Hunan Inn

I love old restaurants that still have reputable cuisines and service. To go business is booming but I dined in. The restaurant is mostly clean, the decor could use a little dusting and carpet removal. Otherwise the late 90's decor took me back to my childhood where spots like this were filled with families dining out. I arrived around 3 Thursday afternoon just before the fourth of July. I ordered my favorite Phoenix & Dragon in brown spicy sauce. I knew by the decor I wouldn't be disappointed. My meal was hot, fresh, & delicious!

OVERPRICED - This is what $36 (no tip) of to-go food looks like. I ordered chicken and broccoli, with fried rice, egg roll and upcharge for veggies to be added to the rice. I still can’t understand how this came to $36. 2 stars only because the fried rice is good. Bad overcooked chicken and broccoli. BUT do you see how much rice you get? Highway robbery. Google should update the price range of this place because there is no entree less than $20.

I’ve never been disappointed at this local favorite! Everything was made to order, fresh great! Of course the prices have increased! Prices have increased everywhere! They are a local favorite!

Great small Chinese restaurant with great service and large variety menu

We've had food delivered from here for decades. I can't remember a messed up order. My husband and I both have special dietary needs and they accommodate us every time. The food is always hot, delicious, and freshly cooked.

Great service, but my General Tso’s tasted like pure flour. Maybe it was just prepped prior to serving but that should have been prepped a few hours earlier. Imagine eating 10 spoonfuls of flour. But very clean environment. I love the presentation and attention to detail. Very prompt, fast service. Excellent value!!! Loved everything else. But General Tso’s was so bad I didn’t want the doggie bag. But my tea, hot & sour soup and crispy noodles were good. The spring roll was a little on the oh no side. I would give them another chance since it was so clean with a cute ambience. I would just pray for a better option.

First time here , service is great , menu price is also good and they have some good family deals . Food is awesome!!! ! Kid friendly Alcohol friendly lol Found me a new spot :)

Hunan Inn delivered in the service category. The owner and staff were friendly, attentive, and quick. I ordered a luncheon special of Mongolian beef. It came with a cup of egg drop soup, spring roll, fried rice, and crunchy rice noodles. I was suffering from a slight cold when I visited Hunan Inn, and the egg drop soup was a bit too mild for me to truly taste. The consistency was spot on, however. The fried rice and spring roll were very straightforward and standard. Both were freshly prepared and added substance to the lunch. The Mongolian beef and crunchy rice noodles delivered. The beef was sweet, salty, tender, and expertly prepared. The noodles added a welcome crunch to round things out. All in all, this was a pleasant lunch experience.

Looking at my last check-in here it's been a long time since I've been to this place. sad to say they haven't updated the interior since I've been here last. Also sad to say food has gone downhill as well. Got the sweet and sour chicken with fried rice and dumplings. The sauce for the chicken was overly sweet with a sort of strange aftertaste with the rice being overly dry. The dumplings were okay. And these two items came out to $33 which is high for Chinese food, especially in the area. I'm still on the hunt for Chinese food as good as New York does it.

It's easy to see why this place is something of a neighborhood fixture. The food is reliably good. Look a 3-star review isn't bad. It's good. And Hunan Inn is good. My wife and I stopped off to check it out for the first time. Service was quick. The ambiance was quiet and dark. And the food was good. Hunan Inn was a bit more expensive than we thought it might be for the food that we got. I hear the lunch specials are a bit more affordable, and I may go back and visit for lunch. Be sure to ask them about the poem on the wall. It is called "Bring in the Wine."

Decent consistent southern Chinese food. Kid and wife love the steamed dumplings I enjoy the hot and sour soup. Mom likes chicken with string beans. If you are from NYC lower your expectations and you'll be fine

Food: Got the Hunan Beef. OK tasting but not a lot of portion size for price. In addition, taste was your usual Chinese takeout fare. Could find better value at Panda Express Service: Nice enough. Only ordered takeout. Food came out quite quickly Parking: There is a parking lot at the location. However, the parking lines are very worn and hard to see. Ambiance: Has your usual Chinese restaurant ambiane with a golden, lucky cat giving you a high-five at the entrance. A lot of seating available

One of my favorite spots. Staff is amazing, they always know what I want, the shrimp egg foo young and their shrimp fried rice is the best I ever had. The restaurant is clean and quiet, family atmosphere and we just love it.

