Gourmet Kitchen in Croydon

They have rats in their kitchen

Do NOT order online. You literally pay more than 25% more to a third party (and without the option of delivery) than if you pop in and order it in person. But pop in you should. Good food

This is still my 'goto place' locally. The online portal has full allergen information so you can make informed selections. Always friendly and welcoming AND unlike many they have a card machine too. Photos of curremt menu (Dec2023)

The food was nice but you do not provide enough sweet and sour sauce with the balls. It was far too little to cover all chicken balls.

So I walked in and asked for something quick to order and was directed to choose no. 29 mixed meats and rice for £6.80 and when I presented Apple Pay I was charged £7.60 by an old woman who when I alerted her to the charge tried to fake an apology and offer to refund the difference. SHE WAS CLEARLY TRYING TO ROB ME.

It’s the backup Chinese I go to. It doesn’t let me down. Good food and dishes. Thanks

The best salt and chilli squid ever. Really tasty food. Definitely recommend!!

Ordered a take away through deliveroo and 2 of the main items were missing. Called them and argued with me that they send it and that its not their problem. "complain to deliveroo" and put the phone down. Very dissapointed!! Would have expect an apology at least....

Hands down the best Chinese in a 5mile radius! Freshest of foods with the speediest deliveries it just doesn’t get any better then that! Food is always hot when it arrives and the staff in store are friendly and accommodating for any dietary requests.

Cannot believe this place is rated 3.9 on google!! This takeaway deserves 5 stars. My husband and I have tried this place twice now and we have been pleasantly surprised with the quality and taste of the food. The food has been delivered very quickly and at the perfect temperature on both occasions. To conclude I would say they have restaurant quality food at takeaway prices. Highly recommended!!

I come to this special place from time to time because I love the special air that is outline this restaurant. The personel is awfuly welcoming and well trained. The service is extraordinarily rapid. Most important, the food you get is magnificent. I have been there often and I was always delighted. The pay is reasobable. I suggest this place to my friends and family.

Ordered via Just Eat, they ran out of crispy pork but called to offer me duck instead which I accepted. However the food arrived (very quickly) and was cold, bland and tasteless. Mixed seafood with ginger and spring onion was full of mussels but little squid or prawns; King Prawn fried rice was the blandness I have ever tasted; salt and pepper wings were dry and over cooked; my mum enjoyed the peking ribs and duck (hence the 2 stars). I would not order from here again!

last night was the first time we visited this magnificent restaurant. But It is absolutely not the last. We enjoyed the evening a lot with the courteous service, with the superb cooking and fine drinks and with the friendly price. We will no doubt return there again.

Unfortunately not great, despite the previous reviews, egg fried rice, over cooked and no flavour, crispy chicken noodles, pricey and small portion, lacking in flavour too. Sweet and sour chicken on the sweet side, but the chicken was nice, Singapore noodles was ok, not the best, not much meat in it, satay chicken ok, sauce very sugary. Not our usual Chinese, only tried after the other reviews, pricey for a Chinese takeaway.

Big portion size very good tasting. I bought the sweet and sour chicken with noodles. The tast of it was sweet enough for me! in the past in other restaurants, I struggle to find sweet and sour chicken that was not too sour. This one is perfect for me. I also had the fried chilli calamari it's big portion and wonderful flavour with spring onion, pepper love taste 10/10.

Definitely a spot worth visiting, the food is excellent and fresh, the prices are fair and it is consistently clean in here. Keep it up.

Been there since they first opened. Also used it under it's previous owners. Chinese takeaway there for over 30yrs.

Would definitely recommend visiting this place. Exceptional mood, flavorful dishes, excellent customer service. Keep it up.

A lovely place, great service and of course amazing food.

Great food! Generous portions and the staff are amazing! Will definitely be ordering again and would highly recommend!!

Ordered from here whilst at work as wanted a treat and good food, came across this great take out! Quick service, lovely staff and incredible food!! Thank you so much, will defiantly be ordering from here again!

The best Chinese in town.large portions. Fresh and reasonable prices.very friendly staff. I live this place

WOW! First time trying Gourmet Kitchen, the food was delicious and I was not disappointed. Definitely one of the best Chinese takeaways in Croydon.

