Spring Restaurant in Cambridge

The meat was low quality and the whole dish was tasteless which was amazing given that it was smothered in sauce, garlic and spices. Would never eat here again

Went for buffet and BBQ. Not worth it for £28 for mostly frozen stuff

One of the most cost-effective Chinese restaurants in Cambridge.

The hotpot buffet is such a good value for money! You can eat hotpot and bbq at once. The hotpot stock is very spicy and authentic. Ingredients are fresh and have a variety of sauce to choose for! The staff here are so nice and attentive! Love this place.

yun tun noodle is outdated. terrible.

Most delicious food even for a local Chinese man like me! The staff are also very friendly and respectful

My family have been coming here for years. The food is really good, decent portions and with a good choice. We've never had the hotpot or grill but it's very popular. I'd describe the place as "canteen like" but it's popular with tourists, students, and their own people........which I always say, is a good sign for good food. There is a lunch menu which is good value for money. The staff are very attentive and the place is clean. Will continue going there for as long as it's there.

Amazing food with affordable price.

Good service. Great food. Reasonable price.

I've eaten here a few times it's very authentic.

LOVE THIS PLACE! amazing food, honestly so so good and lovely staff, always checking to see if we’re okay and refilling water, whenever i go it’s always a great time

The food is amazing and will keep going here it's like eating In china

Lovely place - great service and wonderful fresh food. Nice to have a variety of vegan option on the menu. Recommended the tofu soup noodles and the vegetable dumplings 😋

剑桥最差的中餐馆没有之一。 点了个水煮鱼 来了个水煮鱼是胡辣汤版本的。 贵还难吃。真的是很恶心。说国语的女性服务员服务态度极差。 只有那个会说粤语的阿姨是个好人. 这种饭店就要关了， 做得菜简直埋汰了我国的饮食文化关了吧。 再也不会来了。

Incredible food!!! My favourite Chinese restaurant, great value for money with huge portion sizes. Every dish I've tried has been delicious, I've been at least 7 times now and have had takeaway once, every time I have been incredibly satisfied. Have the garlic chicken, it is gorgeous.

Super tasty dumplings and fried squid 🔥

Food very good in a spit and sawdust venue, but more authentic than most Chinese restaurants.

Well done,nice careful service ,nice tasting food.Good people,Well done,that's hard to get from me.

It's a good place for Chinese food in Cambridge , the prices are reasonable and have enough vegetarian options .

Had all you can eat hotpot, the selection is not the greatest, but price for value. They are also using individual hotpot, so you don't have to worry about contaminating others food with what you want to you.

Nice enough place, the food is tasty and acceptable. It is ⁸a typical Chinese restaurant in China Town. 2BH, a little improvement in how it looks, would make it a nicer place to eat as, like all restaurants, it can be a £££ +

Love the food. It is like a canteen style, nothing more.

Cheap and cheerful. Great lunch menu. I love freshly stir fried dishes.

Decidedly “Meh” — nice menu of items and fast service, but food is bland and seems to be low budget ingredients. Tried to add chicken to a dry fried vegetables dish (that was soupy wet btw), and was told NO because “too messy” — ok…? Spring rolls are just tiny fried egg rolls out of a freezer box. Don’t waste your time, there are much better Chinese restaurants in Cambridge.

Always a favourite for relatively authentic Chinese food in Cambridge. Try the crispy chilli fried pork intestines or the grouper tofu fish stew.

Spent close to £100 between the two of us. Crispy duck almost £20 but portion size severely lacking; Sweet and Sour chicken tough; Egg Rice was orange but not eggy; Beef dishes plentiful of other ingredients other than beef; vegetable spring rolls were small and chewy. For £100 you expect a feast- We’re very disappointed.

Good food and fresh i really enjoyed the hotpot.thanks

Ordered crispy duck via an online service. What arrived did not resemble crispy duck by any reasonable measure and I'm not sure was even duck. Instead of shredded duck it looked more like diced pork. Won't be ordering from this place or that online service again.

Went there for a hotpot. Came a half hour before our reservation and got the table anyway which was very nice. Pros 1. Selection of broths was nice, 5 different ones, from spicy to clear. 2. Wide selection of veggies, meats and seafood for the hotpot. 3. £25 per person for all you can eat was a fair price. 4. Staff were really helpful and offered forks for chopstick-challenged people 😂 Cons 1. Interior design of the place is deceivingly simplistic. Don’t expect extravagant decorations.

