Co Co Lin Vegetarian House
“We had a huge feast for five ordered from Coco Lin and every single item they delivered was just mindblowingly good.”
“I ordered Sweet and Sour Chickn, Sugar Cane Drumsticks, Sauteed Broccoli, and a large Tom Yum Soup.”
“I usually have the General Tso's Chicken or the Pineapple fried brown rice with chicken.”
Co Co Lin Vegetarian House
Takes Reservations: Yes
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Caters: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
6 reviews
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I am no vegetarian, however, this place would make meat withdrawal easy! I will start with the restaurant itself. It is clean, open and smells lovely. The staff and service are incredibly friendly. Now onto the food.
GIANT lunch special portions. I had the Eggplant with "chicken" and it was sublime. The soy chicken tasted even better than real chicken. The hot and sour soup was tangy and delicious, and the carrot, apple, beet, ginger juice was perfectly made. All of this for $10. I can;t wait to go back and eat more!
This place is quite amazing! As a die hard carnivore, they work miracles with the products they use. The 'meat' not only tastes like the real deal,but the texture as well is also similar.. I've ordered a few times, and have sampled a friends lunch more times than I care to admit, with his permission of course, and never did not like anything.. My favorites are the Garlic Sauce Eggplant, Panko 'Chicken' Nuggets, and the 'Beef' and Broccolli was excellent!
As a repeat customer it's high time that I update my review. Coco Lin is definitely my comfort food destination. After a pretty disappointing (and my very first!) delivery order I had given up hopes on Coco Lin but I somehow let my buddies talk me into ordering an enormous feast for my "Binge All Day. It's The American Way" vegan Independence Day party. I'm glad they did because now Coco Lin is one of my top choices for vegan take-out in Ridgewood.
My delivery staples are:
-Black Pepper Seitan with big chunks of woodear mushroom and my most favourite vegetable… Chinese Broccoli. (There are invisible heart-eyed emojis all over this section.) Again, an ingredient lacking at your average Chinese neighborhood spot. Spicy for sensitive palettes but with a dash of chili oil from my fridge it's perfection for me.
-Vegetarian Peking Duck
My weakness is vegetarian duck. On a bahn mi, in a stir-fry, on a pancake with cucumber / scallion / pineapple & hoisin. Whatever. I'm down. Point is – This doesn't disappoint.
Honorable Mention: Lo Mein is cheap and delicious.
I will say, though- I wasn't crazy about a few things such as the Mango Chicken. It seems the Mango Chicken is almost everyone's favourite dish. I'm not the biggest fan. I found the sauce to be too sweet for my taste. I also find the wonton soup (and the fried wontons, too.) to be subpar to Wild Ginger's. Something about the meat on the inside is unappetizing to me.
I wish that they would include some of the dinner dishes onto the lunch special menu but C'est la vie, I suppose. I'm still grateful for Coco Lin in my 'hood
I'm no vegan but I make it a plan to get to this place to have a nice meal because it is delicious. Everything I have had so far is great. It almost makes you forget that you are not eating meat at all. For example, eating the Spare Ribs totally made me forget that this is not meat! It was so good! Strange! It taste just like pork but actually better and the sauce was spot on. The Sugar Cane Drumsticks appetizer are always a must. Sweet and delicious. I don't know how they do it. The portions are huge and the juices are perfect. Don't shy away from there Mango Chicken and General Cho dishes either. They are perfect as well. Service is great and very friendly. She was very nice and brought us a delicious dish of pistachio soy ice cream after we ate all our food. I love this place and glad there is a place like this close to home. It seems like vegan restaurants are not just for vegans anymore.
I feel that this restaurant offers a wide variety of dishes at very reasonable prices. A friend and I recently stopped in for lunch and took advantage of the lunch specials, ordering 4 in total and taking doggy bags home with us (we brought our own containers to fill, anticipating gorging but not wanting to waste paper/plastic on take-out). 🙂
I'm not a huge eggplant friend but my friend (a non-vegetarian) loved the soy chicken and eggplant. Her sesame chicken was also very good. I thought the beef with broccoli was so-so but the red curry with tofu was fantastic. The tofu had a great texture and there was a good mix of veggies in there.
The service was prompt and friendly and I will definitely be back. Unfortunately, the restaurant isn't very convenient to get to unless you live around there or if you have a bike (which I do!). 🙂
After our first passable meal of General Tso's 'chicken' and rice (the faux meat was cut into pieces so small that it was mostly breading over meat), I was set and ready to give this place a good four or five stars just because I was so excited over finding a vegan restaurant in my area.
But then the check came.
We noticed we were upcharged for nearly everything we ordered, excluding the juice. It wasn't an enormous discrepancy from the menu prices, but still enough to prompt my boyfriend to ask the woman behind the counter about it, who, up until that moment, had been perfectly cordial. Please note – we are not contentious nor fussy diners and have quietly eaten many other meals at places where the service or food was less than mediocre. I feel the need to preface my next sentence with this because when he politely asked for some clarification of the prices, she went off into a barely intelligible tirade. All we could really catch was "menus are 25 cents" and "customers need prices, they keep telling me, y'know?" We'd already paid the check so we nodded just to get her to stop yelling and walked out. As we did, we could hear her complaining to another diner about customers and menus. We figured we'd hit some kind of sensitive topic for this owner and made a mental note to never question the prices again. Still, the food had been decent and while ambiguously priced, the prices (both the menu prices and what appeared on our check) had been reasonable.
We went back again this past Sunday and we were sitting for awhile at the table but the same lady was there at the counter, not so subtly ignoring us.
"Do you think it's because she remembers us?" I whispered to my boyfriend.
He shrugged and decided to get some menus for us since it seemed clear that she wouldn't. As soon as he touched the menus, she snapped, "I'm just letting you know that the menu not changed. Nothing changed. So you don't complain again." She glared at him, then at me, and if that wasn't horrifying enough, she then turned to another diner who was there and smilingly apologized to HIM, as if her poor attitude was our fault. It didn't take long for us to decide to walk back out and vow to never return.
There is a sticker on the front of the restaurant that reads, "Eat vegan. Live peaceably." Clearly this is a case where one needs to practice what they preach. I've eaten in many restaurants and was never, ever treated so poorly as a customer, especially over something as trifling as a question regarding prices, which was the RESTAURANT'S OWN ERROR for not charging what they say they will on the menu. The preponderance of high reviews here speak for the food – they know what they're doing in the kitchen. But no matter how great the plates, the service at the front of the restaurant was wholly unacceptable and we will not be stepping foot here again.