China Cafe

Reviews

• Mary P.

  star star star star star 5 October 2026

  Wonderful place to come eat. They make your food fresh when you order it. The menu selection is huge!! Very friendly staff, willing to make your dining experience as nice as they can. We have eaten here on three separate occasions and they are consistently very, very good.
  Tonight we got the Chicken Fried Rice and the Vegetable Fried Rice. Both come with Soup and Egg Roll or Crab Rangoon. We also got an order of Pot Stickers. All for $23.00. Now that is a great deal!

• The Z.

  star star star star star 29 September 2026

  This is a very quiet and cozy Asian cuisine restaurant. Service was excellent. It is very reasonably priced and food was very good.

• Yenta Leah J.

  star star star star star_border 25 September 2026

  China Cafe in Johnston has been going through many changes in the last few years.  Initially there was a well established restaurant with the same ownership for many years, that was a good place to have oriental food locally.  They then sold to an proprietor that called it, Cafe (still Oriental) and the quality dropped.
  
  We now have China Cafe back in Johnston and it is better than ever.  If you miss the very popular GREAT CHINA that was in Urbandale, you would not be disappointed coming to the new, China Cafe. The quality and flavors are back, near by. We have had Pot Stickers, various chicken and beef dishes and all were solid in flavor, quality, and portion size.
  
  They also serve very good Vietnamese Pho that is of equal quality of other places that are much farther in the near downtown area.  They have other Vietnamese dishes too, however I have not tried them.
  
  The reason I did not give the review 5 stars is not due the food at all, it is because of the limited servers.  The night we went there was only 1 person.  He did an outstanding job but it appeared he was running around to accommodate the entire floor.  The wait overall was not bad with respectful timing just that we had to ask for items that if not so rushed, should have come to us without a request.  
  
  This is the place to try if you are in the area.

• Rhyan H.

  star star_border star_border star_border star_border 14 September 2026

  I ordered from here because of online ordering option plus delivery when I was in town on business. Only option is a dinner option that includes soup (which I hate). So paid for something I won't even open. Then my combo lo mein dish tastes of black pepper. Lots of it.  It's mushy and simply icky. I think I found 2 shrimp.

• Janet M.

  star star star star star 11 September 2026

  Ordered delivery. Food was great, generous portions and delivery was quick! Will definately order again!