Gobi Mongolian BBQ

1308 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz
(831) 713-5991

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simrat dosanjh

great space to eat. all of the staff stayed busy attending to guests, refilling any of the food bins, cooking of course, and overall (again) keeping a watchful eye for guests walking through. did i mention attentive? i went with my family and we live 2 hours away. i would DEF go again. thank you for such a nice experience 🙌🏽💯

Neko TerminationShock

This place is a good deal. You grab two bowls and fill them how you like. They cook it in front of you on a big grill.

I don’t like to eat carbs, and it’s always stressful eating out. Here, you can pick what foods you like.

Aman Hanjrah

Good food and great setup, and they are fast as well. I just wish they have thin chowmein and not those gigantic noodles, hard for a kid to eat with a plastic fork.

Prices are current in the photo attached as of May 23, 2025

BeastMaster 64

Good food, helpful staff, gotta work on my stacking techniques though 😋

Elena Kostrygina

We enjoyed the entire experience!

Pratik Paudel

Not sure what the hype is about. Me and my friends were greeted with very friendly service at the front. He did good job of explaining how it worked. We followed the steps he mentionied and everything was well. Food is prepared within minutes...but it was not good. It sits in a prime location with very weak and below average food for ~$20 a plate. Coming from the bay area, I have to say that me and my buddies were met with disappointment.

Gilbert Rivas

The best experience ever! I highly recommend this to everyone 👌. Big vibes!!

Boris Foelsch

Fresh, tasty, friendly people. What's not to like? I enjoyed my meal. Now for some included ice cream.

Roger McCort

THE SHORT VERSION:
A clean, quick, and well-stocked Mongolian grill. Friendly staff, reasonable price, and proper fried won tons. You want to eat here!

THE LONGER VERSION:
Mongolian grill is my favorite restaurant style. If I could, I'd eat at one almost every day. Gobi is an excellent example of how to do these kinds of restaurants right!

Two key components for a good MG: A broad selection of items to add your bowl and those items MUST be fresh. Gobi scores in both areas. Lots of variety in food and sauce choices.

I also like a quick grill, and this place was very fast. (I went to this one place in Denver which took almost 20 minutes after my foot hit the flattop... but that's a different review.) In the moments it took for me to identify drink options and realize they had a dozen potential add-ons for after the food was cooked (all well-labeled and clean), my dinner was ready an on a large round platter for eating.

Hey, this is a two bowl place! No need to stack your choices into a giant, sloppy pile of noodles and broccoli! Put half in one and half in the other and you'll have plenty! (And I'm speaking as a fat guy who likes to eat!)

I added some sticky rice from a serve-yourself pot. And a healthy pile of fried won tons - the good kind, where they are just fried and not filled with stuff first! There were a couple of sauce options there too, but I went simple with a drizzle of sweet and sour. Tables were (tonight, anyway) seat yourself.

My only negative (and it's VERY minor) was that the sauces for the grill were very thin. The flavors don't come through as strong that way. But that may be intentional. People who haven't eaten much MG often put on too much or too strong of flavors. I knew to add a little more and got pretty close to the spice level I wanted. My wife, who sticks to a mellower flavor profile, was very happy with how hers turned out as well.

With a bottle of soda and a tip, our two dinners ran just over $50. The menu showed slightly reduced prices for lunch and they had two levels of kid pricing (based on the height of your youngsters). Not bad.

We left full and happy!

Charlie Wilson

I love this place. Very easy and the people are nice. Food is great.

Christopher Ramirez

Super great service

Rana Ghana

Super healthy selection of items for them to grill up for you. Tastes great! Staff is nice too. Clean restaurant and great location.

Ralph “Apex” B

Ananda is so nice , and so helpful. Tyson much.

Ashley Mcphail

the girl working last night was extremely helpful patient and nice. The cook was fast and thorough when multiple orders came in. Super clean establishment.. Good Meat options and VEGAN options.

Mariah R

Came here for dinner!
2 adults, for about $43ish

They give you 2 bowls per person, one trip only. Meaning you fill up the 2 bowls, and they cook it together to make one plate. Subsequent trips are charged, so make sure you fill up as much as you can on the first trip if you don't want to shell out any more moola for a second trip.You can fill it however you want, and choose from sauce recipes on the little sign above it. They offer soup, rice, ice cream and drinks at an additional price!

Over all our experience was pleasant. Delicious food, clean tables, clean ingredient bar, and fast cooking. The only qualm I have is the fact they forced tips on us, we didn't get table service so we weren't sure what we were tipping for since the cook had a jar at the counter. But that aside it was good.

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