The Mandarin - Chinese restaurant in Menlo Park - 1029 El Camino Real, USA

In the realm of gastronomy, true connoisseurs recognize that it’s not just about tantalizing the taste buds, but alsoembracing a lifestyle. Today’s special chef dishes, be it the nuanced Oil Crisped Matsutake or the rich Pan-Sealed Cod, reflect the chef’s deep reverence for ingredients and the artistry of cooking. I’m really impressed! The restaurant has an extensive list of wine and the owner’s wine pairing brought all the flavor of food to its climax!

This is now my favorite Chinese restaurant in the Bay Area! Their raw crab is so delicious I wanted to cry. It was so good that I just had it 2 weeks ago and had to go again, despite the hefty price tag. All food had amazing quality and freshness. Food presentation was also lovely. 3 of us had all the food in the photo and it came up to $250 after tax and tips which is not bad at all. Highly recommended for everyone who wants to have some good real chinese food. Will definitely go again!

The servers go out of their way to assist. Constantly refilling our waters (orange infused). The servings are family portions so price is actually fair. They have tasty Yelping…Chicken. Green beans chicken (needed a little bit more salt but still very delicious) also love the dessert soup. The place looks clean and they clean the benches also. They have great alcohol choices as well. We will continue coming here for the excellent food and service!

Came here as part of a team outing of 40+ people which was accommodated with 4 large tables on the second floor. Delicious multi-course meal with a variety of dishes. Some of the standout dishes include the stir-fried eggplant, whole steamed fish, rib soup, black pepper beef. The owner also personally came by to trial out a very special dish made with egg whites and fresh slices of black truffle and egg yolks with iberico ham which was a very unique fusion of French techniques with traditional Chinese inspiration.

I celebrated my birthday at the Mandarin and had delicious black pepper beef, spicy boiled fish, garlic pea shoots, and egg drop soup. Fantastic meal! The service was great and Guy gave us a complimentary dessert.

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.

Came here the first time to celebrate my friend’s birthday. The dishes were flavorful. Ordered the chicken with snow peas and vegetables and prawns with mixed vegetables. Low carb today. Vegetables chicken and shrimp were very fresh, vegetables were very fresh and crisp. The thing about Excellent Chinese food is the high heat in the wok. Growing up with good Chinese food this place definitely hit the mark. Service was fantastic. Our dishes were ordered up and served quickly and the staff was extremely friendly. It’s got a very nice bar to meet up with friends at after work. There is a parking plaza behind the building. Great place to catch dinner before your concert show at the Guild Theater across the street.

we went on christmas night and the restaurant was quite frankly overwhelmed. we had a 545 pm reservation and the next available at the time of booking was past 8 pm, so you get an idea of how busy the 6-730 pm area was gonna be. it did take an hour from being seated to get our first course, which was hot and sour soup. there was a long line of to-go orders via doordash/ubereats/grubhub and phone-in orders that was also complicating matters, but the staff should be credited with handling it with grace even though everything took much longer than what i imagine is usual. communication was pretty poor, to be fair, however, and that's the only reason i would ding them one star. they should have told us they were running behind and set expectations accordingly. they did not. that said, the food was fantastic. we had the orange chicken, mapo topu, some kind of prawn dish (they have several), the dry braised string beans, hot and sour soup and a mixed fried rice. everything was amazing in taste and the portions were very generous. price wasn't the cheapest, but they also as expensive as, say, tai pan in palo alto. food, however, is very comparable. i will be back and hopefully will get the amazing service i have read about in other reviews so i can revise the rating to what i expect to be five stars.