Venus Cafe

We got the oyster beef with rice and the hainan chicken. Both came with your choice of milk tea or lemon ice tea and a soup. The tea though a standard sweet lemon iced tea was surprisingly quite good and refreshing if I do say so myself. I'm not sure if it was the sugar or lemons or if I just haven't had lemon ice tea in a long time but either way it wasn't bad. The soup had tomatoes and cabbage and was slightly sweet and sour. It wasn't really my thing. Now on to the entrees. The hainan chicken was okay. The portions were a bit small chickenwise but it also came with two scoops of yellow rice and some peanuts on the side and some vegetable I did not try. Flavorwise it was only okay not too special. The entire meal was like a wannabe bentos box. The beef was very good. It was saucy and slightly sweet with a good amount of mushrooms. The beef was tender and complemented by a side of rice. I would recommend. That's all folks.

The best of the best. You cannot go wrong with any dish you choose. Everything is full of flavor! You'll enjoy every single dish and appetizer. Just make sure you have cash on hand since its cash only!

Just have a breakfast in Venus cafe today, overall experience is fine. Had a bowl of beef porridge with a small plate of chow main, they are pretty good, and of course a cup of hot Hongkong classic milktea is alway a plus, highly recommend to everyone to try their milktea in early morning, fresh boiled fresh serve!

Fast service great food. I ordered for 7 people at work. And all the food were great. This chicken rice has great flavors. Chicken is fresh free range chicken, much less fatty and can taste the chicken flavor. Rice was cooked with some coconut milk and chicken broth. It is so good.

Nice meals. Clean, neat and tidy. Quality and price. Nice place to have a breakfast. Big cup of tea (with lemon) or coffee is free adding. Loved. Ewen when inside is full, they serving so quick. All items are natural. No fast food.

aq xin

Got to try out Venus Cafe in Newark recently and ordered a basic brisket rice noodle soup. The flavor was deep as expected, broth comforting, and meat super tender/juicy. My partner's half-half baked pork chop rice was actually a sizeable + hearty portion--perfect post-workout. Love that the interior was clean and casual with its HK decor. Parking was free and easy in the plaza lot. Adding this to my ever-growing list of cha chaan tengs in the area--thanks to my friend Aishi for the rec 😋

JULIA GUAN

A restaurant I have been visiting for over 5 years. 2:30pm~ there are Happy Hour menu. I love the ice milk tea.

Taylor Lyon

We got the oyster beef with rice and the hainan chicken. Both came with your choice of milk tea or lemon ice tea and a soup. The tea though a standard sweet lemon iced tea was surprisingly quite good and refreshing if I do say so myself. I'm not sure if it was the sugar or lemons or if I just haven't had lemon ice tea in a long time but either way it wasn't bad. The soup had tomatoes and cabbage and was slightly sweet and sour. It wasn't really my thing. Now on to the entrees. The hainan chicken was okay. The portions were a bit small chickenwise but it also came with two scoops of yellow rice and some peanuts on the side and some vegetable I did not try. Flavorwise it was only okay not too special. The entire meal was like a wannabe bentos box. The beef was very good. It was saucy and slightly sweet with a good amount of mushrooms. The beef was tender and complemented by a side of rice. I would recommend. That's all folks.

Y C

The best of the best. You cannot go wrong with any dish you choose. Everything is full of flavor! You'll enjoy every single dish and appetizer. Just make sure you have cash on hand since its cash only!

Ahwing Chu

Just have a breakfast in Venus cafe today, overall experience is fine. Had a bowl of beef porridge with a small plate of chow main, they are pretty good, and of course a cup of hot Hongkong classic milktea is alway a plus, highly recommend to everyone to try their milktea in early morning, fresh boiled fresh serve!

Kara Chan

Fast service great food. I ordered for 7 people at work. And all the food were great. This chicken rice has great flavors. Chicken is fresh free range chicken, much less fatty and can taste the chicken flavor. Rice was cooked with some coconut milk and chicken broth. It is so good.

Rashid Aliyev

Nice meals. Clean, neat and tidy. Quality and price. Nice place to have a breakfast. Big cup of tea (with lemon) or coffee is free adding. Loved. Ewen when inside is full, they serving so quick. All items are natural. No fast food.

