Hollywood East Cafe

The food was really good, better than most dim sum I've had in the DC area. The great service was the highlight as they were very friendly, food came out right away, and they were helpful with any questions. There's also the option to order fully off your phone and pay the bill online too, which worked pretty well.

Tried here for our family’s Christmas Eve take-out meal. What courses we received were delicious. However, one family member came up empty as an order of Beef Bulgogi w/ rice was missing. Shouldn’t have to open all sealed bags to double-check before leaving the restaurant. Would appreciate a credit to our credit card [Order #207324939] if/when this oversight is confirmed by the restaurant. Thank you for your efforts on a very busy holiday occasion. UPDATE: We are entirely grateful to the owners for contacting us directly to explain the mistake and kindly adjusting the charge for the meal. This type of response is why we prefer to patronize family-owned businesses, and particularly restaurants, for the obvious effort they continually provide to satisfy their customers. We DO look forward to another visit as soon as possible, and thank you again, Hollywood East!

EDIT: Owner says they do not force patrons to order via their phones. It seems this was a server who didn't care and didn't follow company protocol. The whole dining experience has gone downhill. I have come here several times. Now, you are FORCED to order on your phone, even with issues ordering. It’s very disagreeable. Then, getting a server to help you is hard. Every time they rushed dropped a dish, I would try to ask the server what it was and she was annoyed to even answer that. I don’t eat shrimp, so half our items had shrimp for the rest of the table and it was hard to even get an answer whether it had shrimp or not. Please update your ordering system to just order with servers. This was ok during the height of covid-19 pandemic but now it’s just something no one at our table enjoyed. The food is pretty good. Highlights are the fried jalapeño garlic tofu, chicken and ginger dumplings, curry chicken pastry, vegetable rice noodle crepes, and fried lotus dumplings. Wish they had more vegetarian dim sum.

We dined in at opening time, 3pm, and got the white-meat, extra-spict General Tso's, chicken fried rice, egg fried rice, and ginger/chicken dumplings. Truly this was the best general tsos my wife and I have ever had and will certainly be returning. I will be honest, it was not the spiciest, but was the crispyest and most delicious!!!

Excellent, legit Chinese food! Love the dim sum, veggies, noodles - almost everything we have ordered has been really good. The people that run it are very nice. They have everything setup for as little contact as possible. Self-ordering at the table via a QR code, takeout collected from automated boxes, and a host/hostess on an iPad at the front.

Consistently excellent! Love the food! During the pandemic we have ordered takeout five times. In each case the food was ready within 10 minutes of our expected time and delivered in a way that gave us full confidence of sanitation. The food was packed well so that it arrived home hot. Delicious, as always!