Luscious Restaurant
Luscious Restaurant
Takes Reservations: Yes
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
PokéStop Nearby: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
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As if there are not enough Cantonese restaurants on 86th Street in Bensonhurst, Luscious Restaurant joins the league of Chinese restaurants competing for diners in a neighborhood populated with Chinese people. Since they just opened about a week ago, not a lot of people know about them yet. After my mom and her friend tried their food the first day they opened to some bad impressions, we figured we would give them another try for dinner service.
They have an extensive menu and the interior looks mighty clean, as it should be since it just opened. We ordered the pig's feet and lotus root stew with rice and the fried tofu with fried fish with rice — each were $4.25.
I liked that the tofu is fried just right and it was golden color so I know it's not fried with old oil. The fried fish was also lightly battered and the fish was firm. Surprisingly to me, the pieces of fresh mushrooms and snow peas were plentiful and the mushrooms were particularly good. You see, at other restaurants, they serve the same dish with canned mushrooms which taste bland and mushy. However, fresh mushroom, though a little pricy, is much more tender and has the umami flavor when cooked right. I tried little of the pig's feet but my dining partner liked it as the pieces were cooked well. They also used good quality lotus root which you can tell when you bite into them, they had these webs linking the pieces.
The only complaint I have is that the rice was not cooked through enough making it hard to eat. If only they put in a little bit more water and cooked the rice a little longer, it would have been perfect.
After we placed our order, we saw that they have satay chicken and beef skewers for a dollar each. We ordered one of each. Our eyes were definitely bigger than our stomach at the time because by the time we finished the rice dishes, we barely had any space for the skewers. I tried a little piece of the chicken and beef skewers and they didn't taste like satay at all. At best, the chicken skewer was just salty.
At the recommendation of another patron and of the owner who said that she is discounting the ginger milk pudding to $2.5 as a grand opening special, we also got one of those to go. I stole a bite and it had a strong ginger and spicy flavor. I would prefer a firmer texture, but otherwise, it was a good try.
I recommend people around the nabe to come try Luscious Restaurant ASAP while all their ingredient are still fresh (just because they recently opened, it's impossible to have "old food". Yes, I know my peeps and their habits!) and the dining space is still very well-kept. Order your fried dishes now since the oil hasn't been reused too many times (thus, making your fried food brown). If Luscious Restaurant understands that quality food and space are the keys to making a successful and longstanding restaurant, they will have a lot of diners and many years of business to come.
This place just opened a few weeks back with a pretty non descript storefront that made me think it was yet another Chinese bakery as opposed to an actual restaurant. Inside though is very clean and has adequate tables.
Actually tried the place twice this week. First time for dinner I had the ox tail with peanuts casserole. I am a big ox tail fan and their preparation was very good with a rich all spice flavored sauce with lots of cooked peanuts. A decent amount of tails as well but my one complaint is for 12 bucks couldn't they toss in a pint of white rice? I know this is a new trend to charge extra and its not a trend I like.
Went back for lunch and was not as impressed. Had an app of Salt and Pepper squid which was whole squid and was both kinda greasy and tough to eat. I love the tentacles but having them attached to the body was just odd and they didn't seem cleaned to well as I was getting bits of the cartilage. I also had shrimp with scrambled eggs over rice, a dish I enjoy in Chinatown but this version was not as good as the eggs were way undercooked and was in a gloppy white sauce as opposed to the brown I get at Hop Lee.
Overall maybe next time I try them I stick to meat dishes and avoid seafood. Service is friendly and they speak English.
Came here because was craving some cantonese food and it had good reviews. Maybe it was what we got that was not good. We got chicken wings, which were fine. Squid and curry fish balls which were good but the curry sauce is very watery. We got the clay pot rice with preserved meat and mushrooms. The meat was sliced super thin and not much of it. There was therefore no flavor in the rice, which was loose and not crispy. We also got the fish and tofu casserole, which was not good. The tofu had a strong flavor and the fish was tough.
They have deals like three dishes and soup for $29 but everything was in chinese. The waitstaff was nice and read it to us. Maybe we should've gotten something from there.
I came with my family on a weeknight and it was pretty empty but we all really enjoyed all the food, most especially the tofu fish casserole, spare rib claypot rice, stuffed chicken wings, and chicken/beef skewers. The spare ribs were so good that we ordered another dish of just spare ribs. A and I want to come back to try the noodles next time!