Lychee Chinese Restaurant in Scottish Borders

They got my 5 Star for all of the staffs for being friendly and so welcoming from the minute I stepped up to the door man and walking into a lobby that smelt like fresh roses.

Really great restaurant in a great area. We came here with our family (two adults and two kids). Service was better than what I have come to expect in larger cities, with friendly and accommodating staff.

Excellent food. During dinner we took sweet and sour chicken and Thai style crispy spring rolls; these two were just too good in terms of their taste. I found it very effective and the people were very friendly, I shall be going back for more treatments.

For our main course, we had Crab Meat Sweet Corn Soup, and Roast Duck with Mixed Peppers, all of which were excellent. It's great value for the price and definitely worth a visit.

I recently dined here at this incredible Chinese restaurant that truly exceeded my expectations! The food was outstanding. One highlight was the chili prawns starter—it was absolutely to die for! The prawns were perfectly cooked. The atmosphere of the restaurant was warm and inviting, making it the perfect spot for a meal with friends or family.

Our experience was absolutely fantastic! We decided to try some unique dishes, including the hot pot, and it turned out to be exquisite. Food was flavorful and well-prepared. The staff was attentive and friendly:)

Lychee to eat out is lovely even there take away is lovely but a month ago I called in an order they got it wrong got one meal instead of 2 to here mistake and they still charged me .last night 21/8/24 terrible mixed curry no onions on the curry thats a first my chicken fried rice was an absolute joke it was fried rice with shreds of chicken added no peas no sweetcorn not stir fried up anyway no soy sauce in it think i might need ho go show how its done thats how bad it is £30 for that it was terrible .I did call and complain how anyone could send that out to anyone got an apology no give you discount off your next ond do ram it wong be back .back to mandarin really disappointed .at least if you complain if something is wrong to mandarin he offers you free meal next time .

The food was great and the service was fast and very friendly.

Lovely prawn crackers. Excellent quality and quantity of our meal dishes.

Evergreen vibes of coziness and relaxing atmosphere I always recommend The best place ever is lychee Chinese restaurant in the town

The peaceful place ever for the best food experience, Lychee Chinese restaurant is my first preference due to it's great ambiance and their tasty food.

It’s a lovely spot to explore authentic Chinese flavors, with a cozy atmosphere that invites you to relax and enjoy your meal. I highly recommend it for a flavorful and well-balanced lunch.

Best Chinese restaurant in town.The food here is fantastic, and the staff is extremely helpful and attentive.

This is hands down the best Chinese food we've had in ages! Every dish was served hot and bursting with flavor.will definitely be back again!

We both enjoyed a two course meal on Friday night.The restaurant had a good atmosphere and the service was excellent.Both the starters and the mains were very tasty alongside the complimentary prawn crackers would recommend this restaurant to anyone visiting Peebles

The food here is fantastic, and the staff is extremely helpful and attentive.Thank you for a wonderful dining experience!

Our favourite Chinese takeaway.Very fast service and consistently good food.

We consistently choose Lychee for our takeaways due to their reliably delicious food. The staff is friendly, which adds to the welcoming atmosphere of the place. It's our go-to spot for flavorful meals served with a smile.

"I've ordered for collection multiple times and have never been let down. The service is consistently speedy, the food arrives fresh, and the portion sizes are just right. It's always a satisfying experience that keeps me coming back for more."""

From the receptionist that checked us in, and all the staff then after where a credit to this hotel,value for money overnight stay. Really enjoyed our stay and the breakfast was great. I would recommend hotel, great area for walking, cycling, water sports etc..

Authentic Chinese flavor, friendly serviceLychee nails it: flavor, service, value!" - "Cozy, tasty, and warm - perfect combo!" - "Quick, delicious, authentic - highly recommend!" - "Flavor and service perfected at Lychee!" - "A must-visit for Chinese food lovers!" - "Tasty, fresh, and friendly - Lychee's the best!" - "Great food, service,

Great service and most importantly, great traditional food. Fantastic and friendly staff!

