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About Golden bayou

Located in Ithaca, Golden Bayou offers a variety of dining options, including delivery, takeout, and dine-in service. We pride ourselves on fast service, perfect for lunch, dinner, or a solo meal. We are committed to accessibility, providing a wheelchair accessible entrance, parking lot, restroom, a...

Located in Ithaca, Golden Bayou offers a variety of dining options, including delivery, takeout, and dine-in service. We pride ourselves on fast service, perfect for lunch, dinner, or a solo meal. We are committed to accessibility, providing a wheelchair accessible entrance, parking lot, restroom, and seating. Open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 11AM-9:30PM, we are closed on Wednesdays. Golden Bayou also offers alcoholic beverages. With a 4.0-star rating based on 134 reviews, we strive to provide a satisfying experience for every guest.

What Customers Say About Golden bayou

Golden Bayou receives mixed reviews. Many customers praise the authentic Chinese dishes and seafood boil, highlighting the freshness and flavor. However, some diners have experienced inconsistent food quality, rude service from the owner, and cleanliness issues.

Popular Dishes

Sesame Chicken Beef and Broccoli lo mein Braised Beef Noodle Soup General Tso's chicken Shrimp mei fun General Tsau combo platter seafood boil (3)

Best For

Couples Families Groups Celebrations

Tip: Avoid the Americanized dishes on the first couple pages of the menu and work your way back to authentic dishes.

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📶 WiFi 🅿️ Parking 🚗 Delivery Accessible 🍽️ Lunch 🌙 Dinner 🥗 Vegetarian
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Frequently asked questions about Golden bayou

Golden bayou is located at 401 Elmira Rd STE 11, Ithaca, NY 14850, Ithaca.
Golden bayou offers seafood cuisine.
Golden bayou has regular opening hours. Check their profile for updated schedules.
Golden bayou offers the following services: dine-in, takeaway, delivery.
The most recommended dishes at Golden bayou based on customer reviews are: Sesame Chicken, Beef and Broccoli, lo mein, Braised Beef Noodle Soup, General Tso's chicken.
Golden bayou is ideal for couples, families, groups, celebrations.
Golden Bayou receives mixed reviews. Many customers praise the authentic Chinese dishes and seafood boil, highlighting the freshness and flavor. However, some diners have experienced inconsistent food quality, rude service from the owner, and cleanliness issues.
Avoid the Americanized dishes on the first couple pages of the menu and work your way back to authentic dishes.
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Golden bayou Ithaca Reviews

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Reviews (40)
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Julia Weaver

The food here is amazing!!! My partner and I got the cheese wontons, chicken lo mein, barbecued pork buns, and a seafood boil with crab legs, shrimp, corn, potatoes, and sausage. Everything was cooked well and tasted delicious! The staff was very nice and got our food out fairly quickly for how much we ordered 😂 We will definitely be going there again!!!

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Nancy Liang

Was surprised by the deliciousness of this food! I think it’s a great new addition to Ithaca and they have a diverse variety of Chinese dishes as well as yummy seafood boil. Looks like a fun place for a celebration with friends.

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Buff Orpington

Ithaca finally has another excellent seafood boil restaurant. We got the crawfish, shrimp, and muscles in garlic butter sauce, and it’s likely the best I’ve had in upstate NY. Highly highly recommended. I’ll certainly be back.

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Jason Beauvais

Food was excellent, and looked exactly like is shown in the pictures. I got the Braised Beef Noodle Soup, and my wife got the General Tso's chicken. Probably the best Chinese I have ever had! Service was quick, staff was welcoming. Looking forward to going back soon!

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Deb Cuyle

We all had lo mein and it was very good! Restaurant was very clean. Our service was good. Very nice atmosphere., too!

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Khalil Corbul Lui Azrael

Really neat place! Fun. Friendly owners and staff. Clean. Great food. Down home Cajun and Asian food. Had a great time.

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Robert Druker

Very good food ! Really nice change up to the typical dinner out ! Just be careful if your sensitive to heat the levels get really warm really fast I recommend medium !

Julia Weaver
Julia Weaver

The food here is amazing!!! My partner and I got the cheese wontons, chicken lo mein, barbecued pork buns, and a seafood boil with crab legs, shrimp, corn, potatoes, and sausage. Everything was cooked well and tasted delicious! The staff was very nice and got our food out fairly quickly for how much we ordered 😂 We will definitely be going there again!!!

Nancy Liang
Nancy Liang

Was surprised by the deliciousness of this food! I think it’s a great new addition to Ithaca and they have a diverse variety of Chinese dishes as well as yummy seafood boil. Looks like a fun place for a celebration with friends.

Buff Orpington
Buff Orpington

Ithaca finally has another excellent seafood boil restaurant. We got the crawfish, shrimp, and muscles in garlic butter sauce, and it’s likely the best I’ve had in upstate NY. Highly highly recommended. I’ll certainly be back.

