Bistro Chen
Bistro Chen
Vegetarian.
Vegetarian.
Vegetarian.
Vegetarian.
Sweet & Spicy, 6pcs
6 pcs
Spicy.
Shrimp, calamari, mussel and vegetables with egg noodles in a spicy Korean broth. Spicy.
Vegetarian.
Vegetarian.
Vegetarian.
Served with assorted vegetables and white rice.
Seared tuna, lightly battered chicken or shrimp tossed with Chinese.
White meat chicken and Chinese broccoli in a sichuan red chili sauce. Spicy.
Pan grilled steak in a peppery oyster sauce. Spicy.
Served with pineapple in a sweet and sour soy glaze.
Served with pineapple in a sweet and sour soy glaze.
Crispy beef stir fried in a honey garlic soy glaze.
White meat chicken, shrimp and scallop in a savory curry coconut sauce with a touch of spice. Spicy.
Premium steak light coating with honey. Crispy and spicy. Just Yummy.
White fish fillet with mixed veggies in white wine garlic sauce.
Slowly braised pork belly with tofu in soy and wine.
Pork Belly sauteed with cabbage, bell pepper and onion with spicy sichuan sauce.
Served with scallions and onions, in a sweet soy glaze.
Stir fried with broccoli, celery, bell peppers and cashews.
Stir fried nappa cabbage, celery, onion, mushrooms, bean sprouts and carrots in a brown soy gravy.
3 patties.
Sauteed with broccoli, bell peppers, carrots and mushrooms in a sweet and sour garlic sauce. Spicy.
Sauteed with scallions, celery, bell peppers, dried chili peppers and roasted peanuts. Spicy.
Spicy.
Sauteed with onions in a spicy sichuan red chili sauce. Spicy.
White meat chicken with onions and carrots in a rich curry sauce. Spicy.
Cabbage, carrots and onions stir fried with a hoisin plum sauce, in a tortilla like mushu wrap.
Sauteed or steamed Chinese vegetables in a light garlic wine sauce.
Spicy.
Spicy.
Spicy.
Crab mix, cream cheese and shrimp tempura, topped with salmon, avocado and tempura crunch. Spicy.
Shrimp, avocado and mango on top of lobster mix and cucumber.
Crab meat, avocado and cucumber topped with salmon.
Salmon and cilantro with apples and cucumber topped with tuna, white tuna and mango. Spicy.
Crab mix, asparagus and cream cheese, topped with spicy scallop mix, white tuna and melted mozzarella. Spicy.
Soft shell crab, asparagus and crab mix, topped with tempura eel and spicy tuna. Spicy.
Tuna, crab meat, asparagus and avocado wrapped with soy paper and drizzled with saffron aioli.
Snapper tempura with crab mix and asparagus, topped with seared tuna and avocado. Spicy.
Lightly fried salmon and cream cheese, topped with spicy tuna, crab mix and a sweet soy glaze. Spicy.
Saffron Lobster on top of Salmon, Crab-meat , Avocado, Apple, Asparagus with Saffron Lobster-tail.
Tuna, White Tuna, Yellowtail, Crab-meat, Avocado Wrapped with Soy Paper
Seared tuna on top of tiny lobster mix and asparagus. drizzled with chili ponzu sauce
Miso drizzled white tuna, salmon, avocado, lemon on top of spicy yellowtail and apple
1 basic roll and 8 pieces nigiri.
14 pieces chef's choice nigiri
20 pieces chef's choice sashimi.
1 basic or house roll plus 4 pieces nigiri and 8 pieces sashimi.
40 pieces
48 pieces Signature maki roll
30 pieces nigiri
40 pieces
20 pieces nigiri and 40 pieces maki
20 pieces nigiri, 20 pieces sashimi and 40 pieces maki
Spicy.
Spicy.
Salmon, cream cheese and avocado.
Spicy.
Avocado, asparagus and cucumber. Vegetarian.
Vegetarian.
Vegetarian.
Vegetarian.
Vegetarian.
Cilantro, spicy mixed vegetables and mango. Vegetarian and spicy.
Spicy yellowtail, avocado, cucumber and bell pepper. Spicy.
Crab, avocado and cucumber.
Assorted seafood over California roll.
Eel and avocado over shrimp tempura roll.
Soft shell crab, avocado, cucumber and mixed greens.
Eel tempura and cucumber topped with avocado.
Spicy tuna over shrimp tempura roll. Spicy.
Eel tempura topped with shrimp and wasabi mayo.
Crab mix, shrimp and cream cheese.
Chinese egg noodles with vegetables.
Thin Chinese wheat noodles with vegetables. Pan fried noodles.
Flat rice noodles with vegetables, egg and crushed peanuts.
Thin Chinese rice noodle with vegetables and egg.
