Top Chinese Restaurant in Exeter
Fortune Cookie Chinese Restaurant
1110 W Visalia Rd, Exeter, CA 93221, United States
Awesome good fantastic food and great service. I noticed people coming in were repeat customers and were treated like family.This is now four years later. I was so looking forward on our the drive up from LA to eat here. The service was still great and very friendly... But but the food quality has severely dropped, zero flavor no seasoning on the combos B and C. The Egg Fu Yung was mealy like un cooked dough, very bland horrible taste. The Sweet & Sour Pork was way over cooked hard as a rock and bland. The Fried Chicken Wings were also over cooked and tasteless. The chef has lost all sense of taste and lust for quality. I will never ever return here. I was so disappointed. So I can only give one star on food but I will give five for service.
Mandarin House
163 E Pine St, Exeter, CA 93221, United States
Went there today and the girl that first sat us was very rude, her apron said Xeng. After looking at the menu, my sister and I were ready to order. I wanted the lunch special with the chicken chow mein and sweet and sour chicken and my sister wanted pork chow mein and sweet and sour pork. She said they wouldnt make our plates different since we were ordering together. We both had to get chicken chow mein because she said they dont make individual plates even though they were $7.95 each plate. I also asked her for napkins and I clearly saw her drop the napkins on the floor then pick them up and put them on our table. Also, my sister ordered lemonade that tasted awful but the waitress never came back so she could order something else. The other waitress that charged us on our way out still wanted to charge me for the lemonade that my sister didnt drink. Definitely not returning.
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Cafe Lafayette
151 S E St A, Exeter, CA 93221, United States
We booked tonight as a special holiday dinner at the end of a cross country drive. We aren't fancy or fussy people, but we generally feel that if you put on fancy airs, you have to deliver. We ended up spending $159 for dinner which is generally 3x compared to our typical simple dinner out consisting of some well scouted authentic ethnic eats. While this is certainly harder to do post pandemic, we generally succeeded over the last 9 days crossing the country.While the food was good here, for the price which included a basic bottle of wine, two dishes and a cup of soup, we could have done better in San Francisco in an experience that would have included appropriate service.Again, we aren't fancy and generally aren't bothered unless your inherent promise isn't met. Here the setup is really a farm town bistro. For the price, however, a table cloth would generally be expected. Slightly loud rock music was playing over the speakers, songs I liked, but neither the volume nor tunes you would expect at a French style bistro. We picked the lamb special as one of our two dishes. The waiter thought it was $36.50 which sounded suspiciously cheap. When the bill came, it was $54.50. The waiter never acknowledged this change. My wife was never asked how she wanted it cooked, and it came out bloody, which just isn't how rack of lamb is served. We sent it back for more heat, which is something we haven't done in probably 15 years. The waiter did ask if my shrimp could be blackened at my request, and they came out nicely done. The young waiter seemed to not know the tradition of tasting the wine, serving women first, adding water to the ice bucket to transfer the cold temperature to the wine, and serving with a cloth to wipe the bottle so I wouldn't have had to wipe the ice cold water on my pants.On net, pretty clunky. This would all be ignored at a different price point or if the restaurant wasn't putting on airs. I left 15% which pained me as it is the holidays and I wanted to be more generous, but this was more than it warranted. There was also a 3% credit card surcharge which is definitely a restaurant outlier practice, even post pandemic.If I was to pass on a tip, it would be to decide what your implicit promise is and deliver on it. If you are a cafe, you can be casual, have lightly trained staff, simple tables, rock music, and simple dishes at affordable prices. If you are a fine dining restaurant, you do need to train your team, know your prices, and deliver on your fancy airs. Here the implicit brand promise comes wrapped in metaphorical newspaper, and it just doesn't work.
East Meet West Restaurant
224 N Kaweah Ave, Exeter, CA 93221, United States
It was the worse food I have ever had eating inside a restaurant. We ordered a platter for appetizers. Egg rolls, chicken ect nothing homemade must of been frozen food but awful the wings tasted freezer burned. My son’s spaghetti noodles must of been over cooked to be mushy. We ordered there Chinese food part of there menu an it was just awful I spent 60$ super disappointed