Grand Sichuan

Good service with average quality food. Food wise I can find better and cheaper options in chine town, but service is much better here. Recommend the spicy stew fish (a classic Sichuan dish. The fish is fresh and sweet. They nailed the spicy little sweet sauce !)

DO NOT EAT HERE!!! (because if you do, you might take the table that I wanted)
DO NOT GET THE DAN DAN NOODLES!!! (because they’re so delicious, they’ll ruin you on all other dan dan noodles)
DO NOT GET THE PORK SOUP DUMPLINGS!!! (because they are so delicious that your face will fly off of your head from all the smiling)
But seriously, eat here, it’s friggin’ great!

I remember this place being at the other end of 7^th Ave South and was sad when the original location was closed. So imagine my surprise when we saw it was opened back up a few blocks away.
I noticed the space was quite small compared to the former digs, but cozy is good especially where tables are available.
The hostess was away but we were quickly seated and given menus and water. The server was professional and friendly. I went with an express dish (I was super hungry), shrimp fried rice and two vegetable rolls with minced shrimp. The rice was solid, old school Chinese fried rice with egg, scallion, onion, carrots, peas and bean sprouts, none of that «hoodinese» yellow crap… But the aforementioned rolls were different. They were more like a slender, shrimp ball-​ish, rice paper wrapped, deep fried set, with a few flecks of scallion, served with a tiny of dish duck sauce. Not gross, but a texture to be aware of. The dishes around me look so good, I’m sure I will return for a try. Only reason they lose a star is some of the grains of rice were hard (but it was very tasty).

I’ve ordered from this place 3 times in the last 6 months and each time I’ve had a bad experience. Tonight I ordered fish in ginger sauce and when I opened the container, the sauce had turned to solid jello, yes, solid jello! Yech! I called and they sent a replacement but this time the RUDE delivery man decided to turn the container upside down as he handed to me so it leaked all over the floor. DO NOT ORDER FROM THIS PLACE!!! The food is horrible, the delivery guys are nasty. There are much better places in the neighborhood.

This place does everything well, and with that authentic Sichuan mace heat. Old standards like mushu and Lo mein are better than I have ever had them. Wontons with red oil are top notch. Also, the cold string beans with chopped ginger. The soup dumplings are so good. I have yet to miss at this place.

Decent Chinese food, relatively fast delivery. They’re competent on the phone and I like that they have small sizes so you don’t end up with a gross amount of leftovers. Sometimes they forget the chopsticks and we only got one fortune cookie.

Excellent Sichuan. All dishes are great. Recommend.

I accidentally came here twice. The food is good but not very authentic and also not very large. But the atmosphere and decoration here is very nice.

It might be the «best chinesefood in the west village» but — don’t let that fool you. This isn’t particularly *good* chinese food. It’s not even *good* American-​style chinese food. It’s edible. It’s fast. It didn’t make anyone sick. Food was served prompt and hot. That’s about all the good I can say.
We ordered a few things for the table
Dan-​Dan noodles — a little more soy-​saucy and less peanuty than others I’ve had
scallion pancake — crispy and very thin
soup dumplings — a little bland, and barely any soup in the dumps.
Entrees — family style
kung pao chicken
pork lo mein
salt and pepper squid
garlic pork green beans
beef with broccoli
Again — everything was edible. There were hints of good — salt & pepper squid /​green beans come to mind. Everything else was just okay. — Even the wine (pinot noir /​malbec) was just okay. Nothing was mind blowing.
If you order a lot and pay in cash, you may just get 1 entrée for free. That’s what our waiter was trying to get us to do, but for this party, credit just was easier. You get fortune cookies at the end too.

Been coming in here for a few weeks now. The food is very good and the staff is friendly and attentive. The restaurant is clean. I usually order a beef with broccoli. The rest of my group tries many different things and seem to always be happy. The place offered lunch and dinner specials. Prices are good for the area.
I enjoy coming here and I think you should try the place if you haven’t already. I am a very critical reviewer and think most people will vote this place 5 stars, but for me I always expect more. I highly recommend this restaurant.

