Grandpa’s Kitchen Grill - Bar 168

While we're visiting LA/OC, we wanted to try as many different restaurants in the area as we could. My brother took us to this inexpensive ($9.99) theme restaurant. We're extremely skeptical with low price restaurant and this one is a hit and miss.
The restaurant is in a big shopping center so there are many parking spaces. The restaurant is big and quite clean. The young female server was quite humorous and pleasant.
Since we're hungry, my brother recommended the waterfall crispy chicken with rice for $9.99. This one is perfectly for someone who's single and wants a good portion dinner or lunch. The quarter leg of chicken is huge and extremely crispy, the tomato (red) rice has a little weird taste to it, I couldn't figure out and I didn't really like it.
My wife ordered the $9.99 dry rice noodles bowl that was eatable, nothing specials, all the dishes came with a bowl of soup which is nice.
Since the prices are so inexpensive, we ordered some fried calamari and flour cake fried for appetizers. The fried calamari is hard and chewy, no recommendation here. The fried flour cakes is actually good, crispy and tasty with the sauce provided.
Overall, it's quite a nice and affordable restaurant. The food is not bad, nothing to rave about, for $10 you can have a nice full meal because the portions are big. I would come here for $10 dinner any time if I live around this area.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

Fresh, flavorful good food.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 5

Service: 4

Outside patio seating with low plastic stools and tables will transport you to Vietnam. With music playing loudly it creates a fun vibe. This place serves an array of food. Egg noodles, pho, rice, and grill seafood at the evening. We ordered egg noodle soup and dry noodles with chicken along with a few dishes of grilled shellfish. The meat in my bowl were rubbery and dry but the soup broth was good. I don't recommend grilled seafood as most were not fresh and tasted rubbery. It's a fun place to grab a drink and listen music sitting outdoors.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 3

The thin noodles was broken into small pieces that my mom couldn’t finish eating, she noticed frozen noodles left over night will be broken easy. The liver was so hard she couldn’t eat it.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 4

Yummy vietnamese drinks and street food style plates

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

We went here last week and had to came back asap cuz the food here is soo good, this spot quickly became my go to spot, and this place is alway crowded and nice vibe remind me of Malaysia street market. The service here Tis very welcoming have a fast service, the food here is a 10/10 never disappoint. I highly recommend people to come here and try hu tieu soo good.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

I got food poisoning after eating their bot chien... 🤮 never coming back.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 1

Service: 4

Good service. Lots of noodle soup for 9.99. Phnom Penh, pho, hu tieu great quality for the price. Great quantity too. Great customer service. Very friendly. Young and modern atmosphere.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

The worker was cleaning the windows while we were trying to eat less than 4 feet away. We left early not finishing our meal.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 3

Service: 1

Well, this was a surprise for me with an unexpected outcome. We came here after saw it on line and decided to try it out. Foods were Good and the menu was very creative. The deal of $9.99 is a winner, with a lots of choices. The portion was big that my wife couldn't finish it. We got a Grandpa dry noodle and chicken rice which were excellent. The services yes we're awesome and friendly. We hope to trying out more dishes in the future for sure.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

Very good and very excellent service, if your on a budget come here

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Grandpa's Dry Noodles

Giving it very low rating for their poor service for their outdoor and low table seating. We were ignored for quite a while. While there was only one other table who came after us but was given menu first. What makes it worse was the menu was non English as well and no pictures. As much as we wanted to try but we couldn'f figure out anything and it was crazy to just google everything so we got up and left. There was no waiters offered to help anyway. Very disappointing. That was the first time we felt out of place at Vietnamese restauranta in town.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Food is absolutely amazing. And it's only $10 on average. Base on May 2025. Try their noodle, it is on sweeter side, but over all food is delicious. I also try popcorn chicken, it is only average. Would come here again in the future. Highly recommend. P.s. come here early to avoid crowd

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 4

A bit on the dry side

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 3

Recommend their dry noodles which soup comes with it.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5