We had walked from Inveruglas to Arrochar and decided to get a bite to eat. Previously we have eaten in other restaurants in Arrochar but wanted to try something different. AMAZING Emma and Ryan were so friendly and hospitable. The dinner was first class, in fact it was the best food we have eaten in Arrochar to date. The Fish was superb. Credit to the Chef for the wonderful dinner. We ordered coffee which arrived with a lovely treat of smarties in the side. We will be back.

The lychee provided us with a truly memorable evening. Every dish we tried was prepared to perfection. Service was good.We can't wait to dine there again when we're back in Peebles.

I had an amazing dining experience at Lychee Chinese Restaurant! The service was top-notch, with friendly and attentive servers who made sure our glasses were always full. But the real star of the show was the food - I ordered the Kung Pao chicken and it was spicy, savory, and absolutely delicious. The portion sizes were generous, and the prices were very reasonable.

I've been to Lychee Chinese Restaurant a few times, and overall I've had a good experience, with a cozy decor and a quiet vibe. The food is solid, if not spectacular - I've had the beef with broccoli and the lo mein, and both were tasty but not particularly memorable. My only complaint is that the service can be a bit slow, especially during peak hours. Still, I'd recommend Lychee for a reliable and satisfying Chinese food fix.

The food should not be as good as this. Lol. Absolutely delicious, packed full of flavour. Lovely staff. I will 100% order again.

Beautiful food. Staff were very helpful. Only reason only 3 stars for atmosphere was because it was only 5pm when we visited. Highly recommend

Best Chinese we have had in a long long time! Hot & delicious!

I don't know what's happened to this place. It used to be one of the best takeaways this side of the borders. Third time now I've ordered and the food has been luke warm and very greasy. My chow mein arrived smashed and leaking all over the bag because they dumped all the other heavy stuff on top of a sweaty polystyrene box. You're also guaranteed to be on the pot all day next day as the food is so undercooked. This is the last time I ever order.

Ordered a takeaway for the family, my chicken fried rice had tiny bones in it which could’ve been eaten by my kids. Also a piece of plastic unsure of whether this was from the curry sauce or chicken fried rice. Husband also found pieces of his chicken were clearly not cooked properly and actually appeared to have been frozen before hand. All dishes were bland and the chicken fried rice was extremely dry. This will be our first and last time ordering from here

Exceptional Chinese, despite being a takeaway, the food retained its incredible quality, demonstrating the chef's expertise and dedication to ensuring a delightful dining experience. The flavours were exquisite, and each dish showcased the restaurant's commitment to excellence. Highly recommended!!!

Had two lovely meals on New Year's day. Excellent food, great friendly service. Will definitely go back for more!

We had a lovely evening in the lychee, they were so accommodating and the service was excellent as was the food. We would definitely come back the next time we are in Peebles. Thank you.

Delicious food with courteous service. We had the duck in spicy XO sauce, and lemon chicken both served with fried rice. Can particularly recommend the gyoza which we had as a starter - possibly the best we've ever eaten. Highly recommended.

Have to admit in all My years of eating Chinese this is by far the best food I’ve ever had , salt and chili chicken wings & beef in black bean sauce where to die for - top marks to the chef -

We always use the Lychee for our takeaway the food is always pipping hot and tasty. The front of house staff are welcoming, friendly and chatty.

An Update for this review, Sainsbury's have now removed the recycling point due to the facility being abused by a number of businesses, so the local Loanhead community have now lost a much appreciated facility due to this restaurant and others selfish actions. I discovered this restaurant when I saw masses of waste overflowing from a local recycling point, it seems that the business is fly tipping all its commercial waste including food waste and waste oil at a cardboard and glass recycling point provided by Sainsbury's at Straiton, there were dozens of kitchen order slips with customers names addresses and phone numbers amongst the waste and blowing about on the road, (pics). despite contacting the business and giving them the opportunity to stop this illegal activity, they have continued to dump their kitchen food waste and packaging creating a rat infestation issue at this site.

We Got a delivery, Food was overcooked and very greasy. From the small amount i ate i ended up with a sore stomach afterwards. Most of it went in the bin. Cost over £35 wont be buying anything from here again.