We ordered take out. Unfortunately the food was much too spicy for me and my girlfriend. We ate most of it but it seemed like it was all spice, I couldn't taste the actual food and flavours, which was a shame. She had Chicken Satay and I had Black Bean Tofu. We decided to get take out as the restaurant was very busy and cramped with tables very close together, the kitchen is right next to the tables so it was quite loud and hard to hear what the person next to you was saying! Not a wheelchair friendly restaurant at all. I saved some of the food in the fridge for the next day thinking that maybe I was overreacting about the spice, but no, it was still too spicy with a fresh palate the next morning and the leftovers went in the bin.

I went to eat here 4 times in july 2023 Best meal I had curry seafood. Ask for students menu for well discoumted meals

I like the food, their service and the hospitality.

Got a delivery and was very disappointed. Tofu dry, aubergine drenched in oi and nothing else. Not what we were expecting.

河南燴麵必點 麵條有勁，湯頭濃郁，喝光碗底 燒鴨拉麵的燒鴨也很香～ 酸菜肥牛的酸味調和的恰好🤤雖然和預期的樣子不同，但很出色😍 忍不住一天二訪的店！😂

A small, simple chinese cafe with reasonable prices, quick service, and tasty food, this is a go-to spot in the neighbourhood for authentic tastes. Cash only, down to earth, and no frills, don’t expect romance or charm, but do expect to finish every single dish and leave satisfied. The tofu and aubergine dishes are especially delightful, and wait times are generally quick.

Always 5 stars food and service. Beef soft , melting in your mouth and the spiciness of chicken with chilli just make you want more.

A go-to restaurant in Cambridge.

Ristorante cinese. Il cibo è buono ed abbondante a prezzi contenuti. Credo che faccia orario continuato, per cui ci si può mangiare anche di pomeriggio, non solo a pranzo e cena.

Our favourite Chinese restaurant in Cambridge, by far! Usually very full (for a good reason!)

The best chines food in Cambridge

Do not eat here. Food is frozen and reheated upon order. I had Singapore noodles that were dry, no taste and no traces of it being stir fried. It was a frozen dish that sat on the microwave until it was put on the plate. The servers were rude. The woman said that’s how it is, dried. Disappointing experience. There are lots of Asian places in Cambridge, this one is the poorest one.

Have been here three times with friends. Consistently worst service attitude I’ve ever seen. The server speaks a dialect which I don’t understand when I gently asked what she means i was shouted at to the point that 3 quarters of customers in the store turned to us. There are also insects in the hotpot sauces.

Very disappointed. Potato and aubergine were burnt and taste bitter. Had to throw them away. Can't believe they are serving food like this to customers.

The food was good, however we had several akward and uncomfortable moments with the staff. As one note, we waited for ages for our food. When they brought the bill, they told us the final amount and before we proceed with the payment, they forced us to add the service charge on top of it which was not stated anywhere. Furthermore, we initially chose this restaurant as they announced themselves as "Here we accept AMEX", but then when I was going to use my AMEX card, the waitress started to say that if I use the AMEX card I must give them a double service charge. All this was really uncomfortable and I would rather preffer to go to a place where the staff have a more charming behavior. If you are not willing to accept AMEX payment, do not announce with stickers everywhere in the restaurant that you accept AMEX payments. Also, do not enforce service charge, this is really unacceptable - specially on cases where the people were not happy with the service.

The dipping sauce for hotpot isnt sweet enough. Very busy restaurant.

Das war das beste Essen was ich nicht in China (Dongguan) gegessen habe!! Immer wieder!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tried the henan noodles soup for lunch and it was amazing for winter!! The soup was really hot and taste amazing.They increased the price to 8gbp but still worth it.The portion was really huge! I didn’t finished it haha. Definitely recommend

Delicious hotpot, £21 for all you can eat, cook at your own pace, great selection of fresh looking ingredients. I've tried a few and it's the best hot pot place so far in Cambridge. Friendly staff, they wishes us a happy new year :)

Food was good - great portions but a bit too oily. Hopefully this can be avoided if you let the kitchen stuff know beforehand. The atmosphere was kind of okay. Service / communication wasn't great.