Jason Beauvais
Jason Beauvais

Food was excellent, and looked exactly like is shown in the pictures. I got the Braised Beef Noodle Soup, and my wife got the General Tso's chicken. Probably the best Chinese I have ever had! Service was quick, staff was welcoming. Looking forward to going back soon!

Deb Cuyle
Deb Cuyle

We all had lo mein and it was very good! Restaurant was very clean. Our service was good. Very nice atmosphere., too!

Khalil Corbul Lui Azrael
Khalil Corbul Lui Azrael

Really neat place! Fun. Friendly owners and staff. Clean. Great food. Down home Cajun and Asian food. Had a great time.

Robert Druker
Robert Druker

Very good food ! Really nice change up to the typical dinner out ! Just be careful if your sensitive to heat the levels get really warm really fast I recommend medium !

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June Luu

I have been a long-time customer since they opened. We always go there for lunch and to go. They keep quality and consistency until present for services, food quality, and atmosphere. We always took family members and relatives to this restaurant. One time, my husband wanted to reorder the Cahun for lunch, and they gave a discount, too. That's nice. Also, one time, a long time ago, I forgot cash, and they allowed me to go out of the restaurant without paying to get cash for about 30 minutes. That's really nice heart. Highly recommended.

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Alvin Huang

Best seafood boil in town not the mention hospitality.

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N9stra Damas

Best egg roll ever!! The wrap was just the right thickness to be perfectly crunchy and not chewy! The Sesame Chicken was amazing w delicious flavor and crispy outside. The beef in the Beef and Broccoli was so tender and both the beef and broccoli cooked to perfect texture. Two very satisfied lunch eaters right here! Plus I got a good fortune in my cookie 🔮🥠

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Skeiththe3rd

Went there for our 7th year anniversary and it was amazing. I had the Shrimp mei fun while my husband had the General Tsau combo platter and we both enjoyed it. We also split some steamed bun and the sesame seed buns as a side and desert and loved them. The waitress was super nice and was very good at answering all of my dumb questions. I highly recommend this place to everyone.

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Alvin Huang

Best experience the seafood boil was a 10/10. The chef knows what he’s doing.

Skeiththe3rd
Skeiththe3rd

Went there for our 7th year anniversary and it was amazing. I had the Shrimp mei fun while my husband had the General Tsau combo platter and we both enjoyed it. We also split some steamed bun and the sesame seed buns as a side and desert and loved them. The waitress was super nice and was very good at answering all of my dumb questions. I highly recommend this place to everyone.

Matt Marx
Matt Marx

We love this place. More importantly, friends of ours from China won't go anywhere else. The key is to avoid the Americanized dishes on the first couple pages of the menu and work your way back to authentic dishes. That is the prize

June Luu
June Luu

I have been a long-time customer since they opened. We always go there for lunch and to go. They keep quality and consistency until present for services, food quality, and atmosphere. We always took family members and relatives to this restaurant. One time, my husband wanted to reorder the Cahun for lunch, and they gave a discount, too. That's nice. Also, one time, a long time ago, I forgot cash, and they allowed me to go out of the restaurant without paying to get cash for about 30 minutes. That's really nice heart. Highly recommended.

N9stra Damas
N9stra Damas

Best egg roll ever!! The wrap was just the right thickness to be perfectly crunchy and not chewy! The Sesame Chicken was amazing w delicious flavor and crispy outside. The beef in the Beef and Broccoli was so tender and both the beef and broccoli cooked to perfect texture. Two very satisfied lunch eaters right here! Plus I got a good fortune in my cookie 🔮🥠

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YP Zi

Good authentic Chinese food, good price,great service!

YP Zi
YP Zi

Good authentic Chinese food, good price,great service!

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Tyr Wiesner-Hanks

Excellent fish dry pot. Right amount of chilies and Szechuan peppercorns, fish was tender, breading was pleasantly crunchy + chewy, very good vegetables. Batter was just a little too salty. Prices are fine, seem to be a few dollars higher than similar places in town. Fish dry pot was $20 before tax, and I think it's more like $18 at other places. Lunch special has American-style dishes like lo mein and stuff. That's fine, but would be better IMO if they also did a couple Szechuan or Cantonese dishes for lunch special as well. Clean, lots of space, staff were friendly. To be honest I always thought this place was a Cajun fast-food restaurant chain. Then I stopped in randomly and was like "wait they do Szechuan food here??" lol

