The Old Street Chinese Restaurant in Islington

Went for a lunch. Lunch menu did not have many vcg. Choice. They asked extra to change only one option that was on lunch menu. There is service charge on top of the bill.

中華料理の信頼できる点は、世界中どこで食べても中華料理であることだと思うのですが、まさにそういう中華料理に出会えて嬉しいです。炒飯、回鍋肉、餃子、salt&pepper tofu、白米一人前を幼児2人含めた4人で分けてちょうど良かったです。メニューは品名一つ一つに写真がちゃんと添付されていてとても注文しやすいです。子供が食べやすそうなものを選べました。一皿のサイズは大人一人が白米といっしょに食べてちょうどいい量だと思います。値段も相応だと思います。また機会があれば行きたいです。

4 of us called in on a Sunday evening. Full of Chinese diners and we were seated straight away. The food was quick, tasty and good value for money. We all enjoyed the experience.

Amazing crispy cumin beef, aubergine prawns, dry fried green beans -- everything we ordered was 100x better than anything I've ever had in Chinatown, better than any Chinese meal I've had since I lived in NYC 30 years ago. Just wow. Lovely friendly service, a bit slow because everything was obviously cooked fresh, but the food is absolutely worth waiting for. Can't wait to go back, this place is a GEM.

DO NOT TRY THE BUFFET HOT POT. The food and vegetable was not fresh and when I pointed out this to their staff, the staff threw a very bad attitude to me and blamed me it's my problem not theirs. Horrible customer service, please do not try the buffet hot pot there!

Great prawn crackers Everything else over priced and average!! Gave us bottles as said couldn’t understand us!! Later gave others fraught!!! Average x

Seeing a Chinese restaurant full of Chinese customers is the best recommendation and so it proved. This restaurant serves top quality food served by friendly staff. This is altogether a great place and highly recommended

Claimed 25 mins, took 70 mins, items completely incorrect. Kitchen uncontactable, did not answer the phone. Clearly a completely disorganized kitchen. Avoid for takeout.

During lockdown, there aren't many options on Deliveroo for Sichuan food, and this restaurant is one of the few that has a wide delivery range. From our 4 orders in the last 2 months, the restaurant always estimates 60-90 minute wait times (within zone 1/2), which we can plan for. However, each time they were late, each time we had to call the restaurant to check on our order, and each time there was an additional 30-45 minutes added on top of the already long wait time. According to the manager, the restaurant has decided to only make delivery runs when combining several orders together for Deliveroo. They don't apologize for this - they do not feel bad at all. This is bad for customers, bad for food quality, and bad for the driver who is likely underpaid because the restaurant has turned off the driver tipping function on Deliveroo (By the way, the driver himself is really nice and respectful, and you can tell he is trying to go as fast as he can through far too many orders at once.) And to top it off, as a Sichuan native, I can tell you that if there was no pandemic, I would never eat at this restaurant because there are far better options in Zone 1/2 for the same or cheaper price. They use stale/subpar seasoning, and some dishes are over-salted.

Absolutely horrible,6 of us had two dishes each, all except the dumplings was horrible, soggy prawn crackers, absolutely no flavor to the beef noodles and the beef was horid. The special fried rice basically only had ham and peas in. Walked past for years and will continue to do so. Was an expensive waste of money. Flavorless expensive plain food

The name of this restaurant is very misleading. You would think that this place is a regular Chinese restaurant in Old Street, but actually it is way more than that. If you are able to read Chinese, the name of the restaurant is a major city in Southwest China, the origin of hot pot and the hometown of many exotic and rare dishes. In China, it is well known that Chongqing is famous for its food and most people are very proud of their own cuisine. They develop recipes over generations and strict about the way they make food. I always passed by this restaurant but this was the first time ever I managed to get into it. If you want a real authentic Chinese food experience, you should definitely add this restaurant to your number one place. You try this place once and you never want to go back to China town where they serve the public with fake Chinese food. The restaurant seems to ran by a family, very friendly staff, average furniture, just like in China, the focus is mainly on the food, that's what is important for every single catering place. Serving is nice and the taste is almost like you are visiting a restaurant in Chongqing.

