Went here for a team lunch. So many options, all really good. I really like the beef wrapped onion pancakes and the steamed veggies . They were also really polite. Service was really good.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Blkn Gold
Don't sleep in this place. Let them show you how wonderfully tasty their dishes are. Bring a group, the portions are perfect. Id recommend you something, but everything is great. Cheers.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Nicstm
Went for Lunar New Year and staff was super friendly in suggesting dishes from the menu that I haven't tried before. All of them were awesome including a hot pot and a sweet desert soup. Besides, the eggplant in spicy garlic sauce and sauted wide noodles with seafood were some of the best I've ever had.
John Ou
we went on christmas night and the restaurant was quite frankly overwhelmed. we had a 545 pm reservation and the next available at the time of booking was past 8 pm, so you get an idea of how busy the 6-730 pm area was gonna be.it did take an hour from being seated to get our first course, which was hot and sour soup. there was a long line of to-go orders via doordash/ubereats/grubhub and phone-in orders that was also complicating matters, but the staff should be credited with handling it with grace even though everything took much longer than what i imagine is usual. communication was pretty poor, to be fair, however, and that's the only reason i would ding them one star. they should have told us they were running behind and set expectations accordingly. they did not.that said, the food was fantastic. we had the orange chicken, mapo topu, some kind of prawn dish (they have several), the dry braised string beans, hot and sour soup and a mixed fried rice. everything was amazing in taste and the portions were very generous. price wasn't the cheapest, but they also as expensive as, say, tai pan in palo alto. food, however, is very comparable.i will be back and hopefully will get the amazing service i have read about in other reviews so i can revise the rating to what i expect to be five stars.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 2
D w
If the option for tip starts at 20%, probably shouldnt let the customer wait for the check. Food is okay though.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 2
R P.
ate here once and they somehow grabbed my email address (from the connected/stripe-ish payment terminal or applepay maybe?), and now I get constant daily spam from them in chinese (I am not chinese).fed up, will never support a company that treats their customers with such disrespect. the food's not even that good, so save your time and money. fey down the street is much better, more authentic, and you get much more for the money.
OATSVALL Najeski
The Mandarin has a diverse menu of delicious Chinese dishes with excellent customer service.
Ana Cruz
Food was great and service was outstanding, a little on the pricey side, but it really feels you are paying for quality.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Allan C.
Have you ever read a Yelp review that conveys reasonable information but has so many exclamation marks or capital letters that it distracts away from the words? The content is ruined because it is drowned out by overusing something that should have been used sparingly. That is the best analogy I have for this restaurant. My wife and I showed up at 7:15pm on a Friday night after deciding against another restaurant due to the crowd of people waiting for a table. When we arrived at The Mandarin, this restaurant had no wait and no crowd. Now, I know why.Eating the Ma Pao Tofu felt less like eating and more like stabbing myself in the gums with a steak knife. Look, I understand a lot of Asian foods are spicy. That's fine. But this was barely food. It was just a large puddle of hot oil with some tofu in it.If that sounds appetizing to you, then by all means give them a shot!
Zero customer service. The waiter never came back after bringing only half our meal. No one checked on us, but the table next to us got 5 star service. Never felt so disrespected in a restaurant.
Jerry M.
The service was exceptional. We had a family style kung pao shrimp as a meal and tofu as an appetizer. It eas fantastic.
Mia W.
large serving portions! place was pretty empty throughout meal service (~6pm), however service was great, with frequent water refills throughout & packing of our leftovers all the dishes we had were really nice. particularly like, the special taro & duck item we got. never had anything like it, so highly recommend. would recommend this place to others.
Nat P.
My friends and I ordered here for the first time and we loved it! Food was delivered fast and packaged well. No leaks or anything. Provided all the sauce needed as well. My friends ordered dishes such as chow mein, fried rice, and broccoli beef. It was actually really good. Not as greasy and it was done right! I ordered the sichuan dan-dan noodles and I loved it! I love they gave the chili oil on the side and was able to pour it in to mix it well. It was so delicious! I wish I was able to try their noodle soup or look into the menu more but ordered it last minute. I would definitely order other items from there though!
fiona lyu
"Wow! Today's chef's special dish is really explosive! Every grain of the lobster sticky rice seems to be telling me: "You have found a treasure!" "Raw pickled crabs and drunken shrimps, I haven't eaten such authentic hometown dishes for a long time; boiled dry shredded noodles, Wensi tofu, it is not easy to eat Huaiyang cuisine with such good knife skills in the Bay Area, and the shredded eel in oil is a live Damn it! The Shanghai girl who was traveling with me was so delicious that she almost shed tears. She will definitely come again!!!
