One of my fave if not favourite Cantonese places in Boston. Great seafood. Prices can’t be beat. Parking is a pain because it’s Chinatown. Service is always competent and or good. Ambiance is really basic.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
Enric Clar Martinez
Good food at a good price. Very generous, with one plate you can have for two, we ordered two plates and one to share and left with three trays for home, and we ate quite a bit... Totally
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Brandon ruan
The food is really good. I come here for trips sometimes and the food is good. Although it takes a while for the food to get prepared but that is ok.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Walnut Shrimp with Salad Dressing, Beef Chow Fun
Mary Muennig
Their food is great, however, it's usually best if you just pick it up and go somewhere else.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 5
Service: 3
Shaun L.
The new golden gate is part of Chinatown history tracing back to its original days as the "golden gate". When they added the new, it wasn't quite the same but they still do one thing well, is cooking Chinese style roast beef. Other restaurants sell roast beef, but they don't do quite as good of a job. Chinese roast beef is sliced rib eye that is quickly seared in a wok with a brown sauce. You can customize it and have it over rice or in black bean sauce with pickled vegetables but my go to as pictured is roast beef and tomatoes chow mein in black bean sauce. It's something you wouldn't find on the menu but if you ask them to make it, well at least in Chinese as I've never tried in English, they'll be able to make it.
Celine Ann Trinidad
It was the beeeest! Tried our luck for NYE dinner and lo and behold us knowing how to count in Mandarin got us a table quick (kidding there were about 3 groups in line and 4 tables available).Anyway we ordered 8 things off the menu and paid about $40 each including tips. I practically took photos of every dish except the stir fried pea shoots (really good vegetarian option).Soup is good on a cold winter day, the beef chow fun well cooked beef is soft and tender, noodles not oily (requesd for less oil), salt and pepper softshell crab best eaten with chili sauce (ask for the chili) adds another layer of umaminto the dish!Next we have the sweet and sour pork, crispy pork with crisp vegetables my favorite! Very hard to find this type of sweet and sour pork in Boston. Yang Chow fried rice always a staple. You can feel each grain of rice, so delicious. And lastly the lobster w scallion and ginger flavorful and meaty. Best eaten with the veggie plate of stir fried pea shoots.It was an amazing dinner to cap off the year! Will definitely go back!Ambiance ans Service is 5 because it really feels like you’re transported back to a Cantonese restaurant in Asia. Loud and busy, quick (which most can mistake as rude) and people just loving the food and sharing with family/friends.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Beef Chow Fun
Mimi C.
I used to come here all the time and after they switched management, I haven't as the food went downhill. However, this time around, we went because there was no wait and was surprised how good the food tastes now. The food came out quickly and hot. The ingredients were fresh and prepared in perfection. I would definitely be coming back here more often going forward.
Jayden Kumar
Delicious food, convenient ordering style (all digital). Would highly recommend the fried fish & noodles, one of the best spots in Chinatown.
The food was absolutely atrocious. The Chow menu was dry. The fried rice was bland with no flavor. They spiced nothing. When we walked in we were starred at like me were intruding. They took our order like they were irritated with every order we put in. We got back to the hotel room and were like damn they gave us a lot of food, so we were hyped, took one bite of all the different things we got and it was terrible. No flavor in any of the food. Just heavy, dry, bland, I don’t no how to season food.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 1
Alibi Onix
Place changed a lot .Food was a bit below average but the service was awesome .Good for late
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 5
David T.
Better than expected. The roast duck was very good, and the family agreed that it was better than other places in Boston's Chinatown that supposedly specialize in roast duck. Sliced Pork with celery and fungus was probably the overall favorite dish. The ginger scallion lobster had pretty good flavor but as the lobsters were small, it was pretty hard to eat as most of the chopped up pieces were light on meat and heavy on the shell. The black pepper beef fillets were also another favorite. Great flavor, pretty good cut of beef for the price. Beef chow fun was meh. Kinda bland. The mapo tofu was an insult to the name and shouldn't even be called that as the flavor, to me, was totally wrong. Mapo tofu should be spicy with peppers/peppercorns. This was just tofu in salty gravy. The flavor and texture was nowhere close to what I was expecting. Granted, this is a vegetarian version which is already a bad sign. Anyways, don't get this dish.
Food Is L.
One of the best beef teriyaki around! Tender meat, tasty flavor. Staff is friendly. Family run business.
Pete S
The New Golden Gate Seafood Restaurant in Chinatown, Boston (“Bahstan” for some of you…) was recommended by a friend who said the food was very good. She did not tell a tall tale—this place is a keeper!On a cruise we hit Boston and made sure to have lunch. A bit hard to find at first (it’s immediately by the Chinatown Gate at 66 Beach Street (if you read Chinese do NOT go by the name of the street in traditional Chinese!), so use you map app to good advantage.Since we were on a cruise, we didn’t want leftovers, so ordered only 2 dishes: Buddha’s Delight and a 2-pound lobster. Both were delicious, but be aware that MSG was used in the vegetables, for those who are sensitive (I am, but I got only a slight head-buzz from the MSG).If you live in/around Bahstan or are visiting, be sure to stop in and enjoy good traditional Chinese food (or American-ized Chinese food, if that’s your deal).
