As part of One Accessibility advocacy, we share information about disability issues, inclusion, and or accessibility features on Maps. Look out every week for this enlightening post.
Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s Accessibility Uncovered post!
This is the first post of this month’s theme: Accessible Restaurants, where we will share our favorite accessible restaurants and review what makes them accessible. Keep on reading and join us this month to learn about accessible restaurants around the world!
Like you read on this post’s title, the accessible restaurant I chose is China Rose.
It’s a great Chinese restaurant I went to by chance before the accessibility meet-up I did in Buenos Aires’s Chinese Town back in 2019. We were looking for a restaurant to have lunch in before the meet-up and we saw that this one had accessibility features on Maps so, naturally, we had to go and validate those.
Already before entering you see clear signs of how accessible it is, I mean actual signs which make everyone know about it without having to ask, hung proudly and raising awareness about accessibility, as well as letting people who have accessibility needs know that the place welcomes them and makes efforts to include them.
Two signs are hung in the entrance:
- “We have a braille menu” sign.
- A printed “Certificate of adaptive excellence” from an accessible tourism agency for being correctly adapted for people with reduced mobility.
This was great to see, as most accessible restaurants I went to I just realized myself they were accessible for wheelchair-bound people after seeing a ramp in the entrance and then analyzing the other areas of the restaurant.
It always makes me very happy to realize that places are accessible, but even more so when they make it obvious with signs and announce it because it’s just great to know the accessibility information easily and without even looking for it.
It’s like when we add information about the accessibility of a place on Maps, people can look at the features of the place or what we wrote in the reviews instead of spending time checking all the photos or looking for data on the places website.
As I entered the restaurant I still looked at the areas for accessibility of course, because I’m still an accessibility fan I guess hahah, and as we walked to our table I saw the accessible restroom with a very big accessibility sign.
I loved the sign, because of the same reasons I mentioned before, and also because how visible it was and big signs with big fonts like that one are also accessible themselves. They are very easy to read and that helps people with vision impairments, and everyone too, I think.
Now, to the areas of the restaurants that could be improved:
Although the place had a lot of tables and seemed a bit crowded, there was actually enough space between the tables for wheelchairs to go through, and the tables were high enough too.
But, despite this, there was a very small step on the entrance which meant that people who use wheelchairs could need help entering if they don’t have enough arm strength.
The restaurant also doesn’t offer reserved parking spots for people with disabilties, as it doesn’t offer parking spots at all. It’s a very busy part of the city so it’s expected but might be a problem.
There is a second floor too, that I honestly didn’t go to as we sat on the beautiful patio, which might only have the restrooms but I think it would also have more tables because of the size of the place. There isn’t an elevator to get there though, but it doesn’t seem to be so big of a problem because of how many tables are downstairs.
As a summary, here is how the China Rose restaurant does when it comes to accessibility:
Wheelchair-accessible entrance
Wheelchair-accessible lift
Wheelchair-accessible seating
Wheelchair-accessible toilet
Braille menus
Reserved parking spots for people with disabilities
And, although not included in the features of Maps, I remember the restaurant has good lighting, which helps deaf people read lips, and didn’t have music on, which helps neurodiverse people - some of whom might have developmental disabilities.
What I liked most about this restaurant was that it included braille menus too, since most places seem to just focus on being accessible for people with mobility impairments.
The food was pretty good too 
Thank you for reading!
- Click here to read the review I wrote in China Rose.
- Click here to see my list of 9 diverse accessible restaurants in my city
- You can also follow me on Maps and check how I add accessibility info on my reviews.
I have some questions!
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What do you think about the overall accessibility of this restaurant?
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Tell me about accessibility features you saw in restaurants in the comments! Do you remember which is the restaurant with the most accessibility features you went to?
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Do restaurants in you area also tend to focus more on mobility disabilities? How many places do you know that offer braille menus?
If you have a question, suggestion, or contribution, feel free to comment below. You can read last week’s roundup article here and check the list of our other articles under "Accessibility Uncovered".
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agridulce o carne de 
, que te pareció la ambientación. Sería muy lindo si tienes mas fotos del local con su ambientación, para tener un panorama más general del local, en una de esas me tienta y lo coloco en mi lista de sitios por visitar 
de la comunidad China ?
Argentina
), es mi tipo de comida favorita! Lo digo tan general porque todavía no me decido si me gusta más la japonesa o coreana, pero las tres que mencionaste me encantan, así que cuando vuelvas si querés podemos ir juntos o si armás un meet-up de comida en alguno me re sumaría