Rose Garden

Terrible. The food is disgusting and the service is the worst I’ve ever experienced. Went for their «buffet» yesterday where they really just bring the food out in bowls and ask if you want any. Sounds like a fun idea UNLESS… you sit at the wrong end of the restaurant. The servers always start on one end and work their way around so, by the time they got to us, the food was gone! We were lucky if we got a few crumbs at the bottom. We even asked multiple servers if they could start on our end of the restaurant and they said yes but never did! They even walked right past our table on multiple occasions on the rare times they had food we wanted!
The next day we called to speak with the owner about our experience and that we wouldn’t be back. He literally told me, «Good. We don’t want your business.»
Do yourself a favor and skip the headache with this place. There are way too many great Chinese restaurants in the area that know how to treat their customers.

This place was a really pleasant surprise. For what it was, I really couldn’t have asked for anything more. I had the lunch buffet with my wife. $ 16 all together. There was no old food baking under a light on a steam table. You actually have servers constantly going around the dining area with different foods serving you as much or as little as you want.
The Chinese food I’ve had north of Minneapolis has been awful. Read my other reviews and you’ll see the miserable experience my family and I have endured. Rose Garden has been by far the best Chinese food I’ve had since moving to the north suburbs. Not overly Americanized Chinese food with sugary sauces and greasy.
We left satisfied and felt we got a good value for the price.

Food: Amazing food! Greasy and probably not very healthy but it’s great. The lo mein is made with rice noodles so they are thinner than most. Hands down my favorite lo mein! Fried rice is greasy but delicious. The beef and broccoli has great flavor and lots of perfectly cooked veggies. Egg rolls and wontons are also very good. The portions are huge!!! An entrée can easily feed 4 people. Didn’t care for the fried dumplings, but you can’t like it all. I will give the steamed ones a shot and see how they are.
Atmosphere: The place is clean and the staff was very friendly.

Above average quality food. Mostly I go for the all you can eat lunch which can be a little frustrating because it is not a traditional buffet style but the food is fresh, hot and good. Due to the way they serve it you end up underestimating how much you ate and often are in need of a nap afterwards before you can get any work done.

I have eaten at this location more than a few times, have had the take– out, and sampled their lunch buffet. The food is consistently good, served hot, quickly and in massive quantities. I am thankful they have switched out the traditional paper quart-​boxes for take-​out because the portions would not fit in them.
The Szechuan Beef is phenomenal — order it double hot if you like a spicy meal. The General Tso’s Chicken is wonderful if your tastes are on the sweet side. The rice is done very well here, whether it be in a fried-​rice dish or just the plain white rice that comes with the meal. The Egg Rolls, Pot Stickers and Wontons are delicious.
The servers are friendly and attentive. They really shine at the buffet, bringing the food to your table until you can eat no more. A very good deal.

I ordered the sesame chicken and chicken fried rice for takeout. The portions were enormous but the quality was very poor. I am not that picky about chinese food because a majority of it is very similar but I had to write a review on this place because it was so bad. The rice was dry to the point that it was almost crunchy. The sesame chicken was bland even for americanized chinese food. It tasted the way chinese tastes when you leave it in your fridge for 4 or 5 days and reheat it in the microwave. Any place that would put a product like that out the door doesn’t deserve business. I’ll never go there again. I should have been tipped off when they told me they don’t accept credit/​debit cards. Save your money.

This place SUCKS! My dad and I went yesterday and ordered sweet and sour chicken. When it was served, it was just breading and no chicken. I asked for a different plate and the waitress said ok. Two minutes later a guy came out with the same plate of chicken and said that I had to eat it and he wouldn’t give me a new plate. After picking the chicken apart in front of him explaining my frustration, I went to the bathroom. The Chinese guy looked at my dad and said you shouldn’t have ordered it if you weren’t going to like it. AWFUL SERVICE AWFUL FOOD. WON’T BE BACK EVER AGAIN! Go to Mei-​Wei off of 109^th Ave instead!

This place is a unique and inexpensive chinese restaurant, a great value. This is kind of like a Don Pablos, a sit down buffet where people bring family sized batches of the dishes they prepare and serve them to you. At any one time there are one to two servers bringing around the next bowl of fresh off the wok food. I remember egg rolls, one or two stir frys, fried doughnuts, fried rice, and some other things. The great thing about this is you do not have to get up and the food is always fresh. This place is a great value.

I was going to this restaurant before it became really known. This is by far my favorite restaurant. This service is good, food is great, and added bonus of a small more personal warm like feeling. Their prices are low and the quality and freshness of the food is worth the stop to try.

I had recently moved to Blaine and I am looking for some where to get good chow mein. I saw the photo from the Rose Garden in Coon Rapids and it looked perfect. Chunks of shrimp, veggies, pods etc… What I got in Blaine was not even close. Chicken ground so fine it looked like tiny flavorless pellets. Chicken should be stir fried in bite sized chunks. Huge disappointment I’ll continue my search.

I’ve been going to Rose Garden for YEARS at the Coon rapids location and I wanted to try their second new location.
Definitely A LOT bigger and cleaner. I’m happy to see this 14 year old family run company expanding. Every time I come back to visit my folks, I make it a must to eat there. I only go during lunch, and never had take out.
The food hasn’t changed. Don’t go there expecting some creative healthy asian fusion cuisine. This is not the place. If you want traditional, american suburban style chinese food, grease and all. This place will definitely bring back the nostalgia.
It’s so cheap, I don’t know how these buffet places stay alive… What’s great about it is that you don’t have to get up. The food comes to you. Mind you, it always the same 6 – 8 dishes… but you will end up being so full you probably won’t be back for awhile. (that’s how I feel after I leave)
The waitresses are always friends and you can tell they work hard running around to every table offering homestyle plates. I hope people understand that you need to tip these waitresses!!! I see a lot people leave w/​o putting any money on the table. It’s really terrible…
in a nutshell. it’s $ 8, and the food comes to you.

We’ve ordered take out from here 3 – 4 times.
First, the good: everything has good flavor. The house wings are so garlicky, the egg rolls have great flavor, nice spice in some dishes.
Portion sizes are HUGE. They over fill the cartons (which can be messy, beware). After 2 people eating off an order of lo mein (skinny noodles, FYI) we still had a five cup Tupperware full of leftovers. This food will feed a crowd.
The bad: everything is so, so greasy! We kept ordering thinking «maybe this dish won’t be so bad», but always so greasy. Even the egg rolls are dripping. I’m not sure how that happens– grease not hot enough?
They don’t take credit cards. Small issue, but still slightly annoying.
This is convenient and tasty, but the greasiness is off putting and we probably won’t order again, sadly.