Great food and prices!! Love coming here for the lunch special, you get so much food for the price. The owner is super kind and always comes over to the table to make sure that everything is good. I got the chicken lo mein lunch special, which came with fried rice, a spring roll, and hot and sour soup. My husband got the Szechuan beef lunch special. Both of our meals were delicious. Look forward to comjng back!

Can cokes. Stale chips for soup. Small portions. Lunch menu is expensive. Not worth it. Too expensive for the return. $17.50 for sweet and sour shrimp, can of Coke. Plus tip, $20.50 for lunch.

We love Hunan Inn! Been a neighborhood "go to" for over 20 years. Classic Chinese menu, nothing unusual but all well prepared. Clean dining room and pleasant people. Plenty to love!

Unnecessarily expensive. Small portions for Chinese food, the flavors are also subpar. It's close but, that's still not going to bring me back.

the General Tao chicken was great but the teriyaki chicken was the worst it had zucchini to many onions, mushrooms and the meat was chopped up not sure what it was.

First time dining at Hunan Inn and we had an incredibly enjoyable evening. The service was inviting, friendly, and our server (maybe the owner) was very playfully funny. You know like a dad or grandpa that is trying to be cool for his kids/grandkids. He made our evening fun and relaxing - thus the 5 star review. Food rating was a 3.5-4 but excellent ambience pushing it way over 5. We had pan fried dumplings, which were delicious; the Spicy Szechuan Beef, which hubby said was excellent, very flavorful; and Moo Shu Chicken, which unusually was served already wrapped in the crepes/pancakes which did not work out very well in my opinion. I was only able to eat one intact, by the time I got to the second one the pancake was too soggy and fell apart. I asked for new pancakes packaged separately for my leftovers. The man and woman running the front of house (we think the owners?) greeted their regular customers by name and everyone was smiling. Great experience!

The most horrible Chinese food I have ever eaten. I ordered the Mongolian Beef and it was 3/4 stale fried rice noodles. A very bad experience with the food and employee. I complained and they didn't respond at all. I should of known when the was only 1 person dining in the entire restaurant

Another Lunch Buddy Adventure! My LB and I like to eat Asian for lunch sometimes. You can avoid the fried potatoes, buns, get in some good vegetables, etc. O.M.G. This was one of the best lunches we've had. O.K., the place could use a remodel. Maybe pull up the carpet and recover the booths. But other than that the food was undeniably good. The wait staff was wonderful in making recommendations and just take a look at our food. It tasted better than it looked. We will be back. If you want some good Chinese food you can definitely get it here. NOTE: They will seat you and wait on you, but you pay at the register at the front. Just FYI.

I got delivery during the pandemic so this may not represent how it always is as this is my only experience. Our cost was ~$45 for food and ~$55 total after tax and tip. For that cost we expected good tasting food with portions large enough for leftovers for 2 of us as is normal for other Chinese restaurants in the area but this was not the case. We got 4 dishes with rice. The portions were small, the food in one dish was dry and room tempurature, the extra charge for fried rice just got us brown rice with no extra ingredients. 2/4 dishes were barely edible and the 2 that were good were not large enough to fill us up. I want to support local restaurants during the pandemic but I can't see myself getting food from here again considering the low quality+portion to cost ratio.

