We ordered Burmese style noodle (Kaw Soi Dok), Mandalay Beef. The server offered to order a dish called Amazing Prawn. We ate burmese food before and at various good restaurants. I heard that Mandalay is one of the best burmese. However disappointed. The noodle was ok. In the Amazing Prawn dish, There were just 4 prawns with lots of stir fried vegies and flowers and fancy presentation. Presentation is good when the taste is also good. The prawn just tasted so average. The worst was the Mandalay Beef. It felt as if were eating some deep fried stuff, god knows what. Why? Mandalay Why? I would definitely not recommend Mandaly to anyone.
Holy cow!!!! The food here is INSANELY delicious. I can still taste it in my memories, a week later. The wait was nuts (Fri eve). I so wish they'd take ressies. We ended up eating outside and I was freezing despite the heat lamp, but it was worth it. Also, one of the best service experiences in the city!! Amazingly friendly and knowledgeable wait staff that go so far out of their way to make sure you have a good meal and highly honor food restrictions/preferences. Impressive!!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Anna Travels
Amazing, bright, refreshing flavors.The noodles were cold but not sure if that was to be expected. Would take the lemon coconut chicken to go and then add more meat and heat up.Wish we ordered the mango chicken instead.The tea salad was not our favorite but everyone ordered.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Mango Chicken
colin miller
Wonderful family owned Burmese restaurant which has been around for forty
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Tea Leaf Salad Lap Pat Dok, Mango Chicken
Miss Girl
This place is catered for a certain demographic. The food was severely lacking in flavor (got the beef curry and wow. Where was the spice?) We ordered 1 chicken curry and 2 beef curry. Time went by and we were missing 1 beef curry, so we brought it to the attention to one of the servers. All of a sudden we were getting ganged up by two other servers saying our order was complete. At one point, one of them was being super condescending and pointed at each dish saying, "THAT'S the chicken and THAT's the beef. Your order is done." We tried to explain that we were missing one beef curry, but they were responding in a way that made it seem like it would be the end of the world if we tried to get that 1 beef curry (so we just left it alone). The servers also just seemed extremely overwhelmed. First and last time coming here for sure.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 1
Chris E
The food was incredible! I’d come back to try more.Unfortunately the service was poor with our waitress never checking on our table. I had to ask 4 different people for water until I finally got a refill by literally standing in front of the kitchen until a staff member walked in. If you don’t have time to ensure your customers are topped off then you need to leave a pitcher of water on the table. Refilling water is truly the bare minimum of expected service.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 2
Deepak Malatpure
Very enjoyable Burmese food.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Jasmine Tea, Special Noodles, Mandalay Special Ginger Lemonade, Coconut Rice, Mandalay Noodles, Mandalay Chicken Salad
Jason S
Food is great, drinks are
Food: 5
Recommended dishes: Tea Leaf Salad Lap Pat Dok, Special Noodles
While the food was overall good.... the mango chicken tasted much to sweet(lots of added sugar). Also, the waiter offered my friend and I tea to warm us up, which I assumed was free, but in the end, we were charged 16.00$$$ for tea?!
Paul Zhang
Really good food. Special noodle and tea salad stood out but everything was great. Funny painting in their bathroom (photo attached).Service was fine but a little odd sometimes.They mix the salad and noodles for you at the table, which worked really well for the tea salad but not well for the noodle dish when the noodles occasionally flung sauce on the table. They were also super eager about reclaiming their plates for some reason and asked a couple times if we were done when there was still food on a plate and we were still eating. We suspect they were trying to fill a dishwasher batch or something. Just a bit odd.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Tea Leaf Salad Lap Pat Dok
Nūr Lee (Nūra)
Perfect!
Lily Peng
Must get: lamb rack, Mandalay special noodles, and chicken curry. The special beef was good too but tasted just like orange chicken (had better ones at Chinese restaurants). Tea leaf salad was mostly peanuts and I personally prefer the ones with more leaf.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Special Noodles
Matt Savage
We have been regular customers of Mandalay for over 30 years. It has always been one of our favorite San Francisco restaurants due to its YUMMY food served in rather large portions by friendly, helpful staff. It was announced today that they won a James Beard award. I am so glad for them, as they deserve it!Parking: Very difficult to park here. We are decades-long San Francisco residents and wouldn't consider driving to Mandalay.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Tea Leaf Salad Lap Pat Dok, Special Noodles, Pumpkin Chicken Curry, Mandalay Special Ginger Lemonade, Curry Dipping Sauce, Ong No Kaw Soi Coconut Chicken Noodle Soup, Coconut Rice, Mandalay Noodles, Mandalay Chicken Salad, Mango Chicken
Verry slow
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
We ordered Burmese style noodle (Kaw Soi Dok), Mandalay Beef. The server offered to order a dish called Amazing Prawn. We ate burmese food before and at various good restaurants. I heard that Mandalay is one of the best burmese. However disappointed. The noodle was ok. In the Amazing Prawn dish, There were just 4 prawns with lots of stir fried vegies and flowers and fancy presentation. Presentation is good when the taste is also good. The prawn just tasted so average. The worst was the Mandalay Beef. It felt as if were eating some deep fried stuff, god knows what. Why? Mandalay Why? I would definitely not recommend Mandaly to anyone.
