. I give them more than 15, it was maybe 17 minutes out from the call when I arrived at the restaurant. I go inside to pick up and bring my toddler inside (anticipating a short wait, and a real restaurant). Instead, my dumplings were not even cooked and I had to sit in the foyer with my 2 year old picking ornaments of a moldy cobwebbed Christmas tree while drunks rambled in and out to play Keno. Totally not the type of establishment I would’ve felt comfortable bringing my child inside. Had I known this was another little dive watering hole I would’ve ordered elsewhere. (I should’ve anyways.)
And the dumplings stunk.

The irony of the name is not lost on anyone pulling up to this small windowless restaurant jammed in a dark ghost town of a strip mall. If you can get past it’s no frills building shared with a dry cleaner you’ll find there is a reason that this restaurant is busy and thriving while the rest of the business store fronts stand empty. They deliver, literary and figuratively.
The kind, hospitable family that runs this place have a great attitude that creates a warm a friendly atmosphere that makes you feel like a regular. It’s a relaxing experience the second you cruise into this place with your Tuesday «doing laundry» duds.
I’ve eaten every single Chinese restaurant from Worcester to Lowell and this place dose it as good as any, minus the frills and the price that comes with it.
The Crab Rangoon are full of real crab and come with a real homemade style duck sauce, not that horrible orange stuff. The soups are fresh and so cheap. They have all the classic American Chinese favorites, as well as some more traditional dishes. Don’t be scared to order something that you don’t have any idea whats in it cept thats its got chicken or beef. I love any of there dishes that are spice, listed in their menu in red.
So if you can hang, sit in the bar /​keno section with the locals. They will promptly get up from the one of the tables from snap’n string beans to take you order. The food will be fresh, the drinks will be strong, the service will be fast and friendly. All that its its sooo cheap.

I considered giving this two stars, but having the name gourmet sets the bar high. This place does not live up to the gourmet name. If you want gourmet you should go somewhere else.