Got to try out Venus Cafe in Newark recently and ordered a basic brisket rice noodle soup. The flavor was deep as expected, broth comforting, and meat super tender/juicy. My partner's half-half baked pork chop rice was actually a sizeable + hearty portion--perfect post-workout. Love that the interior was clean and casual with its HK decor. Parking was free and easy in the plaza lot. Adding this to my ever-growing list of cha chaan tengs in the area--thanks to my friend Aishi for the rec 😋

+1

Good selection of Hong Kong style food. Good portion & love the HK style ice milk tea. Cash only, which a bit hassel sometimes. Wish they can take Apple or Android Pay.

This is one of the HK style cafe that we often go. The mike tea is good as well as the HK style food. The menus including drinks is cheap. Recommend for daily casual meal.

Good HK Cafe style restaurant/cafe. Sort of in a convenient location, near a lot of Asian stuff (across the plaza is 99 ranch, 85C, etc.). Good is pretty decent and price is not too high for the portion.

They r always consistent. The food is consistent and the service is consistent. I like coming here bc of that. However, not taking card as a form of payment in the 21st century is kinda annoying. Wish they will adapt soon.

This is a hong kong style cafe. The lunch special on a weekday is great. Beware, it's cash only establishment. Must try the coffee, it's so different than regular coffee

Food and service is pretty standard for a HK cafe but there’s nothing impressive or remarkable about this place. There are better HK cafes around Fremont and Milpitas with more competitive prices.

This cafe is cash only Hong Kong style cafe. Food mainly around $10.00. Drinks from $2.75 and up. Friendly service with good portion of food

Had 皮蛋瘦肉粥 plus drink during happy hours. Portions are good size. The porridge/congee is on the thin side but it’s generally good. Not busy around 3pm on a weekday. Service was good.

They serve classic Hong Kong style café food. The quantities of food have decrease and the price have went up after their remodeling. However, they are still the best I have in SF Metro area. They are not special if you compare to restaurants in Hong Kong, but I have not found better in the area.

Their Hainan chicken is the best in town! 😋👍 Other food is okay. I like how hard working the waiter and waitresses are. They literally run around to serve you and are very efficient.

Venus Cafe is a cosy place to have a bite of Hong Kongese most iconic meals... And way more than that. One can also find western meals, Chinese meals. Very affordable, amazing value for money.

Milk tea is using condense milk. Those want to avoid sugar shall be alarmed. But for HongKongers, it's nostalgic. Their breakfast is of big portion. Worth the $$

Decent HK style breakfast with pretty good portions.

Sam

I ordered the Minced Pork and Century Egg Congee with the Chinese Donut and it was perfect! The congee was flavorful without feeling overwhelming and oily and the Chinese Donut was fried perfectly and not stale. I will definitely be returning and recommending this place!

Kevin Drost

I did takeout from New Venus HK Café in Newark and was really pleased. The Shrimp and Scrambled Eggs, Chow Fun, and Sweet and Sour Pork were all flavorful and well-prepared — true Hong Kong-style comfort food. Portions were generous, prices fair, and the food held up well for takeout. Service was friendly, even during the busy lunch rush. Definitely one of the best Chinese fast-food spots in the area!

Winnie Lam

Their Hainan chicken is the best in town! 😋👍 Other food is okay. I like how hard working the waiter and waitresses are. They literally run around to serve you and are very efficient.

Thierry Trang

Venus Cafe is a cosy place to have a bite of Hong Kongese most iconic meals... And way more than that. One can also find western meals, Chinese meals. Very affordable, amazing value for money.

Ann Fung

Milk tea is using condense milk. Those want to avoid sugar shall be alarmed. But for HongKongers, it's nostalgic. Their breakfast is of big portion. Worth the $$

I did takeout from New Venus HK Café in Newark and was really pleased. The Shrimp and Scrambled Eggs, Chow Fun, and Sweet and Sour Pork were all flavorful and well-prepared — true Hong Kong-style comfort food. Portions were generous, prices fair, and the food held up well for takeout. Service was friendly, even during the busy lunch rush. Definitely one of the best Chinese fast-food spots in the area!