Fabulous food. My husband and I had a combination dinner, sweet and sour chicken and Mongolian beef, and then we split them between us. First, the egg drop soup had great body and flavor. Bits of carrot and onion added to the flavor and there was a subtle hint of chicken broth. We could not figure out when they did with the rice but it was the best rice we have had. It wasn't over or under cooked, and not sticky, but the flavor was amazing. Maybe the result of perfect texture? It was just good. The Mongolian beef was also fantastic. The only thing I could criticise was the lack of vegetables in the sweety and sour chicken: no green pepper, no carrot, no pineapple. There were large pieces of onion and it tasted good, I just love the vegetables. And lastly, it is more a $$$ than $$; we paid 13.50 a dinner and $2 for the hot tea. We will go back as good Chinese food is very hard to find.

Hey, it's good takeout and dine in. It's not completely authentic but if you're looking for a reliable, tasty takeout option, this is our favorite. Love their hot and sour soup and all the options-great noodles!!

Amazing food! Great family owned and run business. Real authentic food! I have been eating here about 8 years

Favorite Chinese place in town. I recommend the kung pao chicken add broccoli. Best hot and sour soup around the area. Would recommend.

My Dad, brother, and I decided to have our meet-up at another Chinese restaurant, and I'd wanted to try this place out, a visible neighborhood anchor that's been around practically forever. Getting here is easy, it being just off Chamblee-Tucker Road and diagonally across from the Embry Hills shopping plaza. The parking is not plentiful, but enough to satisfy parking for this relatively small restaurant, a coin laundry, and a vapor shop in the same plaza (as well as, at the time of this review, whatever business eventually goes in the space available for lease). There was only one person there to assist customers and serve (so I'll call him our "host"), along with one more person in the kitchen. The place was not that busy, but it's a Saturday afternoon with probably - as it seemed based on the people coming in and out, and the volume of calls he took while we were eating - more people calling for take-out than anything else. We took our seats in a booth, he offering us the choice of where, and said he'd be right back with the menus. We each went to wash our hands, and when I came back the host joked it's always that there's one person who's not at the table when he comes to take orders in all the time he's worked there. It surprised me (and refreshed, actually) they had separate full lunch menus, since most places seem to have a lunch section and then everything else. My brother went with water, and my dad and I hot (lukewarm) tea, which came out a few minutes later. Our host left us to decide on the main course, but during my dad's super-long blessing of the food (longer than even his standards) I did notice he was gracious enough to let my dad finish. Daddy finally finished praying for the world and probably every alternative universe possible (joking on the second part), the host returned. As far as the meals, I'd asked about the broth base, and he'd informed me it was chicken (boo for vegetarian me). So, I'd asked my brother what he was having for soup, and it ended up being two hot and sour soups and one wonton soup for appetizers. We all had fried rice as the rice, and then as main dishes curry vegetables, sweet and sour pork, and sweet and sour chicken. All of them came with a spring roll as well. My brother said the hot and sour soup was the best he'd ever tasted, so having a double portion was nice for him. Our host picked up on the conversation that I'd be giving my soup to my brother and proactively put both bowls on his side (kudos for him!). My dad liked his soup as well. My curry vegetables came out first (because it was quicker to make or because I'd not had soup first I had no idea), and the others shortly after. The tables have the following condiments: salt, brown pepper, regular sugar, yellow sweetener, Kikkoman-brand reduced sodium soy sauce, and generic squeeze bottles of mustard and duck sauce. I'm always adding things to rice anyway, so I didn't even taste it beforehand. I'd added a mixture of the duck sauce and soy sauce to my rice, and dug in. It was nice. The curry vegetables were all right, with some spice. It was mostly broccoli and potatoes, but it was nice, and blended nicely with the fried rice-soy sauce-duck sauce concoction. The spring roll was standard, but thankfully they'd cooked it just so that I'm not ripping it out of my mouth because it's too hot inside (happens *way* too often!). My brother and father both liked their food, but all of it wasn't much more than what one would expect. The only thing that got repeat praise was my brother with the hot and sour soup. It must be magical, I guess, because my brother doesn't give compliments too often. Oh, for a vegetable broth option... We paid, and chatted a bit before having a Jamaican good-bye in the parking lot (aka saying bye and then chatting for 30 more minutes). Overall, I like the place. The host was nice, capable, and efficient. I can see that it's got its groove and people in the neighborhood really depend on it because it's predictable and typical. This is probably why it's not some place a foodie would go, or that they do go in droves. Still, if you want to dine in someplace where you want to catch up/chat with friends and/or family without really thinking about your meal, this is it, because it's certainly, even with its ordinariness, just slightly above others because of what I see of the service and care.

