Northern Chinese Barbecue — Restaurant in Ontario

Authentic Chinese Restaurant with a HUGE menu.

The menu is so comprehensive it is truly surprising that they are able to do this. The restaurant is another welcoming addition to the competitive food scene in Kingston downtown area. Unlike some other restaurants, this restaurant has no hidden "Chinese only" menu. You get the same menu as what Mandarin speaking Chinese people get, which is indicative of the confidence in their dishes.

Even though the name of the restaurant is Northern Chinese Barbecue, the reality is their menu includes iconic dishes from all over China and include many items that are not barbecue related. For Chinese food aficionados, checking out their menu, which is on their website is a must before going to the restaurant, because you may spend quite awhile studying the entire menu (all 15 pages of it not including drinks).

For those of you who like to have a beer or wine with your Chinese food, for now, you are out of luck.

Choose from many fulfilling and inexpensive dishes as well as fancy and exotic dishes. Your bill may be as low as single digit or as high as three digits depending on what you order.

Service is decent, mostly college/university students, typical of other Chinese restaurants in the area, there are no cheeky uniforms, but having something classy could improve the sense of identity of the restaurant. It is obvious the restaurant is still relatively new as the interior decor is somewhat lacking and the overall atmosphere has room to improve still.

What matters most to this reviewer is , first and foremost, the taste of the dishes. While I haven't sampled every single item on their vast menu, I can attest to the fact that the few items I did try, tasted authentic and absolutely delicious. Highly recommended whether for a quick bite during lunch or a family feast (reservation highly...

Couple of years ago I visited Kingston and had a meal at the Northern BBQ. The person who recommended it warned me to expect a dirty restaurant, long wait time and rude staff, but said that the food was worth it. Well, they weren't wrong. The place was dirty, the dishes showed up 20 minutes apart with the desert dish dropped off right in the middle of the meal and the waiter was rude and inattentive, just as I was told he would be. The food though was absolutely fabulous. Every single dish was a discovery of flavors. Every single one delicious. Even the pork intestine dish, which I ordered to gross my wife out proved to be superb. The meal was so good, that we vowed to return as soon as possible. Yesterday I finally had a chance to pass through Kingston and took out $100 worth of food from Northern BBQ. I should have listened to my spider sense when the person taking the order assured me that everything is just as it used to be, and that all the food is the same as it was, and that the cooking crew is the same, and he said it four separate times. I'm writing this because this morning I threw out most of the food I picked up there, uneaten. None of the dishes were tasty, one was outright missing, even though I was charged for it, and the pork intestine dish I found so good before, was not edible. About the only thing that was eaten was the soup, which was reasonable and the dumplings despite the fact that they were only slightly singed on one side (they charge $1.50 extra to have them fried). I'm truly sorry to report that the food now matches the ambiance and service. I do...

I honestly wish there is a less than 1 star rating. The restaurant has an extremely slow service, though it can hardly to be called "service". It is so slow that leaves changed color on the tree beside the princess street. It forced me to order the food by myself, and talk to the barbecue chef what I want. Strongly recommend ninja fans to visit because you can easily grant invisibility when you try to call a waiter. The smoky air remind me an old video game, that death fog kills the character who go into it immediately. Similarly, you can try to breathe beside the open kitchen for courage, and get your lungs fully burned. Their soy milk was another miserable memory for me. If you would like to try a lemonade taste soy milk, you can have a try on that evil product far expired from the shelf life at here. (degenerated soy product threaten the life). I had a sore stomachache after drinking the "poisoned" drink. I would suggest everyone to protect themselves by simply avoid this place. I had never reposted a rating before, until I saw Amanda x's rating. I m not sure whether your were hired for the five stars rating, but I am pretty sure that you had never taste that nightmare before, otherwise you will not explain about what is soy juice. It is two different things. Soy milk is soy milk, we call it soy milk and it is always called soy milk---the white soy milk, sweet taste in normal, sour and smelly taste in here. Like other says, this place definitely needs to be inspected by health...