Kara M.
Yelp
Hours:
Great food **if you can catch them when they'll actually make it.** They stop cooking around or before 7:30 PM, despite the "last call hours" on their door (8:15 PM), or their hours on Yelp, Google, et al (8:30 PM). This unspoken time seems to change every time I come here for dinner and I've been turned away several times, even an hour before closing. I think this somewhat has to do with how many people are there at the time.
Food:
Aside from not knowing when the dining hours actually are, I love the food here, it's been great every time I've had it, (mostly take-out). If dining in, note that the tables are kind of small and once you add the food, drinks, etc. it can get crowded, even with just 2 people. I've gone at a busy dinner time and watched 4-6 people cram themselves at tiny tables with barely any room to move their arms. You order from a kiosk at your table, which I happen to like as it can get kind of loud when it's busy and I'd hate to have to shout my order to the server.
Service:
Our servers have been very friendly and kind, especially when my kids can't use chopsticks well and have forks on hand for them. Food comes out pretty quickly after ordering.
A service critique:
I dined here a couple of weeks ago and the nice server cleaned our table before we sat down...with a very smelly (mildewy) rag that I think he had been using for his entire shift. This made our 'freshly cleaned' table smell awful, which somewhat killed our appetites. My kid ended up quickly eating a small bowl of rice and asked to take dinner home to avoid the smell.
Oddly this seems to happen somewhat often at other restaurants around here, either using horribly mildewed rags to wipe down tables, or swinging the opposite direction and filling the place with Lysol, neither of which are something most want to smell/breathe in before eating.
So despite liking the food a lot, I have to remove 1 star for their seemingly arbitary hours and 1 for using nasty cleaning cloths to wipe down with. I think I'll stick with take-out for a while.