Wild Ginger

Love this place, it’s a nice little gem in Hinsdale and thank god don’t have to go to the city for some great sushi. The service is great, the food preparation is fast — simply LOVE it

Sushi is great. Try the Wild Ginger roll. The other dishes are good but not amazing. Service depends on who you get. They are not trying to make your visit a dining experience.
Don’t call in your order– they will mess it up. I’ve done it 3 times. Maybe there’s a language barrier or the music they have on is too loud.

Outstanding food. They use authenticity and fresh ginger. Along with great sushi and soup. I recommend you try the tnt roll

Come on here for lunch all the time, delicious!!! Ivan is the best!!! One of the few places open for lunch in downtown hinsdale.

Blech… both the ginger chicken and curry were truly awful. My husband is not at all a fussy eater (1 of 10 kids and Irish… nuff said) and he took a few bites of each entrée and took a pass. Small serving sizes. The restaurant is quite pretty inside but the service was average at best although friendly enough.

My husband and I was driving by one day on our trip back home, we were hungry and he was craving for Asian food. When we first came to the restaurant we were greeted by the manager, very sweet and friendly. Later we order three sushi rolls and some small dishes to go with our sushi. It was delicious and we were full when we left the restaurant. Over all the restaurant was very clean and food was on top of my list. We will definitely come back again when we visit our family there again next time.

STAY AWAY! I don’t know where to start.
I had a strong feeling when walking in my meal wouldn’t be satisfying. I was absolutely correct.
Upon entering the place, a stocky Chinese guy manning the front counter desk was apparently busy with his phone and took forever to acknowledge my party and rudely at that. Instead of asking the always asked, «How many?», he just blankly stares at us silently until I ask him for a table. Sorry to mess up your day buddy.
The server, also rude, I saw three times the entire meal. 1. Take the order. 2. Bring order. 3. Bring check. Not once did he check up to see if we needed anything or asked how the food was. Even if we did need something, he was nowhere to be seen anyways.
As a first time customer there, my party of two ordered 2 lunch specials– Pad thai and the 2 roll special.
The pad thai came out first, and I was shocked. First, a tiny dish with tiny serving. Second, all the usual toppings like bean sprouts, chives, egg were so sparingly added, they may as well have not been added at all. Third, the place charges a dollar extra for chicken, and they use chicken thigh dark meat, sparingly as well? What restaurant these days uses chicken thigh? Even the cheapest Chinese takeout uses chicken breast. The pad thai was NOT pad thai. It tasted nowhere close to it. Horrible dish. Fail.
So the place can redeem themselves with the 2 roll lunch special right? Wrong.
One «roll» was 6 pieces of maki sushi which is a roll with a single ingredient and rolled into the size of an index finger. Fail.
The other roll which was eel was about half the size of an identical roll at any other sushi place. There were 8 pieces of the eel roll but at this place’s laughably small size, those 8 pieces probably equate to half the quantity of a typical roll anywhere else. Fail.
If you want sushi, you’re better off going to the AYCE sushi over on Ogden in Westmont.
I will never go back to Wild Ginger. I offer my warning to others to stay away from this overpriced joke of a restaurant.

Return visit for dinner. They do some things right and need help in others. First the good things… delicious sushi. We shared edamame to start, then had the lobster tempura roll, Blackhawks roll and Godzilla roll. All delicious. Manager was friendly, service was prompt, food was delicious. Now for the not so good… Waiter not really friendly, desserts were awful. Stale, old, dried out tiramisu and crème brûlée cake that they microwaved as it was likely refrigerated way too many days past its prime. Probably our fault for ordering these desserts in a sushi place… Can’t imagine that anyone orders desserts there. They should get them fresh from Toni’s or Sweet Ali. They also seem to do good takeout business but should have pickup off to the side and not at host stand where dine in customers are also checking in. Groupon was a good deal so we will likely return just skip desserts.

Agree with the review where nothing was too exciting, not great, not terrible. You know when a restaurant has Thai and Japanese and other Asian dishes not to expect anything to stand out. The overall atmosphere and service was pretty good.

Been here a couple times, and while nothing was terrible, nothing was great. Pad Thai taste like a bad facsimile of the real thing and the shrimp were chewy. Maybe reheated.
Last time I had sushi and it was pretty good.
Anyway. They have discounts and service is great.

Great atmosphere.
Unlike some of the other restaurants in this space whose food simply lacks taste, Wild Ginger does a good job of presenting a WIDE variety of options.

