Favorite Chinese restaurant in the South Bay. Large portions, fantastic Mai Tais and great service. Great for parties/groups of people. I would highly suggest the group menu which allows a wide variety of dishes. I would otherwise suggest the Tao Tao beef and the famous Tao Tao chicken salad (best salad ever). I like Tao Tao so much that I will drive half an hour just for the salad.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Tao Tao Chicken Salad, Chinese Chicken Salad
Wayne Cope
Ordered their War Won Ton Soup with their Chinese Chicken Salad. War Won did not have enough to satisfy two people and very bland with no flavor and the Chicken Salad had to search for the Chicken. Sorry but this was a a major let down and for the price. Do not recommend for that Authentic Chinese experience.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 3
Larry Rabidou
They make the absolute best Chicken salad. I drive orders back to a friend in Sacramento as she requires a fix occasionally. Also, the Tao Tao beef is far and away the tastiest and finest Chinese beef dish I've ever had. I am in my 60's and have eaten all over the world. When in Palo Alto or Sunnyvale, do yourself a favor and try at least those 2 dishes I mentioned above.I definitely recommend that you eat here!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Tao Tao Chicken Salad, Honey Walnut Prawns, Chinese Chicken Salad, Kung Pao Chicken
Andrew Siegel
This used to be my go-to in Sunnyvale for Chinese food. Went in November 2023 and wasn't really impressed. I do love their Tao Tao beef but it just felt a bit tired. Soup and rice were just okay. Get the steamed rice instead. Not sure I'll go back.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Hot and Sour Soup
Ivan Moulder
Vegetarian options: They have a good variety of veggiesParking: Lot of parking in the back plus free parking garagesWheelchair accessibility: Accessible very good
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Honey Walnut Prawns, Chinese Chicken Salad, Kung Pao Chicken
Georga King
Been coming here for around 45 years or
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Tips, Tao Tao Chicken Salad, Tao Tao Beef Sweet and Sour Chicken Chicken Fried Rice Pine Nut Chicken, Walnut Shrimp, Chicken Chow Mein, Pork Fried Rice
Gloria I. Holloway
The "only" bad thing is that the portions are extremely small for the price. ?
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 3
Service: 5
Alexander Armstrong
Visiting from out of town. Spicy minced pork long green bean wasn't spicy at all, Broccoli beef had only a few pieces of beef and the beef pieces were chewy, chicken chowmein was decent, hot and sour soup looked promising but wasn't sour and not spicy. Also one of the chopsticks they gave us only had one chopsticks in it. Overall the food was a bit bland, which I haven't see from Chinese food before.And all the prices on the online menu were misleading and incorrect. We thought we were going to spend about 40 to 45 and they told us the price was 63. This was just disappointing.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 4
Jimmy Olevson
We have been going here for over three decades and love this place. For sure not “fast casual” and great for sit down or family take out.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Chinese Chicken Salad, Tao Tao Special Chow Mein, Saut
The chicken salad is delicious. I could have that every
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
James Mavrinac
We came for the MaiTai's...THEY DID NOT DISAPPOINT! The bartender was awesome and chatted us up a bit. The food was BAM! We got the TaoTao beef and the small chicken salad (it was HUGE)! My wife loves the wonton chips so we got those as well. The portion size for everything was great! The prices were reasonable, drinks were awesome but the service was incredible!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Tao Tao Chicken Salad, Chinese Chicken Salad
Jason Lund
The food is excellent, especially their Chinese chicken salad. What I didn't appreciate was how the kid (a young employee) was busy playing on his cell phone when we walked inside to the front host table to get us a table to eat. He saw us walk up, but just ignored us and continued playing on his phone, until we finally said "excuse us". He didn't even apologize, and actually was kind of rude after we got his attention. He clearly appeared to either hate his job, or was just having a bad day. Very unprofessional for such a nice restaurant.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 2
Recommended dishes: Honey Walnut Prawns
Chris T
We have been coming here since the 1960’s and they never disappoint, we always have the Tao Tao beef, sweet and sour pork, pot stickers, steam rice, chow mein. We live in Fresno and nobody makes the beef dish, and sweet and sour is never in sauce. Coming to Tao Tao is like coming home. If you haven’t tried Tao Tao you will be in for a real treat, they are the best on the west coast!
