HalalStreet Xinjiang Cuisine | Mountain View

Great vibe, peaceful and spacious seating. They have digital menu where you can order and food is served by servers pretty quickly. Food is spectacular and portion is big. I also feel prices are quite reasonable. Must visit for delicious cuisine.

4.5 Stars Visited Halal Street on a Sunday for lunch and went with the AYCE option at $24.95—such a great value! The buffet tables had an impressive variety, and everything was fresh and well-stocked. In addition to the usual hotpot ingredients, they even offered a solid selection of hot food items: the fried rice was very good, the chicken katsu was juicy, and the steamed buns, spring rolls, and sesame balls were all tasty and satisfying. What really sets this place apart is the thoughtful extras: complimentary boba tea and fresh-churned Turkish-style ice cream were a fantastic bonus. Plus, there’s no time limit for the all-you-can-eat experience, which is a rare and welcome policy. It gave us the chance to enjoy our meal without feeling rushed, especially since it takes a little while for the hotpot broth to come to a boil. The only downside was that some of the stoves weren’t working properly. One of our hotpots never boiled, and we had to switch tables mid-meal, which was a bit inconvenient. Hopefully, that gets resolved soon. Still, overall a great spot for AYCE hotpot with excellent variety, fresh ingredients, and a relaxed atmosphere. Will definitely be back!

food was 10/10! we thought we overordered but ended up clearing every plate. everything was that good. the flavors are bold, ingredients are fresh, and overall just super satisfying. service was great too. everyone was kind and super efficient. i saw a few reviews about the service, and as someone who’s eaten at a lot of authentic asian restaurants, it’s pretty standard not to have someone checking in every five minutes. personally, i prefer that—it lets me actually enjoy the food in peace. you have to order the sautéed green beans, the spicy cumin fish, and the naan bread. my sister-in-law is also vegetarian and was able to enjoy a full meal here too. the garlic sautéed bok choy was also a favorite!

Great restaurant for DELICIOUS Halal Chinese food. They have a unique cuisine that I have never tested in USA before. The food is not typical American Chinese food. It is different and definitely DELICIOUS. The service is very fast. I will definitely comeback again during my next visit to the Bay Area

Hands down the best halal xinjiang restaurant in the Bay Area!! The food is really well prepared, and you can taste the freshness in all the ingredients. Our server Emma was also very helpful with telling us a bit more about the dishes we ordered! She was very attentive during our meal too! Would definitely be back soon!! My favorite is the lamb shank polo. The portion here is really amazing for Bay Area and overall really good price for the quality and service you would get! They also have a lot of vegetarian options too!

I highly recommend this restaurant! The best dish, in my opinion, is the French Fry shrimp with stir-fried noodles - it's a must-try! I hope everyone can try this food with their family and friends. The combination of flavors and textures is absolutely delightful, and I'm sure you'll love it just as much as I do!" We had a wonderful time last night! The food was delicious, the service was great, and the atmosphere was perfect for a family dinner. Our server was attentive, knowledgeable, and friendly. The restaurant itself was cozy and inviting, with a warm and welcoming ambiance. Great food, great service! [HalalStreet xinjiang cuisine]is a fantastic choice for a family dinner. We'll definitely be back😋

We started with the beef dumplings: SO flavorful and juicy! We got these entrees -Mongolian Beef: tender, veggies were a great consistency, not spicy but strong Szechuan flavor! -Stir fry noodles: VERY flavorful, very large portion size – shared with the table, beef was tender, not very spicy, which I enjoyed because I could taste all the other flavors, not too saucy which was perfect for this dish -laghman: good dish for someone who likes a light loose sauce They gave us yogurt cups after dinner on the house. Homemade yogurt- very high quality taste

- Big plate chicken was pre-made, surface warm but the dish inside was cold. - The 9-small-dish thing ($88) feels like left over/small pieces from the its main menu dishes… one of the 9 was big plate chicken which we ordered; the other one was lamb meat - exactly the same with their lamb rice we ordered. Additionally, stuff was only the surface layer, bottom are all steamed lettuce. - lamb rice was good. - grilled fish was ok. Frozen fish, need to pay additional for any add-on item. Severe was bad mainly because of the lack of servers. They were all so busy with so many tables on a Saturday night.

We started with the beef dumplings: SO flavorful and juicy! We got these entrees -Mongolian Beef: tender, veggies were a great consistency, not spicy but strong Szechuan flavor! -Stir fry noodles: VERY flavorful, very large portion size - shared with the table, beef was tender, not very spicy, which I enjoyed because I could taste all the other flavors, not too saucy which was perfect for this dish -laghman: good dish for someone who likes a light loose sauce They gave us yogurt cups after dinner on the house. Homemade yogurt- very high quality taste Seating was comfortable! Prayer space available Staff were super nice and helpful! Service was great!

