Dragon Stone Mongolian Grill

5 Reviews on “Dragon Stone Mongolian Grill”

• Barb Olson

  This is the best place in P.G. It is all you can eat for less than a foot long Subway sandwich. They do all you can eat and take out for very reasonable prices. The staff can recommend the best choices for flovours. The greatest! Go here!

  May 22, 2017, 3:42 pm

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• Boreal Eats

  Service with a smile, I think not. I’ve never seen such grumpy staff, and unfortunately it showed itself in the food. It was cooked uneavenly, half my dinner was burnt and the other raw… yup raw pork… that sounds safe doesn’t it. We spent the majority of our time standing at the counter waiting for our food to be cooked, because the grumpy grill masters were ignoring us, fair enough if it’s busy ,but it was pretty dead in there , they grill masters must have thought we were deaf because they we standing at the wash sink talking about how much they hated another employee. I had really high hopes for this place, but sadly if fell short, very short, won’t be back, but on the possitive side you’re paying 15 bucks not just for lunch but you get in on the latest employee gossip aswell.

  June 7, 2016, 10:50 pm

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• Sarah White

  I am so happy to have a Mongolian Grill in Prince George. It is a quick way to get healthy food. That said, they have a series of such restaurants in Vancouver which offer some things I would like to see here. In other Mongolian grills, you can pay by weight, or have a choice of having a small or large bowl. At Dragon Stone, you pay a set price for all you can eat. If you are hungry at lunch, $14.99 for all the meat and veggies you want is quite reasonable, but I don’t think this place is somewhere I would visit if I did not want to get my money’s worth. Also, the building is very vacant and sterile. It felt somewhat like a hospital cafeteria. Not a place I would be taking a date. That said, the staff was more than friendly, the food was good, and we left satisfied. While it wasn’t everything I had hoped, I will be back and I am happy to see food evolving in Prince George.

  April 6, 2016, 5:18 am

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• FOODIE

  We were really excited to have a Mongolian grill opening in PG. We have been to many great Mongolian grills over the years and looked forward to having more dinning choices in the city. Unfortunately Dragon Stone did not deliver.The decor is hard to describe, but is somewhat like a brightly painted high school cafeteria. High exposed ceilings, bright fluorescent lights and an open prep and dishwashing area that looked like a foods classroom. Little attention was given to logistics and flow as line ups backed up into the dinning room area and blocked server access to the prep kitchen area and server computer stations. The food choices for the grill were hard to access due to the height of the plastic food guard and how far of a reach it was to the back bins. Much of the meat was frozen solid, beans, tofu and some other items were previously frozen. The blanched broccoli with the cooling ice left in it sat in melted ice water. The cooking fans over the grills where not adequate to clear the smoke, so a door at the front of the restaurant was left open to help clear the smell and greasy air from the seating area. This did not work and so most people in my group said they had to shower the smell off when they got home. The condiments choices and quality were low and the finished product very average. The sorbet dessert was out of place and poor quality. Overall a disappointing and lacklustre experience. On the up side the staff were friendly and attentive, although it was odd and unappealing to see a random person with a dirty winter jacket and boots in the kitchen area talking to staff during the dinner rush. I know we are in PG, but really? We were hoping for so much more and so were very disappointed. The restaurant might be passable as a lunch cafe, but it is very unlikely anyone in our party will be back.

  March 20, 2016, 2:31 am

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• Prince Gastronome

  Thanks to South Park, Im constantly mispronouncing the name of this place, so in effort to avoid insult, Ill keep to calling it Dragon Stone from now on. This is only a preliminary review, as my experience was based on the soft opening the day before the grand, the result of a personal invite. Given its obvious course edges, I was surprised to find no jagged ones, leaving promise for a restaurant format many people expect me to hate. I dont. Its considered common knowledge to friends, family members, and strangers passing me on the street, that I find most Chinese buffets unpleasant. I hear storieslike the legends of lake spirits throwing swords at would-be-kingsof good ones, but these often reside in larger cities. Locally, Ive often been disappointed…often meaning all the time. Hobbling astride other zombies looking past the sneeze-guard at tepid offerings awash in monosodium glutamate and decomposing within waist-high troughs stretching into the vanishing point, how can one lose? So when I say I enjoyed Dragon Stone, you can make either two assumptions: it must be good, or someone slipped me rohypnol.Before getting to the food, lets address the look of the restaurant, which honestly resembles a level from Portal 2, with walls alternating between bright blue or orange. I kept thinking I could bounce off one wall and slide along the other. What it does not resemble is an Asian restaurant. Im okay with that. Obviously, someone missed the memo. Where are the zodiacs placemats hiding under clear plastic tablecloths? Where are the grease-soaked paper lamps? This place is cavernous, with a ceiling fifteen feet over where the walls end, and with no dressings or hanging art to break up the decor, every little squeak reverberates. I know flare will eventually hang from the walls, but I hope they dont overdo it. I like Portal. Dragon Stone isnt devoid of Asian highlights. The accents are there if you look, in the same way you can find them in Steven Seagal. They grace the tables, the chest-high dividing walls youd expect to hide behind when playing as Marcus Fenix. But they dont assault you, and given the rise of pitch-black restaurants layered in shades of brown, the optimism of Dragon Stone is oddly refreshing (even though the lights may need to come down a tad).One misconception regarding Dragon Stone is that its a franchise. Admittedly, the format isnt original. Many similar restaurants charge by weight. You grab a selection of ingredients, pay the cashier, bring them to the cook, and wait patiently for your plate. As my town caters to ahmm, shall we say, mostly rotund clientele, Dragon Stone carries a fixed price, one for lunch and another for dinner (with lowered prices for takeout). This means you can return to the prep area repeatedly. And unlike other reviews Ive written, Im going to break from my usual verbosity and actually provide something useful.One may be intimidated given the current lack of arrows, stanchions, and signs, but the staff are there to help. Here are the cliff notes: After finding your seat and receiving drinks, make your way to the buffet line, retrieving the first of many bowls. Fill said bowl with whatever interests you, leaving the proteins for last (as the top goes down first when the bowl is flipped on the grill. Detour to the condiments counter, layering the ingredients in various liquids, necessary given that part of the cooking involves steaming. Salted water is an obvious first squeeze, but the rest is up to your imagination. The chefs then accept your offering like Buddhist monks, and you await your plate (dont return to your tablebe patient). Resist your instincts in preparing a large bowl. Try something small, start with four or five ingredients, squirt on some garlic water (dont press to hard, less you want people to think you made a bathroom mistake). After enjoying said plate, grab another bowl and repeat. Replace noodles with rice, chicken with beef. Add onions or carrots or chickpeas. Alternate garlic or ginger with oyster sauce, or hell, combine all of them. The point is a successful combination is entirely within your grasp. I tried three plates and didnt screw up once. I also recommend that you dont confuse the chefs, as currently there is no way outside of their own memory to connect you to the bowl. The chefs, servers, and owners were all astounding friendly, but given this was a soft open, it wasnt particularly busy. Stanchions may indeed be useful if Dragon Stone proves the success I predict it to be. That would be its ultimate test, why I plan on returning again in a few weeks for a second review, ensuring that when the pressure is on, Dragon Stone can still deliver. As long as their chefs keep committed in cooking the food properly, and as long as the buffet remains stocked with fresh vegetables and proteins, I cant see Dragon Stone failing. And I dont want it to. This could be it, the answer to the often asked query of which restaurant has the best Chinese buffet. I want this to be the answer. Food: 4/5Service: 5/5Presentation: 3.5/5Value: 4/5Recommendation: 4/5

  March 15, 2016, 12:32 am

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