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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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Exotic food in nice surroundings
Layang Layang is located on De Anza about a block off 85. It features a pretty extensive menu http://www.layanglayang.us/menu.html of Malaysian and Indonesian dishes as well as a few inventions of...
Layang Layang is located on De Anza about a block off 85. It features a pretty extensive menu http://www.layanglayang.us/menu.html of Malaysian and Indonesian dishes as well as a few inventions of their own.
The parking in front of the restaurant is available, but generally not sufficient. Luckily, the restaurant is on the corner of De Anza and a residential street where street parking is allowed. The restaurant allows for inside and outside seating, and inside seating does look a bit cramped. The waitress and hostess wear traditional clothing and generally maintain pleasant and friendly atmosphere.
The food selection is pretty good, and the presentation is even better. If you never drank coconut milk off freshly cracked coconut and never ate pineapple rice off the pineapple shell, this is the place to go. Pretty much every dish we ordered was an exercise in design and presentation. The pricing for most of the dinner meals is between $6 and $15. Layang Layang serves Malaysian iced teas and some other exotic drink, including coconut milk served off coconut.
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Not a bad Mexican place, but nothing special either
Mexicali Grill is conventiently located by AMC Mercado in Santa Clara, so the place already has a location to attract a large amount of people done with the movies and ready to head down for dinner....
Mexicali Grill is conventiently located by AMC Mercado in Santa Clara, so the place already has a location to attract a large amount of people done with the movies and ready to head down for dinner. My coworker and I were there for lunch, and it was a good sign that the restaurant was quite busy at 1 pm.
The service is pretty good - we were seated quickly, and offered the complimentary chips and salsa. The salsa was not too spicy, and the chips were of good quality. Their menu offers a variety of standard Mexican meals in $8-15 range, with the usual items you'd expect to find at other restaurants.
The food that we ordered came quickly and was ok. Again, nothing outstanding, but good quality, although small portions (perhaps because we were ordering from lunch menu). The restaurant inside was clean and quite nice-looking. It's a good place for its ambiance, but don't expect miracles from food.
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Probably the best Italian place in Sunnyvale
Il Postale consistently ranks as the best Italian place in Sunnyvale, CA, and they're not afraid to tell you about it. The place is located in downtown Sunnyvale across from Macy's parking lot, which...
Il Postale consistently ranks as the best Italian place in Sunnyvale, CA, and they're not afraid to tell you about it. The place is located in downtown Sunnyvale across from Macy's parking lot, which provides for plenty of available parking spots at any time of day. The interior is quite nice, surrounded with paintings on brick walls and large wine bottles stashed everywhere in the range of visibility. They also have a full bar with the full selection presented to the customers.
The tables are white cloth, and there's complimentary white bread that comes with oil and vinegar. The wine list, as expected from an Italian place, is extensive, and the menu is quite diverse and doesn't concentrate on pastas or pizzas, as you'd expect anything Italian to feature.
The dinner menu is available here http://ilpostale.com/page/ny84/Starters_Dinner.html and the food itself left an excellent impression. Everything was cooked just perfect, had the right sauce and was generally a pure delight to eat. The service was very good and friendly.
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Del Monte Restaurant offers a mix of Mediterranean and Central European cuisine
If you walk down Murphy Ave in Sunnyvale, Del Monte is pretty easy to miss or dismiss as just another hole in the wall. Behind the dark glass, however, is an elegant and friendly Mediterranean place...
If you walk down Murphy Ave in Sunnyvale, Del Monte is pretty easy to miss or dismiss as just another hole in the wall. Behind the dark glass, however, is an elegant and friendly Mediterranean place that's apparently owned by people descending from Croatia (former Yugoslavia) and therefore featuring quite a wild variety of food.
The menu is available on the restaurant Web site http://www.delmonterestaurant.com/menu.html and don't be afraid to ask the waiter for the explanation of any item. We tried Cevapcici Croatian Style, which turned out to be mini-sausages made out of various kinds of meat and prepared fresh, quite tasty for an appetizer.