Thick Japanese wheat noodles with vegetables.
Wide flat rice noodles with vegetables.
Shrimp, scallops, crab stick, calamari and mixed vegetables stir fried over thin crispy wheat.
Stir-fried beef, chicken, shrimp and fresh vegetables with Korean wheat noodles in a classic brown rice.
Rice noodles with shrimp and pork tossed with a fragrant yellow curry. Spicy.
Served with pork, shrimp and lettuce.
Served with Chinese sausage, shrimp and chicken.
Served with scallop, shrimp and chicken.
Can.
can
Can.
can
Can.
Bottle
energy drink
16 Fl oz. Sprecher fire brewed. No caffeine - No gluten.
Fresh Delight House-made Asian Pudding
6 pieces per box. choice of Red Bean / Green Tea
Served with 1 egg roll and house salad.
Served with 1 egg roll and house salad. Spicy.
Served with 1 egg roll and house salad. Spicy.
Served with 1 egg roll and house salad.
Served with 1 egg roll and house salad. Vegetarian.
Served with 1 egg roll and house salad.
Served with 1 egg roll and house salad.
Served with fried rice.
Served with fried rice. Spicy.
Served with fried rice.
Served with fried rice.
Served with fried rice.
Served with fried rice.
Served with fried rice.
Served with fried rice.
Served with fried rice. Spicy.
Served with fried rice. Vegetarian.
One roll with 5 pieces nigiri.
One roll with 7 pieces sashimi.
One roll with 7 pieces sashimi.
slice strawberry, strawberry pocky and whip cream
green tea pocky, sprinkle of green tea powder with whip cream
chocolate with chocolate pocky with whip cream
more crushed ores, whip cream top with a whole oreo.
slice strawberry and banana, granola, Graham crackers and whip cream.
Graham crackers, toasted marshmallows with whip cream
a plate of sushi on a blanket
a tray of sushi with salmon and avocado
Sushi Sashimi Combo/Dragon Roll/Caterpillar Roll
a tray of sushi with salmon and avocado
Volcano Roll
a yellow dragon on a round glass window
a cup of tea and a teapot on a table
a circular window with a yellow dragon on it
a bowl of soup with a spoon in it
Orange chicken bento dinner box
food
Vodka lemonade drink
Hot and Sour Soup Egg Drop Soup
Blue Lagoon And The Stir Fried Noodles
Lunch box combo
interior
food
Tofu with Mixed Vegetables
Wonton Soup - this is what the dumplings look like without the broth. They are firm and out of this world.
Christmas Special sushi including crab and lobster. Not on menu
Dumplings
Assortment of sushi from all you can eat. There were 5 of us
Dorothy H.
Aug 9, 2024
We have lived in the area for 4 years and pretty much tried every Chines Restaurant within approx 10 miles. We were looking for a place for dinner and past by Bistro Chen and decided to try it.... The food was excellent, great atmosphere, and the hosted and waitress was soooo nice. The prices were very reasonable. Give them a try, you WILL ENJOY IT.
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Oxa L.
May 8, 2024
Very good.Food is great and fresh. Service is always welcoming .Their specials is always outstanding. The prices you can not bit !! Recommend 100%Thank you Bistro Chen. Wish you can upgrade your dining area, and also have more space for outdoor seating.
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Steve A.
Sep 30, 2023
For a long time there's been a Chinese restaurant here in this Arlington Heights plaza north of the Metra station, so people must like it. It varies on how much they like it though. Bistro Chen has a variety of Asian classics. Get Chinese, Japanese and others. The prices are better for the lunch specials. Came here recently at lunch to see if it was still as good. It wasn't busy and we quickly got a table inside. The lunch time is the best time because the prices are cheaper and the portions are still pretty big it seems. Also there's cocktails. It's about $8 for the cheapest ones. Blue Lagoon is one of the cheapest. This is made with Blue Curacao, lemon, lemonade, and vodka. It's lemony. While also still being sweet. It's about $10 for lunch entrees. We each got the Stir Fried Noodles. Choose the noodles and protein for it. I had it with the chow mein. Protein was tofu. Good flavor and very healthy. This was certainly enough for a lunch. Has almost all of the Asian cuisines on the menu yet it still manages to make everything. It may be a lot to keep track of and makes it hard to master any of these. The Chinese stuff is pretty good, and you can make many items okay for vegans and vegetarians.
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Nick P.
Feb 22, 2024
This was a decent place for ayce. I haven't been here in awhile. This location is ayce with no drink for $28 and if you want to have a drink then it'll be $38. What's included are nigiri, maki, traditional Chinese dishes, appetizers, and dessert. The downside is that their hours are very limited. They need to open longer to attract more customers and to maximize the value of the ayce. Since it's in the burbs, parking was not a problem. You can either park in the garage or find street parking. Our service wasn't as slow as other reviewers, we were able to get our food in a reasonable amount of time. Food quality was okay, it's going to be decent since it's ayce. You're not going to get top tier quality if that's what you're looking for. Overall a 3.5 for me.
