Szechuan Szechuan

I have been a regular since they opened this location in Vaughan Mills. I kept hearing really good things about their other location at First Canadian Place. I have to be honest, if i had reviewed this restaurant 5 years ago, I would have rated it only 3 stars. On my last few visits, the quality has improved greatly.
Ordered:
Crispy Ginger Beef — warm, fresh, crispy and a generous portion
Pork Fried Rice — generous amount of fresh rice with a good portion of veggies & meat
Dumplings — one of the best i’ve had — fresh and huge!
General Tso Chicken — crispy & delish!
Everything was served hot, fresh and with generous portions — the sauces & seasoning on everything is really good. Full of flavour!
Their service has never been their strong point. My review is based solely on my food experiences. If i had to i would deduct 1 star for their mediocre service. Servers need to smile a bit more — they always look angry, unhappy & annoyed

I’ve been coming here for years and the food has always been excellent. I usually order the General Tso Chicken, Pad Thai, House Fried Rice, Mongolian Beef and Crispy Ginger Beef. There’s not many Chinese restaurants that serve white meat chicken and large shrimps! They also have the most flavourful hot and sour soup. Service is good, portions are big and the prices are fair so every time I’m craving Chinese food, I’m at Szechuan.

I have dined both in the restaurant as well as in the take out section in the mall. For the take out section, I like how quickly the food is ready and the space to eat it in. It’s nice when you want something quick but aren’t interested in battling the crowds in the food court. The food is pretty good and they give you a lot for the price. Inside the restaurant is quite nice and the food is decent. I can’t say it’s the best food I have ever had, but it’s not bad either.

I love szechuan food is great I like this one better then the other location chilli chicken is my favorite staff is friendly and they already know my order when I walk in

Nothing really special about this place.
My friends and I went here to celebrate his birthday.
Food are served fast and hot so that is a good thing. The only problem I have with the place is that all the dishes that we ordered don’t come with rice. You have to pay extra for rice. In terms of flavour, Szechuan Szechuan at Vaughan Mills does tastes authentic enough.
Would I recommend driving all the way to Vaughan Mills for this particular restaurant? Most likely not. But if you are hungry after shopping at Vaughan Mills and want some Chinese food, I can recommend this place for a try.

Quality food served fast. Service is pretty steady. This is definatly a great place to come for dinner. If your coming for lunch they got the take out counter, which has better value. I would definatly come back.

Always consistent. Nice ambiance and service. Dishes are tasty.

Really good food & fast service! The price is reasonable! The curry chicken is amazing! The bubble tea is not bad either. Great restaurant overall! Beautiful ambiance inside the restaurant. I love the casual dining room area if you don’t want to sit in the restaurant.

Let me tell you… Can’t get enough
Food is fresh and good sized portions.
No mystery meat here, chicken comes from the breast portion.

Very delicious food. Would definitely come back! However — Not baby friendly or special needs friendly so minus one star for that.

I had lunch at Szechuan Szechuan restaurant 2 weeks ago, and I had a disturbing experience.
About 6 or 7 spoonfuls into my Hot & Sour Soup, I felt something strange in my mouth. I fished it out… it was a long, black, coarse strand of hair that was cooked into the bean curd, knotted and everything. Estimated 9−10″ long, and coarse.
I gagged, of course, and brought my new found treasure to the wait staff. She clumsily looked at it, showed it to the other guy working next to her, then stepped around me to go dump my tray in the garbage.
No apology, no attempt to make things right, not even an acknowledgement that there was any problem. It was as if i troubled them with this trivial hair.
I also sent 2 emails to their head office describing my experience.
No response.
Be forewarned… Szechuan Szechuan is pretty on the outside… but at their core, they’re no better than a half-​abandoned Chinese restaurant that you would NEVER eat at.
Choose your lunch wisely.

Food was great. Had the crispy beef and general Tao chicken. Much better than PF changs. Good service too. I will be going back.

Dined at this establishment on several occasions, usually at someone else’s request. I have friends that love this place, myself, I’m «meh» on it.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t hate the place… there are just better and less expensive places to dine than here. Perhaps being an anchor in the mall causes higher fees for the restaurant, resulting in higher prices for average food.
I go for the General Tao chicken… it’s good with a slight heat… but can be fatty and gristly on occasion. I usually stick to that as other items were a disappointment.
I have never had a problem with service… they’ve always been attentive and fast. Ambience is good… but when busy it an be quite loud and quiet conversations are next to impossible.