Jim H
This used to be the best Chinese food in the valleyThis is definitely my last visit to the restaurantAll bad, portions, and now the food is just greasy slop.Too bad, I've been going here for 40+ yearsBut not anymore, also they are extremely expensive
Tao Tao beef and chicken salad were on point.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Favorite Chinese restaurant in the South Bay. Large portions, fantastic Mai Tais and great service. Great for parties/groups of people. I would highly suggest the group menu which allows a wide variety of dishes. I would otherwise suggest the Tao Tao beef and the famous Tao Tao chicken salad (best salad ever). I like Tao Tao so much that I will drive half an hour just for the salad.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Tao Tao Chicken Salad, Chinese Chicken Salad
Ordered their War Won Ton Soup with their Chinese Chicken Salad. War Won did not have enough to satisfy two people and very bland with no flavor and the Chicken Salad had to search for the Chicken. Sorry but this was a a major let down and for the price. Do not recommend for that Authentic Chinese experience.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 3
They make the absolute best Chicken salad. I drive orders back to a friend in Sacramento as she requires a fix occasionally. Also, the Tao Tao beef is far and away the tastiest and finest Chinese beef dish I've ever had. I am in my 60's and have eaten all over the world. When in Palo Alto or Sunnyvale, do yourself a favor and try at least those 2 dishes I mentioned above.I definitely recommend that you eat here!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Tao Tao Chicken Salad, Honey Walnut Prawns, Chinese Chicken Salad, Kung Pao Chicken
This used to be my go-to in Sunnyvale for Chinese food. Went in November 2023 and wasn't really impressed. I do love their Tao Tao beef but it just felt a bit tired. Soup and rice were just okay. Get the steamed rice instead. Not sure I'll go back.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Hot and Sour Soup
Vegetarian options: They have a good variety of veggiesParking: Lot of parking in the back plus free parking garagesWheelchair accessibility: Accessible very good
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Honey Walnut Prawns, Chinese Chicken Salad, Kung Pao Chicken
Been coming here for around 45 years or
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Tips, Tao Tao Chicken Salad, Tao Tao Beef Sweet and Sour Chicken Chicken Fried Rice Pine Nut Chicken, Walnut Shrimp, Chicken Chow Mein, Pork Fried Rice
The "only" bad thing is that the portions are extremely small for the price. ?
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 3
Service: 5
Visiting from out of town. Spicy minced pork long green bean wasn't spicy at all, Broccoli beef had only a few pieces of beef and the beef pieces were chewy, chicken chowmein was decent, hot and sour soup looked promising but wasn't sour and not spicy. Also one of the chopsticks they gave us only had one chopsticks in it. Overall the food was a bit bland, which I haven't see from Chinese food before.And all the prices on the online menu were misleading and incorrect. We thought we were going to spend about 40 to 45 and they told us the price was 63. This was just disappointing.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 4
We have been going here for over three decades and love this place. For sure not “fast casual” and great for sit down or family take out.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Chinese Chicken Salad, Tao Tao Special Chow Mein, Saut
Restaurantji Recommends
The chicken salad is delicious. I could have that every
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
We came for the MaiTai's...THEY DID NOT DISAPPOINT! The bartender was awesome and chatted us up a bit. The food was BAM! We got the TaoTao beef and the small chicken salad (it was HUGE)! My wife loves the wonton chips so we got those as well. The portion size for everything was great! The prices were reasonable, drinks were awesome but the service was incredible!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Tao Tao Chicken Salad, Chinese Chicken Salad
The food is excellent, especially their Chinese chicken salad. What I didn't appreciate was how the kid (a young employee) was busy playing on his cell phone when we walked inside to the front host table to get us a table to eat. He saw us walk up, but just ignored us and continued playing on his phone, until we finally said "excuse us". He didn't even apologize, and actually was kind of rude after we got his attention. He clearly appeared to either hate his job, or was just having a bad day. Very unprofessional for such a nice restaurant.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 2
Recommended dishes: Honey Walnut Prawns
We have been coming here since the 1960’s and they never disappoint, we always have the Tao Tao beef, sweet and sour pork, pot stickers, steam rice, chow mein. We live in Fresno and nobody makes the beef dish, and sweet and sour is never in sauce. Coming to Tao Tao is like coming home. If you haven’t tried Tao Tao you will be in for a real treat, they are the best on the west coast!
This used to be the best Chinese food in the valleyThis is definitely my last visit to the restaurantAll bad, portions, and now the food is just greasy slop.Too bad, I've been going here for 40+ yearsBut not anymore, also they are extremely expensive
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 5