Very small portions for very big prices. Not worth money. Man there was a little rude and i asked for an extra noodle for soup and they charge $1.08. I paid $16.75 for this dish. You could have given me the noodle free lol i wonder how much soy sauce would have been. ‍

The food was absolutely fine and portion size nothing short of generous. I kept it simple with Steamed Chicken & Veggies with an Egg Drop Soup. The Soup was a little different with Cabbage & Carrots in it, but subtle flavor you would expect. The entree came out with the Veggies still crisp almost like being blanched. With the sauce served on the side, I was able to enjoy my food without it drowning. My concern is how the restaurant is managed. Literally, 1 Server to take care all the Tables is not the best idea. I don't know if other people didn't show for work, but I saw this poor guy hustle to try and take care of everyone. Since it's my first visit, I don't know how to weigh Staffing, but I would be willing to try again.

My grandmother is in love with this place- and for good reason. The dining area is comfortable and quiet, the staff is friendly, and the food is quite delicious! My favorite dish at this restaurant is the Hot Pepper Chicken. It's a little spicy, but it's real selling point is the extremely juicy fried chicken. Every time I go, I try to order at least one dish of this for lunch or dinner the next day. This dish comes with rice fried or white - I prefer fried, of course. One of my favorite things about this restaurant is that the owner is very personable. He loves to make jokes and has a very good poker face. In fact, the last time that we went to eat there, I remember him telling my sister and my grandmother that he had regular Coke, Diet Coke, or Chinese Coke. I knew this was a joke, so I kept quiet. It got even better when my grandmother asked him to describe the Chinese Coke and how it was different. He literally told them that Chinese Coke is regular Coke with a little bit of soy sauce. They wrinkle their noses and explained how terrible that sounded... However, he smiled really big and assured them that Chinese people love "Chinese Coke". I could not believe what happen next, but my sister ordered a Chinese Coke. Of course, he laughed and said it was just a joke, but she did not hear him say that was a joke. So, she said, "No, really! If that's how Chinese people drink it, then I want to try Coke with soy sauce. Make it just how they would in China please." If I was in a position where I could have stopped him from clarifying, it would've been epic to see the look on my sisters face trying Coke with soy sauce in it! Either way, it was a very funny joke because it went that far. The prices here are nominal, meaning that lunch prices are better (of course) and dinner prices get you the same exact servings as you get at lunch. Go at lunchtime for the best deals, but if your hungry at dinner and you want some good Chinese this is a great place to eat. The soups are standard, so there's nothing to write home about, but it's not about the soup here - it's definitely about the main dishes.

Was expecting a wonderful taste based on price. Decent taste just like every other chinese restaurant nothing special. Great customer service though.

I ordered spicy shrimp fried rice I called in to make sure it would be made spicy and still got plain rice .bad enough its $20 for sfr made incorrectly and the manager ms mai is very rude DO NOT ORDER HERE

Thought I'd give this place a 2nd chance. The price is way too high for the quality of the food. Ordered sweet n sour chicken There was 1 small piece of pineapple and 1 small slice of onion. No carrots, no green pepper. Very skimpy for $13.50 Had to get up to refill our water because the waiter disappeared. Called out hello several times, the man who is cashier seems to hide behind the huge ming vase until I got up to get my water. There was only 1 other table other than us. Asked if there was a charge for a 2nd bowl of fried wonton strips, waiter told us $2. I wonder if only 1 person dining would get 1bowl all to themselves, in that case we should have gotten 2 bowls. The rice was cold bland food was scorching hot. Happy China is better at a much lower price.

Perfect place for Christmas dinner! Menu is extensive and includes some Thai dishes as well. The alcohol menu is limited but includes wine and select beer. Portions are large and good for sharing in large groups.

