Chef Chao

Amazing food. Great hospitality.

Best take out. Always fresh and hot.

I have gone there when I was a baby and love it to this day I am 10

First time here, good food and atmosphere.

This place has the best food made by the best people!

Great Food Great Service Highly Recommend

Authentic and delicious. Kenney is the best!

Delicious food and great service.

Delicious food, fast service

Always amazing, friendly and helpful

Yummy...

This place is awesome.

Always excellent

Ordered take out. Cashew chicken and Combination, egg foo yung. Very good. I'll be back

Es un restaurante bonito te atienden muy rapido siempre estan al pediente q no te aga falta nada me encanta la comida desde hace 10 años yo voy a este restaurante

Yummmmmie. Sehr lecker und authentisch. Reservieren macht auf jeden Fall Sinn.

The best Chinese reataurant I've ever been to... and I've tried a lot! Beautiful environment. Delicious food (potstickers are a fav!). Fast service (not on a holiday, of course). Friendly staff. Highly recommended!!!

The most perfect broccoli dish I ever enjoyed! Their award winning filet of sole with ginger is unforgettable.

Warm atmosphere, friendly services and super delicious food! Tofu dishes are very comforting. Will definitely return for another meal.

Best Chinese in moraga without a doubt. Great service, food and atmosphere. This place has been a round for a long time and they have a picture wall for birthdays.

Oh my gosh, I love this place. How do they do it?! Go on your birthday and they will let you were a cool hat and take a photo and put it on their slide show

I've never eaten at the restaurant, always take-out. You get a discount for take-out and even more if you pay in cash. Best Chinese food in Moraga/Rheem area, possibly all of Lamorinda.

Absolutely the best Chinese food in Lamorinda. Great, cozy restaurant. Delicious food. We love this place!

I have come here with my family since I was young and the quality of the food never ceases to amaze me, I wish everyone here the best of lives.

Great food at a great price, friendly staff, nice family-friendly vibe. And 10% off if you pay cash!

Delicious food. Great service. Beautiful ambient. Very clean place which to me is important.

Easy, fast, and sooo delicious. We go out of our way to get food hear. Have trouble getting Chinese food from anywhere else.

Love the place. Has a classy feel to it with reasonable price. Food is great btw.

It was great to see Benny and Johnny as their service is always 5 star! The food is the usual outstanding!

Best Chinese food in Contra Costa County.

Love this place!!! Crab dumplings, wor wonton soup, honey walnut prawns are some of my favorite things to order.

Great food and service. A little out of the way, but worth the drive.

This place has been around for 30 years and is hands down the best , freshest Chineses food available ..

Support local businesses. This place has been in Moraga since the 80's. Amazing people and food.

Best Chinese food in Bay Area , fast extra clean . You will not be disappointed ...

Kenny always provides excellent service with food choices beyond compare.

Nice ambience. Tasty and good amount of food. Still able to box up leftovers.

Ended checking this place due to good reviews and i must say they get all 5 stars because everything was so good especially the customer service

Awesome food & super friendly staff. Love this place!

Excellent food. Been around for decades. Eat there or take out.

A real gem! Super food!

I love this restaurant. The food is really yummy, and the price is fair. The staff are super nice. I totally recommend it.

Johnny, Kenny, Amy and the gang make dining here special. It's like the local diner in most small towns across America only they serve House Special Chow Mein not meatloaf. Every dish is solid, maybe not knee buckling, but solid. Won Ton and Sizzling Rice soups are great. The salt and pepper pork chops are a must and I'd suggest Beef Chow Fun with black bean sauce. Spicy tofu-eggplant is a newer favorite (last 5 years) and the Black Pepper Prawns and Green Beans are a kids hit. If you like sweet and sour pork and spicy orange chicken you won't be disappointed but you better order 2 cause they tend to get a lot of attention from guests of all ages. If you are in a pinch ask what Dean usually orders and they help you out. Shoot, just ask the nearest Asian dude and it will probably be me. For a small sample, I'm always happt to help.

Great food and heart-warming service! A little on the sweet side 🥹

Grace Lin

Great food and heart-warming service! A little on the sweet side 🥹

We’ve been coming here for over 30 years and it is the best Chinese food we have ever had. We moved out of state 6 years ago but visit regularly and always include Chef Chao with our family. We have not been able to find anything close to as good where we live now. We also always love visiting with Johnny and Kenny, who have been there the entire time we’ve been coming.

I love this place. Whenever I'm organizing a lunch or dinner for students, this is where I take them. The food is quite good and the service is absolutely fabulous. Also they take special requests if anyone has food allergies.

Everything I've had on the menu as long as I've been going here, which is approaching 25 years now, has been wonderful. The staff is very pleasant also, and a few of them are pretty funny too. If you go for someone's birthday, they have a selection of hilarious silly hats for the person to wear for timeless photos.

We had an excellent experience at Chef Chao. The service was excellent. The food was even better. We love the green bean fries especially! This is our first time here and we will certainly be back!!