Excellent indigenous Burmese cookings. Beautiful decorations. Warm environment.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Holy cow!!!! The food here is INSANELY delicious. I can still taste it in my memories, a week later. The wait was nuts (Fri eve). I so wish they'd take ressies. We ended up eating outside and I was freezing despite the heat lamp, but it was worth it. Also, one of the best service experiences in the city!! Amazingly friendly and knowledgeable wait staff that go so far out of their way to make sure you have a good meal and highly honor food restrictions/preferences. Impressive!!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Amazing, bright, refreshing flavors.The noodles were cold but not sure if that was to be expected. Would take the lemon coconut chicken to go and then add more meat and heat up.Wish we ordered the mango chicken instead.The tea salad was not our favorite but everyone ordered.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Mango Chicken
Wonderful family owned Burmese restaurant which has been around for forty
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Tea Leaf Salad Lap Pat Dok, Mango Chicken
This place is catered for a certain demographic. The food was severely lacking in flavor (got the beef curry and wow. Where was the spice?) We ordered 1 chicken curry and 2 beef curry. Time went by and we were missing 1 beef curry, so we brought it to the attention to one of the servers. All of a sudden we were getting ganged up by two other servers saying our order was complete. At one point, one of them was being super condescending and pointed at each dish saying, "THAT'S the chicken and THAT's the beef. Your order is done." We tried to explain that we were missing one beef curry, but they were responding in a way that made it seem like it would be the end of the world if we tried to get that 1 beef curry (so we just left it alone). The servers also just seemed extremely overwhelmed. First and last time coming here for sure.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 1
The food was incredible! I’d come back to try more.Unfortunately the service was poor with our waitress never checking on our table. I had to ask 4 different people for water until I finally got a refill by literally standing in front of the kitchen until a staff member walked in. If you don’t have time to ensure your customers are topped off then you need to leave a pitcher of water on the table. Refilling water is truly the bare minimum of expected service.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 2
Very enjoyable Burmese food.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Jasmine Tea, Special Noodles, Mandalay Special Ginger Lemonade, Coconut Rice, Mandalay Noodles, Mandalay Chicken Salad
Food is great, drinks are
Food: 5
Recommended dishes: Tea Leaf Salad Lap Pat Dok, Special Noodles
Restaurantji Recommends
While the food was overall good.... the mango chicken tasted much to sweet(lots of added sugar). Also, the waiter offered my friend and I tea to warm us up, which I assumed was free, but in the end, we were charged 16.00$$$ for tea?!
Really good food. Special noodle and tea salad stood out but everything was great. Funny painting in their bathroom (photo attached).Service was fine but a little odd sometimes.They mix the salad and noodles for you at the table, which worked really well for the tea salad but not well for the noodle dish when the noodles occasionally flung sauce on the table. They were also super eager about reclaiming their plates for some reason and asked a couple times if we were done when there was still food on a plate and we were still eating. We suspect they were trying to fill a dishwasher batch or something. Just a bit odd.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Tea Leaf Salad Lap Pat Dok
Perfect!
Must get: lamb rack, Mandalay special noodles, and chicken curry. The special beef was good too but tasted just like orange chicken (had better ones at Chinese restaurants). Tea leaf salad was mostly peanuts and I personally prefer the ones with more leaf.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Special Noodles
We have been regular customers of Mandalay for over 30 years. It has always been one of our favorite San Francisco restaurants due to its YUMMY food served in rather large portions by friendly, helpful staff. It was announced today that they won a James Beard award. I am so glad for them, as they deserve it!Parking: Very difficult to park here. We are decades-long San Francisco residents and wouldn't consider driving to Mandalay.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Tea Leaf Salad Lap Pat Dok, Special Noodles, Pumpkin Chicken Curry, Mandalay Special Ginger Lemonade, Curry Dipping Sauce, Ong No Kaw Soi Coconut Chicken Noodle Soup, Coconut Rice, Mandalay Noodles, Mandalay Chicken Salad, Mango Chicken