Kao Jiu Restaurant

10/10 Northwest Chinese food!The Service is super! English and Chinese are both welcome. The service is very patient.Inside the restaurant, is extremely traditional. Especially the food and the drink menu.

Had an awesome late night dinner here and really glad to have different Chinese options pop up. For starters, the atmosphere is amazing. The menu is on scrolls and the decor is giving wooden Asian rustic. My party got close to 60% of the menu and for the most part, the food was pretty great.Standouts include the chicken karrage, potato shrimp, fried dumplings, lychee mocktail, and egg fried rice. Must order dishes and easily my favorites of the night.Good but not great dishes include the scallion pancakes, bbq bread, chicken wings, and cold wheat jelly salad. The scallion pancakes were a little too thick, the bbq bread was stale but flavor was still there, wings were average, and the wheat jelly salad was too much salad and not enough noodles.What I was really disappointed in was a majority of their grilled dishes. The shrimp for example was dry and overcooked. Same with the lamb ribs and beef kebabs. So I would avoid those dishes.

The food here and the ambience are amazing! The service was also really nice and quick, our experience went very smoothly! I loved how the menus looked, and because this is our first time, we wanted to try a little bit of everything, so we got the cold noodles, lamb skewers, chicken wings, scallion pancakes, enoki mushrooms, bokchoy, and the lamb stuffed bun. I have to give the lamb stuffed bun (rou jia mou) a highlight because the bread was so good - perfectly soft yet crispy on the outside, and the lamb was so tender inside. Another favorite was the cold noodles - I loved the sauce and the noodles were the perfect thickness. The cooked vegetables were all seasoned with the same spices, so it was pretty average, but I would get the cold salads next time. I really wanted to try the dragon ice cream but they were sold out :(

This place was excellent! Every dish had an extra pop of flavor that made them stand out, in addition to a baseline smoky flavor. The dishes were shareable and overall price point was not bad for this quality! The decor and ambience were on point and service was lovely. This place hits all the marks and is worth returning - if only street parking were easier to find!

Cool decor- your menu is a scroll and yummy food. I just had skewers but they were good lamb, juicy tender, and spicy.Chicken wings, crispy and savory. Beef aorta which was savory and mild. Also has the milk bread which was savory and sweet. The waitress was working the restaurant on her own, but was friendly and attentive. Will come about for main courses.

Kao Jiu is a very beautifully designed Chinese restaurant. The interior is decorated very traditionally, with dark, lacquered wood, red lanterns, and Chinese art all around. Their menus come in the form of scrolls, which I thought was very cute and creative.I came here for the lunch special though, that's available Mon-Fri 12-4pm. The place was empty - only us in the restaurant, so service was quite fast.The lunch special came in a square wooden box with an appetizer, a choice for protein, a choice of veggies and a staple food. I came with a friend, so I was able to try 2 of everything. :) And despite initially thinking it wouldn't be filling, it actually was.The chicken kebab was the fan favorite. It was soft and moist, and had amazing seasoning. The beef kebab was a lil hard to chew with all the fat. The potato chips were my second favorite, as they were thinly sliced, very crisp and nicely seasoned. The fried tofu, oyster mushrooms, and the egg fried rice were all pretty good as well. The only thing that was slightly lacking was the lamb burger, as it did not have much meat inside and lacked a bit of flavor.

Thank you Yelp for guiding me here! What a great find! I wanted to find a restaurant with ample seating, parking, and not fast casual. This restaurant appears to hit all the marks! Its interior is beautiful, the menu is interesting, and the food was great!There is paid metered parking in front of the restaurant. The maximum parking is 3 hours. They have an extensive cocktail and wine list. The signature dish is the lamb hot pot, which is great. They can refill your broth, which is nice. Service was great. They do have an 18% automatic service charge added to parties of 5+. I came during off-peak hours, so the restaurant wasn't busy. The indoor air quality was great, since it wasn't crowded. Looking forward to visiting again when I'm back in the neighborhood!

Nice ambiance and large seating area! Usually theres no wait for seating if you making a reservation. The staff is knowledgeable and friendly.The skewers here are very good! Very well seasoned and very tender! The fried rice was also really good! The herbal jelly and yogurt desserts are also really good!I've been back a few times since their opening, and I always leave super full!

Last week, my girlfriend and I visited Kao Jiu restaurant before heading to the movies in Brookline. It was around 8 pm when we got there and finding metered parking close by was surprisingly easy. We were seated promptly even without a reservation. The restaurant's decor was impressive, and I particularly admired the unique menu scrolls. Although there were few waiting staff, they were attentive, ensuring everything ran smoothly.Worries about making it to the movie on time were quickly dispelled once we placed our order. Our food arrived promptly, starting with appetizers for two: the cucumber salad, fried tofu skewers, and scallion pancakes.Of these appetizers, the cucumber salad with its flavorful sauce and perfectly fried tofu stole the show. While the scallion pancakes were good, the other two dishes really hit the spot for me.Next up was the lamb shank, which arrived in a box with a little grill that emitted a tantalizing aroma upon opening. The lamb shank was a nicely seasoned and a delicious dish to wrap things up. While we were eating, I saw other people eat dishes that looked like soups/stews and/or hot pot. It all looked amazing and I can't wait to be back to try a different combination of dishes. Overall, our experience at Kao Jiu was amazing, leaving us eager to return.

A nice upscale Chinese restaurant located in Coolidge Corner right across from Union Square Donuts. The decor is nice and the menus for food and drinks are on scrolls located on the tables. I came here for dinner on a weeknight with my family and ordered a bunch of different food to try out. We tried a bunch of appetizers to skewers and desserts. I enjoyed the rice cakes that were crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside with a dash of spices. They used the same spice on all of their skewers and other food, so by the end of the meal everything was starting to taste pretty similar. The cucumber and fungus salads were refreshing and had lots of different textures. The service was good all of the food came out when it was ready and we had our drinks and waters refilled. The yuzu drink was like a tart lemonade and refreshing while the lychee drink was a bit fizzier which I enjoyed a bit more. I enjoyed the oyster/king mushrooms the most out of the mushroom platter. To end off the meal we ordered the purple yam ice cream and dessert soup. The ice cream was very hard and took a while to soften up. Overall, a nice place for dinner and good for small or larger groups.