Elephant East

2823 McKinnon St, Dallas
(214) 256-4151

Recent Reviews

P Lue

Fleet is an amazing bartender/ server!!! Exceptional service and food. Everything recommended was a hit, drinks were yummy! Definitely recommend!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Bang Bang Shrimp, Spring Snow, Fried Rice

Randy M

Went last night for dinner for the first time.1. Restaurant is super cute, great ambiance and they have a DJ so I like the music playing with the dinner… Great vibes dining!2. The restaurant is very small so I’m pretty sure you need reservations. Even though we had reservations we didn’t get seated until at least 40 minutes later ? But the bar area is cute too if you’re open to that.3. The food is very basic Asian fusion. I can order better food at a Thai or Chinese takeout for half the price. Not worth the price.4. Very limited wine list and what they have as far as red was not good at all in my opinion. They don’t even have a blend?!?!?5. Over priced cocktails with hardly any liquor ?6. Go for the vibes, nothing else!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 3

Service: 3

Recommended dishes: Bang Bang Shrimp

DJ Birdwell

We really enjoyed this place great atmosphere and we went during happy hour and the old fashions where only $6 ( normally $16 ). I would Definitely recommend this

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

Ms Tree

We visited on Saturday night as a party of 4. Despite not having reservations, we were able to be seated right away. This was my first visit, and the service and food were outstanding. The server was very attentive and provided accurate descriptions of the dishes and recommendations. Two of our party are vegan and were returning guests. They enjoy the vegan options. The bartender personally came to our table to deliver drinks and also made recommendations that were amazing. We enjoyed the Bang Bang Shrimp, Charred Edamame, Blistered Shishito Peppers, Crispy Tangerine Beef, Korean Beef Bulgogo, and Vegan Garlic Noodles. Highly recommendVegetarian options: Charred Edamame, Blistered Shishito Peppers, Vegan Garlic Noodles

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Bang Bang Shrimp, Charred Edamame

Lindsay Stone

Went for my birthday! Staff was so sweet and accommodating! I got the massive fortune cookie, totally worth it!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Rahman Rahman

Food is not bad. But who comes here for food ?. Very pretty

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

Tiffany Villamin

Don't come here for the fortune cookie - apparently they're always sold out. Our waiter informed us that they only get 12 per week so it's false advertisement.

Dark Moon

Korean chicken and the bam bam shrimp is so

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Korean Fried Chicken, Bang Bang Shrimp, Fried Rice

Scott Hall

My wife and I were looking forward to what it looked like was a fantastic restaurant we arrived. It took us almost 20 minutes to get a drink After having the question, our server? Ordered the ribs and NAM for starters which all you could taste was fried and sweet-and-sour, which is not Thai we ordered for our main flat noodles Fried rice with beef fried rice and vermicelli noodle salad all had the same taste greasy sweet and sour and heavy. Flavours of Thai food should be lime, lime, basil, basil, coconut Palm sugar fresh chilies, fish sauce, fresh herbs none of that was incorporated in anything presented. Panda express would be better than the food that we were served. Our server who we will not name could not have been more helpful. In addition to making this wait 20 minutes for a drink, slammed our Bill down and told us that two of the four desserts were not even available and walked off. then he came back and told us have a great afternoon and it was 9:30 pm. We have lived in Dallas four years and by far the worst experience we’ve ever had in a restaurant. It’s embarrassing and we will make sure everyone we know to never go to this restaurant. My wife is Asian, I’ve lived in Hong Kong 25 years it’s an embarrassment Dallas the owner should Embarrassed. Because of this experience and we normally low-key we will make sure everyone we know understands our experience and will never go to this restaurant. I cannot believe their operating and they won’t last long. It’s too bad the environment and the music is nice. If we could give it a zero star, we would do not go to this restaurant.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Michelle S

Excellent service. William our waiter was extremely pleasant, attentive and knowledgeable. The hostesses did their best to accommodate our early arrival. Food was decent. Recommend the bang bang shrimp. There may or may not have been a RHOD sighting. The giant fortune cookie comes with brownies, Chinese donuts and an amazing coconut milk in a tea kettle. In case you want to cookie to go, please know, it will come back to your table in pieces.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Bang Bang Shrimp, Charred Edamame

Kennedy Guy

My friends and I had reservations for 9:45, we didn’t get seated until 10:15/10:20. After being seated, no one came to check on our table or bring water and when trying to get one of the male waiter’s attention we were ignored. We stopped one of the hosts that was pregnant and she then told us we aren’t able to order anything from the happy hour menu because we’d have to be on the patio or at the bar. It wasn’t until the other host Sierra helped with making accommodations to set us outside on the patio and brought us water, she moved fast and did great. We moved to the patio and again, no one came to check on our table. My friend asked to speak to the manager and the manager came almost immediately and tried to “fix” the issue. Unfortunately, our experience was not great.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 2

Jason Clow

Would have given them 5 stars in all categories but we had a reservation that they did not meet. We called 1 hr before res and asked to push back 30 mins they said no problem. We ended getting there 10 mins past old res time or 20 mins early for new res time. We did not get seated until 1 hr after our reservation or 1 hr and 20 mins after we arrived. We are not from Dallas so we heard of this place and wanted to try it and now it is late and we are stuck. They did make up for the miss and the food was incredible and the atmosphere was very nice. It was worth the wait.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 4

gaurav prakash

Terrible experience… food was cold and not cooked properly … we had reservation but we were made to wait for an hour. Too loud music and chairs were highly uncomfortable. Overall a very unpleasant experience.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 1

Service: 2

Tim Young

Fantastic service, great food, and great cocktails.We went all in and got the giant fortune cookie for dessert and it was out of this world and probably the best novelty dessert we've ever had.Would highly recommend.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Ja'Kayla Jackson

If I could put 100’s across the board I would. This place is amazinggg from the top tier service to the food to the beautiful aesthetic. Everyone from the host, server, bartender and manager were so nice and professional. Sam, Flea, the upcoming mother host were all great!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Chinese Donuts, Banana Cheesecake, Korean Fried Chicken, Bang Bang Shrimp

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