Open Rice - Westport

Our go to place for Asian take out. Food is good, prices are fair, food is hot.

We had miso soup, pad thai, tofu w/peppercorn sauce, and pineapple fried rice with beef. The miso soup was so salty, it was inedible. It tasted as if a whole container of salt was poured in. We all reacted the same way when we ate it. The pad thai was dry, and the peppercorn sauce, which was supposed to be spicy, was not at all, in fact it was very bland. I was looking forward to it given the previous reviews, but my experience was extremely different.

In a last ditch effort to avoid writing local Chinese food delivery off permanently we took the suggestion of a friend to try a place they had just found in Westport. We couldn 't remember the name and assumed Open Rice was it, so gave it a try. The feedback from our friend was We 've finally found a REAL NYC Chinese place We were absolutely thrilled about this order from Open Rice! From the completeness of fixings to every last bite! Usually I have to beg and plead for extra duck sauce, but happen to already had some, so this time I didn 't, but had I not it wouldn 't have mattered as they provided ample. Ok so as it turns out we found out the next day from our friend that this wasn 't the restaurant, so the good news is we 'll have another place in Westport to check out. Ok onto the food, yes I exactly as my friend had described (the other place) this is real NYC Chinese Food! Everything was perfectly fresh, tasty, and not overly greasy or destroyed with an overpowered sauce. I 'm not sure what 's going on in Norwalk, but we 've been branching into other towns for Chinese. Our last order was from Fairfield and even that was awful. So while Open Rice deserves credit where credit is due, the unfortunate reality of my review is that this is more about it meeting a certain expectation bar that unfortunately every other Chinese restaurant we 've ordered from in Norwalk for the past 3 years hasn 't. We look forward to trying them again, and highly suggest anyone disappointed in local Chinese to do the same!

I was not impressed at all. The four dishes we ordered were all mediocre or worse. I'm honestly surprised by the positive reviews. The moo shu had hardly any sauce and tasted stale. The beef lacked flavor entirely. The appetizers were also quite disappointing. If you're looking for great Chinese food in the area, I recommend Enchanted Szechuan—it's the best around. Wild Rice and China Moon are also good options.

Open Rice has permanently closed. I spoke with the owner of the neighboring store, and he mentioned that a new owner will soon be opening a sushi restaurant in the location where Open Rice used to be.