Eddie’s Cafe

Excited at the prospect of trying out a new café in College Park I prepared myself with a day in the kitchen, purging myself of my anxieties whipping up a full pan of vegetable lasagna accompanied by meatballs. Kneading the ground beef my mind wandered to the smell of America. Blinking, I blocked my eye from the single bead of sweat that barreled down my forehead. Reaching for the Panko crumbs as the eggplants cooled out on the windowsill I noticed a small vehicle darting by on the street below. The dimly lit sign on top read grub hub. Curious, I wiped my hands of the water and picked up my phone. I wanted something dense. My gums needed a workout and my desire for lunch meat was satisfied by the sheets of turkey which I had sliced at the conference center. The king was old and the golden bends were over played. I chose by name recognition from my early teen years. Pulling in I noticed that the children ran the door and they allowed me to enter with no hesitation. I ducked in and noticed the staff was calmly yet diligently making magic happen. One of the child protectors made sure that I take a seat underneath the neon scan. A minute passed and I moved to the seat where the man before me had just moved from to pay for his order. Another child who was playing outside came in and ran behind the counter. He was wearing a baseball uniform and almost immediately afterwards my name was called. I payed and he escorted me to the door. The location was perfect and the classic sign was one of the most familiar in the mall. Ninety percent lean, choice chuck, patty flavored with tomato, iceburg lettuce, sautéed scallion with just the right amount of flat top love. My first time but definitely not my last.

Never had a problem and was fine with going there ordering take-​away at the counter. This was until yesterday evening when not only did the wheels came off, the car went over the cliff and exploded in a giant mushroom cloud. We varied for our usual order method at the counter and used Grub-​hub to have it delivered. The order was to be delivered no latter than 7:10pm EST. At 7:20pm EST we called them and asked where our order was and was told it was on the way. By 7:30pm EST our order had yet to arrive and we called again and again was told it was on the way. Now our food was 20 minutes late. We then told them to cancel the order, since we knew we were not going to be seeing our order anytime this evening. We went back to Grub-​Hub and told them what happen and they had no issue not charging our account (the charge had not gone through yet). At 7:47pm EST there was a knock and it was our canceled food order (we believe it was the manager with an all new cooked order). We told them nicely that we had already canceled the order and had moved on. She said to take the food and that it was free. We told her we would not accept the offer and she need to more on. We are currently look for a new take-​a-​way and feel confidant we will be happy with the next one.

3.5 Stars I like to order from Eddie’s when I am not sure what I want to eat and I am not concerned about eating greasy, fried food :) Though, if you want to lighten things up, they do have modified options, as well. The staff is typically friendly and seem to have a rapport with many of the regulars who come in to order. I did have one incident, however, where I was told it would be $ 2 extra for some extras in my fried rice, but when I got to the restaurant they said it was $ 5 extra. We had a little back and forth, but I stood my ground and they gave it to me for the price I was told. The haven’t had any rice that is THAT good to pay an extra $ 5 on top of the regular price! So, I would advise that if you are ordering from the website or the menu to confirm the prices. Other than that, the customer service has been average.
My favorite dishes so far have been the teriyaki beef with steamed rice and the general tso’s or plain fried chicken wings. I have not tried a lot of the dishes yet, but since I’ve had a decent experience so far, I plan to return and try out some different dishes. There’s a MOM’s organic next door, just in case you want to balance your meal out ;)

So this is an Eat 24 restaurant near my job. I ordered my favorites — Hot and Sour soup and mixed veggies. I ordered a pork egg roll for good measure The soup was delicious with just the right amount of broth, egg, and veggies. Upon opening the lid, I noticed the nice large mushrooms! The soup was spicy and made my nose run a little but that is how a HOT and Sour soup should be.
On to the veggies. Most of the time when I order this from a Chinese it’s covered in a sauce and besides seeing what I’m eating you can’t really taste the difference. Eddie’s veggies taste like veggies. I love it! They were fresh and crisp and I could taste them.
The egg roll was perfectly crisp and flavorful.
Thank for being yet another delicious choice while at work.
Also, the staff were very friendly. My to go order was packaged very well to ensure no leaks from the soup and that the food stayed nice and hot. All utensils and sauce needed were included.

