Ginger Cafe

The young man casher is one of the kindest staff I've ever met in a restaurant. The restaurant atmosphere is so cool. You are able to choose less salty and less oily option, which is amazing. Food is good as well! It took less than 10 minutes to get the food to go. Definitely worth to try it.

Lunch special is a great deal most are $20 and below and come with soup

We've been here a few times and know it's usually good, but last night was a bit disappointing because the food was too salty. The Saigon noodles were the only ones that weren't overly salty, though they still had a bit of saltiness.

The Vietnamese Coffee was really good, it was sweet and smooth. The atmosphere was a mix of casual yet upscale which was comfortable. The orange chicken was light and fluffy and not too overly crunchy with a soft and balanced flavor. The fried rice on the side paired well in quality. Serving sizes were also generous and filling. Nice spot to have come to.

They have lunch specials which had a pretty good portion with choice of white & fried rice and a side of salad/ soup. Really liked the kung pap chicken, which had the right level of spice and cooked wel”

Came in a little late, they only had 30 minutes before closing. The staff was so kind and welcomed us in and didn't make us feel rushed at all. The restaurant was super clean and fresh feeling. The food came out pretty fast, it was fresh and delicious. Loved that the wonton soup was chicken (so many places are pork and I don't eat pork). The dumplings were mouth watering and the custard buns were so good that we brought extra home. The server let us know when the kitchen was closing and offered us to order anything else before. He has a conversation with us and was very friendly. Will definitely be coming back and I highly recommend.

Great service and delicious dim sum. The restaurant has a good vibe and atmosphere too.

Arrived at 8:55 before closing and the guy said dining room closes at 825. I wonder if the owners know about employees disallowing service during business hours. Maybe change closing time to 8pm :/

Love this place. Good food, good service, good ambiance. My husband and I go there often. Love the wanton soup, the veg. egg rolls and the Shaking Beef. My husband loves their dessert too. Prices very reasonable.

My best friend and I were in the area to watch a movie and we were craving Chinese food, we searched through Yelp and found this restaurant and I'm so glad we did! The interior is so sophisticated yet casual, perfect for family style dinner or even a date night! Super cute inside. The waitstaff were so attentive and kind! I don't think there was a moment my water cup was empty! I tend to drink a lot of water when I'm at restaurants so it was nice not having to ask for water or wait around. The menu was very easy to read and had a lot of great options to choose from! We ordered the OX fried rice, the dumpling sampler platter that's perfect for sharing as each dumpling comes in a set of 2! We also ordered the green beans with chicken and their sizzling rice soup. Everything was delicious, the service was great and we left completely satisfied! So satisfied that my friend ended up going the next day with her significant other. I'd definitely recommend this restaurant and will be retuning soon!

Beautiful interior and ambiance. First class customer service. Come here if you want to feel special. The pandemic is over. Enough Door Dash and eating at home cold food by yourself. Invite your friends and have a dinner date here. Soaring ceilings and intricate decor create an impression of spaciousness and grandeur. I immediately felt as though I was at a mini version of the old Elephant Bar of yesteryear. We sat at this lovely round booth - best seat in the house - or at least it felt that way. Lots of natural light from windows and a familiar friendly server. We ate family style and ordered one of everything. Chicken, noodles, eggplant - you name it. Although it was all so fresh and tasty we couldn't eat it all. The server carefully packed it all to go for us. Again, first class treatment. If your in the area give it a whirl. It appears to be a one of a kind family owned restaurant that is doing everything right.

I ordered delivery of Sweet & Sour Pork, which wasn't tasty. Not enough sauce. Wontop Soup not bad. But probably won't order food from this restaurant again, waste of money.

