Tây Giang Restaurant

FYI, if you order the fried cat fish, call the restaurant half hour and order the fish, when you arrive tell them who you are at the restaurant. Your catfish meal is fresh within 10 minutes. Note: if you order there it will take a half hour for the restaurant to prepare the meal. Best to order ahead of time so won't wait long.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

This Vietnamese spot serves up the most scrumptious fried catfish dish. It's flavorful. Served alongside spring roll wrappers, fresh herbs, lettuce, pickled veggies and fine vermicelli. Their dipping sauce is so good! Order ahead because it gets busy as soon as they open at 5pm.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 4

Although I am grateful that we were seated almost right away, without making a reservation that I didn't know was required, I have to say that this is by far the worst dine in experience I've had.

We were able to order about 10 minutes after being seated. Ordered the beef and shrimp skewers, chicken basil stir fry, shrimp spring rolls, rice, and one pho. It took 30 minutes for the beef skewers, spring rolls, and rice to come out. They were not served at the same time though. Each dish came out about 4-5 mins after the other. Surprisingly to me, the pho has not made it out before the other dishes. Thought maybe it was going to be out soon. Nope. The chicken basil stir fry comes out and I'm still waiting for the pho.. told the others to eat first so their food doesn't get cold.

After waiting another 20 minutes for the pho, I decided to just tell them to pack it home. Was told it'd be out soon, and still waited another 10 minutes for it. Brought it home to eat, and the broth was extremely sweet and salty. Even added lots of lime to it to balance but at this point it literally killed my hunger. If I waited for an hour for this pho, I expected it to taste really good. Not even mediocre.

Sucks because I tasted the other dishes and they were delicious. Im disappointed in the lack of communication from the waitress. We were not even told how long it would be for our food to come out, out of courtesy. If they had told me an estimate wait for our food to be out, tha's a different story. Could be a really great place to dine in more often if the service is better.

Never going back. Good luck to those that come here.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 3

Service: 1

We just finished dinner here. 7 people (2 kids, 5 adults). The restaurant was just lightly busy. What did Why do peopl
Dinner took 2 hours. We sat in the middle of the restaurant and were forgotten. There were other tables that got their food and were leaving before we got anything on our table. I had to get up multiple times to ask where our food was. At the end of dinner, they realized they forgot our drinks and casually just slipped it on our table as we were putting food in to-go boxes. Of course, they charged us for it. We also had ordered a catfish claypot in advance to-go because we knew it would take some time. They forgot that too.
When I asked and complained, the gentleman at the hostess station said “sorry, we are just busy”.
I have ordered from this establishment multiple times, but the service and accountability tonight was just disrespectful. It just showed they did not care for their customers. Sad to say, my family and I will not be supporting them anymore.

Atmosphere: 1

Service: 1

Very nice food and good value. Mostly Vietnamese locals come here. The grilled catfish hand rolls are good, big portions for this dish. The crab and fish maw soup was also terrific too. Highly recommended.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 3

Fried catfish spring rolls! So yummy. Will be back soon.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 5

Service: 4

Very good place! Lots of vegan and vegetarian options that all have amazing depth of flavor. You can definitely tell everything is made fresh to order. Love the variety of tofus. 💕

I used to come to this restaurant when I was still living in Elk Grove. Back then it was not popular so we never have to make reservation. I always had a great experience there until recently. They open at 5pm. I got there at 5:15 with my 3 friends. The hostess asked me for how many people, I told her 4. She kind of gives me an annoying look and tells me that they are done for the night and I will have to make reservations. Umm they have 3 tables and one table with 3 people just left without being served right after we got rejected. How can they be done for the night when there’s only 2 table being served? They just open. I wasted my time driving from out of town just to be disappoint.

I always referred this restaurant to my friends and family. Now it takes me back to when my aunt tells me that she had a bad experience. She waited forever to get seated and forever to get her food.

You really have to plan strategically to dine here. No joke, my friend has been telling me about the fried catfish in forever. Their hours are 5-9 pm Thursday to Monday. Closed on Tuesday and Wednesday. If you try to come on the weekend or Friday night. There is usually a wait, unless you come at 5 pm when they just opened. Also, they seem to be short staff.

This review is based on my take-out experience for the fried catfish. We ordered the medium size, which comes with the rice paper, vegetables, vermicelli and two sauces (fish sauce & anchovy sauce). I don't know what they season the fish with or how they fry it but it is insanely good! I couldn't get enough of it. I love fish in general, especially fried fish. I would definitely get the large fish plus a meat dish next time for family of 4. Definitely 5 stars for the fried catfish.

The service can use some improvement. I had called at 4:50 pm to place my order and was told to pick-up at 6 pm. She took down my name and phone number. When I got there at 6 pm on the dot, they couldn't find my order. I think she gave my order away to someone else. I end up waiting for another 10-15 minutes and she didn't even address the mistake/wait or offer an apology. It's not a huge deal and I get the impression that is the norm for them.

The catfish wrap is always good here. Just make sure you call in and make a reservation so you can get a table.

The waitress/hostess was very rude. It took almost 20 mins for her to come to take our order. There’s only 2 of us. It took another 35 mins waiting for our food, and we saw that other tables that came after us got their food first and they had bigger parties and when we asked about our food she said 5 more mins. After 10 more mins we decided to just leave. Wasted over an hour waiting. Don’t go here if you want to be discriminated and waste your time.

Called them in the afternoon saying if they have any tables, and they said they would hold one for me. When I came, the owner said there were no spots for me available. Pho is also expensive as shit.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Food is amazing service is horrible

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 5

Service: 1

Their grilled fish is a must. Always busy so call ahead to order an hr and get table.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Fried Catfish, CA Nuong, Beef Carpaccio

Place forgot to place our order.
Waitress gave more attention to other customers instead of us.
Waitress did not want to listen to our order properly.

Had to wait long as other got there order fast and they ordered after us.

Waitress need to not have an attitude

When order came she forgot certain items and had to wait longer

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 2

Service: 1