Good option for late night Chinese food. decent food every thing came out hot good service can't complain I would come back again.Parking: Street
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Sesame Chicken, Mongolian Beef
Very authentic
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 3
One of my fave if not favourite Cantonese places in Boston. Great seafood. Prices can’t be beat. Parking is a pain because it’s Chinatown. Service is always competent and or good. Ambiance is really basic.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
Good food at a good price. Very generous, with one plate you can have for two, we ordered two plates and one to share and left with three trays for home, and we ate quite a bit... Totally
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
The food is really good. I come here for trips sometimes and the food is good. Although it takes a while for the food to get prepared but that is ok.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Walnut Shrimp with Salad Dressing, Beef Chow Fun
Their food is great, however, it's usually best if you just pick it up and go somewhere else.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 5
Service: 3
The new golden gate is part of Chinatown history tracing back to its original days as the "golden gate". When they added the new, it wasn't quite the same but they still do one thing well, is cooking Chinese style roast beef. Other restaurants sell roast beef, but they don't do quite as good of a job. Chinese roast beef is sliced rib eye that is quickly seared in a wok with a brown sauce. You can customize it and have it over rice or in black bean sauce with pickled vegetables but my go to as pictured is roast beef and tomatoes chow mein in black bean sauce. It's something you wouldn't find on the menu but if you ask them to make it, well at least in Chinese as I've never tried in English, they'll be able to make it.
It was the beeeest! Tried our luck for NYE dinner and lo and behold us knowing how to count in Mandarin got us a table quick (kidding there were about 3 groups in line and 4 tables available).Anyway we ordered 8 things off the menu and paid about $40 each including tips. I practically took photos of every dish except the stir fried pea shoots (really good vegetarian option).Soup is good on a cold winter day, the beef chow fun well cooked beef is soft and tender, noodles not oily (requesd for less oil), salt and pepper softshell crab best eaten with chili sauce (ask for the chili) adds another layer of umaminto the dish!Next we have the sweet and sour pork, crispy pork with crisp vegetables my favorite! Very hard to find this type of sweet and sour pork in Boston. Yang Chow fried rice always a staple. You can feel each grain of rice, so delicious. And lastly the lobster w scallion and ginger flavorful and meaty. Best eaten with the veggie plate of stir fried pea shoots.It was an amazing dinner to cap off the year! Will definitely go back!Ambiance ans Service is 5 because it really feels like you’re transported back to a Cantonese restaurant in Asia. Loud and busy, quick (which most can mistake as rude) and people just loving the food and sharing with family/friends.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Beef Chow Fun
I used to come here all the time and after they switched management, I haven't as the food went downhill. However, this time around, we went because there was no wait and was surprised how good the food tastes now. The food came out quickly and hot. The ingredients were fresh and prepared in perfection. I would definitely be coming back here more often going forward.
Delicious food, convenient ordering style (all digital). Would highly recommend the fried fish & noodles, one of the best spots in Chinatown.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Beef Cantonese Chow Mein
Restaurantji Recommends
The food was absolutely atrocious. The Chow menu was dry. The fried rice was bland with no flavor. They spiced nothing. When we walked in we were starred at like me were intruding. They took our order like they were irritated with every order we put in. We got back to the hotel room and were like damn they gave us a lot of food, so we were hyped, took one bite of all the different things we got and it was terrible. No flavor in any of the food. Just heavy, dry, bland, I don’t no how to season food.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 1
Place changed a lot .Food was a bit below average but the service was awesome .Good for late
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 5
Better than expected. The roast duck was very good, and the family agreed that it was better than other places in Boston's Chinatown that supposedly specialize in roast duck. Sliced Pork with celery and fungus was probably the overall favorite dish. The ginger scallion lobster had pretty good flavor but as the lobsters were small, it was pretty hard to eat as most of the chopped up pieces were light on meat and heavy on the shell. The black pepper beef fillets were also another favorite. Great flavor, pretty good cut of beef for the price. Beef chow fun was meh. Kinda bland. The mapo tofu was an insult to the name and shouldn't even be called that as the flavor, to me, was totally wrong. Mapo tofu should be spicy with peppers/peppercorns. This was just tofu in salty gravy. The flavor and texture was nowhere close to what I was expecting. Granted, this is a vegetarian version which is already a bad sign. Anyways, don't get this dish.
One of the best beef teriyaki around! Tender meat, tasty flavor. Staff is friendly. Family run business.
The New Golden Gate Seafood Restaurant in Chinatown, Boston (“Bahstan” for some of you…) was recommended by a friend who said the food was very good. She did not tell a tall tale—this place is a keeper!On a cruise we hit Boston and made sure to have lunch. A bit hard to find at first (it’s immediately by the Chinatown Gate at 66 Beach Street (if you read Chinese do NOT go by the name of the street in traditional Chinese!), so use you map app to good advantage.Since we were on a cruise, we didn’t want leftovers, so ordered only 2 dishes: Buddha’s Delight and a 2-pound lobster. Both were delicious, but be aware that MSG was used in the vegetables, for those who are sensitive (I am, but I got only a slight head-buzz from the MSG).If you live in/around Bahstan or are visiting, be sure to stop in and enjoy good traditional Chinese food (or American-ized Chinese food, if that’s your deal).
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 4