Go here! Authentic delicious Chinese food with very reasonable food prices. I had loose leave tea with one of my favorites MaPao Tofu. I am not sure the English translation, but it was really really good. They also had hot pot which was for 2+ people that looks amazing. So happy and hope to go here again one day! Thank you

[2022-12-28, £14.88/pax] decent food, good value lamb w/ chilli (120) - 8/10, ok lamb but great sauce aubergine with chilli - 9/10 chairman braised pork - 6/10, too sweet ginger scallion beef - 7/10 white rice - 5/10

Loved the food. Service was ..... interesting!

Good place, lovely and delicious food . Good generous portion. Food prep was quick. Value for money. Definitely would recommend this place for others.

Lunch menu offers great value Chinese food. Really liked the hot and sour soup noodles. Update: finally tried the all you can eat hot pot + BBQ and enjoyed the experience. Good range of meats, vegetables and noodles. Great value.

The only place I found that takes cards super sweet staff

Good Restaurant Good menu with different choices. From hot pot to barbecue to individual dishes to dumplings. Taste authentic. Good services. The staff are nice, polite and helpful. Reasonable price too. Therefore I went a lot of times already. As a remindee, it takes cash only. So don't forget to bring your cash.

Enjoyed the all you can eat hotpot here. Note that the spicy hot pot base is actually really spicy (I couldn't really handle it). Otherwise there's a modest selection of meat and others

Try cumin lamb. Amazing. The hot and sour not so good ok.

Ordered from Deliveroo. The worst Chinese takeaway I've had in a long long time. Everything was very bland and low quality. The half crispy duck was a joke - the duck was just cubes of breast meat in a box, so it definitely was not half a duck's worth. A crispy duck should be shreddable. It lacked taste and was not CRISPY as per the name of the dish!! The pancakes kept breaking apart, not because they were overpacked but just because they were so frail and dry and pathetic. The cucumber was basically dehydrated. Not sure what sauce we got but it wasn't any hoisin sauce I know of. The beef hofun was bland as a whole - the meat was ok in texture but there was no classic hofun flavour. The salt and chilli wings were the least bland but the skin was soft/soggy. £38 for a tasteless meal. Definitely avoid this place.

I've tried here shrimps and a soup- both delicious. Gonna visit it again with my sister <3

Two stars for quick delivery nothing else. Disappointed with the food. For £10 a dish there is almost no chicken, tiny tiny pieces. Really nothing special unfortunately such a shame I request refund.

Some of the best dumplings I have ever had! The portions are very large, and very cheap during lunch hours (£5-7 for almost any dish from 11:30 to 4:30).

A local favorite for my friends and I. The food, no question, is always incredible with the special mention of our house favorites: salt and pepper squid, seafood fried rice and Henan noodle soup. If you're feeling adventurous try the hot and crispy pork intestines and compliment it with their spicy pickled radish. Try the AYCE hotpot and grill, which is actually cheaper than most local hotpot hotspots in Cambridge. Comfort food at its finest without having to spend so much....

Very rude owner, dirty place.tongs for each hotpot ingredient, same tongs can be used between raw meat and veg. And only cash?

Love the food there especially the lunch menu!

Try the hotpot and when they say broth is spicy, they mean it! 👍🏼

Maybe we got unlucky with our choices but we found the food uninspiring: one-note dishes with almost no extra ingredients beyond those named e.g. beef noodles were pretty much just loads of noodle and some bits of beef. The place was also smoky from the cooking, insanely hot - even with the door open - and there were lots of flies. The staff were friendly.

Best Chinese restaurant in Cambridge. Been going there for years. Tasty, authentic Chinese food and friendly staffs. No parking as it’s in the high street, but ‘Gwydir Street Car Park’ is just around the corner

Only the second time I have been to this Resturant and I am blown away again. The food is just amazing! I ordered Singapore noodles and the contents and flavour is just perfect! Staff are lovely and it’s just a nice place to dine!

Great place to go with friends for unlimited hot pot (and BBQ for 2 GBP extra). There is a good variety of meats, fish, noodles, and vegetables. There is also a good variety to make a sauce on the side. What I really like is that each person can get their own individual hot pot bowl with our own soups. The soup is also unlimited. The only drawback is the staff speaks limited English. You can make a booking ahead of time over the phone.

Love the food and lunch price is very reasonable and affordable. Great taste at great price.

