Red Chili — Restaurant in Elizabethton

Been coming here for at least 15 years, food is always amazing, my kids love it too. Some say the sauces are too sweet for them, but I like sweet. I have gotten to know the owner and though some people find her abrasive, I’ve always found her genuine and funny. Since COVID she has had a staffing issue and mainly prefers to just do it all herself so you may have to wait. She also mostly serves out of styrofoam these days to keep the dishes down. We live in Bristol and I sometimes call and make sure she isn’t closing early, if it gets slow she sometimes will close ahead of time.

I love the Red Chicken above all things, it is a mild spice but a sweet sauce. We always get cheesy ramen for our appetizer, its phenomenal. The pot stickers are an amazing appetizer also, most of my friends get the Kicken’ Chicken if its their first time, my curry loving friends love the Curry Chicken. Be Bim Bop is one of her top most requested, and the blue chicken is really good...

Fantastic food, horrible service. We entered the restaurant roughly one hour before close. The owner (who appeared to be the only one working in the entire restaurant) asked us why we came so late but agreed to serve us anyway. A man came in shortly after us and the owner was so rude to him that he left. She loudly called him a r*tard in front of the other customers. When taking our order she insisted that she couldn’t make one of the dishes that we wanted, however, she served it to another customer beside of us. There was a long wait but the food was absolutely delicious. Throughout our meal, the owner made several snarky comments about how slow we were eating and who paid for the meal. When and IF we ever return to Red Chili, it will be through a to-go order. I will never dine in that restaurant again. The atmosphere was horrible and...

Completely disgusting. Horrible. We had 3 different dishes. All had the exact same sickly sweet sticky sauce that tasted like sugar and nothing else. The "sweet potato noodles" are more like a sweet potato starch noodle. And they are chewy. The waitress is not helpful at all, and no descriptions are written on the menu so you are really just guessing at what you order. The service was terrible, the waitress has zero knowledge of the menu or items being served. They cleaned the tables with off brand Windex. And they brought us the wrong appetizer. And the brought the appetizer after the meal was brought out, plate by plate and then we had to wait for silverware. The way the people who work there look is rather disturbing also. No hair nets and short shorts. No smiles either. I'd skip this place and eat...