Charley Mom Restaurant
“Always great lunch specials, awesome pricing, speedy delivery of hot, delicious food, what more can you really ask for?”
“The lunch special is good value for the area too, $7 for a decent array of choices + free soda.”
“At long last, I have a Chinese food place on the UES that I actually look forward to eating and satisfies all my Chinese food needs.”
Charley Mom Restaurant
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
3 reviews
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I'm thinking that Charley Mom didn't join the Yelp Protection Plan – a lot of these reviews are BS. Those who are talking about your waiters – you seriously sat at that table that the delivery guys hang out at?
There is no table service here.
Hence, the five stars, to counter the nonsense.
Because you see, we like Charley Mom, and I would have given them four stars regardless. Maybe because it's like two blocks away, for easy pickup. Maybe because the guy in there (the owner?) is always very friendly. Maybe because we like the food (wife likes the cellophane-noodle soup). Look, it ain't gourmet, and it's not Our Place (I have yet to try that place but everyone raves about it). Susur Lee is not in the kitchen. But it's very good comfort food for the price, and what the hell else do you want from Chinese food?
For cheap Chinese fast food, I think this place is fairs pretty well. For a tiny place, they manage to squeeze in fancy antique-looking round tables and chairs. It's clean and it's combo'd with very sweet and un-hasty service. We ordered the kung pao chicken and broccoli beef. Chic was really good, beef was good as well but broc was a bit overcooked and has a tad too much starch- tasty, nonetheless.
We were on our way to a paint class held at a bar right next door. So we ate, we left and we were happy and satisfied.
I wouldn't go out of my way to eat here again, but would def stop by if in the hood and crave Chinese on the quick.
I'm in the midst of a desperate search for a good, solid, Chinese takeout. My boyfriend and I order Chinese at least once a week, and I just can't seem to find a place that has everything I need. The reason I like Charley Mom's is because they actually use sliced, white meat chicken in all the chicken dishes. I'm finding that more and more Chinese takeouts in the city use the sort of half fried half sauteed dark meat chunks of chicken – leaving mostly fat and no meat. I think most of the chicken dishes in the other takeout places around here are GROSS – and I usually stick to shrimp.
The bad thing is they don't have boneless spare ribs!!! WTF?!!? They only have them on the bone and they are just so-so.