I was craving Chinese food and headed over expecting not great American-style Chinese food. Instead, I enjoyed the most authentic and delicious Szechuan Chinese food I've had outside China.. Warning: there are a lot of chili peppers involved. And yes the service is not the best. But if you can take the heat, stay in this kitchen.

First visit to this restaurant. The welcome wasn't over friendly but the ambience was good and the menu choice was excellent. The food came quickly and was tasty and hot. With a more friendly level of service this could be a great restaurant.

We had a spicy cauliflower in iron wok and chicken noodles. The cauliflower was very very very, spicy and really tasty. A very good and cold beer, Cobra beer!

I have been to this Chinese restaurant several times and I just love the food, I think it simply the best Si Chuan restaurant. But I hate their waiters and waitresses so so much. They are full of ‘don’t care’ and most unfriendly attitude. If you are going there, just simply enjoy the good food and just ignore these bunch of unfriendly staff and never have them spoil your lovely evenings. It is a big shame that a good restaurant with such bad customer services. Well, I don’t think they understand what is ‘Customer Services’.

The portion sizes are just way too small. The food is tasty, however the spring rolls aren’t so much. The spring rolls taste of smelly boiled cabbage lol. If the portion sizes were larger it would have been worth the money. Also the shop doesn’t smell great :/ The service was slightly weird, maybe the workers are a bit shy and just don’t like interacting so much

Food good. If you like pigs entrails and chickens backsides then this is the place for you. I decided against someone’s beloved wow and opted for the beef in brack bean sawce. My tsing tao was excellent and gave me great pause for thought. I reflected on whether my charming waitress deserved her %10 tip. She perhaps strained a smile at one point but quite easily I’m mistaken. I do like a local with locals, makes me feel re assured that I’m noshing in the right joint. Hats off and about turn. I may well return.

Dined here with friends and thoroughly enjoyed.. The menu was great, extensive but with lots of colour photos to help choose, it included quite a few dishes I had not seen before but still had all the popular favourites too. The service was quick and...

Relatively inexpensive but delicious meal. Good service, quick, efficient and friendly. Tables were basic but clean.

What a gem! My new favourite Chinese restaurant! I will be back for sure! Lovely authentic menu and lovely welcoming staff.

We had almost given up finding a really good authentic Szechuan restaurant in London. There used to be one or two local ones in NW London, but they've all gone now. We happened on this place purely by chance and the moment we walked in,...

Service is appalling. I asked one of the waiters for some coriander and he told me to grab it myself from the hotpot sauce section. We ordered a spicy boiled beef which was meant to be piping hot but when the food was deleivered we...

We came here for dinner on a Sunday after just walking by, the restaurant wasn't too busy and the service was good. We ordered quite a few different dishes and all were really tasty, well cooked and seasoned. I especially liked the aubergine in chilli...

I will never come back here again worst service ever The staff was so rude the drop the beef on the table and didn’t even say sorry and walked away like nothing happened . Ask the for other tea pot and they said no because...

We chose the restaurant because it seemed popular with the local Asian youth. The noodle dishes were average at best but the pancake duck was disgusting. Dry, hard- like eating woodchips. We told the waitress but she just seemed amused. Avoid.

We were staying at the nearby hotel, and I thought my family should try Chinese food as they have never tried it before. I'd say the food didn't taste anything special, very average, rather disappointing even. The restaurant was half full, there were plenty nice...

I went there for lunch with a colleague. We both had something off the lunch menu, I ate the Kung Poa chicken. It was cooked quickly, and was tasty. I will definitely visit again.

We are an American family who did a “nearby” search for Chinese food and found this place, close to the flat where we are staying. You might easily pass this by based on the exterior, and the interior is plain as well. However, the service...

For years the only decent Szechuan restaurants in London were either just okay or Too erratic in quality. Through a friend’s recommendation we decided to try this non-descript looking restaurant near the old street roundabout. The food was really good. The red chilli fish which...