Got a home delivery I had Sliced Beef with Tomatoes & Onions with Boiled Rice. While my Son had Special Fried Rice ( Dry ). Unfortunately the SFR was far to dry so much so he found it almost impossible to swallow. He could only have it with a large swig of juice at the same time. After a few mouth fulls he gave up as a bad job & binned the food.. Not at all sure we will order from here again...

Amazing Chinese restaurant,the food is always good and the chilli prawns starter is to die for.the lady who runs the restaurant is so lovely and friendly and takes time to chat to the customers. I live in London but always visit this restaurant everytime I'm in the area, highly recommend

Had a meal here on the 5/1 /2023 it was the second time we had visited , got to admit the food is stunning perfectly cooked amazing flavours , service was second to none . Will definitely be back in the near future

The meals are good the only criticism is that the plates are far to small the staff who work here are so so welcoming and friendly love it.

Went in at 7.15pm , ordered my meal, was served it at 7.59 ...guy next to.me had waited over an hour ...not good enough even for a Sunday night , will not be back

We really enjoyed the food, would be happy to recommend.

Amazing food. Well worth going for something not typical as there are some real treats. The aubergine dish in particular was spectacular. I tried to take a picture but we ate it all too quickly!

By far the best Chinese about. Should open one in Glasgow

Walked in and were promptly seated. The restaurant was rather plain with the exception of one wall and was very clean. There was a huge patch on the ceiling where something must have fallen through. One lady was doing everything, hostess, cashier, taking phone orders, and waitress. Our order was promptly taken, spring rolls as a starter, fried rice and lemon chicken. It went down hill from there. A hair was found in one of the spring rolls, but we wrote it off. Half way through the fried rice, a large piece of plastic was found. That was enough. We told the lady, the rice was taken off the bill, we paid, then left.

Had a take away, lovely tasty food. Good size portions. Friendly staff. Clean premises. Chicken curry and fried rice Chicken black pepper sauce and fried rice 😋

Was really impressed with the quality of the food, it was delicious from start to finish and there was a real variety of dishes on offer. The XO sauce dish was especially good and the Tiger Prawns were so good we ordered some more before the first were finished. Service as good and price as reasonable, really good spot for Chinese food.

Visiting Peebles for a few days with my mum and decided to have a Chinese takeaway tonight for dinner. Called Lychees and placed the order with a a very polite and pleasant member of staff. She said it would be ready for pick-up in 20 mins. Went to pick it up and it was ready and again staff very polite. Great value for money and the food was excellent - chicken fried rice and chicken with orange sauce and boiled rice. Fresh and tasty. Would use again.

Popped in for some food to takeaway, everything tasted so fresh and was delicious, plenty of vegetables, great portion sizes and friendly service. Thank you!

The young girl who took our take away order and served us on collection was so polite and efficient. We enjoyed the food and would recommend.

I went to this restaurant with my family hoping that the food would've provided us with some much-needed comfort. Everything was going so well for us from the start after we had our starters and mains at the same standard like you find in any other place with the speedy service on store. However, when we ordered our banana fritters, things went a bit downhill for us as we were in for a long wait for it come to our table. The reason behind it was relatively simple! There were two members of staff serving the customers on the night, with the chef from the kitchen temporarily added to the crew assisting them whenever possible. Furthermore, I caught wind of one of the customers on another table in the same boat as I was when they asked for their food. What I overheard from the staff member was that they were low on numbers at the moment and they were playing catch up with the number of food orders piling up in the kitchen as the place gradually built up of other customers. If there were four staff members working instead of two, then that would be a real improvement. That's my only drawback to what was a mediocre night for me! Aside that, the food tasted very nice and I would still recommend anyone coming to Lychee and eat there in the near future!

Everything was incredible - we went for a couple of non 'standard' dishes such as hot pot, which was brilliant. Genuine quality and wonderful quantity! Perfect after a day's biking or hiking.

Fantastic food .Staff were great would go back .

Food was excellent service was a bit slow would still come back.

Great food and large portions. Friendly service.

Quite good take away, quick delivery.