Love this place! A lot of people seem to get takeout (makes sense, it's a Chinese restaurant) but I really like the decor inside as well! It's exactly how a Chinese restaurant should look inside. It's clean, it's got a cool little bar room over to the right, and the people are so nice and polite. It doesn't look like much from the outside (even the owner told me he'd like to do more on the outside but since he doesn't own the building, he's limited) but it's just a really great neighborhood Chinese restaurant. The food is typical but tasty and portions are good. Highly recommend!

This is your average local Chinese restaurant with the usual suspects on the menu. Nothing fancy, but the food is good and the staff is friendly. The prices are pretty typical for the area. The speed of service is excellent. They deliver, but I usually pick it up so that I can have a cup of tea while I wait. I normally go for the basil beef, but have tried a multitude of entrees that have all been tasty. My wife is a fan of the sesame chicken.

It's a no from me... I ordered the sesame chicken, tempura shrimp, egg rolls and chicken fried rice. My daughter like the rice, but the sesame chicken tasted "old"... It was tough, almost like it was refried. Same for the shrimp. Probably won't try it again.

April 7, 2019 I'd rather eat Sushi from a vending machine. I paid $14.50 for a Seafood Combo. I got a 2 ounce piece of white fish, 3 small shrimp and some vulgar fake crab. The soup was food service grade and the egg roll was the size of my ver petite thumb. It seriously was as good as Magic Wok and I am convinced it was just that. My sister got $13.50 cashew chicken combo. It was the nastiest little pieces of I guess chicken and no eggs rolls. I tipped $7. I am a hungry fool because I could not eat the food. DO NOT EAT HERE, PLEASE. I am appalled and out a lot of money.

We have been going here for over 10 years and the staff is always friendly with great customer service. However, the last 3 or 4 times we have ordered, the food is not fresh tasting. Tonite, sesame chicken and Won ton soup was not good at all. The Mongolian beef and rice were fair. Hoping they improve bc we would like to continue to support them.

Great service, intimate setting, good food, and large portions. Though there are other places that are closer, this one is definitely worth the trip. Nothing too fancy, but sometimes less is more. C is for (fortune) cookie and this one is for me.

Bland rice. Mediocre at best. Better then the now closed China Star, but that doesn't say much. Overall I wasn't impressed and likely won't return. Their version of American Chinese combo dinners are overpriced, under seasoned and frankly just not not desirable.

Please update your website before you argue with a customer. We ordered pickup directly from the Hunan Inn website and they did not give us everything we paid for when we came to get our order.

Good neighborhood spot, haven't had a bad order yet. Was also the first restaurant to be on top of the COVID process that we'd ordered from back in March

I have been going to this restaurant for years. While allergies preclude me from eating sea food, I feel safe in saying, if it's on the menu, order it you'll like it. Staff is attentive and friendly all the time! I think I will take my wife there. I am feeling a little hungry for Chinese. Enjoy, Beej

What a lovely little restaurant! The service is wonderful. I came in by myself and everyone was super friendly. Some places that aren't even close to busy get all weird and rude if you're alone. But I could hear them being just as friendly to everyone. The food was very good and came quickly. I had the sesame chicken and spring roll. I'd definitely come back.

Cant say much about the atmosphere of the dingy restaurant but the service is great and food hot and fresh!

Awesome food and even better staff! Owner are great people! Our server, Tony, is the best! Highly recommend. They really take care of you!

I have eaten at this restaurant about 7 times, lately I've been going once a week because the food is sooooo good!!!! The food is fresh prepared and the employees are pretty nice. They are a very calm dining room if you wanted to dine in. There are a lot of restaurants with horrible Chinese food but this restaurant is definitely now one of those.

Our go-to local Chinese restaurant. Love the food and we are always able to be seated immediately. Only downside is that they are closed on mondays

In town for a business meeting and my boss wanted Chinese. I'm on Keto so it's difficult to find a good option at most places. Hunan Inn has Spa Dishes that fit the bill. Since all sauce and rice were served on the side. It was very good. 1 star off due to the interior being a but worn.