It’s good wings here. What can I say, it’s a carryout. The wings come with mumbo sauce. But I am from NYC, we don’t do mumbo sauce. Wings are all I get anymore.

Comfort Chinese food and great prices. The people who work here are very friendly. The good is very fresh.

I used to order delivery from eddies café all the time. Their food USED to be good, I don’t know what happened. They also got my order wrong twice in a row. Last time I ordered shrimp chow mein, and all i got was like 5 tiny shrimps with a BUNCH of onion. Like the whole dish was basically just cooked onion — do people actually eat that? The fried rice that came with it was also extremely salty to the point that it was inedible. The good thing about this place though is their fast delivery service.

Pretty decent spot. A bit pricey (depending on what you order), but all in all, i like it. They have their children there in the evenings, and the space is so small so don’t even think about groups. Just order over the phone 15 minutes before, and you should be straight.

Eddie’s Café saved me, like a hidden oasis in the middle of a desert!
After missing dinner one night, I landed hungry and cranky at the Greenbelt Metro, to wait for a late night car ride. My ride called to say she would arrive fifteen minutes later than planned. First I felt abandoned in this strange location, so late at night. Then I thought, «Good. Now maybe I have time to get dinner.» I looked around me. Only a vast, dark parking lot appeared. I checked Unilocal.The area around me seemed nearly empty of any restaurant – and even emptier when I turned on the «open now» filter. Then I saw Eddie’s Café. Chinese food sounded good. I called and ordered General Tso’s Tofu, to pick up.
I set out to walk to Eddie’s Café. First I walked through a pretty, grassy area, on the other side of the Metro. The street lamps made the greenery look surreal in the dark. Next, I got to a dark, empty residential neighborhood. I started planning out what to do if I got mugged, since it seemed too empty for anyone to hear me scream. I eventually got to a forest. A forest at night, in a strange town, creeped me out. «Have I gone the wrong way?» I wondered, «Do I die here?» But then, through the forest, I saw it! A shopping center. I climbed through the dark forest, taking a short cut to eat as fast as possible.
In the shopping center, only Eddie’s Café had its lights on. I made a beeline for it. The lady at the counter had my food ready. I sat down to eat it on the curb outside the store. Some sweet little girls – maybe chidden of the restaurant owner or something – came by to say hi to me.
And the food tasted DELICIOUS! Perfectly soft tofu on the side; crispy and chewy fried tofu skin on the outside; all covered with delicious, gooey, sweet, savory, and barely spicy General Tso’s sauce. A few yummy pieces of broccoli decorated the take-​out container. The white rice tasted perfect and comforting.
Wonderful! I would definitely return.

The best fish and cheese sandwich ever. I’ve had so many things from Eddie’s but this is the best. Hands down. Got mine with no onions though lol

Upon a neighbor’s recommendation we finally tried Eddie’s Café. We have been looking for a local decent Chinese place. We’ve eaten at Seven Seas which is now gone to be replaced with a Korean BBQ. We’ve tried Yum’s and was not impressed. Most recently we tried Shen Yang and should have walked out instead of ordering and again not impressed. The place was a mess as was the food. So on to Eddie’s. I ordered Chicken Fried rice and Pork Egg roll. Both were very good and filling. Both were fresh and not greasy. Plenty of chicken. Will be having leftovers for dinner tomorrow. My spouse got Shrimp lo mein and Spring Rolls. Both were very good and enough for leftovers as well. The prices were affordable. Under $ 20 for everything. Service was quick and pleasant. Will definitely go back.

Based on only one viist, don’t get me wrong. But that visit? Oh my god…
The food I received was lousy, too. And maybe because of their frequent promos, their ORIGINAL prices are higher than some other carryout place around the area.
I have no interest to return to it, at all. But… if… somehow… I did return and found any improvement… then I might revised my review.

Lousy food. Lousier service. My husband and I needed a place to eat before grocery shopping, and we thought we’d see if the food here had improved any. My husband got carryout from here once, and it was positively horrible.
The food was a little better this time, but the service was horrible. For a 20% tip, the server could have at least walked from behind the counter and put our tray on our table. As I had to pay in advance, she knew that she was getting 20%. We got our food in the carryout containers, even though we’d said that we’d be eating in. No plates on the tray. The vegan orange chicken was crappy. The chow mein was a little better. Never again will I sacrifice decent tasting food for convenience. The lousy service was just the icing on the cake.

