Roe

Ordered delivery though Unilocal app. The restaurant deleted my order for no apparent reason and I did not receive a email or call telling me so… So either they didn’t want to delver it just 4 blocks away, the Unilocal delivery app sucks or the restaurant does…

Roe is always a great meal. Small and intimate, my wife and I are often seated right in front by the window and have a great view of the scene on Chestnut while dining.
The service is always prompt and friendly. We have been going for more than 3 years and it’s been the same staff. That should tell you something.
The sushi is good. The apps are good. I can always rely on there being good specials as well.
Small dinners or large (my wife and I had our rehearsal dinner at Roe) check this place out next time you’re in Old City.

Decent food

Delicious food and incredible presentation of the dishes. Also extremely friendly waiters and workers! Highly recommend the Thai fried rice.

Sorry to say my experience here was disappointing. The food was fine, not a wow! My green curry with shrimp was a 10 on the heat scale. I would of appreciated if I had a choice. The server was very friendly. The kitchen was very slow bringing out the food which made the server apologise to the customers every time for the delay.
At the end of the meal the computer stopped working and they could not issue my check. I asked her to just give me the check and I’ll pay cash. She didn’t. I waited for a long while, but I had to go. I didn’t want to walk out. Eventually the computer came back up.
I will not be back again. I gave it my best. I was very friendly and patient. I understand it may not be in their control. I do feel they should have been a little better with customer service by not having me wait for my food and check.
Take your chances, you may have a better experience. But there are too many other place to go that are better.

Wonderful family-​run restaurant! Normally would be dubious of places that offer multiple cuisines, but Roe is exactly the place to get great fresh sushi AND a bit of pad Thai for dessert.

As my usual sushi placed was closed last night I decided to venture out and try something different. After spending $ 33 on 3 rolls, I should have just had cereal. I ordered off of grubhub and the delivery was fairly quick however the food was very disappointing. The shrimp tempura was soggy, the spicy tuna had no flavor to it, and the american dream was also soggy. I called and spoke with manager. After telling him how disappointed I was I offered my order number so he could know what order I was talking about. He said «I’ll talk to staff and I got it». I was even more disappointed that he didn’t apologize nor did he offer a refund or gift certificate to try them again. As I am in the hospitality business and am a manager for a hotel within walking distance, I will never recommend this place ever again to guests. Poor customer service. Poor food quality.

Ordered from Grubhub during this horrible snowstorm. Food came w/​in 30 minutes! Super surprising since there are so many people on here that state that it took forever long. I suppose im not surprised it took forever for their delivery — that seems to be my usual experience with Grubhub in general.
Anyway, food is decent. My pad see ewe was a bit salty and massaman curry wasnt as amazing as I’ve had at other places. Good enough. I can’t expect anything more since most places that serve two types of cuisine always semi suck. Thai and Japanese? Just choose one and focus!

Ew. I couldn’t even eat the drunken noodles because they smelled like an infected wound and were slimy and disgusting! I love Thai food and have had this dish hundreds of times elsewhere, and this is hands down the worst. Shouldn’t even be allowed to sell these and call them drunken noodles. Stay away.

Mehhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Ordered from here on Grubhub. The driver accidentally switched my order with someone else’s, so I had to wait for him to come back, which wouldn’t have been a huge deal if the food had been decent, but…
Also, it seemed slightly odd to me that the delivery guy took the food from me when it had been in my possession for a full half hour. I totally could have poisoned it or something. I’d never do that, but I’m just sayin. Seemed like a bit of a liability.
Onto the food. We got an order of chicken fried rice, spring rolls, a spicy tuna roll, and a spicy salmon roll with avocado, both with brown rice.
The sushi came with white rice instead of brown, which is a huge pet peeve of mine when I’m trying to trick myself into thinking that I’m being semi-​healthy. The sushi was by no means the freshest I’ve had. The chicken fried rice was dry and really lacking in that delicious MSG flavor that I’ve come to know and love. The spring rolls were pretty decent.
Overall, I was disappointed enough by this meal to immediately gorge myself on cold pizza after, so, yeah. Not a fan.

Ordered from here on Valentine’s night, my order was never delivered and they told my multiple times that i would receive my order within 10 mins that the driver is on the road. Ordered at 1030 and nows its 1:30am, no answer from the restaurant and no other place is open and if they would of just told me that they did not deliver it i would of got food somewhere else. but no, they lied to me numerous times and now its too late to order from somewhere else.

I order deliver from Roe all the time. The food is always good. However the delivery drivers seem to have a hard time deliverying to my front door. Failure to use the call box each time.

Really good sushi and byob, underrated spot.