THE MOST DISGUSTING CHINESE FOOD I have ever tasted! First off, their taro shrimp cakes stated there was pork for the single order, and the bulk order stated only shrimp, taro, and scallions... I called before placing an uber order for the item. The person who picked up said it was a mistake and to call back tomorrow. I placed my uber eats order for: Mongolian beef (way too spicy and meh meat), sizzling rice soup (which I never received the soup/broth for and a foul smell coming from the seafood solids that did arrive), taro pancakes (which were mushy yet burnt and tasted nothing like a seafood pancake), crab Rangoon (yet another extremely pungent smell with what appeared to be ravioli that was deep fried to look like a wonton wrapped), and shrimp dumpling (with an extremely thick dough and rubbery shrimp). Gross! Do not go here!

Not sure what happened to this place but it has really gone downhill as far as food quality. I had my usual orange chicken last night and it was absolutely terrible - dry, chewy, over-cooked. The last three visits for take out have progressively gotten worse over time.

I've been eating lunch at this small place near my home for some time. Always one server, always the same guy. With only one exception (the crispy-skin chicken didn't quite make it), the food has always been delicious. I would give special note to the caramelized garlic prawns, an unusual dish that's really good, tasty and crunchy. You can't get this elsewhere, unlike, say, Mongolian beef or kung pao chicken, but those are also really good here. Come cold season, I tried a bowl of wor won ton soup, more veggies than meat but lots of both, tiny little soft won tons, and they offered to cut up the bok choy which I really appreciated. Also pretty good.

My wife's favorite restaurant, and we go out to dinner a lot. When we lived in Sunnyvale we would go 3 or 4 times a month. Now that we're in San Jose, we go once a month to meet with our former neighbors and have a great meal

Great ambiance, very quick service. We ordered 2 lunch specials. Chicken chow mein and Basil Chicken. Basil chicken came with a choice of white rice or egg fried rice. Chicken tasted great, flavorful with plenty vegetables, but the egg fried rice was a lil bland and dry. Chicken chow mein was very well done, chow mein had right texture.

Ginger cafe is a pretty cool restaurant that offers a cool combo of Chinese/fusion food and...dim sum! If you are looking for this sort of combo, Ginger Cafe is the place for you! Food is decent, not super pricey, I would come back.

Was craving some chow mein and this was the perfect spot! We each got a lunch special and enjoyed our dishes. Our waiter was attentive, the food came quickly, all around great service.

This place has really tasty dim sum and everything I have had here is amazing and fresh!! I wish I still lived in the area...one of the places I miss the most!!

There's something really comforting about a place where you walk in and are greeted with a smile that feels like they mean it and that was the vibe right off the bat here no fuss no over the top just nice folks doing their thing and making sure people have a good time eating I went in with no expectations and the first thing I noticed was how calm everything felt even though people were coming in steadily the team kept things moving without letting the mood get chaotic which was refreshing the food came out not super fast but it was worth the wait and tasted like it had actually been made fresh with decent ingredients and the flavors were balanced nothing too salty or bland the person who brought it over checked in once without hovering and even helped me out with a small request without acting like it was a big deal I didn't have dessert but saw a few go by and they looked pretty tempting so maybe next time the whole experience was just smooth and I left feeling full and satisfied without anything standing out in a bad way.

This review is for Ginger Cafe's catering services. Because my husband and I are Chinese American, we needed Asian cuisine for our families to enjoy at our wedding. This was one of, if not the most, important aspects of my wedding, but the challenging part was that I did not want it at an Asian banquet so it needed to be a company that can cater at my venue. After extensive review, we found Ginger Cafe and they checked all our boxes. I must say, the interactions I've had with Bo have been so awesome and great. I recommend him and his company for any Asian catering you need. Some key points: -You can try the food at the restaurant in Sunnyvale. The price of the tasting went towards our total. -The food is SO delicious. I cannot stop hearing about how great the food was from all my guests. -The food was plated beautifully. Not only did the food taste great, it looked great too. -The venue required them to cook outside and they're a champion as they do everything outside and are so well-prepared. -The venue required them to cook DOWNSTAIRS. And they were able to do this for us although it was going to be very difficult for them as they're plating 20 large plates of each dish. We were able to get to a compromise with the venue to make it work. -Bo went above and beyond and actually toured the venue himself before the wedding to ensure he knew where he was cooking since he had never been there before. He communicated with my other vendors seamlessly. -Their staff were so helpful and quick when cooking and serving. My only disappointment was that I didn't get to eat more of my food! They even packed it up for me but a cousin ate the food instead when we asked them to bring it home . That's how good it was! If you're wanting Asian food at your event, ginger cafe is awesome.

