Gourmet Garden

I have been on the lookout for a place that we could get Chinese food prepared with quality ingredients without breaking the bank. This place is it — my husband and I have gone 3 times and have loved everything. Amazing food all around & great service.

Not just good Chinese, good location. Food was excellent could have been hotter (temperature), still very good. Prices are average, service was good. Will definitely come back.

Just stopped here for a quick lunch this place has great sushi very fresh I had the special that consisted of two kinds of sushi of your choice and miso soup it was awesome and inexpensive!

By far the freshest, best Chinese food on the North Shore! My kids (one is a vegetarian) and I go here at least once a week. The food is always hot and fresh with local organic ingredients. Highly recommend for families during the week and date night on the weekends. One downfall is it can get very loud with drunk people at the bar on Fri/​Sat nights so don’t take the kids on a weekend night!

A Groupon led us (me and a friend) here on a Friday afternoon around 2 pm. The restaurant was quiet with a few people at the bar and a few in the dining room. Restaurant is spacious and clean. We were greeted and seated immediately. Our greeter left menus with us and our waitress came over quickly to take our drink orders (water). We decided to split appetizers and entrees. For appetizers, we chose the vegetable spring rolls and steamed vegetable dumplings. For entrees, the lunch shrimp with a ginger scallion sauce and the healthy spicy chicken, both with a side of brown rice. Our appetizers arrived in a fair amount of time, 6 steamed dumplings served with a dark (soy?) sauce. We didn’t care much for the sauce and the only vegetable that was noticeable to me were the edamame. The two fried spring rolls came with two sauces: a sweet/​sour sauce and a mustard based sauce. We preferred the sweet over the mustard and the cabbage was the most noticeable vegetable to me in the spring rolls. Both were good, light.
Our entrees came shortly … there were approximately 10 medium shrimp in our shrimp dish and the ginger in the sauce was definitely noticeable. The chicken was disappointing as it was described as «spicy» but we did not detect any spice but did come with ample pea pods and carrot slices. The brown rice is a bit on the mushy side (great for me but not for my friend). We preferred the shrimp over the chicken.
When the tab arrived, we were charged for the dinner portion of the shrimp and my friend asked the waitress whether we received the lunch or dinner portion and we thoughts she said lunch. She took our groupon and returned with the tab having only deducted the value of the groupon and did not address the price difference between the dinner and lunch charge for the shrimp. Rather than heckle over the difference, we just settled our tab and left. A good meal experience but would probably not go out of our way to return.

My Gf suggested this place. We went today for lunch. I started with the oysters and sushi. Both very good. Next we both got lunch specials. My Gf loves the pork fried rice. It was very good and fresh made. Service was quick and efficient. Would go back for a sushi boat sometime.

They deliver to me within the time they say. They also have brown rice as an option for the sushi which I really appreciate. I will continue to order from them until I can’t.

What don’t go near that place there food is terrible. Went last Thursday should have known something when at 12:30 no one is there eating food cold, no taste and for what the prices are high way robbery. DON’T GO THERE !!! :-(

hands down this is the best chinese food on the North Shore. Fresh organic chinese food that is tasty and filling. The staff is incredibly friendly and makes you feel like family. Try the Mai Tai. Also the bar has a great vibe and all out atmophere is appealing.

Very nice décor and friendly. Great choices for dinner. Tried Crab Rangoons as an appetizer. and then ordered Hong Kong Chicken and String Beans, Pork Fried Rice, Shanghai Duck, My husband tried the Stone table side cooking of fish. Food was fresh and appetizing. Wait staff more than eager to wait on you. They are MSG free!!!
Hope they can make a go of it… hard location since you can not see it from Enon street.

Ok, so this place is amazing !! I can’t say much else, great bar, great food, and a very informative bartender. Got edamame to start with a Mia Tai, I could have licked the plate. Next was crab rangoons, best I’ve ever had !! Now onto the the ribs, I actually think I bit my finger at one point during the frenzy, ok so next was beef teriyaki, melted in my mouth tender !!! To finish we got orange chicken and pork fried rice both were awesome as well !!

We were itching for some sushi, searched and found this Groupon, so went.
First, it’s in a strip mall. Set us off a bit — but we were still open. And, it was nice enough inside.
Started with some hot tea — came in a mug and was bad. No flavor and tasted stale.
We shared a seaweed salad (small but good) and a spicy seafood salad (creamy, nicely spicy, overall fine).
Then we moved onto a spicy tuna roll (solid — well done), rainbow maki (well rolled, w a cream sauce on top, which is interesting), and house dragon saki (solid).
All the sushi was well made, good ingredients, and tasty.
We saw someone next to us get an acai rice option — next time we’re doing that! Others around us got some good very fried crap — looked really tasty too.