I had their General Tso's chicken with a side of steamed rice, and it was super good! The amount was enough to fill up up and I still have about a lunch portion left. Definitely plan on coming back. You know a place is good when you're willing to drive 30 minutes to eat there.

This is an old favorite that we will be going back to more often. The food is fresh with great flavor.

Best Chinese food for miles around. I've been coming here many years. It's fast friendly service with Kenny and his friends. No msg! The atmosphere is cozy with comfortable seats and plenty of parking. Everything tastes fresh and hot!

Loved it. The service was great, our drinks never stayed empty but the service was never intrusive. There is a kids cocktail menu which is pretty cool. The onion cake appetizers were great and served with very pungant chinse hot mustard. Our entrees were delicious but definitely required rice which is ordered separately. The honey orange fish filet was amazing and I will definitely come back to order it again.

Been a patron of Chef Chao ever since I was a child. Almost four decades later, it is still my favorite Chinese restaurant even after moving out of state. Now, it is a must visit stop every return to our old stomping grounds. Great service (Thank you Kenny and Johnny as always) and excellent food.

I have been going to Chef Chao for around 30 years. It is the best Chinese food on this side of the hills, and in my opinion, as good as any I have had in Oakland or San Francisco (and that is a lot). Great atmosphere, service and continuity of ownership.

Anyone who rates this restaurant low has major issues and possibly dead taste buds. We've been going there over many years and the food and service is always excellent. One of the "must do" things our out of town visitors insist on is to go back and eat at Chef Cao while they are here!

Rick Chapman

We’ve been coming here for over 30 years and it is the best Chinese food we have ever had. We moved out of state 6 years ago but visit regularly and always include Chef Chao with our family. We have not been able to find anything close to as good where we live now. We also always love visiting with Johnny and Kenny, who have been there the entire time we’ve been coming.

Rene S

This is an old favorite that we will be going back to more often. The food is fresh with great flavor.

James Sampair

We had an excellent experience at Chef Chao. The service was excellent. The food was even better. We love the green bean fries especially! This is our first time here and we will certainly be back!!

Michal Strahilevitz

I love this place. Whenever I'm organizing a lunch or dinner for students, this is where I take them. The food is quite good and the service is absolutely fabulous. Also they take special requests if anyone has food allergies.

Leticia C Scapinelli

I love this restaurant. The food is really yummy, and the price is fair. The staff are super nice. I totally recommend it.

Alex Lindsey

I had their General Tso's chicken with a side of steamed rice, and it was super good! The amount was enough to fill up up and I still have about a lunch portion left. Definitely plan on coming back. You know a place is good when you're willing to drive 30 minutes to eat there.

Matt Byrom

Everything I've had on the menu as long as I've been going here, which is approaching 25 years now, has been wonderful. The staff is very pleasant also, and a few of them are pretty funny too. If you go for someone's birthday, they have a selection of hilarious silly hats for the person to wear for timeless photos.

Scott

Been a patron of Chef Chao ever since I was a child. Almost four decades later, it is still my favorite Chinese restaurant even after moving out of state. Now, it is a must visit stop every return to our old stomping grounds. Great service (Thank you Kenny and Johnny as always) and excellent food.

Peter Kierstead

Loved it. The service was great, our drinks never stayed empty but the service was never intrusive. There is a kids cocktail menu which is pretty cool. The onion cake appetizers were great and served with very pungant chinse hot mustard. Our entrees were delicious but definitely required rice which is ordered separately. The honey orange fish filet was amazing and I will definitely come back to order it again.

David R.

Best Chinese food for miles around. I've been coming here many years. It's fast friendly service with Kenny and his friends. No msg! The atmosphere is cozy with comfortable seats and plenty of parking. Everything tastes fresh and hot!

Geoff B

I have been going to Chef Chao for around 30 years. It is the best Chinese food on this side of the hills, and in my opinion, as good as any I have had in Oakland or San Francisco (and that is a lot). Great atmosphere, service and continuity of ownership.

Scott Bevan

Anyone who rates this restaurant low has major issues and possibly dead taste buds. We've been going there over many years and the food and service is always excellent. One of the "must do" things our out of town visitors insist on is to go back and eat at Chef Cao while they are here!

Good food, fast service, and a discount on cash orders to go.

Great place, people and food!! Really fresh tasting Chinese!

One of the better Moraga options. I like the pot stickers!

Been eating here for 40 years and nothing has changed

Well executed Americanized Chinese food

Always support them

Welcoming and pleasant spot.

Best Chinese in moraga and family run. If you order take out and pay in cash you will get a discount.

Great food. I received a dirty glass of water with lipstick still on the glass rim. Fountain drinks taste of chlorine. But customer service was ok. There was parking.

One of the first and original Chinese restaurants in Lamorinda. The fact that it's still around with a busting lunch hour is nothing sort of a miracle. I was introduced to it by a Caucasian friend who was born in Orinda 60+ years ago.... Even though I'm Chinese myself. The lunch menu includes soup, a small pot sticker or egg roll, selection and rice. The customers are mostly devoted aged locals.

