Gaslight Kitchen Asian Cuisine — Restaurant in East Grand Rapids

It’s hard for me to find a restaurant that not only offers top-tier quality meals, but also impeccable service. Here at Gaslight, you will receive nothing short of a warm family welcome. 🥰

We moved here about 2 years ago. Our goal was to try local restaurants and nail down those “Goto” spots! We were often given poor advice from locals with bad taste in food. We decided to check on google to find a local Asian cuisine with amazing food! We did JUST THAT. With such fantastic reviews already, we knew we had to try!

At this time, Covid was still at a high and most places were take-out only. We didn’t want to sacrifice the quality of our meal by ordering take-out, but after reading the reviews, we would have been silly not to! The food, even traveling 15min home, was undeniably delicious. 🤤

We went ahead and sat inside the VERY SECOND they re-opened for dine-in! The service was TOP-TIER from start to finish! It started a whole routine. We began visiting almost twice a week! We got so close to the family, we held every birthday celebration here inviting our family from out of town. Even our sons 4th bday. It’s become our tradition now. 🧡

We became “”victims”” of routine with our fav dishes! 😋 We order the “Bali Bali Beef” and “Crab Cheese” appetizers, even our toddler loves them! Our son also LOVES the “Veggie Lo Mein” as his entree! My favorite is the “Orange Chicken.” When they told me it took two days to develop their PERFECT AUTHENTIC orange sauce from scratch, I said “say no more.” 😂👏 I’LL TAKE IT! My boyfriend always tries something new! He says you can’t go wrong with the “Singapore Noodles”

We will continue to support Gaslight as It is our absolute favorite Grand Rapids Restaurant. If you’re looking for authentic Asian cuisine, family atmosphere, and a warm welcome.. I HIGHLY suggest you check them out! You don’t want to regret it, I don’t believe there’s a comparable restaurant. 10/10 every single time, thank you! 💕

Coming back to add to my review as of 6/27/2025… it’s been almost 4 years since we found Gaslight Kitchen, and we still suggest it to everyone we meet/being into town! We stopped in a few days ago and had our usual, to no surprise… the service and food was a 12/10! We actually tried the egg roll for our first time here, WOW. Consider it a new staple and reason to stop in!

LOVE THE GASLIGHT FAMILY! You’re all angels! See...

I want to relate my experience while keeping it fair... family was excited to have a new Asian cuisine place nearby. We eat out aLOT so this was going to be our go-to.

The good: the prices are reasonable and the interior is well designed, modern, and inviting.. and clean. The person who took our carry out order was very personable. We ordered food for family of 4 which came to $63. And the food was good.

The bad: we got our food nicely stapled up in a paper sack and headed home. You know how it is with this style. Each dish comes in a classic Asian white cardboard box and you open all of them to figure which box has what food (not labeled). So it wasn't until all was spread out on the table and opened that we discovered the sesame chicken was missing. My son had the sesame chicken. Not a huge deal, right? Everyone makes a mistake sometimes. So my son walked back to the restaurant to ask for the dish.

The ugly: He was told that he must bring ALL the food back to the restaurant. So he had to come home empty handed, and our meal was further delayed. I called and spoke to the person about what this was about. "That's just our general policy." He sounded early 20s or younger. I advised we are eating and it's not a simple thing to box up everything up and bring it back. I find that ridiculous to have me bring everything back to prove to him I'm not ripping him off. Finally, "he can come back and I will give him the sesame chicken--I'm not going to sit here and ARGUE with you." Then said hold a minute, he is going to have me speak with his "boss." A minute goes by and he (not the boss) comes on again and says to come in and he will give the sesame chicken, and we did this. Who is going to order $63 food and then try to steal an order of sesame chicken? I do not feel comfortable going back to this place and that...

This is truly the best Asian restaurant I have been to! I got their dine in special and I was expecting it to be a smaller portion but no, the plate of food was huge! When I first came in I didn't know what to order so I just decided I was in the mood for soup and some Lo Mein and a couple of Crab Rangoons and an Egg Roll.

The First thing I was offered was tea. It was a very traditional tea and was unsweetened, but they provided sugar so I added one packet and it was fine. They also left me a tea kettle so they didn't have to come back to pour more tea.

The Egg Drop Soup was full of rich flavors and made me feel at ease. The flavor just melts in your mouth and there was a light, not overwhelming egg taste.

The Lo Mein was so delicious! I got the Vegetable Lo Mein was flavorful and loaded with baby corn, beans, carrots, mushrooms, and a couple of other vegetables. The sauce was flavorful but there wasn't an overwhelming amount of it, which is good in my opinion.

The Crab Rangoon and the Egg Roll were excellent! The cheese was just right and I didn't taste a fishy seafood flavor.

The staff were patient, friendly, and overall great! They came back a few times to check on me, but they didn't come back too often or too little. It was just the right amount of service.

Atmosphere was great! The music was loud enough to hear it and I loved all of the natural light! They even have some plugs to charge devices. They give you an option to use chopsticks as well. Overall great atmosphere!

Overall, if you are looking for an affordable yet very good place to eat Asian food, this is the place!

Update: I recently have gone back and the food is still very delicious and the atmosphere is still great! Also the staff are...