Great addition to downtown Hinsdale! The food was delish, the prices were fair, and the service fantastic. We had a variety of dishes– from sushi to habatchi, many appetizers and everything in between. Everything was tasty. The potstickers were my favorite, hubby likes the Mongolian beef. As there was a group of us, we ordered about ¹⁄₃ of the menu. The crispy wontons were a big hit and the egg rolls were some of the best I’ve had. We had two kids with us under 3– and the server and the owner were super friendly towards them. I see this place becoming one of our regular places to go!

Had a groupon good food fast good service smaller portions for the price though but definitely good

Great food, great service! I had tempura, special dynamite roll and hicachi. Everything was fantastic! The manager and wait staff are wonderful

My husband and I were headed to Jade Dragon for our usual Chinese food fix — but they were closed for their annual vacation — WHAT A BLESSING !!!
Decided to go across the street and try Wild Ginger for the first time — the space is beautiful and clean, the food is fresh and super yummy — not your typical Chinese cuisine, it was our server’s first day she was sweet and trying very hard. Yes, the tab was more than
Jade Dragon, but worth every penny — cuz Wild Ginger has it all !
BTW they have a FULL bar too :)

I came here for dinner a couple of weeks ago. The ambiance is very nice. It was the middle of the week so it was not very busy and there was no wait. The service was good. In terms of the food, we got the pad thai, which to be honest, I was not very impressed with. It was a little saucy and I don’t know, it was just kind of underwhelming. We asked for extra broccoli and our waiter (who may also be the owner?), made some jokes about how next time he would let the chef know it was for some pretty girls, but he didn’t really make an effort to change it. The sushi, however, was very good, as was the wine. I would definitely come back here, but would probably just stick with sushi next time.

Walking into wild ginger. you are welcome with simplicity and beautifully lit. Clean atmosphere Sit at the bar for one of a kind OMAKASE experience .
Each sushi pieces is handcrafted with care. the freshness of the fish along with the warm rice allows the true flavors to shine thought .
No need for soy sauce or wasabi ginger can be used to cleanse the palette between each pieces.
Must try
1 blue fin fatty tuna
2 sockeye salmon
3 pacific oyster
4 sayuri

I had a reservation here tonight… (empty on a Saturday at 7:30pm)…tells you something. Anyway, we told the hostess we were ready for our table and for some reason she told us we needed to wait??? Ok, if I’m going to wait I’ll go wait at Nabuki (which is awesome!)
After giving them 10 minutes and observing other unhappy customers, we left.
Bye!

Haven’t has this caliber of Chinese food for as long as I can remember. It’s delicious and good quality. I love Chinese food, but too often I get an upset stomach afterward… I think because of the quality of food or how it’s cooked. I just stopped in because it was the only place open (that I know of because I’m only in the area visiting a family member at the Hinsdale hospital) and Wild Ginger was highly recommended to me by a different resturant a few blocks away. This food is non-​processed and delicious. I’m definitely coming back.
Lisa was my waitress and she was wonderful. Accommodating and professional. Her recommendations were excellent. I’m coming back and asking for her. I give this this restaurant my highest recommendation.

As an Asian its really quite confusing why some people feel as though they have to cram every asian culture into one. Catastrophic! Does anyone do Asian fusion in Asia… No.
Japanese: obviously wild ginger knows nothing about true japanese cuisine because… What is that LED crap they serve the sushi with? Its about the «pure»… Just because it has a swanky bar doesn’t mean it serves good sushi people!!! Go to nobuki… One of the best in Chicago land area… Truly!
Chinese: ordered Mongolian beef, sesame chicken and combo fried rice. Since the owners are Chinese i hoped this was good. I really wanted Mongolian beef with scallions and not green bell peppers, kinda odd, beef was decent, rice was on the bland side but decent. Sesame chicken was really good. If you want good authentic Chinese go to yu’s… Even Chinese people drive there an hour to the original location in Schaumburg… Now recently opened in westmont. And there’s always jade dragon a Hinsdale classic. I like people who support the community so even though their food is meh I support jade.
Thai: how can you go wrong w a noodle dish? I thought it was really good, surprisingly. Although their spring roll was awful! They cut it in halves? Why? Half the filling fell off and the best part about a spring roll is you eat it in whole so you see the steam when you bite into it???
I love thai food and was waiting for a decent thai restaurant in Hinsdale because I get sick and tired of going to thippi thai in LA Grange (the best in Chicago land)… I now live in Chicago and I’ll still come out for thippi thai for their panaang. So disappointed these people are confused!!!
Price was decent.
Waitress was super sweet except I didn’t understand a word she was saying and she really didn’t understand anything I asked her about the menu. People: we are at a restaurant … You should understand basic «food questions».
So disappointed… I was looking forward to a good thai restaurant in town.