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Irene G.
Jul 30, 2023
Food is delicious here. For a Friday night the place was really empty. Didn't have any trouble with seating. Shared the spinach potstickers, which were amazing! Had the "build your own dinner box" with a shrimp tempura roll, fried rice, orange chicken and edamame. Food was abundant, even had leftovers. The drink was so good, I forgot the name but it was a blue vodka lemonade. Dessert options were not a great variety. Mostly I've cream and mochi. A cake or tarts option would be great. Took home beef chow fun (asked for it dry) that was really good. Would come back again.
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Jason M.
Sep 22, 2023
The most bland food in Arlington heights.. this is the one size sweet and sour chicken the most bland chicken fried rice I've ever had ... not worth the 51.00 bucks for dinner for 2 ... and I didn't even touch the chicken
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Scott V.
Dec 26, 2022
I was out in Arlington Heights to visit my parents on Christmas Day, and we decided to have a "Christmas Story" Chinese American dinner. My first choice, Chef Ping in Rolling Meadows, was slammed and had stopped taking carry-out orders. I decided to try Bistro Chen. First of all, I should explain that I grew up in Arlington Heights, and this location has been a Chinese restaurant since Chin's took over this space at 10 E Miner Street in 1960 (it opened in 1958 before moving to this location). When I was a kid, Chin's was always the place to go for sit-down or carry-out Chinese food in Arlington Heights. It had a wonderfully classic Chinese interior and the food was alway excellent. When Chin's closed in 2012, it had been in business for 54 year. I am not sure when Bistro Chen opened, but they are in the same space, and the interior still has most of Chin's charming 1960 Chinese interior intact. I place a rather large order on Grub Hub, and that process was smooth. I was informed that Bistro Chen's had received my order and they would contact me to give me a pick-up time...the time estimate was 55 to 75 minutes. I never received an email from Bistro Chen's or Grub Hub after that initial email confirmation. Since Christmas Day is busy for Chinese restaurants, I decided not to pick up until around 70 minutes. When I arrived, I found that the restaurant was not that busy, and my order had probably been sitting there for awhile. The receptionist got my order and went through the effort to look to see that everything was there. With a smile, she assured me that my order was complete. Because my order was large, someone how I was sure that something was going to be missing or not correct. Sure enough, when I got to my parent's house, I discovered that the orange sauce/vegetables were missing for the Orange Chicken entree. So basically what we had was a container of small fried chicken parts (Chicken McNuggets) for $14.50. I wasn't about to go back to have them fix the problem...it just was not worth ruining our Christmas celebration over a missed container of sauce. The rest of the meal was a mix...Shrimp Egg Foo Young, Cashew Chicken, and Orange Beef tasted good. The Wonton Soup, Sweet and Sour Soup and Egg Rolls were good. The Pot Stickers were big, but not tender, and not that great. It was an expensive meal (with tip and tax...over $160) for four entrees, two appetizers and three soups. The suburbs used to be loaded with many Chinese American food options, but many of those places have closed. Bistro Chen's is kind of playing the middle...it is contemporary by serving sushi and other modern Asian fare, but still serving old-school Chinese American food. I do not know anything about their sushi, but their Chinese American food is good, but not spectacular. And I know that Christmas Day was probably busy for them with carry-out food, so I can forgive them for forgetting our orange sauce/veggies. Bistro Chen should probably get 3.5 stars (as the cumulative ratings imply), but Yelp would only allow whole star reviews.
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Amy J.
Feb 11, 2024
Always very consistently good food. The Ma Po tofu is my favorite, hot and a little spicy. Wait staff is always helpful and friendly.
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Ray K.
Feb 28, 2024
My favorite Chinese Restaurant, period!!! Went there a year ago when I was back in the Chicago area for my bro8ther's memorial and brought back two coolers full of their delicious dishes. I wish they could ship a nice order to me here in Knoxville TN as we don't have anything nearly as good as Chen's!!!
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Diane K.
Apr 29, 2024
I hadn't been here for years, and went back with friends & was pleasantly surprised! So many restaurants have gone downhill since Covid, but this one was actually better than I remembered. Very friendly staff (who let us sit and chat without being rushed), great appetizers, delicious entrees. Got one with shrimp & one with beef & both had plenty of "meat" along with a wonderful assortment of veggies. Portions allow plenty to share, and still got doggie bags. Place is very warm & comfortable - good for a casual dinner or something more fancy. Loved it - will put this in my regular rotation!
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