Tyr Wiesner-Hanks
Tyr Wiesner-Hanks

Excellent fish dry pot. Right amount of chilies and Szechuan peppercorns, fish was tender, breading was pleasantly crunchy + chewy, very good vegetables. Batter was just a little too salty. Prices are fine, seem to be a few dollars higher than similar places in town. Fish dry pot was $20 before tax, and I think it's more like $18 at other places. Lunch special has American-style dishes like lo mein and stuff. That's fine, but would be better IMO if they also did a couple Szechuan or Cantonese dishes for lunch special as well. Clean, lots of space, staff were friendly. To be honest I always thought this place was a Cajun fast-food restaurant chain. Then I stopped in randomly and was like "wait they do Szechuan food here??" lol

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Alexisweird

Ordered sweet and sour chicken and got just plain breaded chicken, what is this, how do you forget the sweet and sour when it’s in the name?!?! Added duck sauce to it that I had in my fridge for at least some flavor (and no there was not a cup of the sauce in the bag either)

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London Kelly

Went there having not been there in a while and didn't kno they stopped doing HotPot... BIG bummer... so I got a little Chinese Fare.... meh. That chicken on the stick is sinful.. Szechuan shrimp had no flava. I even asked for it to be EXXTRA spicy.. I even heard my girl tell the cook in the back. It was not. I wasn't pleased. However I did go and get a boil for my birthday.. snowcrab/shrimp/mussels mixed sauce... it was pretty tasty! Although my sauce is better😉

Alexisweird
Alexisweird

Ordered sweet and sour chicken and got just plain breaded chicken, what is this, how do you forget the sweet and sour when it’s in the name?!?! Added duck sauce to it that I had in my fridge for at least some flavor (and no there was not a cup of the sauce in the bag either)

London Kelly
London Kelly

Went there having not been there in a while and didn't kno they stopped doing HotPot... BIG bummer... so I got a little Chinese Fare.... meh. That chicken on the stick is sinful.. Szechuan shrimp had no flava. I even asked for it to be EXXTRA spicy.. I even heard my girl tell the cook in the back. It was not. I wasn't pleased. However I did go and get a boil for my birthday.. snowcrab/shrimp/mussels mixed sauce... it was pretty tasty! Although my sauce is better😉

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Haythi myint

Although this place has been my favorite place to get seafood boil, it has become very stingy with their food. I got a a boil combo B bag with sausage add-on for 5.99 extra and only got 3 freaking pieces of sausage. And it was so thin. It was so off putting for the rest of the boil.

Haythi myint
Haythi myint

Although this place has been my favorite place to get seafood boil, it has become very stingy with their food. I got a a boil combo B bag with sausage add-on for 5.99 extra and only got 3 freaking pieces of sausage. And it was so thin. It was so off putting for the rest of the boil.

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Tin Aye

Never going back. the restaurant wasn’t very clean. The floors were sticky, and our table still had remnants of the last guests’ meal. Not exactly appetizing for expensive prices. There are plenty of better Chinese spots around — I won’t be coming back here. Disappointing experience overall.

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Jenny N

The food tasted bland and not worth the price. The servicer was nice but the owner was rude and kept giving us horrible looks. Avoid this place unless you're filing a documentary on how to not run a restaurant. The food quality is what you can get at a Chinese buffet. There are money other restaurants in ithaca you can enjoy.

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kay biuty

Food was absolutely awful. Ordered a fish fillet dish and tell me why it was crispy? Absolutely not edible. Proceeded to order another dish and textures of vegetables are very bad. Not a single smile from the server either from the moment we walked in. She looked like she was forced to work here. Will never be back.

Tin Aye
Tin Aye

Never going back. the restaurant wasn’t very clean. The floors were sticky, and our table still had remnants of the last guests’ meal. Not exactly appetizing for expensive prices. There are plenty of better Chinese spots around — I won’t be coming back here. Disappointing experience overall.

Jenny N
Jenny N

The food tasted bland and not worth the price. The servicer was nice but the owner was rude and kept giving us horrible looks. Avoid this place unless you're filing a documentary on how to not run a restaurant. The food quality is what you can get at a Chinese buffet. There are money other restaurants in ithaca you can enjoy.

Moe Khant
Moe Khant

This place is the worst. They waited until we were the last customers to come argue with us about a meal we didn’t like instead of offering something to fix the issue. The owner is so rude and not friendly. I usually don’t mind the high prices if the service is good but this place is NOT WORTH YOUR MONEY AND TIME!!! I would give a ZERO if I could.

kay biuty
kay biuty

Food was absolutely awful. Ordered a fish fillet dish and tell me why it was crispy? Absolutely not edible. Proceeded to order another dish and textures of vegetables are very bad. Not a single smile from the server either from the moment we walked in. She looked like she was forced to work here. Will never be back.

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🍽️ Lunch
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🥗 Vegetarian Options
🥡 Takeout
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11AM-9:30PM
Rating
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💬 Reviews
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💰 Price Level
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People typically spend 15 min to 1.5 hr here
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🌐 Website
goldenbayou.com
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