Worst experience ever! I ordered a Lunchbox which cost more than 15 dollar. It came with one dumpling with really dry meat in it and a little curry. I chose shrimp in my green curry so I had to pay two dollars more. Even if I paid more money, I got four pieces of shrimps and little amount of curry on the bottom of a small box. I am wondering if I didn’t get shrimp what will be in the box. Only a little bit of vegetables in little amount of curry sauce.?Dishonest business. Worst customer service ever. It was the receptionist’s fault that she didn’t tell me earlier that my address is 3 miles away from their restaurant when I ordered the food. After waiting for more than half an hour, I was expecting a phone call that asked me to pick up the food downstairs. However, she called me to pay 3 dollars extra or they will not deliver me food.
Bad customer service. I called the restaurant and reported the problems to the receptionist. She didn’t feel sorry at all. She said that the lunch box is what it should be. It is because I am a first time customer that I don’t know that. Yes! It is my first time to order their food ever and also the last time ever.

Delicious!
This is a fusion restaurant, which I tend to love. This is my go-​to sushi place in Old City. I only live a few blocks away so I eat here quite a bit. I always get their vegetable sushi, which is a good mix of sweet and savory. Their miso soup is good and has these little mushroom things in it that I haven’t seen in other miso soup I’ve gotten. My favorite is their Pineapple rice. It actually comes inside a pineapple! It has saffron and pineapple in it. It’s a little bit more mild on taste (verses traditional friend rice) but it’s not greasy at all and it doesn’t feel heavy the way rice usually does.
Every time I’ve been here I get one of two women waitresses. I wish I knew their names because they are amazingly sweet! Even when a costumer at the table next to us was asking her questions I would have considered were a bit on the racist side, she handled it well and never lost her composure or politeness (I feel bad I didn’t call the guy out on it like I should have).
I’ve never tried their pickup/​delivery, but for in-​house eating I definitely recommend it!

Always enjoy the sushi there. The seafood is fresh and the combination of items are GREAT! Such a hidden gem!
Is also helps that the wait staff are so nice! Small venue and great food. Mmmmmmm

I’ve come back to this place for lunch the other day. And it’s really tragic that the service is sooo slow. I know this is a small place, and they were kind of crowded that day about (4 other tables), but my co-​worker and I waited over 1 hour for our 2 sushi rolls. It’s not just us, but unless you get the lunch special, the service is pretty slow.
I REALLY do like the rolls though. They have different varieties and interesting combinations. But my co-​worker ordered 2 rolls that should be warm when eaten, but I guess since it took a long time, it was cold by the time it came out. She had the volcano roll.
The waitress was nice, but the service is slow. I would probably order out next time, because I can’t wait over an hour for lunch and then inhale my lunch since i only have an hour lunch.
MUST TRY; Las Vegas Roll

Uuuummmmm… I don’t even know where to start.
Would I eat there again? Yes. Would I recommend my friends to eat there? No.
As a vegan, My options for where to eat are
limited depending on where I am. So I decided to go with Asian. That’s always an easy pick. I didn’t want anything too fancy. I just wanted to sit and eat and leave. I got that. What I’m confused about, is whether this place is fast food or not. I mean, that might be a bit of an insult, but I don’t know what they were aiming for.
It was awkward when you first walk in. Do I seat myself? Is someone going to seat me? Do I need to go ask someone? Very confusing. When I walked to the back, a few of the servers smiled, but didn’t ask if I needed help or if I needed to be seated. So I’m left standing, awkwardly, among other diners.
The food was… Meh… It looked pretty, though. The server was very nice! I liked her, but we only saw her twice. Once when she took our order and second, when she left the check.
They were also playing two different types of music. I heard hip hop in one area and some traditional Asian music in another. The place is very tiny so that was super annoying.
I’d say, give it a shot, but don’t have high expectations.

Delicious! So far the best sushi delivery I’ve had in south Philly! I got the dragon roll and the volcano roll. I’ve also had miso soup, spicy soup, and shrimp pad Thai there. Yummy!!! If someone thinks there is a better spot let me know! It will be tough to beat this place!

Last night I ordered some food from Roe Thai via Grubhub, and I probably won’t ever order from here again. I should’ve known better, since most places that attempt to do two separate types of cuisine (like Thai and Japanese) are very rarely any good. Service was fine, though. From ordering to delivery it took about an hour.
I ordered the vegetable Roe Yaki Udon, which was listed as one of their «chef signature hot dishes.» Admittedly, I interpreted that as meaning it would be spicy, so I was extremely disappointed when it arrived and it had zero spice whatsoever. The noodles were salty and greasy, and the tofu was in such small pieces that it was difficult to taste it. The portion definitely wasn’t worth $ 10.95, either.
Maybe this place is better if you get sushi, but if you want Thai there are definitely better places to go.