This is the worst Chinese restaurant ever. We ordered egg rolls, they were hard and burned. The sesame chicken also smelled like rotten chicken and tasted horrible after our first bites. We called a server and let him know that the dish wasn’t good. He gave us an attitude and said that they couldn’t do anything because this is what we ordered and this is the way how they made. He was so Rude. What a terrible service. I don’t recommend coming here.

Grand Sichuan is my current go to place when I’m craving Sichuan food in the West Village. I’ve been in person before, but I didn’t have time for a sit down meal today so I ordered delivery instead. I placed my order at 12:05pm and I got the food around 12:40pm, which is right inside their official estimate of 30 – 45 minutes.
I got the large Boiled Slice Fish with Chili Sauce (I believe this is their version of Shui Zhu Yu). Normally I get the small version, which comes with plenty of fish for one person, but I wanted enough food for two meals so I went with the large — it came in a bigger container and definitely had more fish, but I don’t think it was worth an extra $ 4 for the upgrade. The sauce was medium spicy and not overly salty, although I have a high tolerance for spice so others might disagree. It was also pretty oily, but that’s more or less expected with this dish. There was some napa cabbage and other veggies boiled in the sauce as well.
I also got the Sichuan Dan Dan Noodles, which were passable — more soy sauce-​y than ma la spice, but acceptable for my current craving. Definitely not as good as Han Dynasty or other places in the East Village. Also, do not get the Sliced Fish with Hot Bean Sauce lunch special! I had it last week and it had way too much cornstarch and was sickly sweet.

Came here for lunch with a friend, that is allergic to nuts.
Notes:
1. They don’t state on their menu which items have nuts — my friend almost choked.
2. The waiter did not clearly state how spicy our items would be. I understand it’s Sichuan, but it was too spicy for a spicy lover like me!
3. Waters were always refilled to the brim.
4. Our lunch portion did not fill us up like other Chinese restaurants
5. I felt this place was really Americanized.
6. The egg roll was usually huge with less cabbage than a traditional egg roll.
7. I felt like I was in a PF Changs.
I won’t be coming back. Sticking to China town for Chinese food — their other location in St Marks was better.

Do you work in the West Village?
Wanna have lunch?
And not bother with the chopsticks, just get a fork by default?
Want to have nice Chinese food (except when the cook accidentally totally over-​salts it.)?
Are you interested in listening to the latest, insanely cheesy Chinese pop love songs while you‘re eating, that make you want to poke your own eardrums out — if only you had any chopsticks on you…
Then head the hell down to Grand Sichuan already!

Ordered delivery from them to my hotel and really liked it.
Delivery was fast, food was fresh and hot.
I ordered the bean curd coup, curry chicken and steamed pork dumplings. Everything was great, especially those dumplings. They were so good.
I was able to order online which was awesome too. Definitely a good spot!

I love this place!
I come here several times a week, and the staff has now memorized my order (Kung Pao Chicken, extra sichuan peppercorns, fried rice, hot and sour soup).
There are no shortage of Chinese restaurants in the city, but, there IS a shortage of Chinese restaurants that serve sichuan peppercorns. These things are the spice of the GODS I tell you, and barely anywhere has them.
You’ll probably hate sichuan peppercorns the first time you try them. And the second. But, oh, the third time you have it, you’ll be addicted for life. It’s unlike any spice you’ve ever had (literally, look it up, it acts on your mouth in a unique way that no other spice does) and they made some great dishes with it.
Other than that, they are also extremely speedy, polite, and cheap! Even if you don’t want a dish with the amazing sichuan peppercorn (I admit, it is definitely a bit intense) everything here is delicious. At lunch time, you’ll have your soup practically before you finish ordering, and your food will be out by the time you finish your soup. Lunch specials are a tremendous deal, comes out to $ 8 per person before tip. What more could you ask for?
The food is cooked fresh, and they have a good assortment of pretty authentic dishes and the standard General Tso fair. The chicken is tender and juicy, not rubbery like it’s been sitting out all day. The rice is always perfectly cooked and the hot and sour soup may be the best I’ve ever had (it has a thin broth, but is filled with musrooms/​egg/​tofu/​etc and it’s just so flavorful omg I’m drooling just thinking about it).
If you go for a bit of a late lunch, you’ll see the staff hand forming pork dumplings, which is cool to watch.
Go now, you won’t regret it!
Oh, and as a caveat, I’ve never ordered delivery from here, I always dine in.