I ordered the Minced Pork and Century Egg Congee with the Chinese Donut and it was perfect! The congee was flavorful without feeling overwhelming and oily and the Chinese Donut was fried perfectly and not stale. I will definitely be returning and recommending this place!

+3

Late night eatery with a pretty large menu to choose from . This place has plenty of free parking , but like other reviewers have mentioned it is cash only . The food was ok I have had better and cheaper , one thing they could possibly change for the tomato beef add a little less tomato and maybe a tad more beef .

Not a bakery despite its name. And there are no photos of Venus either. However, you can get lots of food and the booths are comfy. It's very popular though, so be prepared to wait if you come during a customer surge. Apparently the restaurant models itself after a Hong Kong style eating establishment. My husband who had worked a lot in HK thought so as well. The menu is in English, but had things on there like "sapghetti", "petizers" and "macaron". Not the French type of macaron, mind you, but the typo kind. Many items come with tea/coffee, garlic toast, soup and dessert. I ordered chow fun w/ veggies and tofu ($7.25). TONS of noodles! In fact, between two of us, we couldn't finish the plate. Emphasis is on noodles. Too many for an appropriate veggie/tofu to noodles ratio. Recently got chow fun here and my daughter found a spider in it (!!!). Interesting items on the menu such as peanut butter and condensed milk toast. Drinks with Ribena, etc. Probably won't be back here again.

The category here is cheap eats HK fusion style. I didn't grow up with this stuff like my wife did. When we were dating and she took me to one of these HK cafes, I was like "what is this stuff?" Spaghetti done Chinese style? Rice and cheese? I get it now and I'm also still married.

This isn't foodie food: it's cheap and good. Very few places will get you decent Sampan Congee, Donut, and HK Milk Tea for under ten bucks, and Venus delivers.

Their food is too oily for me but I’m a fan of their HK styled milk tea. It’s a pity they re strictly cash-only in this day and age of cash-equivalent digital payment. Their staff tends to be a bit curt and rude and today it came to a head for me. I prepared cash to visit at their open-hour to grab tea before work. The person in charge of opening the place was late, and showed zero sympathy when she informed me that there’s no tea for sale yet, and when I expressed my disappointment. I get running a restaurant is hard but I wouldn’t be too happy to go through this whenever I want something that I’m supposed to enjoy lol.

There's a good reason why this restaurant is only 3 stars. The food portions are extremely small given the high price point. I ordered a seafood combo udon sizzling plate and what I was I was given was a plop of overcooked udon with tiny bits of squid and shrimp. It looks nothing like the pictures they have in the menu and on the walls of their cafe. They also charge for hot tea and their milk tea is also very bland without much tea flavor.

If you look for typical Hong Kong style food, such as a variety of noodles, baked rice, congees etc, this is the place to be. It used to be reasonably priced but since pandemic, prices have gone up significantly. The problem is their service. One can wait long time just to get the menu, or may be wrong menu. Sometimes tea may arrive near the end of the meal.

I got shrimp fried rice and was satisfied, it was simple but that's what I was wanting. My husband got the black pepper beef with noodles and felt it was bland and didn't have much meat in it for the price.

Fish fried rice wasn't very salty, but decent. Crispy noodles were a but bland. Probably wouldn't return, but not the worst place I've ever had.

Big Brother was not as good as before. We have not been to Venus since the last two years. We ordered the Big Brother mixed plate, but the pork and the overall quality/taste was not as good as we ate before.

Service are good and fast. But foods quality varies, sometimes we have great foods, sometimes it’s not, especially their milk tea

J Okada

Fish fried rice wasn't very salty, but decent. Crispy noodles were a but bland. Probably wouldn't return, but not the worst place I've ever had.

Simon Iau

Big Brother was not as good as before. We have not been to Venus since the last two years. We ordered the Big Brother mixed plate, but the pork and the overall quality/taste was not as good as we ate before.

Choy L Tang

Service are good and fast. But foods quality varies, sometimes we have great foods, sometimes it’s not, especially their milk tea

The service was really bad. Both servers did not offer any napkins nor water when taking orders. I ordered some drinks but it took both of them a very long time to get their attentions. Bad experience at this location. Servers will not come to you unless you raise your hand multiple times to get their attentions.

