527 Cafe - Evanston

It was disappointing to discover that the restaurant is not open for dine-in, take out only. It was more disappointing that the Taiwanese Beef Noodle Soup was not good and ended up being about $17. The dish was very salty and the soup had too much of a herb taste. The beef shank itself was tender but way too salty. My friend ordered the Popcorn Chicken, which had the texture but no flavor and quite bland. Sadly, it was a disappointing visit to this Taiwanese Cafe.

This is my go to place for Kung Pao Chicken. The servings are very big it’s enough for two meals. We missed ie so much during the shutdown that we learned to make it at home. Delivery service is usually very quick.

Taiwanese cuisine, large and interesting menu — that we’d love to explore more. We had been getting the salmon teriyaki a lot my kids’ favorite) with rice and sautéed vegetables green and red peppers and onions). Super fast service, we’ve only done pickup because of Covid-19. Very nice owners I especially like the appetizer-Steamed Vegetables With Meat SauceSteamed bok choy topped with a tasty pork belly sauce.We’d love to try more dishes, but will wait until we can dine in.The only reason we stopped going was that the salmon portions were too small about 4 oz). My kids would still be hungry. I’ve mentioned the size, but I think the pieces are precut. : .

Soooooo sllllooooowwww moving and they don't even have the items they advertise. Be ready with a plan B and plan C. Literally just wanted some smoothies and it took over 20 minutes and the smoothies had to be modified since they didn't have the ingredients.

Bland! Their pork chop is barely seasoned, popcorn chicken is mediocre (small portion too) and fried rice is average or below average in my opinion. Their eggs are mostly tasteless, definitely not braised or marinated long enough. And the pork belly rice barely consists of any pork belly. Their purple rice yogurt drink is NOT an accurate depiction of what it is supposed to be. Their rice is not sticky or chewy and there’s barely any in there. I bought it thinking it will taste like the ones from Yomie Rice x Yogurt but it’s totally different. Tapioca is hard as well. Got two yogurt drinks and one was OVERLY sweet that I couldnt finish it.Also, they have no bell or any way of you calling out to them from the entrance so we had to wait quite a bit to get their attention. They are still not doing dine-in so they blocked off the entrance.