Alright alright.
Pull up a seat, this is gonna take a second.
Okay, so, here’s something I really respect –restaurants that take pride in their food, that work hard to meet their own expectations, which are borne out of a healthy sense of self. Even if there were no critics, no Unilocal,no nuthin’… they would still put out the best product they can. Among Asian restaurants, I see this all the time in Japanese and Korean places. You don’t see Sushi Yasuda resting on its laurels.
And here’s something that really bugs me –restaurants that get greedy, that start nudging up prices as soon as they get good reviews, while trying to get away with as much as possible in the kitchen. And it fuckin’ kills me that my own people, Chinese immigrants, tend to be the worst offenders. It’s as if all they care about is cutting corners, lowering costs, and skimping on effort with them.
I mean goddamn! It’s rare enough that we get good authentic Chinese restaurants in NYC. And the moment we get one, and the English press gives them some praise, the prices go up and the quality goes down down down.
Hot Kitchen is a joke now. Grand Sichuan on Saint Marks is hit and miss. Same with Nice Green Bo. But they don’t care because they’re still making money from a swell review circa 2006, so why have standards?
It breaks my heart, yo. It breaks my heart.
(Thank goodness the first generation Chinese restauranteurs are different –Xi’an Famous Noodles, Eddie Huang, etc… i got no beef ‘n broccoli with yous. Keep doing your thing.)
Grand Sichuan on 7^th Avenue is the grand exception to everything I’ve said above. I was real hesitant to try it out because it’s in a non-​Asian area, and indeed most of the clientele are not Chinese. Plus it’s been around for a long time, so there’s plenty of room for standards to slip.
But I was pleasantly surprised to get some amazing dishes here, including great soup dumplings, OX Tongue and Tripe, and cold cucumber with scallion sauce. Not only that, but on both occasions there were workers making dumplings in the main dining room. There is no better assurance of quality than the willingness of a restaurant to show you how their food is made. Moreover, the service was remarkably professional, pleasant, polite…
But the single greatest thing about this Grand Sichuan was that the people there, from the servers to the cooks, seemed to take pride in their work. They seemed to have a set of standards that they held themselves to, even on a lazy Sunday afternoon serving a roomful of round-​eyes.
So, kudos to you, Grand Sichuan, for your delicious sense of self. Keep up the good work. Respect.

I used to live and work right near this place and of all the amazing stuff in the area, ironically enough, my wife and I have found ourselves craving things from here. Go figure. It’s a relatively upscale Chinese restaurant that caters to the traditional Chinese diner, as well as the average Westerner, so everyone wins. Prices are moderate, and they have great value lunch specials with huge portions. HUGE.
Some highlights:
— Crab meat & pork soup dumplings. Not as good as what you’ll find in Chinatown, but a pretty respectable replacement.
— Scallion pancakes. $ 5. ‘Nuff said.
— Hot & sour soup. Outstanding.
— Sichuan dan dan noodles. This is the show stopper. We return back here just for this dish. I could eat 3 orders of it by myself. Stop laughing, I’m serious.
— Fresh kill chicken. You’re intrigued, aren’t you? Do it.
— Sauteed pea shoots with garlic. They say it’s a seasonal dish, but I’ve never had a problem with availability, any time of year. Delicious.
— They have «American Chinese Food» and «Classical Sichuan Food» sections on their menu, which I absolutely love. Stereotyping and segregation are alive and well here, and in print! I’m kidding, sort of.

Surprising find in the West Village. They’ve got Americanized and authentic szechuan cooking going on. Beef and broccoli did the job — tender meat — and the dan dan noodles were quite savory. Everything was brought to our table in a flash, and I’m unsure if that was because it was late (probably) or if our dishes were already sitting under heat lamps (possibly). But hey, prices weren’t out of this world, service was accommodating, and the décor was pleasant.
Will return the next time I’m in the mood for Chinese[1].
[1] Especially if I’m drunk. Chinese food does wonders for that.

Pretty good Sichuan food! I was surprised to find such an authentic Sichuan place on St Marks! This is not your typical Americanized Chinese restaurant
Each dish is about $ 14 to 18 dollars. definitely more expensive than your average chinese food.
very spicy… have lots of ice water and tissues prepared… you are going to need it…