Reviews for Ginger Bistro in Fort Myers, FL
This is your run of the mill, typical dim sum place that also offers the usual Chinese food. The wait was pretty long to be... seated at a table. Service was great until you have a dispute with them. Unfortunately they don?t leave a copy of the dim sumdishes you order (in our case 15 total dishes), and we received a wrong dish and was missing a dish. When asking about theirerror, the waitress tried to charge for the 1 item we had accidentally ate on a dish that wasn?t what we ordered. (KEEP A COPYOF WHAT YOU ORDERED!) Otherwise than that, the food was alright. Typical dim sum portions are usually about 3-4 items per bowldepending on the food. In this case, most of it was 3 but the sizes were pretty small. Particularly the famous and well knownsoup, shrimp and beef dumplings/shumais all had very sticky and almost dried out skins that tasted like it was sitting out for awhile. This is probably the result of them bringing every dim sum dish out at once instead of preparing each one on a cart whenready. The Korean pancakes were unfortunately a disappointment and tasted way more like ?nian gao? which has a very sticky ricecake texture to it, instead of tasting a thicker or even crispier dough to it. Ginger Bistro wouldn?t be too bad if you?venever had dim sum before, but I wouldn?t come regularly. Read more
You will leave filled - especially if you order a lot of the dim sum options. Everything we had tasted great (consistent each... time visited). Make sure to get there early before the rush on weekends. My favorites (from dim sum menu) are the eggplant, porkbun, sesame ball, egg tart, glutinous rice/chicken in lotus leaf all with chrysanthemum tea. The other main entrees are good too(I've had in the past). My friends and I take a special visit up to this restaurant since there's nothing like it near Naples. Read more
Ginger Bistro has been a round for a bit now. I don't even think I was writing reviews the first time we went. I can tell you... though, that the first time we went, it was awful. But, they had just started and they only had an idea of what they wanted tobe as a restaurant. After overhearing that the owners changed (a bit ago) we decided to come back and try their food, at thebehest of a friend of course. So we did. Dim Sum! A dish that originated in the Cantonese culture in China has finally made itsway here and in a perfect state. These dumplings actually have 1,000 different types and after coming here, I wish I could trythem all. Soup dumplings to steam buns, wheat dumplings to rice noodle rolls. No Ginger Bistro doesn't carry them all but whowould? Instead, their selection is a 'top favorites' type list and I suggest you try them all. (Not all at once though) Theentree Really good! They had some issues because I wanted duck but they didn't have it. They said we could wait 45 minutes BUTit wasn't worth it. So we got orange chicken and sweet and sour chicken. My wife got a steaming plate of short ribs and we lovedour meals. The cons Single serve drinks. I mean, a can of sprite? Keeping costs low, I get it. If I want a refill, then I'llhave to buy another one but fountain drinks have been around since forever so switch please! No duck. Though I was lookingforward to it, it wasn't a big deal. Maybe next time. But I know why your here, it's not to read this review, but to look at thepictures, haha. So here you go. [EDIT] We had to come back for the duck so as of 1/9, we still like the place. Here are morephotos Read more
Absolutely worth the 30 min wait for a table! I wanted a tofu pad thai & so they made it up special for me. The flavor was... Amazing! A fabulous comfort food flavor. I highly recommend it & will be back to try other dishes! Read more
We stopped by for lunch! I don?t know why finding Chinese food is so much harder then other restaurants. But we trusted the... reviews and glad we did. The Orange Chicken was our favorite along with these other items. Read more
Absolutely a hidden gem ????!! Upscale atmosphere for a great date extremely clean ! I had never had Dim Sum ???? it was tasty... ???? they only serve it 11-3 They have a full large menu 4 people - Dim Sum ???? 12 dishes 2 dessert 2 glasses of wine???? 120.00 If you have Costco card here is a great deal $100.00 for $69.00 That?s awesome ????!!! I just found this today. Read more
Sitting arrangement is great for lunch dates or dinner dates for groups over four. The price is middle road not high end but not... lowest. The taste is good and the presentation is wonderful. I had a duck and noodles which was absolutely delicious. Thedumplings were tasty also. We will be a frequent customer moving forward. My wife and I came here for dinner and we were veryhappy. Recommend dine in over takeout for authenticity. Read more
First time we dined in and the food was pretty good. Second time we ordered to go got the mongolian beef that was 50% onion and... barely any beef. We also got orange chicken witch was unedable, hard and dry that you couldn't chew through it. For a mealthat's 65.82$ without the sides I would expect a little bit more quality. In the picture you can see the amount of onion left onthe plane after eating quite a bit. Read more