Dragon Garden Restaurant

Have been going here for years. The staff and owners are always very friendly and the food is great. The hibachi is some of the best around and my kids love the show. Overall it is a local treasure and we are lucky to have it.

GROSS. NO. NEVER AGAIN.
Just take one discerning look at your surroundings, and you’ll never return. Discovering 100-​year-​old bits of dried food, bugs, dust, possibly bodily fluids, and duck sauce on every surface from the floor to the ceiling is enough to induce a dry (or wet!) heave. bslkfjasdfbb.
Don’t expect to be able to recognize your food, either. Whatever you order, it’ll be a tepid medium brown mess in a viscous sauce the consistency of hair gel. And your meat? Whatever it is, it’ll be like biting into your maltipoo’s chew toy. Just. Rubber.
I have to believe that the high ratings are coming from the 60+ crowd, who is fervently loyal to their known food establishments (and who also believe that sweet & sour chicken is a remotely authentic ethnic dish).
My dear sexagenarian friends, you don’t have to treat yourself this way! You deserve better than neon-​colored, salty sauces and «egg rolls» (?!) fried to oblivion. There IS a world of delicious, fresh, and non-​coma-​inducing Chinese food out there! Though, of course, it’s probably and sadly not in Northfield, or Summit County for that measure. Sigh. The search continues.

Very good chinese food. Excellent sized portions. My wife and I both ordered the War-​Su Gai and it was excellent. (For some reason chinese restaurants in Cuyahoga Falls do not offer it). My daughter had the Cicken Lo-​Mein and said it was the best she has ever eaten. Generous fried rice portions as well. The service was excellent.

I’ve been going there for years! Best Chinese food in the area! My favorite is cashew chicken and basil tofu! You must try it!

We love this place. Lots of very good Chinese cuisine. Next day leftovers are just as good.

I cannot speak to the hibachi or sushi but the Chinese food at this establishment was some of the worst I have ever had. It tasted like all of the sauces came out of a can but even worse. I don’t understand all the high ratings for this place if you’ve ever enjoyed good Chinese.

This place is somewhat old school but I mean that as a compliment. Our waitress was friendly & perfectly attentive, the atmosphere was quiet and clean but the food … I can’t really say that it was bad because (in this situation) it comes down to personal preference rather than a bad meal.
I have been sick on & off for a week so this was thankfully the first meal I was able to eat without getting woozy afterwards. However, there were a lot of pieces (particularly the smaller ones) of orange chicken that were really tough! Like you’re chewing on leather yet the larger pieces were delicious! I really enjoyed their take on orange sauce, not too sweet nor bland. But overall I didn’t like my chicken, it tasted burnt to me & was more like crispy chicken skin rather than tender, juicy bites. My husband however, loved it!
So again, maybe it was just me. I would gladly be willing to give this place another chance. I just wish I could’ve taken my magic pot of tea with me… it was so good and relaxing that I just wanted to fall asleep in the booth and I felt so much better afterwards.

To start off I must say Smiles is much better. Not that dragon garden was bad but smiles is better. When I walked in for my pick up order there was no one there to greet me so if I was there to dine in I would have been waiting a good ten minutes. That being said I had called my order in about 20 minutes prior and the lady on the phone said 15 minutes and it would be ready. So if you can do math that’s a good 30 minutes when she claimed it to be 15. Any way back to the food. I ordered szechuan chicken like I always do from smiles and the flavor was just off, and there was some funky lingering after taste to the rice as if it had been made with dirty dish water or something. Any way I don’t think I will be going back. Smiles I wish you weren’t closed yesterday :(

AMAZING food and hibachi! Sushi is fresh also! I reccomend war-​su-​gai OR hibachi filet and chicken!

How does this place have 4 out of 5 stars? There must be a lot of people living in the Northfield area with messed up taste buds. My wife and I ordered about two months ago and weren’t really impressed. It was quite so so. We ordered from them a week ago for pick up and it was horrible. Wife ordered the chicken and broccoli. Her meal actually looked good but the taste was very bland. I ordered the pineapple chicken. My meal was simply horrible. My ENTIRE carry out container was full of sauce and there might have been six small pcs of chicken in there. Thankfully I got to scrounge my wife’s leftovers. We will not be going back to this place. Also, pay with credit card so they pay their taxes.

This is the absolute best Chinese food around!!! The staff is so friendly too (which is important in any business) also they sell lucky bamboo plants-​which are healthier & just more beautiful than Home Depot or any other place I’ve seen them. Besides having the best Hibachi & Chinese dishes the lucky bamboo plants all around (for sale) are just gorgeous & cheaper priced than I’ve seen. They also make great gifts!!! Love this place!!!

Best Chinese take out in the area. Nice staff and very fresh not so greasy food. Tasty!

Love Dragon Garden. Cannot beat their prices for hibachi and for sushi — and never the ridiculous waits you will encounter at other big chain hibachi places. Service is always fantastic.

I’ve eaten here a handful of times but only in cases where my favorite place in the area is closed. Dragon Garden tends to have longer hours and works on more holidays that others in the area. The food is OK, but never great. I’ve never been thrilled with the quality of the meat but it is not terrible. I’ve only ever ordered out so I have not experienced the hibachi.

I’ve been going here for years. Have tried
Numerous Chinese restaurants in the Cleveland area. And I always come back to this one. The flavor of the food Is outstanding. They do a phenomenal take out service on weekends. Numerous orders. Service is great, prices are good too !! You’ve got to try this place.

This family owned establishment has been a staple in the Nordonia Hills area for years. The addition of sushi and hibachi have increased the greatness of the place. Super reasonably priced, consistent good food and service make this a winner.

If you are ever in Northfield Ohio you must check this place out.
Great Chinese food, and the Hibachi I will put it right up against Fuji and its just as good and the price is way cheaper!
They do Sushi, Hibachi, and a killer variety of Chinese dishes.
Atmosphere is fantastic.
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Decent but not outstanding Americanized Chinese food. The curry chicken with steamed vegetables was good, but everything else was just okay. Not much more to add.

People, pick one cuisine and stick to it! The massive multi-​national, cluttered menu made it even more disappointing to have chosen such a poorly executed dish. Without exaggeration, the simple dish that was brought out seemed to be lathered in saliva. The chicken was pink. Downright nasty menu item! Can’t speak for all five-​hundred dishes, but can’t imagine a more complicated entrée being much better.

There are nice little surprises you get when you’re out and about, and one one such adventure of «getting lost» as my wife likes to put our little accidental bits of tourism, we stumbled into a certain garden…
We are pleased:)
The Dragon Garden is a cozy, warm little place with a fair to middlin’ bar (not really a sit down, but you can drinks to order,) and a really tasty menu with forays into Thai, Szechuan, Cantonese and even a smattering of Vietnamese.
The combo platters are priced right, the food is well done and tasty and you get a really good amount for… a really GOOD amount! Prices are great and the service was really fast. With pick up and dine-​in, I heartily suggest stopping in for a bite or two for lunch or dinner. It won’t break your bank and it’ll make your taste buds happy you stopped by:)