This is where the Chinese eat! It’s very fresh hot food served fairly promptly The range is brilliant We had crispy duck Chicken and ginger Pork sweet and sour Egg fried rice Spinach Green tea and coke all for £52 Try it It’s fab

Lots of menu choice but food we had was average. Service ok but could be better. Quick and easy meal

As it was my first time I asked for help choosing. The waitress kept pointing and saying this is spicy as it said chilli on it. We said spicy but not too much chilli. The food arrived we were told we need to hurry our...

Chinese New Year - Chinatown was full, and I thought of this place, near home. Sure enough, it was nearly empty - well, there's a reason for that! I was shown to a table, given a menu - and then completely ignored. As the time...

They made us sit and forgot about us. When we enquired then they took the order. We ordered prawn fried rice and a spicy chicken dish. The fried rice is average but the chicken is full of peppers. Just one pepper in the mouth and...

Popped in as we were passing and was pleasantly surprised by the food which was very tasty. The selection includes some anglicised dishes but also more traditional Chinese dishes. £50 for 2 including a bottle of wine is a pretty good price especially for the...

I took a client here for evening dinner. I’d been before a couple of years back, boy has it changed. All the food tasted bland (like glue) with little flavour. The waiting on staff weren’t bothered to even ask if we wanted a follow on...

Perhaps it was due to us stopping in late on a Sunday, but there was not much else open and we were craving some Chinese. We carried out our meal and upon getting back to our hotel sleepy and starving we were both extremely disappointed....

This restaurant offers some unusual dishes as well as the normal Chinese fare. I was delighted to find rabbit cooked with chillies which tasted fantastic though there was quite a bit of bone in the meat. The crispy duck fell off the bone and was...

I went there with my Dad and my Brother it was very good, the service was good and the meal was absolutely delicious and it was enormous and I 100 percent would go back.

Went to get the tube and was faced with an immense queue so decided to head down the road and get dinner. I had green beans with pork and dan dan noodles and wonton soup. The green beans still had their stalks on- not ideal....

Food was very tasty and the service was fast and efficient. I'm not too fussed about being checked on numerous times to see if everything is ok, in fact, I find it rather irritating so this was my type of service. Got there, ate great...

Years ago, a Chinese friend of mine said that you can tell if a Chinese restaurant is any good by the number of Chinese people in it, so I guess this restaurant meets the mark - for the first half hour my wife and I...

装修看起来不是很高档但是食物真的没得说，我在重庆也很难吃到这么正宗的四川菜。 The restaurant looks simple but food is so nice and real sichuan food! as a sichuan local people I bet it is best even in my home town

When we first arrived they took a while to seat me down. Compared to other restaurants that I have been to in London being a resident I have to say this is one of the worst experience in my life. Not only could the waiter...

We dine at the Old Street Chong Qing Chinese restaurant (old street station) in the afternoon with colleagues, near Barbican station too. The foods are fine, the serve traditional hot and spicy Chong Qing cuisine but nor authentic, you can order hot pot most people...

We decided to give this place a try when we we're walking towards Old Street Station. Waited about ten minutes - for a Friday night in London, that's pretty good. So I though the food was pretty good, tasty and an amazing selecting from hot...

We almost didn't go in, the outside isn't terribly inviting, but it was full of Chinese people. I am sooo glad we went in, the food was fantastic, service was quick and straightforward, there was lots of choice and the most exciting bit is, the...

Tasty food at a reasonable price, one complaint would be the service. It was too good at the beginning so that the waitress came up trying to take my order immediately and continued to come up while it was plainly obvious I was still looking...

Located in the heart of Soho, the old street Chinese restaurant serves the food of the Sichuan province of Southwest China. Sichuan cuisine is notable both for its innovative and liberal use of chilies and Sichuan pepper, and for the remarkable combinations of ingredients and...

Having lived in China for 4 years, I am always searching for good Chinese food. This is the most authentic place I've found in London. Spicy, huge portions, yum!

From the outside this looks like a old supermarket white front , when you step inside it has a basic setup that is where the plain bit ends. You are greeted by lovely staff with a massive menu all with photos . The food is...

Really delectable ! I would strongly recommande! The Menu is huge and give you a large choice of dishes .