Bad service. When I walked in, I had to wait for 10 mins until someone came to seat us. The food was good. After we finished eating, the waiter brought the bill, then he was standing there with the machine waiting for us to pay. We were just taking our time but he was very pushy. Then 5 minutes after we paid, he came to the table and said that we had to leave because other people want to sit in a booth and there is no other booths available. This is very unprofessional, to be kicked out of a restaurant what kind of service is this

From the moment there was zero service when my companion and I stepped in the door, I should have taken the foreshadowed hint and bailed on this place as fast as I could, but I soldiered on, visualizing the four stars that other Unilocalers had averaged out on this place. It could be just a fluke, right? I could not have been more incorrect.
It took three minutes to even be noticed by one of the employees there, and she was a waitress, not a hostess. She had to nudge a nearby host to finally come over and place us at our very suddenly, hastily prepared table, menus tossed in a pile at the center.
After taking a moment to figure out what we wanted to eat, we waited patiently for a few minutes, politely and quietly with our menus closed, still waiting for a waiter or waitress to greet and serve us water. It was not until a short while later when our order was being taken when water would finally be served to us, after my companion had to ask. At this point we were already skeptical of this establishment, but when the food was served to us, (In quick fashion, at least) more disappointment struck. We had ordered a Pad Thai and Spicy Peanut Butter Chicken. The Pad Thai’s noodles were undercooked, but otherwise had a delicious taste. The Chicken wasn’t very complex. Tasted like a mix of way too much Hoisin, some sugar and Peanut Butter. It was very much swimming in sauce and it didn’t feel like it had too much complexity to the dish. It was at least moderately spicy. Further, both dishes were warm at best — definitely not fresh from the kitchen, despite the speed with which the dishes were served. Portion sizes were only decent for the cost and quality.
No one came to check on us during the course of our meal, and my empty water glass stood quite empty in a very conspicuous location on the table for over five minutes while waiters walked by repeatedly. Atrocious service. The Bubble Tea I ordered was probably the best part of my meal, despite the typical cost of the drink.
After a very dis-​satisfactory experience, we were planning on leaving a very small tip. However you can not, since the tip is added for you automatically! A 15% «Service Charge!» — In what establishment for, a party of two, do you automatically have to tip 15%? I didn’t notice any such an implication on the menu itself, however I couldn’t go back to check either. I believe that is absolutely ridiculous.
It is very hard to recommend this place over some of the very excellent dining establishments that encircle Vaughan Mills, such as Lucky Bamboo and Truly Thai. Will definitely not be dining here again, and I recommend everyone to avoid if you value your time and money.
Of note, they also serve Shark Fin soup. To some this is unacceptable especially given the recent ban in the City of Toronto. Food for thought.

Tucked away in a corner of the mall, this place has a nice atmosphe. I find it awkward that if you walk in though the mall entrance you have to walk through the restaurant to the exterior entrance to the hostess to be seated.
The service was super fast, and friendly. Our meal came out before we were half done our soup. The food was all delicious, the lemon chicken is highly recommended, although a little on the sweet side, you could almost have it for dessert. Portions were quite large as well. The only thing I didn’t enjoy overly was the rice, it was very average and kinda dry, the chicken balls were fifty percent batter, the hot and sour soup was tasty and the Cantonese chow mien was pretty good too.
Overall the experience was a positive one, but unfortunately the food was only average. I wouldn’t avoid the place, but I’m not jumping out of my seat to get back there either. The price was on par or slightly more than other average type Chinese restaurants.

Best best best. Love it so much. I usually get the Szechuan chicken on noodles… it’s sooooo good, my boyfriend gets the black bean chicken which is also great. Looking for Asian food, this is the spot.

We dined here few times and if nothing else the food quality is pretty consistent. We tried spicy squid which is my favorite but spicy ginger is beef is the dish you gotta have.

The food and ambiance was great, good portion sizes as well. but over service needs improvement. We had a larger group for in for a birthday and the server seemed very confused the entire time, and though we were told they would be able to split checks easy when we made the reservation, it seemed to be quite the comedic hassle for the server.

This is my moms FAVOURITE chineese food.
Im not sure why tho.
Everytime we go its very loud and filled with little kids.
–Décor. is cool
–Friendly staff
–Food is alright
–price is average
We ordered delivery a few days ago and it had NO TASTE! It all tasted very strange… it took over an hour to get to our house and we live only 15 minutes away.