Northern Taste

Northern Taste is a quaint Bridgeport Chinese restaurant located on Halsted St. I remember when this place was more of a hole in the wall until they renovated the place years ago.You'll find some familiar dishes on the menu but like its namesake, there will be more spicy dishes from the Northern region. Fortunately not everything numbs your tongue even the spicy dishes.If you're looking for some Americanized Chinese food, they have some of that here, but why not venture into some other foods? The beef noodle soup is not really spicy and the quantity they give is plentiful.Service is friendly, and prices are also pretty decent. Northern Taste is one of my neighborhood favorites even if the menu isn't that extensive, but what they do offer hits the spot.

The portion sizes were very generous! They give you bottled water for free. The restaurant is spacious and pretty clean. The service is very friendly. General tso's tofu: the fried tofu was crispy perfection in texture. The dish was tasty but a little on the sweeter side. Not spicy.Boiled Beef in Chili Sauce: has a mala taste to it but it's a mild spice. Not too numbing. It was tasty but could be spicier.Scallion Pancake: a nice crispy snack with a subtle scallion taste.

Highly recommend this location. The orange chicken/general Tso is amazing. The mapo tofu was good. The deep fried fish fillet is crispy and delicious. Each dish comes with a tiny container of rice. Very fair pricing and very delicious food.

Very spacious, great northern style food. We ordered 3 treasures of the ground veggie dish, spicy boiled fish, and pork in scoop traditional style. Staff was friendly and attentive.

Just moved into this neighborhood and figured I gave this new place a try. Picked up the orders and started eating in the car and to my SURPRISE THERE WAS A COCKROACH in the orange chicken!!!Went inside to complain and to get a refund. The lady there was super rude and was denying it was from their restaurant the whole time. DONT EAT HERE....ROACH OR NO ROACH....the food wasn't good and the service was rude as heck!! never again!!

Best Chinese food in Bridgeport. It's not in a trendy neighborhood so it doesn't get too busy here. Northern Taste gets mostly a crowd of Chinese people. At least that's what it seems like. That's a pretty good sign if the food is good enough for them. After getting out from Chinatown, we found there's yet another Chinese place and decided to come eat. It was lunch during a weekend yet it wasn't busy, so we thought maybe this isn't good, but we were luckily wrong about it. This has a pretty good value. It's about $8 for an entree. There's a few that are vegetarian. Both of us got something with tofu, and liked it. I got the General Tso's Tofu. First impression was nothing special because it looked a lot like a typical version of it. The spices were much more pronounced than typical places though. Big portions also made this a good value and it was more than enough. This was some good shit for not a lot. It's pretty big. She had the Stir Fried Japanese Tofu With Vegetables. Good item. This is one of the vegetarian friendly items that also has tofu rather than just like eggplant or something. Good value because of the big portions for some tasty ass food. It's just kind of slow if any complaints about it. There's also not a whole lot that doesn't have meat, but there's some tofu items for vegetarians.

Great to have a place close to work that has a lunch special menu that has regional Chinese options in addition Chinese American options that others are looking for. Still keeping their prices generally in the $7.50 range while including a soup or egg roll with. Quick on preparation and service and not busy during weekday lunch. Park in the residential neighborhood rather than on the street by driving around the block off 34th.Order more than one dish and take leftovers home or share with company family style.

We ordered from Northern Taste for the first time a couple of weeks ago. Turns out that was our last time ordering as well because it was gross. It looked good, but that's where the positivity ends unfortunately. It was greasy and bland. There's no way to sugarcoat it. It was awful.We ordered egg rolls, Mongolian beef, orange chicken and shrimp fried rice. The egg rolls and orange chicken was nasty. We took one bite of the egg rolls and immediately tossed them. The orange chicken wasn't much better, but we tried to eat some of it. The Mongolian beef and fried rice was edible, but flavorless and nothing spectacular. On top of all of that that the food was really greasy. So much so that you could see the grease once the plate was empty.The food was so bad that we didn't bother saving the leftovers.

The ambiance is no frills. Super family friendly restaurant. They had booster seat high chair for little ones. The food is really good and comes out fast. We go 2-3 times a month.

Not bad overall, but the cold noodles were too tough to chew. Also, the beef pancake had hardly any meat in the takeout order.