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Nothing impressive
I genuinely tried to enjoy this place, but it's below-average in pretty much category one can think of. Except for parking. Located next to an Indian food supermarket, it shares the parking lot with...
I genuinely tried to enjoy this place, but it's below-average in pretty much category one can think of. Except for parking. Located next to an Indian food supermarket, it shares the parking lot with other places in this strip mall, and therefore finding a spot even on busy nights is not a problem most of the time.
However, the menu is pretty generic, the selection of dishes is substandard compared to other Chinese places, and the house specials are prepared with the cheaper parts of chicken, meaning you have to bite carefully, since bones might still be intact. They serve jasmine tea, but requests for water seem to go unnoticed. There's an oversupply of onions and garlic in the house special, leaving the customer with a few bites of meat and vegetables.
Overall, a forgettable place with nothing distinguishing.
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Great Mediterranean food with impeccable service
Located by Sunnyvale Sheraton by the intersection of 101 and 237, Faz Restaurant and Bar positions itself as white cloth dining restaurant with a pretty good selection of Mediterranean food and...
Located by Sunnyvale Sheraton by the intersection of 101 and 237, Faz Restaurant and Bar positions itself as white cloth dining restaurant with a pretty good selection of Mediterranean food and extensive wine list. The place is open daily for dinner from 6:30 to 10 pm, and the menu can be found on the official Web site http://www.fazrestaurants.com/menus/sunnyvale_menu.html
Faz greets you with rather pleasant surroundings overlooking the Sheraton internal garden with fountains, small pond and some squirrels. The dining hall also features a grand piano and two television sets in the bar area.
The appetizer menu looked pretty good and we tried what was called the Mediterranean platter, featuring Grape Leaf Dolmas, Hummus, Tabbouleh, Babaghanoush, Tomatoes, Pepperoncini & Imported Olives. The food was great-tasting, the vegetables were fresh, the olive oil and hummus were at just the right level of spicyness.
None of the restaurant specials looked too enticing, so we went with the chicken meals. The pizzas, however, are brick-oven-made, which I guess adds a special taste if you decide to get one. The half-chicken was juicy and tasted great. The veggies were grilled in garlic sauce, which added a good aroma to the meal.
The service was prompt and expedient, and overall it's a great place to visit again for a nice dinner. parking is alaways available, as this is the hotel parking space.
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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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