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Rice Bowl
Rating Details »
- Nearest Transit:
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Hynes Convention Center (Green)
- Hours:
Mon-Sun. 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 a.m.
- Parking:
- Street
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Price Range:
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$
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- Yes
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Good for:
- Lunch
- Alcohol:
- None
16 reviews for Rice Bowl
I ordered from here once and was pleasantly surprised. I'm accustomed to delivery taking at least 30 mins to arrive if not 2hours...as has happened to me in the past. I don't live to far from rice bowl but I ordered and was getting a knock on the door just 15 mins later!!! I was so surprised I didn't even think it could be them at the door.
I ordered the Chicken and Broccoli dinner which was a HUGE portion. I was able to make it into two meals. It was really delicious and had lots of the sauce they cook it in which I like to mix with the rice.
I give this place a 4/5 because....I also got a bubble tea. I won't be ordering one from them again. It was very watered down and didn't have much flavor to it.
What the?? I'm not sure how the other yelpers can be so critical about this place! Rice Bowl is freakin awesome!
I've ordered take-out here SEVERAL times in the last two month of discovering this place and I have absolutely no complaints! For the amount you pay, you get a really great portion. I usually order the general gao's chicken rice bowl almost everytime and it always comes out nice and cripsy and not over-battered. The stir fry udon noodles are delicious and as greasy as any other fast food Chinese take out place. The terriyaki chicken was a little boring but I only paid 5 bucks for it and it made me full. I decided to visit the actual location before ordering the sushi. I wanted to make sure that the place was sketchy and dirty like Nan Ling. The restaurant itself is very clean and has a semi open kitchen and sushi "bar" next to the registers so you can see them make the sushi. My sushi was fine (I didn't get diarrhea or a stomach ache). Even my roommate can vouch for the food. He said that Rice Bowl's low mein was the first low mein he's had in a while that didn't give him the runs!
Sure, this place is just your typical fast food Chinese restaurant, but this place does Chinese take out really well!
Great food, great value, no diarrhea!
wow... maybe i have crap tastes but here is my take on rice bowl.
i live down the street from this place, and have gone there pretty regularly since it first opened. i can't speak on the drinks or sushi, but the food i've gotten from there has been fantastic. this includes the rice noodles, pad thai, general gau, lo mein... and the turn around between ordering and getting your food is ridiculous fast. the people i've dealt with there are always relatively friendly, and the pricing is dirt cheap. i've recommended this place to friends and they've all echoed my feelings on their initial visit. compare this place to nan ling (an abysmal Chinese hole in the wall open until 3 AM) and its a no brainer for me. lighten up people!
I've finally found a place that will deliver to me that doesn't taste like pure garbage. Their General Gau's Chicken and fried rice was incredible in comparison to the deep fried feces I'd ever tried from at least six different Chinese places in the area. Granted their fried rice is not the style I prefer when ordering fried rice, but it was still excellent rice. I also got one of their smoothies and that was very good as well. Yes they charge $2 for delivery, and normally they'd lose a star because of that, but given my other options I'm willing to let it slide.
Claim: I've found Teriyaki House's slutty twin sister.
Support:
-Nearly identical menus (fraternal twin then?), so food is tasty for the most part and cheap.
-Whereas Teriyaki House is located on a legit major street around other businesses, Rice Bowl could be found on a quiet alley way just around the block.
-Perhaps due to this location, the crowd is smaller and hence, the wait is shorter and service is quick.
-The clientele don't linger around like they do at TH.
Conclusion: I'd hit it (again).
PS: I see some ignant comments about chicken meat here--- last I heard, a chicken was a whole animal containing meat (white and dark), bones, and.... wait for it, tendons! Perhaps the person who discovered chewiness in their general gau's is confused, but chicken is far from "uniform in texture"--- if this is what you're looking for, go to McD's where the chickens seem to only grow huge breasts.
Typical American style Chinese food. Delivery took about 1 hour to Beacon Hill. Their prices are reasonable.
