Reviews for Chino Bandido in Phoenix, AZ
My husband and I have been going here for years now, from the time they were located at 19th and Greenway. We loved the new... place as well, it looks spacious compared to the old one. The food here is so good, if you live in Phoenix metro and haven?ttried it yet, you are missing something great. The flavors here is a good blend of Chinese and Mexican food, well you can figurethat out from their name. They have a good portion size. I usually order a combo where you could get 2 proteins, rice (regularor fried), your choice of beans and you have choice of either burrito or quesadilla where you can add one choice of yourprotein. You do have choice to skip both quesadilla and burrito as well and enjoy your meal. Well their sauce is really good anddon?t forget the free cookie that comes with each meal. Read more
The restaurant itself is nice and has a 90?s diner vibe. Good music and conversation. They could work on wiping down the tables... more often, but for the most part it?s clean. Ordering was easy and the Unko taking my order was happy and ready to take orderswith a smile. Answer all my questions and suggestions. Got my meals in about 10-15 minutes. The Jen Pork was my favorite. Thecrunch on the pork went great with seem like a sweet and sour sauce and paired with steam rice was DELICIOUS. The Jade Chickenwas the second best but what this establishment is most none for. Also in a sauce that tasted like sweet and sour was good withthe steam rice. Don?t get anything of the fried rice. They literally just fried the rice and that?s it. No real flavor to it. Sothe Jerk chicken was really hot. Guess I was expecting them to serve the meal with some avocado and sour cream but nothing thatsaid it was Mexican fusion. It was just Chinese influenced. My opinion. The last meal which was #8 was DRY the meat and thebland fried rice made the water I was drinking taste like HELLA better. All the meals came with a cookie. Snickerdoodle was hardand I felt like it was missing something, but the chocolate chip cookie melted in my mouth and warm as if it just came out ofthe oven. All in all it was ok. I will not be returning but that?s just me. Read more
So the mistake I made was not coming to Chino for my first visit super hungry. Everyone was super helpful and nice, they are no... longer doing samples (just an fyi) - I ended up getting a cheese quesadilla (boring I know) but it was really delicious and Itried my companions jade red chicken which was super tasty too. Cheap but delicious - my favorite! Read more
I mean you can?t go wrong with a yummy quesadilla Jadé chicken and yummy rice! And the cookie is just fun! We showed up right... when they opened and there was literally a line already! It?s worth it! So yummy! 30$ for two people is kinda steep but we lovesupporting local so totally worth it! Read more
Great food! Lots and lots of flavor. Love the new location too. Way better for parking. Fast and friendly people. Keep up the... great work. Read more
I have eaten at Chino's for years. Their old location in Phoenix, their old location in Chandler. This new location is... fantastic. The new building looks great. I ordered a Jen red pork quesadilla, jade red chicken by itself and pork fried rice.The Quesadilla had nice spice to it from the pork, the tortilla was nice and crispy with plenty of cheese. The jade red chickenwas tender, sweet, spicy and crispy. The pork fried rice was flavorful and loaded with delicious pork. The cherry on top is ofcourse their complimentary snickerdooodle cookie. Absolutely fantastic meal, great new building and the staff was very friendly. Read more
Place has good flavor and excellent service but for the hype it gets I was expecting a little more flavor. I got a little input... from the staff and decided try the jade chicken and the jerk chicken in a quesadilla. Liked the jade chicken however the jerkchicken in the quesadilla had an odd flavor. The little salsa came in to save the day. Overall good place but I?d like to giveit another shot to see if it lives up to the hype Read more
I really do not understand the hype over this place. I don't believe it deserves 1-star as the restaurant was very clean and the... staff was friendly, food was prepared quickly and received hot; however, it really just. Was not good. :( I got a jen red porkquesadilla, jade red chicken, steamed rice, and pork fried rice. I am a huge fried rice fan, so I went for that first. It reallydoes not have much flavor at all except a hint of black pepper. The quesadilla would have been good (nicely grilled, yummycheese) without the pork; I just wasn't a big fan of it. The texture was fine, but the taste was just very artificial and overlysweet. The jade red chicken was similar, but even more sickly sweet. I'd sooner eat the jen red pork for sure. I only reallytried the "Chinese" part of the fusion, so I can't speak for the "Mexican" part. But there are much, much betterChinese-American restaurants in the valley. I really found just about everything inedible and threw about 3/4 of my meal away.(The snickerdoodles are great, though...) Really sad. Wanted to love it. Glad other people do and still wish them the best. Butdefinitely not for me. A plus though, for those who do love it: The servings are huge! You really do get so much food. Read more