Excellent food and great service by the wee young lady. We got the 4 chefs specials and it was not cheap but worth it. Definitely recomended.

My husband and I visited this restaurant on 14/09/21. We were greeted by a lovely young lady named Rebecca. Showed us to our table explained the menu took our drinks order. Also asked if we prefer chop sticks or cutlery. Food arrived fairly quick and was of very good quality. Main course portions are rather large so couldn't manage to eat it all. Only criticism is the restaurant lacks a bit of atmosphere back ground music would be nice as you are listening yo other people's conversations Would definitely visit again if we're in the area

A nice restaurant with friendly staff and a good range on the menu. My partner and I agreed that there was plenty of spice in our choices and this can be a failing of many places who like to keep things bland. The one down side was that I felt the Sichuan dish tasted more like sweet chilli than Sichuan pepper but it was still very tasty.

Great food,not greasy,gd table service.

Another amazing meal highly recommended

The food is lovely and the service excellent. The food came quickly and was great. We will eat here again when we visit peebles again.

Food was nice but sadly cold when delivered. Delivery takes forever, sometimes way over an hour then to get it cold...is very disappointing.

Great chinese lovely woman behind counter will definitely use again

Not good at all girlfriend ordered chicken and got prawns. She is allergic to seafood want be back again

Phoned for delivery and mentioned a couple of allergies when ordering. Chef was able to prep the full meal within 25 minutes allergen free (despite the dish usually containing the allergen). Best customer service regarding allergies ever experienced at a takeaway, would recommend! So impressed with quality and speed and will definitely be returning!

Always hot and always so tasty. I can honestly say that every time I have ordered it has been delicious. Would highly recommend.

Sory but delivery time was really bad. 2 hours! Expected to wait but just top much. Food quite good.

Great meal but I feel that charging £4.50 for a local delivery is very excessive.

delivered perfectly on time. really fresh and flavourful food. felt great after eating it, no sluggish feeling. This is the real deal.

Got my order wrong again. Would be great if they read the notes left for the restaurant.

Food is always late!!! Get a time to pick up via the website and always have to wait another 30 mins at least when you arrive to collect. Don’t think they start cooking until you turn up ☹️☹️ So frustrating!

i was in here on saturday night for a nice meal or so i thought, there was shouting and swearing coming from kitchen, a customer was in shop after being overcharged and after lots of going back and forth the person in kitchen was shouting about customer who had clearly been overcharged the customer hearing this told the girl behind the counter that she would not be back the poor lady apologies,then the said lady was told by the young lass she was getting sacked she seemed the only one in shop who cared about the customer resulting in her walking out.shes well rid i say. well our meal was the most pleasant meal I've ever had and would not recommend this place to anyone who wants a nice quiet meal. however the food was good

Estimated delivery time amended when order was accepted - fair enough Actual delivery 45 mins after the amended time with me calling up twice to chase and if the information I got was correct then food was in a car for 15mins when we live less than 5 mins drive away - not acceptable

Very sorry, but top to bottom for experience and food - never again.

I’m sorry but the food was sub standard! And not what I’d expect for paying £26!!! The sweet and sour chicken was awful. The chicken balls were tasteless and greasy. The bbq sauce was fatty and greasy too. The salt and pepper chicken was hardly salt and pepper at all and those crackers literally tasted like the bags you buy from the supermarket. Absolute disgrace! I’m not impressed at all! I couldn’t even eat my meal! It was horrendous. I’ll never order again from here!

Munchie Box with an extra portion of Salt & Pepper Ribs, from order to delivery at door 20 minutes, the food was piping hot, delicious, well worth the price approx £22.. You can be certain I will order again for certain, most authentic Chinese food I've had since living in Hong Kong 40 yrs ago, Thank You Very Much Lychee 5 ***** all the way...

It was obviously a busy night as food was sub standard missing main ingredients and missing prawn crackers- again! This has happened a few times

Lovely chow main very light and not greasy, Salt and pepper ribs are a must Brilliant food everytime !

