Mandarin Gourmet

9 Reviews on “Mandarin Gourmet”

• Tessadurbeyville

  Terrible take out service. After a dozen instances of their horrible take out experiences I finally am quitting this place. Their online system schedules the take out orders and they are never ready on time. The last straw for me was the other day when I ordered a large soup ninety minutes ahead of time, came in nearly ten minutes late and still sat there for twenty minutes until I just left. There was one four top seated…. This place was far from busy. Working Downtowner’s only have 30-60 minutes for lunch. If you cannot have a bowl of soup ready without being more than a half hour late then you’ve wasted that costumers entire lunch time. Plus, at 7.75 for a large soup this isn’t some giant value. This restaurant has zero respect for customers and plenty of nearby competition that does have respect. I’ll be going elsewhere if they can’t be bothered to pour soup in a container in a timely manner.

  June 3, 2015, 9:53 pm

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• Vstarchip

  Sweet n’ Sour Shrimpiest of Shrimp. With today being National Chopstick Day, I braved the frigid, 11 degree, February cold for a Chinese lunch at the Mandarin Gourmet. This spacious restaurant was already getting a respectable crowd when I walked in around noon-time. I was quickly seated at a booth and given a menu to look over.The lunch specials seemed very reasonably priced and I looked over my choices hoping to see chicken or beef lo-mien. Discovering that that wasnt an option I decided on the sweat n sour shrimp with a bowl of hot n sour soup. A tin pot of hot tea was placed at my table and I thought, What a nice touch. My hot and sour soup followed shortly behind. The soup was thick with tofu and the broth of the soup had almost a syrupy consistency (in a good way). I was beginning to like this place. It didnt take very long for the main dish to arrive and it came beautifully presented. I was really believing that this place was a new gem that I discovered then I took a bite into one of the sweet n sour shrimp rings and was oh so totally disappointed. Remember that old commercial Wheres the beef? Well thats almost what went through my mind… Wheres the shrimp All you could taste and all you could see was this doughy coating. I decided to dissect one of the rings and I was able to locate the tiniest, shrimpiest of shrimp. Dont believe me? Take a look at the pic I took of it. Its that mess on the napkin. The shrimp is on top and the dough is on the bottom.I looked over at another table and there was a gentleman who got a broccoli and shrimp dish and his shrimp were big and plump and healthy looking compared what I got. I guess since his shrimp wasnt wearing a doughy disguise and were in plain view, the proprietors of the Mandarin Gourmet felt that they couldnt get away with serving the sickliest of shrimp to him. Judging by what I saw on the plates of other patrons and from the crowd that they get, Im thinking that I just choose the wrong dish today. Im planning on coming back sometime soon and trying a menu item that doesnt have the opportunity to camouflage itself and perhaps boost my rating of this place. But as for now, its a definite thumbs down.

  May 13, 2015, 6:25 pm

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