Recent experience 2/17/25
I’ve eaten here many times and I was really looking forward to the Vietnamese pancake as it’s one of the very few places that makes it in our area.
It was 1:300 Monday— and I forgot it was Presidents’ Day-. When I walked in...
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Recent experience 2/17/25
I’ve eaten here many times and I was really looking forward to the Vietnamese pancake as it’s one of the very few places that makes it in our area.
It was 1:300 Monday— and I forgot it was Presidents’ Day-. When I walked in there were 2- 6top tables and 1-2 top table vacant. I was happy to take the two tops since there was just myself. Once I was seated, my drink was ordered and when it was delivered a couple minutes later I gave my server my order. This is one of the few places I have found that makes Vietnamese pancake, and it’s always been very good when I’ve had it in the past. It’s also what I chose to order Monday. The only difference was I tried the combination which by description would contain several different proteins
After 15 minutes, I wondered if maybe my order had been lost and I only saw three total servers, tried to make eye contact with mine but failed. About five minutes later he delivered my meal. I’ve never waited over 20 minutes for anything. I have ordered there in the past so I was pretty surprised. He did apologize for the long. Wait which I appreciate it.
The pancake itself was stuffed overflowing, and I looked forward to diving in. The interior of the pancake was chuck full of bean sprouts, but was sorely lacking in the promised combination protein. I found a few very small pieces of chopped chicken and a couple pieces of shrimp this was Not up to par with my expectations and also was not what I experienced in the past here. I’ve always enjoyed the lemonade as it’s homemade and it was OK, but it was so overpowered this time with basil that it almost tasted a little bitter, so that was disappointing too. The pancake also was quite wet on the interior. I actually wondered if maybe part of the delay was that the chef did not know how to make it. I’m honestly not sure what happened, but I was very disappointed in my lunch and eat only about a quarter of it. I begin to look around to see if I could catch a server to bring me a box and my bill. I was lucky to catch one of the servers who I motion and mouth. I needed a box and she brought me one along with my bill
It was interesting to note that almost all the patrons that were already in the restaurant when I arrived, checked out pretty much at the same time and the place looked empty for about five minutes when as if on queue, several groups arrived and filled the tables back up. I felt like it was a lot for by that time only two servers who were taking care of probably 20 tables.
I’m not going to give up on them because this is the only poor meal I’ve had in the numerous times I’ve dined here but something was definitely off.