My family and I used to come here frequently. We moved to AZ 8 years ago, but make it a priority to come visit anytime we are in town. You can't go wrong with the string bean chicken and potato beef.

The food here is pretty disappointing and definitely not authentic. I should have known when I walked in and didn't see any other Asian people that I would be disappointed in the taste. There were a few other occupied tables, but it was only about 1/3 full around 1230 on a Wednesday. The restaurant space itself looks nice, with high ceilings I ordered a wonton noodle soup, and when I asked the server if the regular wonton soup without noodles had more wontons, I was told it has pork. Hmmm, that doesn't make any sense. My noodles were generous in portion size, but they used premade ramen noodles that were over cooked and very mushy. It was also piled with chopped up barbecue pork and also came with a few stalks of bok choy and chopped up mushrooms. The strangest thing about my meal was that my soup was sweet! The wontons were also on the sweet side but otherwise tasteless. None of this tasted very authentic or delicious and felt like a rip off for $15 before tip and tax. The only reason I'm not giving them one star is because the server was very attentive and came by to check on us very often.

Horrible food quality. Do not order food here within the first hour when they first open. They will serve you old food. They gave me chicken that was dry and hard. Not fresh at all. They also gave me burnt rice which was probably very old too. Very upsetting.

I may have finally found a good Chinese restaurant in this area! They velvet their meats so they're melt in your mouth tender, and they are generous with the portions and the flavors. The Kung Pao chicken and Mongolian beef were delicious! Minus one star for charging for tea, $8 bowl of rice, calculating tip on the post tax amount, and for not having a fortune cookie or fruit at the end of the meal. They also have an assortment of Dim sum and lunch specials every day until 3pm. Will definitely be going back!

I ordered pineapple fried rice, and it was spicy! Although the taste was not authentic, it was delicious.

We utilized Ginger Cafe's catering services and beverages package for our wedding on 1/6/2024. Their food was so delicious that everyone who attended still talks about it today. Not only was their food delicious but their service was top notch. The servers would approach us (the bride and groom) during cocktail hour to make sure we had the chance to eat the appetizers. We were served first during dinner to make sure we had enough time to eat before getting busy with everything else. They made sure that we were well fed throughout the night. (The photos in this review do not include all 10 dishes and 3 appetizers that were offered but trust that they were all delicious!) Not only was service great on the night of, but communication was great leading up to the event. Bo went above and beyond when there was miscommunication with the venue about whether they could cook on site or not. We are so grateful for that because we wouldn't have known what to do otherwise. Overall, we would highly recommend Ginger Cafe to our friends for their catering services alone. We will definitely stop by the restaurant every now and then to try out the rest of their food!

Very delicious food with ample portions sizes keeps us coming back over and over. This beautifully furnished and calming restaurant has very friendly staff who ensure the drinks are always filled and food comes out rather quickly. My family is able to share our favorite plates of chicken fried rice, beef chow mein, and potstickers and enjoy our meal peacefully.

Ginger cafe is a neighborhood family favorite! Any time I'm visiting my grandparents and we want dim sum, we head over to Ginger Cafe! We have eaten nearly every dumpling on the menu and we have tried many of the entrees as well. Everything we have tried is tasty and of great quality. The service is always quick and friendly too, which is quite a bonus! If you're looking for an Asian restaurant with excellent dim sum, Ginger Cafe is your spot!

Easy to find and easy to park here. I'm very familiar with the location in Gilroy so I was excited to try this location too. The menu looks the same. I got the crab cake appetizer which was kinda mediocre like a regular crab cake in a won ton wrapper - not really very crab tasting. The squid ink lobster dumplings were really good. Also they had lunch specials so I got my favorite shrimp dish as a lunch special and it was a good portion of food for one. I did the upcharge $1.50 to add a salad and it was a pretty generic salad and covered with fried bits so I'd probably pass on that. The soup they serve it with was decent.