Very disappointed. The food price has become very expensive and quality of the food and services both are reduced. I had a lot of memory of this place and feel very bad to see these changes. update in 2025. I am lowering my review from 3 to 2. It was one of most liked restaurant for our family and I brought my kids who come back to Fremont after years to this restaurant for a breakfast. Unfortunately, they shrunk the size of the dish and the taste was not good either. I regretted that we come as it ruined our good memory.

Food is just OK here. Portion is not as big as some reviewers mentioned. This is a Hong Kong style cafe. I ordered their daily special set lunch as I was late for their breakfast. Set lunch include the meal, hot drink, and soup. I was hoping to have Hong Kong style coffee but was provided local style coffee which I didn't request. Not sure if this place have Hong Kong style coffee though. The restaurant was half full and only two servers working. Service wasn't a good as I hope it would be. Don't believe I'll be back here again.

Johnny C

Food is just OK here. Portion is not as big as some reviewers mentioned. This is a Hong Kong style cafe. I ordered their daily special set lunch as I was late for their breakfast. Set lunch include the meal, hot drink, and soup. I was hoping to have Hong Kong style coffee but was provided local style coffee which I didn't request. Not sure if this place have Hong Kong style coffee though. The restaurant was half full and only two servers working. Service wasn't a good as I hope it would be. Don't believe I'll be back here again.

We ordered the lunch special Chinese broccoli with chicken. Although the waitress is very nice, I still have to give a bad rating about the food quality. The chicken was so tough to the point that I couldn’t even swallow it, plus they were just tasteless. It is ashamed that the cook is so bad.

K Ng

We ordered the lunch special Chinese broccoli with chicken. Although the waitress is very nice, I still have to give a bad rating about the food quality. The chicken was so tough to the point that I couldn’t even swallow it, plus they were just tasteless. It is ashamed that the cook is so bad.

Dylan Wan

Very disappointed. The food price has become very expensive and quality of the food and services both are reduced. I had a lot of memory of this place and feel very bad to see these changes. update in 2025. I am lowering my review from 3 to 2. It was one of most liked restaurant for our family and I brought my kids who come back to Fremont after years to this restaurant for a breakfast. Unfortunately, they shrunk the size of the dish and the taste was not good either. I regretted that we come as it ruined our good memory.

For the food, yes. For the service, no. Was here with my family, and asked to move from booth to the table at the corner (in front of the door). Note I have a toddler and am pregnant. Upon food arrived, there were no utensils. Took forever to flag down for the bill too...

Came here for lunch with my wife and daughter. Once we came in they said we can take a sit where we’d like but after that no one came to attend us. After about 10 min. Had to raise my hand to get someone to attend us. And even then they attended another group first who had came in 10 min after us. Once we ordered we waited to receive our water. Which never came. Asked the same server again about the water and still nothing. My wife had to go to the front desk to go pick up our water. We asked for rice and it never came. We asked for a drink and received the wrong one. Just over all a bad service. The only good thing was that the food was delicious. Don’t think I’ll be coming back here.

Be careful! They do not respect special food request. After having confirming three time of not using some vegetable, they still put them in! Then after asking them to change the dish, they simply remove some of them and reserve the same dish! Cash only with not cheap price. Cash only sign is not easy to find.

Horrible takeout food. I ordered the shrimp and egg with rice 鲜虾滑蛋盖饭 Shrimp is not fresh and it’s just like egg soup on rice. Not much flavor other than salty. Not recommend

Look how much pork i got from a dinner box. Definitely not recommended, why you give me so much onions and a little bit pork, looks like fired leftover. Terrible costumer service as well

Yuhan Liu

Horrible takeout food. I ordered the shrimp and egg with rice 鲜虾滑蛋盖饭 Shrimp is not fresh and it’s just like egg soup on rice. Not much flavor other than salty. Not recommend

Serenity

Look how much pork i got from a dinner box. Definitely not recommended, why you give me so much onions and a little bit pork, looks like fired leftover. Terrible costumer service as well