Dragonwell Pan Asian Bistro
75 reviews
Menlo Park, CA
"Me, Hubster and Hot Rob were in the neighborhood when the hunger pangs we were feeling became too strong to ignore. Hot Rob had been here…" read more »
8 Reviews for Dragonwell Pan Asian Bistro
Agh! they are closed. unless they changed the phone number... you'd think if you went out of business you'd have the courtesy to mention it on your website, to prevent schmucks like me from printing out the menu and having the entire hungry office choose food.
Pan-Asian cuisine in a business/industrial part of town. My husband and I first tried Dragonwell when they had their grand opening. I was impressed with the modern interior and traditional food. When we brought friends with us on another visit they had changed their menu, but the food was still great. In fact, every time we go their menu is a little different. We don't mind because it's always of quality and we enjoy the variety. This is a great place for larger gatherings. I believe they even have karaoke. The bar is very nice looking, too. The staff is always welcoming and glad you came. I recommend giving Dragonwell a chance!
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As a place to get Chinese food near the office, this place isn't bad. I wouldn't call it a place to drive from afar to get Chinese food on purpose, but this place is definitely better than the steamtray buffets down the road.
The lunch special gives you a choice of soup/salad/iced green tea/pearl milk tea/Thai ice tea, then a choice of rice/brown rice/fried rice, then a choice of entree, for $6.95 ($7.95 for seafood). Very reasonable.
I got the beef chow fun today and it was decent. I'm not sure I would actively order the chow fun again (it had more onions than I like and not quite the soy sauce/hot wok flavoring I expect) but it was good enough to make me want to try more of their dishes.
Previously, I'd been by to get won ton soup to go, and received an enormous container of it brimming with wontons, unlike other places that give you 6 wontons to the quart. They were good wontons, if slightly overcooked (the floating cloud part of the noodle had sort of shredded off).
Not absolutely mindblowing, but might fit nicely into that category of "midrange acceptable." I'd go back.
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Michaela said everything I was going to say. Lunch special = soup or salad or variety drinks, plus two big ol' scoops of your favorite rice, and a huge serving of your chosen entree.
I'm boring when it comes to Chinese food, and I enjoyed the mushroom chicken here. Mushrooms, chicken, good sauce, a few snow peas and carrot slices. Good! I also enjoyed the hot and sour soup - not as hot as to make me cry, which is a good thing.
Really fast service, too.
I'd definitely go back for lunch.
Company went there for welcome/farewell lunches just because it's in a walking distance. Gave wrong orders very often, food is kinda cold sometimes, miss this and lack of that. Service is not great either. I will still go once a while for lunch only just because it's a 5 minutes walk from work!
I love the relax atmosphere and great food at Dragonwell. Very friendly service, makes me feel right at home. Karaoke is fun, and hopefully that you go on a night with good singers.
out of business.
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Great ambiance, excellent service. I like their easy to use lunch menu. They used to give a larger portion of food when they first started but have since reduced the size of their dishes. Which is why I'm going 4 stars instead of 5.
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