The Mandarin

1029 El Camino Real, Menlo Park - 94025
101 reviews
Chinese Noodles Asian Fusion
(650) 391-9811

Food is great. Service is great. Price is a little bit high.

Great service by chef and team and amazing food! Thank you for a great experience!

The best don’t miss it!!!!

Food is consistently very good and I was pleased to learn that the wine list will soon be expanded, as this has been a notable weakness in the menu, given the quality of food. Service is inconsistent and this is disappointing, given the premium prices that are charged. On balance, the food trumps everything, so will not hesitate to this eatery in my rotation of regular stops.

Exceptional flavors in these Chinese dishes and generous portions make it seem like a good value.

Delicious food. Just the right level of spice. Very reasonable pricing. Great attentive service.

Food...5 stars, though definitely on the edge of pricey. Go again...yes, but not casually...more like a special occasion destination. Been open just nine months, but seem to be hitting their stride.One unpleasant thing on this visit, the table next to us had a sterno flame for cooking something at their table...just after we were seated...the smell wafting over from their table was pretty obnoxious and definitely was not a good first impression at all! Luckily, that table finished soon after and the Sterno flame removed. Not sure they should even offer whatever that menu item was. Probably the reason why I did not feel like awarding five stars.

This was a phenomenally disappointing meal. The beef was extremely spicy and salty, the scallion pancake was bland and salt less, the mushrooms and bok choy were salty and tasted like msg, and the yam dessert tasted like crunchy fried water. None of the dishes made me want to eat more or take home leftovers, and everything was incredibly overpriced. For a lunch that’s fifty dollars per person, it should be way better than this. The service was slow, and the waitstaff not particularly friendly. I will actively avoid eating here in the future and feel like my experience here made my day worse. I don’t know how such mediocrity stays in business in such an expensive area.

The restaurant decor was nice, but their food was not, there was no flavor in any of the dishes and everything was super, super oily…. We were all very disappointed… very overpriced for what u get. Also the owner(I think ) came over and kept saying ‘I want u to look at the rice, look at it. Every rice grain is single and not sticky with even coverage of ingredients… we are the only restaurant in the Bay are to have rice like this’… I think he assumed we’ve never eaten out before !… needless to say we will not be going back.

Excellent and authentic food and service. Take family and friends you hope to impress.