China Chef

China Chef is a Trinity Street institution that has been cooking for Gainsborough and the surrounding Lincolnshire villages for close to twenty years, occupying a small shopfront a few doors south of the Hung Wang operation in the long Trinity Street takeaway cluster. The kitchen is run by professionally trained Cantonese chefs and the menu reflects that — the salt-and-pepper chips, sesame toast and crispy shredded beef draw the strongest reviewer praise on Tripadvisor, Cylex and Facebook, and the set-meal boxes are repeatedly held up as exceptional value for the portion size. The shop is a phone-order and online-order takeaway with collection and local delivery into the town and the surrounding villages of Lea, Morton and Corringham. Trading is closed Tuesday with an evenings-only weekday and weekend schedule from 4:30pm to 11:00pm, which keeps the operation tightly built around the dinner rush and limits the staff overhead. Halal options. A consistently well-reviewed central-Gainsborough Chinese — the kind that the town's regulars stick with for years.