Very well organised and welcoming place. They offer generous portions and for economical prices. We liked the meals a lot and the staff members were very amiable and explanatory. Recommended.

The food was tasty but we didnt recieve a number of items or they fully spilt in the bag and were unusable. Unfortunately after 5 days of arguing this we didnt even recieve a refund for the missing items. It has put me off using them and uber eats again!

Have been going to this take away for over 15 years and the food is always fresh. Good portions and reasonable prices. The owner is a lovely lady that is friendly and sweet to deal with. Highly recommended

Took over an hour for my order but wasn't warned about the wait before I ordered. Staff were friendly though.

We tried another few places just to see what was around but we have come back to Gourmet Kitchen. Still lovely food although the price has gone up somewhat! Probably still ok for a treat.

Beautiful food! The honey pork is so nice, lovely and tasty would deffo order again from here I will now be a regular :-)

We are Gourmet kitchen regulars and normally order once a month. Are normal order is 10x sweet and sour chicken balls with egg fried rice without veg, sweet and sour pork Hong Kong style with Thai fried rice. The last two times we've order the order has been wrong and we've had to wait close to 1.5hours for it to delivered. The first time it was wrong, they asked us to bring the wrong dish back and swap for a right one. No offer of a discount or anything off our next order. The second time, two dish's were wrong and they said it would be another 45+minutes wait for a replacement. Again, no offer of a discount on our next order or any good will gesture. After 7 years of it being our Chinese of choice, the lack of customer service and recent price increase means we are now questioning if it's worth it.

One of the best Chinese take aways in the Croydon area. Trust me. I have rated lots on google. This is a gem.

Rubbish over priced and not nice, very bland, seaweed had no salt or sugar on, tasted very stale, would not recommend

Great food only down side is you can't pay with a card

Ok....we have had loads of takeaways from gourmet kitchen and the food is al ways fabulous. We are in the middle of eating our latest takeaway now. Bit disappointed about the free starters. We spent £35 and usually get lovely selection of starters but today only spring rolls which were lovely.....but.....thought we should have had the lovely sesame seed toastier as well. Finished our dinner now Pork balls were fab...enormous...sweet and sour sauce perfect. We tried crispy noodles but probably left them a bit long as they were a bit stuck together. Mixed seafood was lovely. Sauce fab. Almost forgot....the crispy duck was fantastic as usual. My son had the satay chicken and he said it was gorgeous...and he is very very fussy

Phoned for a delivery and was told an hour and a half !! Food didn't turn up after an hour and fifty minutes.When I phoned I was told that that the order was not ready and would be at least another 20 minutes Cancelled order would not recommend their delivery service !!!!!!!

Best Chinese in addiscombe unless someone can tell me better.

I've just had a lovely chinese dinner from here

The food was all hot and cooked properly however the dishes were lacking in taste, the duck and beef were both soggy and an unpleasant texture. Its not the worst i have had but its certainly far from the best.

Only early days but we have just had our third takeaway meal from the Gourmet Kitchen. Fabulous yet again. Pancake rolls to die for. Shang Haii crispy honey chicken was so lovely. Beef Szechuan style so tender and tasty. Can’t find better words to describe the food...just perfect...thanks guys.

The Chinese takeaway that we have used for years closed down. We have been looking for a good alternative. Have had a few bad experiences it have now found a great place. The pancake rolls are fabulous. Stuffed full of meat and prawns..delicious. The crispy duck was beautiful. The prawn szechuan was fresh and lovely.

Just had Lovely meal from the Gourmet Kitchen. First time we have tried it. Will definitely be back. Spring roll was fab. Lovely and crispy with plenty of meat and prawn filling. Lovely and hot delivery was quick. Crispy chilli beef tasty.

Enjoyed a great meal,the food was delicious.

Rubbish Hurry up and don't byee

Used to be good food here but terrible now ! Wrong food sent , a chicken dish had prawns init ! My husbands allergic to fish and she just said sorry !! If he had eaten it he would of been in hosp !! Avoid or go hungary ! Dont eat here

the staff memeber are so RUDE!!!!!