This place replaces another place no one will miss (City Kitchen), without even a paint color change in the space I don't think. Instead of boring sandwiches, it's boring chinese now.
The best i can say is the food is decently cooked (neither over nor under), but BLAND BLAND BORING....
The service is absolutely terrible. I ordered chicken teriaki, a diet soda and a spring roll. I was brought out the main dish. But not the soda or spring roll. I asked for both, and was given a soda and attempted to be charged again for that and the spring roll. I said "No, i already ordered the spring roll, but haven't gotten it." I got a slight nod and sat down.
Still no roll.
The one woman bringing food finally tracked it down with a slight apology after my 3rd request.
Add in the personal-space-oblivious Berklee kids.
It's a nightmare. Avoid at all costs.
This place was decent and really cheap. I got the maki combo which is 4 rolls for a really good price. It wasnt great sushi but it was fine and cheap. i also got rice noodles with chicken which was a little bland but not anything a little bit of hot sauce couldnt fix and i got hot and sour soup which was also kind of bland. Its definitely not the best asian food out there, but its really cheap and decent.
same owners are terriyaki house just OK food. no biggie
I thought it was great considering the price and what it was. I had the unagi brown rice bowl and thought it was delicious and satisfying. Plus, there was no delivery charge and they came in 15 minutes- can't beat that!
Thought I would try a new take out place last night and ordered some delivery from Rice Bowl. I got pork dumplings, spring rolls and the general gaus chicken rice bowl. Everything was pretty nasty. After eating it I could feel the MSG kicking in or maybe just placebo effect of gross food. I would never eat this shit again. Good luck
I'm impressed.
We ordered delivery and were told it would take an hour because of so many people ordering due to a game going on. When we told them we couldn't wait that long and wanted to cancel, they told us we'd get the food in 45 min. Not only dd they deliver in 30 minutes, they sent a guy over on his BICYCLE so that we wouldn't have to wait for the delivery driver. WOW.
Ok, I'll admit, not the best Chinese or Chinese American food I've ever had. Not even close. BUT, it is CHEAP and CONVENIENT and they have free delivery. I'll definitely order again.
I had a craving for udon and it was right around the corner from the hostel I was staying at. So I decided to check it out. The house salad was really disappointing and the chicken udon soup was as well. The noodles were good...but the chicken and the broth was pretty gross. It's an inexpensive choice but almost not even worth the $5.
The service and seating area are nice and they will bring the food out to you. Their crab rangoon isn't all that special and I wouldn't suggest you go there for the sushi. But the sesame chicken is good and we will return just for that!
Yeh, I think Rice Bowl is better than its been given credit for. It kicks Teriyaki House's butt, not only with service but taste as well. The orange chicken tasted like chicken not slime and the spicy teriyaki chicken roll was delicious as well as the plain but tasty Vegetable Soba soup.
Lay off the Rice Bowl, I think its quality food for a low price. What more can you ask for in inner city Boston?
A new front has been opened against the war against good taste in Boston. This little Asian place has a menu that is virtually indistinguishable from the Teriyaki House, which is just 2 steps in the other direction, and is pretty similar to Nan Ling around the block on Mass. Ave. You'd think that with extreme competition, these restaurants would try to step it up a little, but frankly there must be some sort of Sesame Chicken Cartel going on here, because all of them have decided to reduce their chicken to the lowest quality possible. They try to cover up chewy gizzard with some bread coating and orange sugar, passing it off as General Gau's "chicken." Chicken is uniform in texture, wielding gently to your teeth as you chew it, with an opaque white hue. I do not know what this translucent, gooey, and unyielding gelatinous glob is hiding inside the candy coated fried breading. The worst insult of all is that I actually had to pay good money, and in return I get discarded chicken parts. I have no doubt this place will be a wild success though, as the prices are cheap, and there is a never ending stream of students in the area happy to consume anything that is not ramen noodles.