As I’m currently waiting an hour and fifteen minutes despite calling and checking on my order… They’ve taken over an hour for every single delivery we’ve placed with them, and they’re located two miles away. Just okay food; better Chinese option than some other delivery choices in the area.

Their munchers are AMAZING-​ly delicious. So surprised at how good the food was! Everybody who are with us enjoyed themselves, and we ordered a wide variety from the menu. Only 3 stars because it’s nothing special, but good, fast (oddball menu) delivery food.
Ive now eaten at Eddies a few more times and their Crab Rangoon, Broccoli with Garlic Sauce and other Chinese fare are all delicious!

Guhhh I wanted this place to be good since it’s in walking distance from me. The wontons are awful, the skin is overdone, the filling is only beef inside and the soup looks like soy sauce drowned in chicken broth. Other than that, at first bite I didn’t like the fried rice I ate, since I thought the flavor was too light — but as I ate more of it I really liked it — it’s not super greasy, and the flavor is there, and the more you eat of it the better it tastes, and it never feels too heavy. Bourbon chicken was decent, but when is it ever not?

I have tried this place twice now and been disappointed both times. If you are looking for greasy, deep fat fried food you may like it but not for me. The moo goo gai pan (not fried) was very ordinary and overpriced, $ 9 for a takeout. If it would have been a lot of food I might have understood, but it was a small portion in comparison to other chinese restaurants in the area. First time I had the eggroll it tasted and looked as if it had been fried 2 – 3 times.
ps On Sunday the lunch does not come with fried rice or eggroll. Considering my first visit and the fact I saw eggrolls sitting in the fryer already cooked I was ok with it.

I’m a little surprised to see the 5 star reviews of this place. I work in the area and like many others was so excited for it to open after such a long preparation period.
I decided to order chicken fried rice since, you know, it’s kind of hard to mess up fried rice, right? Wrong. The rice was yellow, the chicken tasted boiled and was totally plain… and the only veggie included was a bunch of big pieces of onion. There were no seasonings used at all so the dish was totally bland.
The egg rolls are good, albeit typical. The spring rolls are tiny and overpriced.
My co workers get their subs a lot and from what I hear they are pretty big and not bad, but I have not experienced them for myself.
In the future I will just stick to the egg rolls but I don’t see myself eating there often unless I am starving.

I had been waiting for several weeks for this place to open, driving by it almost daily, waiting for the paper to come down from the windows while they were setting up. Definitely worth the wait. I got one of their dinner time specials, with tax it was $ 8.43, not bad at all. I got the Gen Tso’s Chicken dinner, it came with an egg roll. After a 5 – 6 in drive home and a few more mins of unpacking the car the food was still super hot and very good.
The Gen Tso’s had a really nice flavor, was not soupy or greasy at all, but good consistency and just a great flavor to the sauce. The Fried rice was my only slight complaint, but not enough to warrant losing a star, this place should have five stars. the fried rice was just really salty, too much for my taste, but still good.
The egg roll was nice and not greasy either like I’ve had other places. I’m pretty picky about chinese food, but this place will defintiely be a place i’ll go again.
The wait was not long at all, no one was ahead of me, the restuarant is Clean, there ar 2 tables if you’d like to sit and eat, the staff was very frienly and the food was ready pretty quick too.
Tucked away in a shoppping center in college park, right next to the MOM’s Organic Mkt on Rhode Island Ave, don’t miss it, check it out, you’ll be glad you went. Im going to try something new each time I go !

Holy moly this place is good! A welcome addition to my favorite shopping center. At first I was annoyed at having yet another Chinese restaurant within walking distance, but the ingredients and flavors are top notch. As part of their grand opening they had 50% off everything (!!!). Yeah, so my household went to town. We collectively ordered (review):
Shrimp and Scallop with Garlic Sauce — great
Orange Chicken Dinner Special — great
Beef on a stick — a little dry, but tasty
General Tso’s Chicken — great
Curry Chicken with Onions — wasn’t bad, but didnt float are boats
Szechuan Beef — great
Steak Cheese Eggroll — its like a steak and cheese sub, but rolled in a wanton and deep fried
Pork Eggroll — very good
We will definitely eat there again even if paying full price! But… would probably not buy enough food to feed a small village…