By far the best Chinese meals we have ever had! Orderd to a log cabin in a field, delivery guy was real nice and helpful! Will certainly be ordering again when we are back up to stay👍

Visiting Peebles with a friend for the weekend and had dinner here on the Sunday. We were the only diners but the food was excellent as was the service.

Having been a regular over the years, sadly the most recent experience will be the last.Having phoned an order, I was told it would be 25 mins. Arriving in time,I had to wait a further 30 mins until it was ready.The food used to be worth the wait but sadly has went into decline as well.I ordered a special curry, which had lumps of curry paste throughout. The boiled rice was stodgy and overall not a pleasant experience at all. Sadly won’t be back.

Food is pretty good in general. The place is understaffed. This results in huge wait times on busy nights, especially Saturday's. The deliveries take ages because the manager does multiple deliveries at once and prioritises pick-ups. No atmosphere at all in the restaurant, it's almost always empty apart from a little girl who is always smiling and playing on one of the tables.

I enjoy a take away from here. Not usually busy for sit in.

I placed the same order twice because the first one was canceled, when they finally arrived they claimed I had to pay 3 pounds more for the change of residence, claiming that I live in eddelston when the post code is peebles. after this episode they left without giving me my food and without giving me back my money. with doing also very rude. I ask for compensation

Went there with family and loved the authentic food and excellent service. We were just passing through but will definitely go again if we are ever in Peebles again. Highly recommended !

Ordered a delivery tonight - front of house staff were nice on the phone. Food was alright but not worth the price (nearly £30 and no prawn crackers) but we won’t be ordering a delivery again. The delivery driver phoned around the estimated delivery time, didn’t say hello just “do you want your Chinese or not?” I said “yes sorry are you at the door?” (we hadn’t heard a knock) he replied “well I was”. He came back, my partner answered the door and the driver didn’t say anything, just handed over the food and gave the change. We weren’t told how much the order was so just trusted the change was right. Not impressed, won’t be ordering again.

Have ordered takeaways here several times and found the waiting times and quality of the food variable. Ordered one a week ago and it was dreadful, lemon chicken appeared to have been left over from previous day, it was inedible - like chewing old boots, prawn crackers not with order though were paid for. Friend had prawn toast which was soggy in middle and hard as a brick round outside - probably also left over from previous day. So disappointing as used to be better.

The food from here is usually good but waiting times are unacceptable. I ordered about 2.30 hours ago and still waiting despite chasing up.ill see if it arrives but will go to happy days in Innerleithen. It’s like the business owner doesn’t care any mor as was always efficient before. Shame really!

I ordered a takeaway to be collected this evening and my order was taken over the phone and I was told it would be around 25 mins. I got there to find that it wasn’t ready, which was absolutely fine so I sat down to wait. Whilst I was waiting on my food one of the front of house staff came out from the kitchen and was talking about the chef (who was a woman) and how she had been shouting at her to get something from the supermarket next door, the young girl was unsure of what the chef was asking for so asked the other girl working there to go into the kitchen and ask again what was needed. When one of the girls went back into the kitchen I could hear the chef swearing and shouting at the young girl, there was also other people in the restaurant waiting for takeaways and they heard this too. I found this to be absolutely disgusting behaviour and the poor girl was obviously upset at the situation. Disgusting behaviour treating your staff that way. Will not be eating here again.

The food here is so delicious you will want to go back, the staff are friendly. Well worth a visit

Nice food but very busy. Best to pre order.

The food there is always good quality and the staff are cheerful. I always recommend Lychee to family and friends.

Basic and clean. The food was absolutely lovely and the service fast and really friendly. Would definitely go back.

Absolutely disgusting little restaurant. Decor really poor with electrical wires hanging and lights hanging off ceiling. Carpets filthy. Been twice, second time to give the benefit of the doubt. But second time was worse. No customers, no atmosphere, no staff to care.

Piping hot quick delivery ..great!! Discovered this way of getting a Chinese meal without leaving the house..this is extremely useful on a cold wintry night .

Second time we've eaen here and the food is excellent. Strangely enough we were the only ones in the restaurant on a Saturday night but the carry out service was non stop while we were there.