We enjoy good food & service at Ginger Cafe Sunnyvale fairly frequently. My daughter loves the Wor Wonton Soup, Shanghai Pork Dumplings, Mu Shu Chicken rolls, Sesame Balls and a myriad of other dishes. Ben & Bo, the managers, and the servers like Lucy always take great care of us. The decor is charming as well.

steamed sea bass is my husbands favourite and we always order it here .. taste is a 5star! ambiance is really cozy service is always great.... we love to go here especially when my husband craves for the seabass dish... food presentation is like a 5star restaurant....

They catered my wedding at SF City Hall and I still dream of every dish. I cannot recommend them enough for their professionalism, quality of food, and service. We were looking for a family style, multicourse Asian cuisine for our wedding with 200 guests and it was challenging without hosting at a restaurant. Ginger Cafe was the answer I didn't even know I needed. We set up a tasting and brought our family. They made every dish for us to try and even when we wanted to sample different dishes from their preset menu, they were kind enough to make the dish and mix and match our menu. Day of wedding reception was flawless. I had no qualms and they executed perfectly. Everyone raved about our food, no one left hungry after 7+ courses and it was a party! Food came out hot and the guests were impressed. I highly recommend the sea bass, lamb lollipops, and their pig buns; everything was amazing but these were my personal favorites. While we didn't serve dim sum at our wedding, they let us try it at the restaurant and it was delicious (and cute) too! The price for wedding catering was very reasonable. No one comes close to the quality and amount of food Ginger Cafe provided and believe me, I checked all over the Bay Area. So happy we weren't stuck with the single typical vegetable, meat and carb dish for our wedding meal (we had crab soup, shaken filet mignon beef, Chilean sea bass, and even tuna tartare for cocktail hour. ) If you're looking for a wonderful catering company, this is it... especially if you are all about the Asian banquet style. And what's an Asian banquet without bar service? ... yep, they offer bar service with their catering too. Literally cannot go wrong working with Ginger Cafe.

Absolutely delicious!! Fresh and tasty. Not greasy. Large portions, so a good value. Staff are very friendly. And the decor is very nice and clean. The chicken with green beans was soooooo good!

Wow, what a surprising find! Actually, it was my wife's discovery. Who would have known that a restaurant with a nice decor, great service, and delicious food would be in such an unassuming strip center. We typically would have gone across the street to that well known chain if we were in the mood for chinese food. After finding this place, I'm not so surre anymore. And these guys serve dim sum throughout the day if you're in the mood for it! It turns out that Ginger Cafe is part of a restaurant group that includes Asian Street Eatery, Rice + Noodles, and Fu Kee! They all serve a couple of the same signature dishes but also have their own, unique spins, etc. What we ate and enjoyed: Egg Fried Rice, Sauteed Vegetable de Asia, Mongolian Beef, and Cripy Shrimp Garlic Noodles.

Nice modern looking restaurant. As the host walks you around to your seat, you pass by their bar and kinda see this as a higher end restaurant. Service was great as we had just beat the lunch crowd. The Mongolian Beef lunch special that we ordered was good. I'll definitely be back.

We're not really from this are we moved here few years ago. My friend recommended this place and she wasn't wrong. The food is always delicious and they are very attentive. We love coming here. My kids ask to come here daily. If we could we would. We have come in a large party of 12 and they've accommodated us and gave us the same service as they would when it's just the four of us. The Wor Wonton soup is definitely a family favorite!

