China Pavillion At Chapala

This restaurant is spacious, but I recommend calling to make a reservation. Good Chinese food is rare in SB, so it's nice this place is downtown. The food quality here is mixed. We ordered a wanton soup, basil beef, mixed vegetables delight and salt pepper pork rib. The wanton soup, which arrived first was amazing. We were excited for the other dishes. The mixed vegetable delight was just ok. It was a bit too wet and greasy. The basil beef was delicious. The salt pepper pork rib was nothing like what we expected, so we should have asked first. It was deep, deep fried bits of pork rib and tasted more like chicken nuggets, which was disappointing. Service was quick and friendly though. Pricing was fair as all plates are designed to be shared by two or three people. I wouldn't write off this place, but we're not sure we'd go back.

Perhaps the best Chinese restaurant in town. High quality food. Their king pao chicken is 9/10. Would definitely continue to enjoy their food there

My regular destination for Dim Sum now. Most of items on dim sum menu are good. I like the lótus wrap sticky rice, all the shu mai porks shrimp and chicken

Idk.. just feel something/some flavor is off. Tried several times weekend dim sum, and this time weekday dinner... all these make me want to move to NY/LA for better Chinese food

Ordered food to go. Website took order through qmenu system. I show up to pick up and they didnt have the order so they put it in and i had to wait 20 mins. Did not offer me anything to drink while i waited then they forgot to give me the sauce forone of the dishes. Food was good but not great service.