Unsanitary environment. Sticky table & chairs. No dedicated tongs for each hotpot ingredient, same tongs can be used between raw meat, veg, fish & carbs. Pieces of raw meat were hanging off their container in the hotpot self-serve area. The restaurant has a hygiene rating of 3/5, what is there left to say?

This was our second visit to Spring and it was as good as I remembered. Just before lockdown 1 we visited for a quick meal and were impressed with the price, service and quality. There is nothing fancy inside - it is a typical chinese takeaway - but the food was very good and well priced. Our second visit included a starter, a soup and a beer each. This was enough to be an entire meal and was remarkably well priced. You can order expensive meals too but this was enough for us. Highly recommended if you are after typical Chinese food.

Do not order crispy sweet and spicy beef. It is npt crispy and tastes like carton. Lamb is nice

Great for Chinese hotpot, the ingredients for it are buffet-style, so you can pick up as much as you want for your own pot. Staff are friendly. Decor is a little rough around the edges. No private parking, so you may be better visiting on foot or cycling.

Tried takeaway. Small portion. Way over priced. £25 for not much. Not great for the signature fish dish. Going back to no.72 restaurant instead.

Really nice eating experience. Far more authentic than your traditional English Chinese. The hot pot experience is great. You get to choose a soup and then choose from a range of items to cook either in the hot soup or on a plate built into the table as a BBQ. It's really good fun. It's an all you can eat buffet and so no doggy bags allowed. Just stay for the experience and eat as much as you can.

Surprisingly, we've walked past Spring Restaurant countless times and only recently we learned their specialty is the Hot Pot buffet! The all-you-can eat costs about £18, +£2 if you also want the grill. The dining table has an integrated grill and one induction dish per seat that lets you control the temperature of your Hot Pot. There's plenty of available vegetables, meats and sauces. It was very humid and warm last time we went, maybe a better ventilation systems would be in order.

Best chinese in Cambridge!!!!!!!eat four years already!!!!!! The HeNan noodle is amazing!!剑桥最好吃的中餐厅！！宝藏店铺希望被更多人发现！！！还有差评真是搞笑了

similar price as that on Regent street, but poor quality. We ordered 3 dishes, didn't finish 10%, left. I normally take left-over home, but the quality is too bad, no bother.

Great value for money. So quick, really nice staff. Quick service both dine in and takeaway!

Amazing authentic Chinese food. Everything was full of flavor and the service was very attentive. Would definitely recommend and will come back whenever I come to Cambridge.

Great interesting authentic asian food, not afraid to provide some very spicy options, simple and fancy dishes alike, well worth it.

Nice big bowls of home made Chinese food, recommended for a well priced delicious lunch

My favourite Chinese restaurant in Cambridge, the only place I go to eat Chinese food since I'm from Sichuan China and very particular about authentic Chinese food!

Very nice food bossman was friendly and nice. Reasonable price for authentic food very good. Probably best one in Cambridge

Like the individual hot pot for each person but maybe the food wasnt so fresh

Great chinese food at an affordable price

We've been going to this restaurant for many years now. The food is very good. The portions are large and the price, very affordable. We like the Henan noodles that is available on the Lunch menu. Service is fast. And they also have a Hot Pot buffet which is great and well worth it.

The food was good and cheap. However, the place was cash only, not ideal in COVID times. Also, the loo had a stench similar to livestock and had single sheet toilet paper.

Traditional Chinese spicy, local’s favorite

We ordered the spicy fish pot and it was so good! The spiciness is right to my liking. Portion was quite big too. Highly recommended.

Never fails to impress me..amazing authentic tasty cuisine

if you want authentic Chinese, this is the place decent prices and good portions

very delicious! makes me homesick

Always great! Best Chinese Restaurant in Cambridge.

Bland, lack-lustre food, missing out primary ingredients - no ginger in a ginger and spring onion dish, for example. Extremely disappointing take-away experience.

My favorite 5 pounds lunch during a postgraduate year in Cambridge. Back in 2014 I’ll definitely can’t survive without your restaurant. Hope you are well and been through this tough circumstance.

We ordered vegetarian dishes and it was all amazing: the brocolli and beans were perfectly cooked (with a little bite), the aubergine was creamy soft and everything beautifully spiced and flavoured - and this was delivered! Our new go-to place.

Friendly staff, nice food and decently priced.