Meh, this one was just OK. I've had a ton of authentic Xinjiang including a bunch in China as it's one of my favorite cuisines. Decided to come here after work with a couple of friends who work in the downtown Castro area. I felt like the flavors on the dishes we ordered were all off compared to what they should have been. The only thing that was very good was the yogurt. Fried naan with lamb was decent but honestly that one's hard to mess up. The big plate chicken -- too salty, not enough cumin, didn't add a good helping of red onion and bell pepper which is the classic requirement for this dish. Laghman came out tasting somewhat sour -- probably because of an overdose of vinegar added to the dish -- also not right. The smell of MSG is literally wafting through the entire restaurant from the moment you walk in too. Would not come back.

I really like Xinjiang/uyghur food because it mixes some Chinese influence with ingredients found in Arab countries. We were the first party when they opened at 5 pm and super excited to try this place after our former favorite - Sama in Newark closed during the pandemic. Food overall was really delicious and not overly salty. Unfortunately a lot of items on menu were out of stock so I hope they work on the sourcing issues that don't seem to affect their other locations. In terms of what we got, here's what I would rank from most to least favorite: 1) stir fried noodles (comes with beef) - the sauce is not spicy at all and fragrant. The noodles taste freshly made which made this a pleasure to eat 2) naan stir fried lamb - most naan were crispy on outside and soft on inside, meaning they were not stale. The lamb portion is on the smaller side and not as interesting but I could keep snacking on the naan part. 3) gosh naan - essentially lamb mincemeat pie, this flaky pastry had a nice, slightly sweet aroma and filled with nicely seasoned ground lamb. 4) roasted lamb (requested no spicy) - came with cumin dipping powder. Most pieces were tender but there were a few more chewier ones. I would like to try the lamb shank instead next time. We really wanted the tower of lamb skewers but they were not selling them this day. At other location I've had the skewers but they were way too spicy so I wanted to request no spicy. This dish is a different cut of meat. 5) stir fried beans - your typical crispy stir fried string beans but with a lot of garlic. As expected, service isn't the strongest suit as we needed to ask for refill of water pitcher and to chase the wait staff down for box and check. However, finally found a new go to Xinjiang food place so will return. Saw lots of people order whole fish so need to do that next time! Also wow, they had full house not too long after we started eating so it's a good sign.

Very decent Xinjiang food! We ordered two appetizers and two entrees, ended up having a lot of leftovers for to go. Everything we ordered was really good. The lamb and rice is absolutely my favorite. The meat is tender and flavorful! The chicken dish is also pretty authentic. Highly recommend!

I got interested in visiting the place when saw through the windows the tables with a sitting on the carpet. These are tables for 6+ groups only. It was very easy to order through the qr-code creating the group order for the table. We happened to come 30 minutes before closure and after 15 minutes after ordering where only one person out of the group received their plate, we have been asked to pay upfront. The food came after approx. 10 minutes after only. The quality was okay, many options in the menu were out of stock.

Came at night with my fiance. Had just played table tennis and so I was ravenous. We decided to try this as it's close to our house, and stands out a lot from the other food options available on castro. The interior of the restaurant is pretty nice- the utensils are gold plated (for some reason), and tables all have paper mats. The service folks are very well dressed. We interacted with 2 guys and 2 ladies. We ordered 3 dishes in total. The first 2 dishes came reasonably fast. StirNan chicken: this was mindblowing. We love spicy, and the fried spicy nan and chicken were incredible; chicken was juicy, nan was crispy like tofu. 5/5 would get again. Mapo tofu: man the tofu was super silky. Not blocky like regular tofu. The seasoning was also amazing, great spice, and meat was good, as well as sauce. 5/5 would get it again. Now our last dish, it took literally 30 minutes to get. The servers forgot about this order, then when it did come (after we asked), the guy servers almost gave it to the wrong table... flat noodle stir fry: dish was too salty. Hard to fix that. Flavor was ok and noodle was QQ but I've had better. Portions are generally...big? Not sure how other folks had small dishes but every dish we saw was huge. I guess the noodles were the smallest. Overall, a solid trip and a 4* review. If they fixed their noodle's seasoning and fixed the service, it could be a 5.

Came here with a party of 9 for a late Sunday lunch upon my friend's recommendation for authentic xinjiang cuisine. It wasn't too crowded, so we got seated in 5-10 mins after we chose to sit at the more decorative tables (which come with a 20% gratuity FYI) since we were already large enough for gratuity charge. Our waitress was pretty patient in explaining the menu and taking orders, which you can either do with a QR code or with the server. Food came out relatively fast, starting with some lamb and beef entrees and then some shareable appetizers. Portions were decent, the apps came with 4 servings (like the stuffed naan and the baked meat buns) though the food does tend to be more oily. I especially liked the knife cut noodles and so we added on a tomato fish hotpot with a side of noodles to dip in the sauce. I'd give this place more of a 4.5/5 because I felt it was somewhat pricey for what you get - the tomato fish was $50+ and the entrees are around $20, so our per head cost ended up being $30+. But my friend who recommended it really liked the food. service was good, and it's a cool experience to eat around a low table so I'm glad I got to check it out!

