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Pretty good Vietnamese place
Pho Quyen Noodle House is hard to notice as you drive down El Camino Real amid all the strip malls, but once you visit the place, you will remember it. Due to it being located inside a larger strip...
Pho Quyen Noodle House is hard to notice as you drive down El Camino Real amid all the strip malls, but once you visit the place, you will remember it. Due to it being located inside a larger strip mall area, parking is plentiful.
The menu features soups, pho, rice dishes, variety of drinks (weird and traditional) at very decent prices, few of them above $7.99. The restaurant is quite clean and well-lit, the service is also quite commendable.
We tried ginger chicken and a rice dish with chicken and shrimp. The food was excellent, and the rice was plentiful. The restaurant also has a pretty good selection of pearl teas and Vietnamese drinks.
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Good menu and excellent service
Long Life Noodle is located in Stanford Shopping Mall facing the parking lot, and has a pretty good menu for a noodle house. There's an expectedly large selection of noodles in all combinations, some...
Long Life Noodle is located in Stanford Shopping Mall facing the parking lot, and has a pretty good menu for a noodle house. There's an expectedly large selection of noodles in all combinations, some weird drinks, like cucumber juice and ginseng iced teas, as well as a good variety of rice dishes.
Check out their newest additions that are not on the menu - there's a chalkboard right as you walk in listing the newly added items. The service was very courteous and fast. This is not a fast food, but the food was served within 5 minutes ordering, probably due to the fact that there weren't too many people in the restaurant for late lunch on Saturday.
The prices are reasonable, with most of the dishes costing under $8-9. The dishes featuring seafood and shrimp are surely high on noodle contents and low on seafood ingredients, but overall the lunch menu and decent portions won't leave anyone hungry.
Long Life Noodle has outside seating, but few people volunteered for the parking lot view.
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Perfect place
It's really hard to find anything wrong with place. This little restaurant in downtown Palo Alto with outside seating available right on Emerson Street during summer hours has all the majors covered....
It's really hard to find anything wrong with place. This little restaurant in downtown Palo Alto with outside seating available right on Emerson Street during summer hours has all the majors covered. The cuisine is exquisite. The menu is quite simple, but what St. Michael's Alley offers, it delivers well.
Reservations are generally required for dinner, for lunch and breakfast they don't seem to be as busy. The menu is available on the restaurant site http://www.stmikes.com/ The service was excellent, ready with recommendations, and open to discussions on what's included in the dishes. The carafe of the grapefruit juice that we ordered was delicious as well.
The restaurant is clean, dimly lit to create private atmosphere. The awards on the wall happily inform you that it's been awarded The Best Romantic Restaurant in Silicon Valley year after year. Overall, the food is great, the service is friendly, this is a must visit.
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Cafe Yulong
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743 W Dana St
Mountain View, California
(650) 960-1677
Great food and cozy atmosphere
Great food and cozy atmosphere
The 5 page menu at this place features more than a hundred items, with selections in soups, fowl, pork, mu shu, chicken and seafood.
After seating the guests are greeted with obligatory tea and...
The 5 page menu at this place features more than a hundred items, with selections in soups, fowl, pork, mu shu, chicken and seafood.
After seating the guests are greeted with obligatory tea and spicy cabbage, which I haven't seen at other Asian places.
The meals are served in family-sharing mode, so anything you order comes with a number of plates, and the waiter distributes a generous portion of the meal to everyone at the table.
The place is not expensive, although there were some items on the menu (sea cucumber, I think), which were at $25 a plate. Expect most of the food to be in the $8-12 range.
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Good food and great atmoshpere
Nola's menu includes some esoteris stuff like crawfish-alligator dumplings and spicy jambalaya. The staff is friendly and the whole atmosphere is casual, filled with loud music and good food. With...
Nola's menu includes some esoteris stuff like crawfish-alligator dumplings and spicy jambalaya. The staff is friendly and the whole atmosphere is casual, filled with loud music and good food. With the exception of occasionally being too oversalted, the food is pretty good, and the cocktail menu is impressive.
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Tasty Mediterranean served by owners
The Mazeh Restaurant says Mazeh Cafe on the outside, but it's really a restaurant, the one that has the white cloth (although covered by paper). Two owners, a husband and a wife, greet you, guide you...
The Mazeh Restaurant says Mazeh Cafe on the outside, but it's really a restaurant, the one that has the white cloth (although covered by paper). Two owners, a husband and a wife, greet you, guide you through the menu and generally provide a great service. The restaurant has about a dozen tables, so it's a pretty small space, but it does get crowded closer to the evening, and from the interaction you could tell those were regular customers.
Parking is plentiful, since it shares the strip mall parking with Cost Plus World Market. The restaurant is clean, well kept and one of the walls is painted with a view of San Francisco.
The menu http://www.cafemazeh.com/ features a pretty wide selection of Mediterranean dishes, and healthy helpings of appetizers, as well as fusion-style pizzas with Persian and Mediterranean toppings. Lamb Chuala, which I tried, was presented on a sizzling skillet, like fajitas in Mexican places, with tender lamb, bell peppers and plenty of onions adding to the spicy mix.
While you're at it, try Turkish coffee. If you haven't tried it before, it will be a good experience. It's a bit sweet, but provides a quick energy boost and plenty of concentrated caffeine in a small cup.
The prices are reasonable with most of the dinner entrees ranging between $9 and $15. The lunch menu is available as well. I didn't feel like trying a dessert, but Persian Ice Cream looks like something worth trying on the next visit.
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Mediterranean food Italian style
Zucca pitches itself as premier Mediterranean restaurant, but offers a concoction of Mediterranean, Italian and Asian dishes fused together.
The interior is quite nice, with endless wine...
Zucca pitches itself as premier Mediterranean restaurant, but offers a concoction of Mediterranean, Italian and Asian dishes fused together.
The interior is quite nice, with endless wine selection, dimly lit tables and waiters quietly moving around with wine glasses and huge plates.
The prices are reasonable, but you can't help but think the restaurant is a bit overpriced - the prices would be pretty good if the food at this level was outstanding, but the food quality is just ok. The dishes we ordered were heavily soaked in oil and vinegar, even though the skewered scallops do not exactly require that.
The dessert menu featured a few items typical of any restaurant http://www.zuccaristorante.com/dessert.html and, once again, nothing stood out.
Zucca's is a good place for occasional dinner, but in my case I am not overly impressed with it.
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Golden Wok review - Chinese restaurant in downtown Mountain View
Golden Wok is located in downtown Mountain View, a block off Castro. Featuring an impressive entrance with fountain, since Golden Wok presents a rather cozy environment decorated in red and gold. The...
Golden Wok is located in downtown Mountain View, a block off Castro. Featuring an impressive entrance with fountain, since Golden Wok presents a rather cozy environment decorated in red and gold. The restaurant itself is pretty large and has seating for large groups.
The menu overall looked pretty good and had a good variety of poultry, seafood, soups and traditional Chinese dishes. Most of the mealsare within $7-10 range, and a little pepper by the meal description would tell you how spicy it is. The soup is delivered in a large bowl with a few smaller bowls for the party to share. The dishes are delivered on a separate plate, steamed rice can be ordered as well for the guests to share the meals.
The service was pretty friendly and quick, the meals delivered were sizzling hot and tasted good. They serve water and green tea in the kettle. The tea was pretty good, not the generic watery stuff you get at other places, but potent green tea. The inside of the restaurant is clean and well-maintained, they do have white clothes on the table, but cover them with disposable white paper.
Overall, a pretty good place to come back to when you feel a craving for Chinese.
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