THE BEST TOFU I'VE HAD IN MY LIFE! I have brought many tofu-haters here and this always changes their mind! It's truly the best. We also very much enjoy their string bean chicken, pork fried rice, and their baby pig custard buns. We have been coming pretty regularly for about 8 years now (coming all the way from the East Bay) and always have wonderful customer service. In years past we have enjoyed waiters Abner and Bam. And in our most recent visit we were so pleased to be helped by Ing for the first time and fell in love with her too!! 100% recommend this place

What a hidden gem! We were the first to arrive for dinner on a Friday night. We were warmly welcomed and escorted to our table. in the mood for a light yummy savory meal we had the wonton soup and egg rolls. our waiter was fabulous and the presentation of the soup table side was beautiful. The food was spectacular so full of flavor and fresh. So glad we found this place! A must go to!

the food was ok. But most of the time, I didn't like it. definitely eat somewhere else.

Came here as a party of eight to celebrate a birthday, vaccinated on one side and nonvaccinated on the other side of the table. Exceptional ambiance, with beautiful decorations on the ceiling, always one of my favorite Asian fusion restaurants. The $15 Wor Wonton soup is among the very best I have ever tasted. Plentiful chicken dumplings with large slices of chicken, calamari, shrimp, bok choy and mushrooms. No skimping on meat, nor seafood, this is more like a solid meal than a soup. The $19 3 Delight on sizzling plate comes with calamari, chicken, shrimp, snow peas, mushrooms and broccoli on a sizzling plate. Another solid dish with lots of meat and seafood fried on the hot plate in front of you. Perfectly cooked not too overdone. The $19 shrimp with veggie is shrimp with broccoli, snow peas, bok choy, bamboo shoots and mushrooms. A pretty common dish. The $19 orange beef is fried battered beef with tangerine peel in a sweet citrus sauce. I've tasted better at Panda Express. The orange beef here is too sweet, and too much batter for my taste. The $16 eggplant tofu comes with sweet and sour garlic sauce. Probably stick to the crispy tofu next time, but wife loves the eggplant. Sweet and sour sauce not among my favorites. The $19 candied pecan prawn was not of my choosing, but a favorite among the granddaughters. Tossed with sweet creamy sauce, the prawns are nevertheless well presented and not full of mayo like sauce. A very heavy and filling dish. I would have ordered the carmelized garlic prawns with more kick. The $17 Mongolian beef comes with onions, scallions, and crispy rice noodles. Spicy hot, I usually slice up the hot red chilis to increase the spiciness. Another one of the best I have ever tasted dishes, right up there with PF Chang's Mongolian beef with green onions. The $16 kung pao chicken comes with carrots, onions, mushrooms, celery, peanuts, chili peppers, along with slices of chicken .  My wife's favorite, we always order this dish when coming here, as it is still another of one of the best dishes I have tasted. With two orders of steamed rice, the bill comes to $167 before tax, with no drinks and no dessert. 18% suggest tip based on $182.03 which includes $15.03 sales tax. Since when do we tip on tax? Yours truly paid for the birthday dinner. Surprised that my ex didn't ask for a free slice of birthday cake for her husband, 11 years her junior.

The food here is amazing especially the egg custard steamed bao which I have gotten every time I have been here. And they always serve the food very very quickly. It is never ever loud and really gives that unique Chinese taste. Five stars. -Kian This review was written by my son who loves this place. It's a family favorite!

Amazing service, tasty food, and quiet! This is a great alternative to the Cheesecake Factory or other staid options. They have beautiful decor and the food is authentic.

$32.74. Seriously?! No thanks ginger cafe. 1 star cuz it tasted decent but I ordered last month and got bell peppers.

Ben was our server and was very nice and helpful. We ordered egg rolls, chow fun, fried rice and orange chicken. He came back to make sure we were good and our drinks were full. The place inside we beautiful and music was nice and not loud. After we were done Ben came back took out food and boxed it up. This was our first time eating here and we will be back.

This place is awesome! Our go tos are Crispy tofu with mandarin sauce, green string beans with tofu(they can sub chicken for tofu). Crispy tofu is to die for, don't miss this. I recommend eating in so that the tofu is still crispy. We have been going here for the past 8 years and the food quality is inconsistent. The person serving the food is very kind and courteous.