We tried this place not too long ago and it seemed to have just opened. There was a short line for seating on a Saturday afternoon around lunch and the place was popular on Castro. The menu for this place was a bit limited and it seemed like every dish was a slightly variation of one another. We got the lamb stir fry with naan(?) and a noodle dish. The noodles were quite spicy and we couldn't really finish them because of how spicy they were. Everyone seemed to be getting the same thing so we thought we would order the same. While the dishes were flavorful (cumin!), they all tasted quite similar and they were also a bit too greasy for our liking.

Service was a bit messy and slow even on a quiet Tuesday night. Food was just mediocre, we had the stirred fried green bean, it was okay The lamb naan was really bad, naan was tasteless and hard. There's more naan than the lambs meat. Overall the dishes were small portion, made it kind of pricey.

Food was good, service is great. Way too pricey, expect baby size portions for each order.

Mixed feelings about this place, but it's definitely a solid 4 in terms of food (unless you get unlucky and ordered all wrong items). They have WiFi, btw, if you struggle with the signal there. I LOVED the first two dishes we tried. I would've given them 5-stars based on those two dishes because it was perfectly spicy + flavorful and the consistency/texture of the dishes were great. The stir fried naans were pretty unique to me, and I loved it how perfectly crispy/crunchy it is on the outside yet doughy on the inside. However, the third dish - which I thought would be what they'd specialize in, was not that good. It didn't feel like it was fully cooked (or maybe that's just how their noodle textures are like, but some halves of the noodle were softer than other). The flavor was also not that memorable. It also wasn't spicy enough so we had to add more spice to it. Portion wise, it was very filling. Two dishes + rice would've definitely be enough. Some of their menu item seems pretty pricey, but I took a glimpse at other tables and those portion were HUGE so it might be worth it? Not sure, but I'm definitely going to try next time. Service - inconsistent. The waitresses were really good and fast at taking care of problems. For example, one of the waiter wanted us to wait for a table to clear up (customers just left, and there were dirty dishes), but the waitress saw us waiting so she immediately took it into her hand to clear a closer table (dirty dishes were gone, but not completely "ready" yet). Not sure why we weren't just shown the easier-to-clean table first. Also, the other waiter seems to be new, so his memory wasn't great. He immediately forgot to bring us the things we asked for after few seconds (he had to drop a second dish off somewhere first). Yes, it was obvious he forgot because after he dropped off the dish, he just stood there and waited. It happened twice where we had to ask for things multiple times. There's definitely potential though, so maybe it's because they're still new and figuring things out.

Highly recommended the spicy fish dish. It was very flavorful and it comes with tofu and beancurd too. Service is very attentive. We sat at the tatami seating and had a great time. We will definitely come back again. P/s: they also have a sister restaurant in Newark that has hotpot.

The food here is amazing! Super flavorful, a bit salty but overall super tasty. We got their big plate chicken, noodles, stir fried lamb with naan and baos. Everything came out quickly and tasted great. Would definitely come back.

Food was phenomenal. The green beans were the best I've ever had. Flavor was spot on! Service was top notch. Decor is beautiful. Highly recommend!

I just read about Halal street in the Mountain View voice this week, and they're still in the soft opening phase. They took over the old Amarin Thai space on Castro. I'm surprised they only have a single 2 star review for this location because it was pretty full on a Saturday during lunch. I wanted to try more of the fish and meat dishes, but we needed a quick lunch with kids, so we focused on carbs. - Pearl noodles: little diced up noodles with a good bite and a beef broth sauce - Stir fried flat noodles: hand pulled belt noodles with a nice bite and flavorful sauce and lots of stir fried beef and peppers - Stir fried green beans: good flavor and nice blistering on the beans Ordering is by QR code, but payment is with the server. My phone signal wasn't great, so it was kind of annoying to navigate the menu on my phone, but I appreciate the pictures on the menu. The server was nice, and food came out pretty quickly. I would definitely come back for those belt noodles!

I like some food there, great noodles(lagman), do not buy the tiniest samsas ever, they are too expensive for their tiny size. Service is terrible, front desk is extremely rude like you are there begging for food! Overall, whole experience was not good.

I came here a few days ago for lunch to celebrate my friend's birthday. We had the boneless big plate chicken which I have observed to be a specialty for Xinjiang restaurants - flavor was really good! Also the lamb polo and bokchoy, great flavor overall. This restaurant is a good addition to Castro Street and I hope more people find out about it.

Best Halal food I tried in the US. Must try the fish hot pot and noodles with icy Kavss drink.

Food was ok but service was really bad. We had 8 dishes the time difference between first dish and last dish was 42min. Don't recommend this place at all if you are a big party.

Very clean and comfortable environment, good service, while the price is too expensive