The Scampi Provencale and the sturgeon (not on the menu, but offered to us during the daily specials recital) were quite good, served with steamed vegetables and some mashed potatoes on the side. The portions are all about presentation, and the large plate was sprinkled with parsley. The service was a bit slow, but they had just one waiter for roughly 12-14 tables that were in the restaurant that night.
The interior is nice, clean, and well kept. This is a white cloth place, and it has a pretty good wine list. Most of the menu is available online on the restaurant Web site.
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Good Mexican food, but a bit bland-tasting
La Fiesta is a bit off beaten path, and welcomes the casual visitors with a parking lot for about a dozen cars. The place seems to mainly pitch margaritas and other drinks typical for Mexican places,...
La Fiesta is a bit off beaten path, and welcomes the casual visitors with a parking lot for about a dozen cars. The place seems to mainly pitch margaritas and other drinks typical for Mexican places, which is usually a bad sign for the quality of the food. Turns out, my premonition was correct.
It's not that the food is outright bad, it's just bland-tasting and doesn't offer any differentation to make La Fiesta stand out. However, there were some positive things about the place as well. Four salsas definitely beats Fiesta Del Mar's three salsas, but the service is quite slow to replace the empty chips baskets even when not too many customers are around.
The interior looks well kept and is quite colorful, generally what you'd expect from a family Mexican place. Overall, La Fiesta is a good place to go if nothing else is available.
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Elephant Bar has the food, the ambience, the service
Even people who are picky about the restaurants generally have some specific requirements that concern the quality of the food, its presentation, the interior and cleanliness of the restaurant, and...
Even people who are picky about the restaurants generally have some specific requirements that concern the quality of the food, its presentation, the interior and cleanliness of the restaurant, and the quality of service. At Elephant Bar & Restaurant it seems that they took care of everything.
The menu is available online at http://www.elephantbar.com/ourmenumain.htm and from the looks of it, Elephant Bar is primarily an Asian Fusion restaurant with the desire to please a little bit of both tastes, which justifies having cheeseburgers and fish with salsa.
We had to wait for about 10 minutes before getting into the place on Saturday evening, and the parking lot on Stevens Creek Boulevard was full. The drink menu is what one would expect from a restaurant that has a full bar in place, but they also serve a variety of specialty drinks mostly prefixed by the word "Jungle". The drinks are mostly in $4-7 range, with the meals ranging from $8 to $15.
The menu is quite vivid and full of pictures, and the presentation of the food at Elephant Bar Restaurant is great as well - they do really make sure the food looks good before it's served.
The service was bit hectic with the restaurant packed on Saturday, but nevertheless the waiters were courteous and expeditious. The place itself looks very clean, quite new, and has an African theme to it, which explains the sculptures of giraffes and large variety of plants inside.
The lunch menu varies from $6 to $9 and also features some of their excellent fish dishes.
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Perfect for any occasion
Be it weding reception or romantic dinner, Falafel Drive-in fits perfectly... Aaah, who am I kidding? The place is a little hole in a wall, and not a drive-in to begin with, as it's quite hard to...
Be it weding reception or romantic dinner, Falafel Drive-in fits perfectly... Aaah, who am I kidding? The place is a little hole in a wall, and not a drive-in to begin with, as it's quite hard to drive in with only 4 parking spots available and limited street parking. Nevertheless, the lines are always there during lunch time for the $6.50 large falafel and banana shake special. The falafels are tasty and plentisome, they're kinda messy to eat on the spot or in the car, but make a perfect lunch at home or at work.
There are a few picnic tables with tents over them to cover people in case of rain. The food preparation process is quite fast, and generally one doesn't have to wait a whole lot to get their food. Each to-go serving comes with extra red sauce. Definitely a must-try if you happen to drive near Stevens Creek Blvd.
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