This post is way overdue. We were glad that we went with Ginger cafe with our wedding vendor. Our good friends hired them for their wedding back in 2019. The food was really good and Bo was great with us. He helped give us advice when we needed and was really nice. He was our main point of contact. We got to do the wedding menu tasting for free when we decided to book them after the tasting. We went with the premium menu. During our wedding, they made sure we were fed first. More than a year later after our wedding , we got to try their regular menu. We had a great time. Please book them for your wedding and enjoy their normal menu! They were flexible to reschedule our wedding due to Covid. Of course prices rise every year, so we understood that was a factor. They have a really good wedding food menu. Everything was cooked perfectly. As fancy as it can get! You won't regret it! Thanks Bo and your team!

Horrible experience here. Would have given zero stars if I could. I am in fact in the restaurant writing this, I am so disappointed. Found a disgusting curly hair in their fried rice and instead of any apology or offering to replace the dish, they said just said we will give you a 20% off on the dish like I am some starving waif in need of his charity for a couple of dollars. The server was so rude and further said 'We don't know if the hair came from you or us'. Like seriously?! So downright insulting and accusatory. You really cannot and should not defend something that is indefensible. Never coming back. You can compromise on taste but not on quality of service and making your customers feel slighted.

I have food allergies and sadly I am one of the only Hapas allergic to MSG/mono sodium glutamate! Luckily for me there's a couple dishes here I can eat! I ordered: Sauteed Basa Fish Filet with Ginger and Scallions and Candied Pecan Prawns with white rice. I've never had sautéed bossa fish before, but it's very tasty and reminded me a lot of halibut or whatever fish is used for the English fish and chips. I love the candied pecan prawns dish here! The pecans are always my favorite! They are always perfectly candid and sweet, yet still have a good crunch! After this one serving I was actually stuffed so I have leftovers!

I am so happy I finally tried this mom and pop restaurant. It is so unassuming in the back of a mini strip mall. Inside it's gorgeous. The food is delicious and really hit the spot. It was packed on a Friday at lunch time. They have a bunch of lunch specials where you select the entree and either white or fried rice. It comes with a delicious beef soup. I want to go back and try more of their entrees and their dim sum.

One of our favorite Chinese restaurants in the area. We first found them in Gilroy and was surprised they are in Sunnyvale. They have a great gluten free menu with a large variety of dishes!!!

We had Bo cater for our reception and we couldn't have asked for a better person/company to work with. Communication was amazing and the food was perfect. Everything went off without a hitch. I would highly recommend Ginger Cafe to cater your wedding or any other events you may have! Thanks again Bo!

Please decrease the amount of oil in your cooking and improve on to-go packaging. Putting a wide box on top of 2 smaller boxes makes no sense and there was spillage in the bag before I placed it in my car. This occurred evening of Tue 6/13/23.

The crispy tofu in mandarin sauce and Saigon chow fun was good. The waiter was very nice and continuously check on us. Nice interior.

I ordered uber delivery: Peking duck for 3, hot and sour soup, combination fried rice, and dozen shanghai pork dumpling. Very satisfied with peking duck for 3, hot and sour soup, and fried rice. The soup and fried rice are relatively pricy but taste good. We love Peking duck for 3. We will be back.

Ginger cafe is now our favorite go-to place for Chinese food. It's not really Chinese because it is more Asian-fusion. Atmosphere is casual but refined with just a hint of Asian decor. They have recently updated there menu; it's nice to have new varieties of dishes. Their dimsum dishes are unique which tells me that they must be house-made and not frozen. I also really appreciate the generous portion size. We ordered: Soft shell crab salad -- this comes with rice noodles and a bit of lettuce. The soy sauce dressing is delicious with a touch of spice. Soft shell Crab was lightly battered and fried to perfection. Roasted garlic and basil fish filet -- this was my least favorite. The fish was over marinated (sitting in the marinade for too long). There was hardly any basil. Chicken with brussel sprouts -- delish! A bit on the salty side but very good flavors. Chicken and brussel sprouts were perfectly cooked. Orange peel beef -- great flavors and perfectly cooked.