I really wanted to like this place. I’ve been looking at the menu for a few weeks and finally decided to make the plunge to order today.
I’ve had so many horrendous experiences ordering takeout that I’ll almost never order food without Foodler or Grubhub.
-.5 star for the delivery guy calling me from the wrong apartment instead of reading the simple instructions I left when I ordered through Grub.
–1 star for the complete absence of shrimp in my Chicken and SHRIMP Pad Thai
–1.5 star for the most disgusting General Gau’s chicken I’ve ever tasted. (after scooping out the white rice [which was pretty good] the chicken went in the trash)
I understand that dishes at Chinese restaurants vary greatly. but General Gaus/​Tso chicken has been my favorite Chinese dish to order since I was probably 6 years old. But I’ve never experienced anything like what I received today. Soggy mushy chunks of chicken in the worst tasting sauce I’ve had. I can’t even describe the taste as anything other than just bitter.
A few of the appetizers we got were pretty good, saving this review from being a 1 star.
I’ll never order take out/​delivery from here again, I’ll stick to Beverly Jade for that.

Very good quality but the portions are fairly small and the prices fairly high in comparison to some other local sushi restaurants.

I still love their food. the best on the North Shore but beware that they charge to deliver… no matter the distance. This is not stated on their take out menu so we have given a generous tip to driver multiple times. I have no problem with the charge, but in speaking to the manager he saw no reason to put the charge in print and i believe customers shoukd know what they are paying for.

Gluten-​free Chinese close by.
We have visited twice since the location opened. Both times my family we have been seated without a wait.
My son claims the hot and sour soup is the best he’s ever had. He orders this soup just about every time he sees it.
The lettuce wraps were good, possibly even better than PF Changs.
The biggest reason for giving this place a try was their offering of Gluten Free options. They offered to modify items on the menu or you can order one of their two gf specialties. They also will make lo mien with gf noodles.
My kids enjoy the carrot garnishes made to look like flowers.
We also went back another time and had an equally as good experience.

First time ordering from here, got delivery. Took less time then expected. We got a pu pu platter for two, less food then expected but was very good and tasted fresh. Also ordered a half dozen of oysters. Very very yummy, came on ice as expected.
All over I will defiantly be ordering from here again number one Chinese spot now

It’s always refreshing to have a new restaurant in town, and we were more than excited to try out Gourmet Garden, in the Enon St Plaza, North Beverly. We had never tried their other locations (or heard of them prior to this restaurant’s arrival in Beverly), but it sounds like the restaurant group has a great reputation that precedes it. True to the other reviews, the prices were slightly higher than your run of the mill Chinese restaurant, however the quality of the food more than made up for it. The ingredients were incredibly fresh, and well prepared in everything we tried. My fiancé was really impressed by the octopus carpaccio, with an above average presentation. You can tell that these people really care about putting out a beautiful dish by the flower garnishes present on most all of them. I had the chicken lettuce wrap appetizer, which was really good, and filling. I also had the caterpillar roll which was another beautifully prepared dish. For an entrée, my fiancé had the steamed chicken and vegetables in a bamboo basket. They brought out a sauce on the side as well. The dish could not have tasted fresher or healthier, which was exactly what he had hoped for.
The interior was really well done, and was more than I had expected for a «strip mall» type of restaurant. The high ceilings, expansive bar, and plentiful seating all contributed to making this restaurant feel like a step up from your average Chinese restaurant.
We will certainly be back!

My brother wanted Chinese which I never really want these days because it normally sucks. And by that, I mean it doesn’t taste great and I feel awful afterwards. But he said this place was supposed to be different. Let me tell you — it is different. Homemade and organic
I don’t dine or shop exclusively at organic places, but this place is worth the extra money. The Chicken fingers were the best I’ve had in a while, and the crab rangoons were very good. The Seasame chicken was cut up into very small pieces but it tasted good. The egg roll was a little greasy, but it wasn’t bad. Overall, I really enjoyed the food here. I think it’s better then Tsang’s on the south shore.

Just got delivery from here.
The food was great. The chicken in my Pad Thai tasted clean and fresh as did the shrimp. The crab rangoon were great as well. The spicy duck we received was tasty but barely registered any heat on my tongue. Everything tasted really really great.
Prices are slightly higher than other Chinese food places in Beverly, but the food is better, at least so far. We’ll have to try it again, not too soon, but we will get stuff delivered again.
Delivery to the Ryal side ‘hood took about an hour, which is why we don’t usually order anything from the «other» side of town.
The delivery fee is $ 3.