Grill-N-Chill Cafe

Best milk tea! Not too sugary. Wife had the strawberry. Also very good. They use real fruits

Came here for a great Milk tea. Didn’t have any of the bitter taste from the tea being brewed too long. and at $ 2.25 plus tax it was a good deal.

I had been to Lao You Ju a few times without realizing that there is a food count underneath it! I came here for a visit on a Monday around 5:30. There were 4 – 5 restaurant and I decided to give a shot on Grill-​N-​Chill café. I bought chicken wings, spam and egg romen, sticky tart (which they don’t sell often) and a milk-​tea tapioca.
First of all, the romen was exactly what I expected it, so nothing special to write about besides it tastes good. I like my chicken wings that is crispy and juicy at the same time, and I do believe they had done it. Thumbs up on that. There two items I want to emphasis are the sticky tarts and milk tea. I am not sure if I can get sticky tart anywhere else in Chinatown, but I haven’t had those in YEARS! It brought back childhood memory while I was still in Hong Kong =) About the milk tea, I had been to many places in Chinatown like chi-​café, St. Anna and a couple more places here and there, I truly do believe that Grill-​N-​Chill Café serve the best. I do need to go back a few more times to check the consistency of their milk tea, but so far they’ve earned five stars from me.
At the end, I do wish they have a slightly larger food selections to choose from. I look forward to try their lunch boxes in the near future, maybe tonight! Grill-​N-​Chill Café do not have printed menu, so you/​I need to find their menu on Facebook. Prices are affordable. This little hidden gem deserves for everyone to check it out.

On a recent chilly trip to Chinatown for some bakery buns we noticed the sign for a subterranean food court beneath an office building. Sounded quite warm and inviting so we checked it out. It was the Friday after Thanksgiving so only about half of the vendors were open (and several vacant storefronts too) so we obviously weren’t hitting this spot on a high-​traffic day. My wife was jonesin’ for some pan-​fried dumplings/​potstickers and Grill-​N-​Chill was the only spot offering such goodness. Looked like a Mom and Son (or Grandson) operation. The wife ordered a strawberry bubble tea to round out her ‘snack’. I was initially going to forego a mid-​afternoon snack, but I spied an advertisement for a Spam, Fried Egg and Ramen noodle soup bowl for $ 3.99 with a free soda included. Too intriguing not to try. We paid and seated ourselves at a nearby table for 10 – 15 minutes while our food was prepared. The potstickers were lukewarm, but still pretty tasty. Served only with a couple packets of soy sauce when proper dumpling sauce would have made a huge difference in taste. The bubble tea was pretty good, but was advertised as ‘fresh fruit’. We watched the guy prepare the beverage and he scooped a few strawberry pieces (in syrup?) into the mixture, but it was mostly powdered mix and tasted as such. My warm bowl of pan-​fried egg and spammy goodness, however, was pretty great. If I worked in this neighborhood I think I’d often find myself here for breakfast and lunch during the cold winter months. This was simple comfort food and definitely hit the spot.
So all in all a good cheap mid-​afternoon meal. We’ll hit Joy Yee’s for our bubble teas from now on, but the tasty ramen bowl inspires me to try some of their other offerings on a future trip!

Only tried a strawberry smoothie with tapioca. I liked that it wasn’t too sweet, but the flavor was a bit faint. Tapioca were nice and soft. Also, for the price, they are a bit smaller in size than other places.
Will have to try something else out and I’ll update from there.

This place got awesome fruit smoothie for $ 3! I was shocked. They use real fruit and the size is ginormous! If I lived in Chicago, I would definitely come here weekly!

This place is aight. The spaghetti doe, I guess you can say it’s different. Not bad per-​se but… well, I’m just used to a different type of spaghetti lol. Their fried chicken doe! Shit’s flame! Now I’m not talking about spicy flame. Naw naw, I’m talking bout this here chicken yeah, this chicken, I don’t know how they do it. It’s nice and crispy on the outside andddd tender and juicy on the inside? Gahhhh damn! Don’t even get me started on those scrumptious desserts that I see they’d have on display now and then. A darn shame they don’t have them as often as I pass by.
So I normally don’t eat duck. If it’s not a chicken then it’s poultry I don’t even want to touch. But this one day… I went to grab a quick bite to eat and wanted to check this place out again. Had those amazing wings just sticks in your head ya know what I mean? But I didn’t know what exactly I was craving for. I was standing there until that one girl working the register gave me a suggestion. Their soy sauce duck. I wasn’t sure about that but since she was cute and she looked like she knew the business about food, I decided to take her word for it and ordered it. Why haven’t I ordered this soy sauce duck before in my entire life??? Shit’s soooo savory in the mouth. A straight mouthgasm. Yeah, I said it. A mouthgasm. In your mouth. As you’re eating.
So I thanked that girl at the register. Tried hollering at her too cause ya know, shawty is pretty cute. She completely ignored my hollas. Whatever then.
Lmfao like that’s going to stop me.