Boston Globe on its January 29, 2004 article said, "With a bar, mirrored walls, a modest wine list, and white tablecloths", our Newton location "is a much different style of restaurant than the Chinatown Jumbo." The author also noted at the end of the article, "A good excuse, I think to myself, to return for more of Jumbo's seafood dishes."

U.S.A. Today, February 2003, listed Jumbo Seafood Restaurant as one of the "10 Best Chinese Restaurants in the United States".

"Jumbo Seafood is Gourmet Greatness", exclaimed www.PhantomGourmet.com in 2002.

Yankee Magazine on its December 2001 issue branded Jumbo Seafood as "Chinatown's unexpected treasure".

Jumbo Seafood Restaurant was granted "Best Chinese Restaurant" and became one of the winners of Boston Magazine's Best of Boston for years 2000 and 2001.

"Chefs' night out" on the Food section on the Boston Globe ( Wednesday, September 13, 2000 ) tells a vivid story about a group of other restaurant chefs' late Sunday night visit to Jumbo Seafood.

The Improper Bostonian magazine crowned Jumbo Seafood Boston's Best Chinese Restaurant on its July 1997 issue.

An article in the Boston Globe ( December 26,1997 ) stated Jumbo's seafood is startlingly good, "Savory voyage to Hong Kong, via fish tanks in Chinatown".

The Boston Phoenix, June 5, 1996, gave a lively description of many of our dishes, "Jumbo Seafood-Live fish and a light touch can make a restaurant more than just good". It stated one of the standout features of Jumbo Seafood is the white rice which is richly aromatic and "likely the best restaurant rice in Chinatown."