I always come here with my bf whenever we have a chance. The service is really nice, and friendly. We always get the potstickers here because it's legendary! You have to try it. The crab rangoon is also very tasty along with the Tom Yum soup. For my entrée I really like the Mango fried rice. Overall, a very friendly Chinese restaurant.

I grew up in South Florida and was born in NYC so I know from Chinese Food. I was sort of casting around lost until I located this place. The food is stellar, always hot, fresh, and delicious. They do great, REAL, seafood that the chefs enjoy experimenting with and making amazing daily specials out of. I swear I have eaten most everything on the menu, and when my family comes to visit (now living in DC from Florida where there is seriously NO decent Chinese), they demand that we go to Hunan Inn every time. I live too far for delivery but it is totally worth the trip. The owners are friendly and are always around to say hello and make sure all is cooked perfectly. Try it. You'll like it. I promise.

Maybe I've been spoiled by the quality of Chinese food where I'm from in the north east, but after ordering takeout from here I am wondering whether or not the positive reviewers even ate at the same place I just did. There's nothing legendary or sublime or even tasty about the experience I had from Hunan Inn. My girlfriend and I ordered food to go, I ordered the orange beef, she had chicken lo mein, and we split some pan fried dumplings. The dumplings were probably the best part of the meal, although that didn't say much. The dipping sauce was just soy sauce with sugar added. The lo mein lacked any serious flavor, and all of the chicken was covered in fat. You'd think they could have trimmed it at least? The orange beef was seriously disappointing. It was soggy, and bland, and the sauce (which was only on about half of the dish) didn't taste anything like an orange peel dish should. It lacked spice and balance, as it was just thick and sugary. Even worse, this all cost $27! That seemed over priced even for decent Chinese takeout, and this was far from that. I gave two stars instead of one because they were polite and friendly, and the food was ready quickly. Perhaps they should take more time to put out a quality product though.

Finally made it in. Was really good. Inside, it's a miniature, but nice typical Chinese restaurant. It's very quiet, so not the best place for loud kids, but they had a high chair and it worked out fine. Sauteed green beans were excellent, kung pao chicken also really tasty (just a touch of heat, but I'm sure they could up the chiles if you want it hotter), and some garlic shrimp that was good (your basic garlic shrimp). It came with enough bowls of white rice that we didn't have to keep asking for more. The waiter was fairly expressionless, but the main guy up front was very friendly. The shrimp was $10, the others $9. I think that these prices are par for the course. Portion sizes were pretty large. We'll definitely work it into our rotation.

Hunan Inn Chinese Restaurant, which has been serving since 1984, is tucked away in a small, easy to miss, strip off Chamblee Tucker. I have driven by this hundreds of tiny storefront hundreds of times, but I had never gone in until today. Went here for lunch, usual Chinese lunch menu including soup and an egg roll. No vegetarian soup options were offered at lunch. Their lunch menu offered "Curry Vegetables", which I ordered with no big expectation, but was definitely surprised when I loved it at first bite! This was a better curry than I have had at some of the local Thai restaurants in Atlanta, and may even rival my favorites. Service is quick, food comes up fast and HOT. Looking forward to returning and trying more.

I agree with most of the other reviews here - although a bit pricier than most other Chinese restaurants, the food here is usually very good. (Personally I'd rather pay more for good quality) Despite what others say, I've always found the staff to be very friendly, and the portions are very generous.

I can always count on Hunan Inn for quality delivery. Food always arrives hot and promptly. Over many years, I've never had a problem! (Sometimes there's a random can of free soda in the bag!) All the regulars know to order the Tangerine Chicken- it's amazing!! Lo mein, Mongolian Beef, and Pineapple Fried rice are some of my favorites. They even saved me a X-Mas eve awhile back after working all day. Chef stayed beyond closing to make one last to-go meal. I will always be a loyal customer!!