This is a really different Chinese that sells really unique foods ! The food was delicious and although a little dear, was totally worth it ! Worth a visit !

I really enjoy this restaurant. If you are tired on hamburger, pizza and boring fast food. Then you should really try this restaurant. A lot of chinese customer but dont be afraid. The restaurant has large menu with picture on all the food you can...

This was everything I'd hoped for: proper Chinese food, lots of it, good service and decent prices. Huge beef in black bean sauce, equally massive special rice and a couple of Tsingtaos set me back a modest £23. The mainly Chinese customers were enjoying a...

Came here with a couple of workmates and I have to say the food was okay, I enjoyed my dishes but my workmates didn't and I tried some of theirs and it wasn't great. I think the main difference was that I ordered a lot...

Poor quality and too much oil. We have ordered lam ribs, but the dish came with 20% ribs and 80% deep fried potatoes, for £18! I have had stomach ache after the meal too.

People are right you'd pass it & not think much by the look of this Chinese . They could maybe work on their decor outside /inside but it dosen't take away from their extensive menus with photos , delicious tasty good quality food which we...

Visited here whilst on business. Busy, but not overly so, and seemed to be a hit with the local chinese community, which is normally a good sign! Reasonably priced, reasonable food. Not the best i have ever had, but for an early evening quick meal...

If you walk past this place on Old Street you wot look at it twice. It is the haunt of the local chinese population. The menu is extensive and very unusual, I had Fish and Tofu in Chilli and it was fantastic, The portions are...

Having past this restaurant several times previously without blinking, I finally decided to give it a go after always seeing it full of people. The rather unassuming facade & fairly unimaginative name really doesn't do this restaurant justice. The menu is huge with many dishes...

Had a lovely dinner here. Food was very tasty and reasonably priced. Service was very good. Decor was nice,

Went to the Old St Chinese for a birthday meal. The interior is plain, with menu specials left for you to read under a thick roll of polythene to protect the wood of the table. This may be from the chillies! Szechuan can be hot...

Absolutely fabulous chinese food - very ordinary interior but the quality of the food is awesome - the aubergine + minced pork is amazing - the wok based chili rabbit - kung pao pork - both excellent dishes. I dont tend to find often that...

Great selection on the lunch time menu. Quick service, tasty food and good price. Wish I'd discovered it earlier!

In terms quality and variety there are few places I've found that set such a high standard. decor is basic and location is on a very busy street near old street round about but its worth a visit. There is an excellent selection of dishes....

There are Chinese restaurants and there are CHINESE restaurants. This was definitely one of the latter. The place was packed with people of Chinese origin and so it was certainly worth a try - if they like it, it must be good...and boy was it...

The first moment we saw the signs outside written in Chinese and the people inside were mostly Chinese we decided to come here the next day as we already had our dinner( which was not great- Sedap restaurant which suppose to be malaysian/Thai & Singapore...

the staff really dont speak that much english but the menu has good amount of photos on it. they get confused when ppl try to pay with cards. I recommend paying my cash,

The food was bland, tasteless but not greasy. Wong ton soup arrived after main course which was very bland with no taste . Tea pot was chipped and jasmine tea hardly had any flavour of jasmine. Service was average with prices to match . No...

Have been here on many occasions and love the food here!!! Can't get enough of it. Very authentic especially the spicy hot pot.

This was previously called The great wall of China. it is authentic Sichuan style Chinese food so expect it to be hot with a generous use of red chillies. It's best to go with a good group as the portions are very large so excellent...

I tried this place by chance. The decor and name are a big understatement but once I'd tried the food it quickly became my favorite Chinese restaurant in london. I've been back repeatedly. I'm making my way through the very exciting menu and have not...

I think this must be a new restaurant on the site of an old one, as there is another Chinese restaurant listed on TripAdvisor with the same address. The best clue to the authenticity of the food is the fact that I was pretty much...

We were staying at The Easy Hotel and found this place (there are other Chinese, so beware that you get the right place) and it was mainly filled with Chinese diners, a good sign. The portions were huge, we had spicy ribs and hot and...