The food and service were great!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Went here for a team lunch. So many options, all really good. I really like the beef wrapped onion pancakes and the steamed veggies . They were also really polite. Service was really good.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Don't sleep in this place. Let them show you how wonderfully tasty their dishes are. Bring a group, the portions are perfect. Id recommend you something, but everything is great. Cheers.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Went for Lunar New Year and staff was super friendly in suggesting dishes from the menu that I haven't tried before. All of them were awesome including a hot pot and a sweet desert soup. Besides, the eggplant in spicy garlic sauce and sauted wide noodles with seafood were some of the best I've ever had.
we went on christmas night and the restaurant was quite frankly overwhelmed. we had a 545 pm reservation and the next available at the time of booking was past 8 pm, so you get an idea of how busy the 6-730 pm area was gonna be.it did take an hour from being seated to get our first course, which was hot and sour soup. there was a long line of to-go orders via doordash/ubereats/grubhub and phone-in orders that was also complicating matters, but the staff should be credited with handling it with grace even though everything took much longer than what i imagine is usual. communication was pretty poor, to be fair, however, and that's the only reason i would ding them one star. they should have told us they were running behind and set expectations accordingly. they did not.that said, the food was fantastic. we had the orange chicken, mapo topu, some kind of prawn dish (they have several), the dry braised string beans, hot and sour soup and a mixed fried rice. everything was amazing in taste and the portions were very generous. price wasn't the cheapest, but they also as expensive as, say, tai pan in palo alto. food, however, is very comparable.i will be back and hopefully will get the amazing service i have read about in other reviews so i can revise the rating to what i expect to be five stars.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 2
If the option for tip starts at 20%, probably shouldnt let the customer wait for the check. Food is okay though.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 2
ate here once and they somehow grabbed my email address (from the connected/stripe-ish payment terminal or applepay maybe?), and now I get constant daily spam from them in chinese (I am not chinese).fed up, will never support a company that treats their customers with such disrespect. the food's not even that good, so save your time and money. fey down the street is much better, more authentic, and you get much more for the money.
The Mandarin has a diverse menu of delicious Chinese dishes with excellent customer service.
Food was great and service was outstanding, a little on the pricey side, but it really feels you are paying for quality.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Have you ever read a Yelp review that conveys reasonable information but has so many exclamation marks or capital letters that it distracts away from the words? The content is ruined because it is drowned out by overusing something that should have been used sparingly. That is the best analogy I have for this restaurant. My wife and I showed up at 7:15pm on a Friday night after deciding against another restaurant due to the crowd of people waiting for a table. When we arrived at The Mandarin, this restaurant had no wait and no crowd. Now, I know why.Eating the Ma Pao Tofu felt less like eating and more like stabbing myself in the gums with a steak knife. Look, I understand a lot of Asian foods are spicy. That's fine. But this was barely food. It was just a large puddle of hot oil with some tofu in it.If that sounds appetizing to you, then by all means give them a shot!
Restaurantji Recommends
Zero customer service. The waiter never came back after bringing only half our meal. No one checked on us, but the table next to us got 5 star service. Never felt so disrespected in a restaurant.
The service was exceptional. We had a family style kung pao shrimp as a meal and tofu as an appetizer. It eas fantastic.
large serving portions! place was pretty empty throughout meal service (~6pm), however service was great, with frequent water refills throughout & packing of our leftovers all the dishes we had were really nice. particularly like, the special taro & duck item we got. never had anything like it, so highly recommend. would recommend this place to others.
My friends and I ordered here for the first time and we loved it! Food was delivered fast and packaged well. No leaks or anything. Provided all the sauce needed as well. My friends ordered dishes such as chow mein, fried rice, and broccoli beef. It was actually really good. Not as greasy and it was done right! I ordered the sichuan dan-dan noodles and I loved it! I love they gave the chili oil on the side and was able to pour it in to mix it well. It was so delicious! I wish I was able to try their noodle soup or look into the menu more but ordered it last minute. I would definitely order other items from there though!
"Wow! Today's chef's special dish is really explosive! Every grain of the lobster sticky rice seems to be telling me: "You have found a treasure!" "Raw pickled crabs and drunken shrimps, I haven't eaten such authentic hometown dishes for a long time; boiled dry shredded noodles, Wensi tofu, it is not easy to eat Huaiyang cuisine with such good knife skills in the Bay Area, and the shredded eel in oil is a live Damn it! The Shanghai girl who was traveling with me was so delicious that she almost shed tears. She will definitely come again!!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5