Classy establishment with good service. Food was okay for me. The spicy sichuan beef had no detectable spiciness to it and was more breading than beef.

We had a wonderful lunch here. Thoroughly enjoyed this family run restaurant.

Super friendly staff--Bill was our waiter. Food was great with exception of crab dumplings... they tasted like mozzarella cheese in wonton-- could not taste a bit of crab...

Richard Frank

We had a wonderful lunch here. Thoroughly enjoyed this family run restaurant.

Oliver Gothe

Classy establishment with good service. Food was okay for me. The spicy sichuan beef had no detectable spiciness to it and was more breading than beef.

Good quality food, but unfriendly service

My boss raved about this place. I don’t get it. It’s a nice restaurant but the food is not better than China Moon across the street. Especially the fried rice. It’s ok.

Very bland, very plain food. We ordered and not sure why it came with no salt or spices. I won't do this again

Thomas Taylor

Very bland, very plain food. We ordered and not sure why it came with no salt or spices. I won't do this again

Food the best Let Kenny order for you

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Rude unpleasant encounter from host during to go order. I thought it was just me, but wife noted the same thing when she phoned it in. Impatient and impertinent.

I used to love this place and ate here all the time when I lived in Moraga, but it's seriously gone downhill. We ordered $95 worth of food, which was way too much for what we ordered. The person taking my order got two dishes wrong. The food was the absolute worst Chinese food I've had in my life. The egg drop soup had zero flavor, nobody wanted to keep any leftovers because it was that bad.

Food was super salty and expensive now. I picked what looked like one of their more authentic dishes, the Szechuan Beef, believing I could try something new. When I started wolfing down the food I felt the meat was way too salty. This was much different than what I experienced before. I think they changed owners or chefs. Looks like one place is off my list.

I ordered by phone, the person who took my order did not understand, when I picked up my food it was not what I expected, the person who served me was very rude, I told him that I would pay cash, it was $49. I only had $45. and I told him that I would pay $45 cash and the rest on my debit card and he did not want to agree to my request and forced to use my card to pay the total amount, in that case the person said that he would charge me $3 or $4 more, he do not wanted to give me a receipt for my transaction and later when I checked my account they had taken more than what they told me $58, my complaint is not about the extra money they charged but the way they treated me, what they charged seemed unfair to me and The food is not really delicious. It is a place where I will never return.

Spent $192 on a takeout order, they wanted us to prepay before making, didn’t go over the order because it was “too long” for them to recite (the cashiers words), went to pick up at the allotted time, they handed me 2 bags of food, didn’t go over the order (again), I asked for a receipt, they gave me a receipt with just the total cost on it, not itemized, came home, missing 2 pork orders (2 of each, so 4 boxes total), the orange chicken and lemon chicken ordered tasted the same, the only difference is they put lemon slices on the “lemon chicken”, had a plate with a scoop of rice and a scoop of veggies (which was not ours and it just looked like someone’s leftovers), called them to talk and get the rest of the pork order, the cashier said they were closing and to call and speak to the manager the next day. It has been 3 days and nothing has been made right. Never going here again.

Mariela

I used to love this place and ate here all the time when I lived in Moraga, but it's seriously gone downhill. We ordered $95 worth of food, which was way too much for what we ordered. The person taking my order got two dishes wrong. The food was the absolute worst Chinese food I've had in my life. The egg drop soup had zero flavor, nobody wanted to keep any leftovers because it was that bad.

Rina Rosales

I ordered by phone, the person who took my order did not understand, when I picked up my food it was not what I expected, the person who served me was very rude, I told him that I would pay cash, it was $49. I only had $45. and I told him that I would pay $45 cash and the rest on my debit card and he did not want to agree to my request and forced to use my card to pay the total amount, in that case the person said that he would charge me $3 or $4 more, he do not wanted to give me a receipt for my transaction and later when I checked my account they had taken more than what they told me $58, my complaint is not about the extra money they charged but the way they treated me, what they charged seemed unfair to me and The food is not really delicious. It is a place where I will never return.

Prell T

Spent $192 on a takeout order, they wanted us to prepay before making, didn’t go over the order because it was “too long” for them to recite (the cashiers words), went to pick up at the allotted time, they handed me 2 bags of food, didn’t go over the order (again), I asked for a receipt, they gave me a receipt with just the total cost on it, not itemized, came home, missing 2 pork orders (2 of each, so 4 boxes total), the orange chicken and lemon chicken ordered tasted the same, the only difference is they put lemon slices on the “lemon chicken”, had a plate with a scoop of rice and a scoop of veggies (which was not ours and it just looked like someone’s leftovers), called them to talk and get the rest of the pork order, the cashier said they were closing and to call and speak to the manager the next day. It has been 3 days and nothing has been made right. Never going here again.

Zacarias Marcos Almeida

Food was super salty and expensive now. I picked what looked like one of their more authentic dishes, the Szechuan Beef, believing I could try something new. When I started wolfing down the food I felt the meat was way too salty. This was much different than what I experienced before. I think they changed owners or chefs. Looks like one place is off my list.