Number One Taste(Arlington)

165 Massachusetts Ave, Arlington, MA 02474

Delivery Info

Delivery Fee

$3 within 1.50 miles
$4 within 2.40 miles

Delivery Minimum

$10.00

Estimated Time

Between 45 and 60 minutes

4.50starstarstarstarstar_half(134 ratings)

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Delivery Fee

$3 within 1.50 miles
$4 within 2.40 miles

Delivery Minimum

$10.00

Estimated Time

Between 45 and 60 minutes

165 Massachusetts Ave, Arlington, MA 02474

Asian, Chinese, Lunch Specials, Mandarin, Szechwan

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Hours of Operation

Monday

11:30 AM - 09:30 PM

Tuesday

11:30 AM - 09:30 PM

Wednesday

11:30 AM - 09:30 PM

Thursday

11:30 AM - 09:30 PM

Friday

11:30 AM - 10:30 PM

Saturday

11:30 AM - 10:30 PM

Sunday

12:00 PM - 09:30 PM

Mark

Jun 09, 2023

5.00

Best Chinese in Arlington!

Lisa

Jun 01, 2023

5.00

Food is always consistent. Very tasty and a Good value.

Lisa

Mar 15, 2023

5.00

Food is always delicious. Good portion. Fast service. Staff is always polite and helpful.

Kim

Feb 21, 2023

5.00

Super nice owners and employees. Food is always delicious!

Jennifer

Dec 31, 2022

5.00

Not only was the food delicious, but they actually offered to deliver the food (I ordered for pick-up) since they had a driver that was already going to going by my house, no charge. So nice!

Michael

Dec 16, 2022

5.00

Good food, fast and friendly

Darryl

Nov 09, 2022

4.00

Always good experience when ordering from Number 1

Kim

Oct 12, 2022

5.00

Even though they were getting ready to start closing up, they took my order and didn't rush it. Everything was delicious

NANCY

Sep 21, 2022

5.00

always delicious!

Deliz Rakesh

Aug 28, 2022

1.00

Fire crackers tasted like Rangoon. Beef was so soupy and lot of veggies. Very disappointing

Lisa

Aug 21, 2022

5.00

Food always good. App ordering easy. Always ready on time.

Peter

Jun 29, 2022

5.00

Number 1 Taste Arlington is my new go-to for Chinese! They always deliver early and call when they're arriving. And quite yummy!!!!!

Janice

Dec 22, 2021

3.00

I ordered shrimp with lobster sauce, but instead I received shrimp with black bean sauce. The food was still tasty, and the price was still the same, so I didn't really care. But I hope you can get my order correct next time! Otherwise, the food was good!

Alexander

Dec 08, 2021

2.00

Sweet and sour chicken had no sauce, just breaded fried chicken.

Noelle

Dec 04, 2021

1.00

Was orderei g from here thru out the winter and now the food has become inedible. Very dramatic change and not for the better....

Noelle

Dec 03, 2021

1.00

Soup broth was water thickened with corn starch. Not edible. Straight into the garbage. Egg roll was dripping in grease. Also, into the garbage. Veggie Moo Shi soggy, bland, except for tons of awful green peppers. Second time money wasted. Done...

Jennifer

Oct 25, 2021

3.00

Not great. Food was pretty greasy and had a strange aftertaste.

Alexander

Oct 16, 2021

3.00

Dumplings were fried, but I ordered steamed.

Noelle

Sep 16, 2021

1.00

Horrific...

Alice

Sep 02, 2021

2.00

Took more than an hour and quality was not the same as before :( calamari way smaller portion, the sesame chicken noodle very fresh.

Noelle

Aug 27, 2021

5.00

Fast delivery and Fresh food - Yummy!

Alice

Jul 29, 2021

2.00

I am so disappointed that this place went from one of our family's favorite places for Chinese-American food to one of the least favorite. The entire order was terrible and I wonder if they have new cooks who don't know how to make these classic Chinese-American dishes? But there is NO excuse for bad meat. The salt and pepper pork chops were old. They were dried out and clearly reheated and tasted old - inedible. And they breaded untrimmed bony pork chops so the pieces had a solid inch thick fat on every piece. Disgusting. Waste of money. Chicken with garlic sauce had no garlic flavor nor any flavor except salt and was mostly celery. yeck. Salted fish fried rice was edible and vaguely resembled what this should taste like. We were able to eat this dish. Beef chow fun used old noodles that must have been defrosted as the noodles were grainy and broken versus chewy and bouncy. Another yeck. Singapore rice noodle was weirdly bland even though it should have a nice curry spicy flavor. There was some curry flavor but only a little and no other seasoning so bland. Mostly noodles with no meat and a few beansprouts - a bit of a rip off. I'll give it a thimbs up only because it was sort of edible after I seasoned it and added chicken. The small portion of free Gen Gau's was edible and so gets a thumbs up but was not the best rendition. I am giving them 2 stars but wanted to do 1 star. Only reason is when we went the first few times, the owner was very nice. He needs to do some soul searching on whether he wants to skimp on quality ingredients that are fresh and edible as well as hire someone who can cook. Not sure I can come back, at least not for a while. I had been recommending them on all the groups and now cannot.

Karen

Jun 27, 2021

2.00

I ordered cashew shrimp and instead received cashew chicken. It's the second time this has happened; on an earlier order, I ordered brown rice and got white rice.

Karen

Jun 13, 2021

2.00

Good was over cooked and hard to chew

Joel

May 21, 2021

5.00

This food is so good. The sauce for the general gau's was real tasty and had some nice spice to it. The noodles for the beef chow fun were clearly hand pulled and homemade. Some of the best Chinese food in Arlington by far!

Sandy

May 08, 2021

5.00

It was delicious!

Noelle

May 03, 2021

5.00

Very good food. Delivered fast and followed all directions. Thank you!

Sandip

May 01, 2021

4.00

Food was ok but cold

Katy

Apr 06, 2021

5.00

The food is delicious, was delivered very quickly, and the delivery person was great!

Blaise

Feb 27, 2021

5.00

The food was tasty, but dissappointed about the Google photos vs reality - where was the authentic sichuan pork

Kelly

Feb 06, 2021

1.00

Pack a soupy dish in a non-soup container and it leaked all over my coat (its winter & very cold).

Sarah

Dec 31, 2020

2.00

A bummer they don’t include white rice with a dish because it’s New Year’s Eve?! Not sure what that’s about.

Lauren

Nov 22, 2020

4.00

Great food with fast delivery! Will order again.

Mara

Nov 18, 2020

3.00

Got egg roll not spring roll I ordered. Delivery person had me come down to the door vs coming to apartment. No delivery person has ever done that.

Dave

May 02, 2018

5.00

i showed up a few minutes early .. they never got notification from the website about my order. But once they got it, they cooked up everything in no time!

Darryl

Mar 17, 2018

4.00

Quick, friendly tasty, Fried Rice was a little greasy. Saturday night at 7p was hard for Parking... but worth it.

Kate

Nov 16, 2017

3.00

We did not receive the fried rice in the order which was to be provided if we spent $25 or more . Our order was $32 therefore we did not order any rice for the crispy beef, assuming it was coming with the order. Which therefore did not complete the meal as we expected

Bryan

Aug 02, 2017

5.00

Always excellent. The hot and sour soup is always a family favorite.

Pavlos

Sep 26, 2016

5.00

Fast service, convenient location, great food in a pinch!

Kevin

Jun 16, 2016

5.00

Fast Service and friendly staff