Top Soup Restaurant in Monterey
Mandarin Noodle House
701 W Garvey Ave, Monterey Park, CA 91754, United States
There are so many chinese restaurants in Monterey park. Do yourself a favor and go somewhere else. The kung Pow chicken was a soupy mess with no flavor. The chicken was boiled, not breaded and fried like the picture. The shredded pork soup had no pork in it and the handmade noodles were over cooked and clouded the broth when placed in the soup. Very disappointing. Also, everything was turned on it’s side when my girlfriend picked up the food. The mess they called kung psi spilled in the bag.
Daikokuya Monterey Park
111 N Atlantic Blvd UNIT 241, Monterey Park, CA 91754, United States
I was introduced to ramen at Daikokuya through my awesome boyfriend . I instantly fell in love with the intense, spicy, and flavorful broth and delicious noodles. Daikokuya is my go to place when I first introduced family and friends to ramen. Today, I had my usual Spicy Miso Ramen. Its a pork broth base and I dont add bamboo to my soup, but Im told its quite delicious with it too. I added a small cabbage salad with what can taste like a sweet, but good thousand island. If you are a lighter eater and feel the large portion is too much soup for you, I recommend getting the half portion. They only serve it at the restaurant; and not to go. The staff are attentive, and take care of you right away. The Monterey Park location is small, but cozy. They have enough room for around 15 people, and it can get quite crowded after 7-8pm. But in all, Daikokuya is a great spot.
California Pizza Kitchen at Monterey
1100 Del Monte Center, Monterey, CA 93940, United States
We order takeout quite often from this CPK. Over time, the salad prices have climbed to around $20 for a full. Costs are up so we get it. But the toppings have been reduced by as much as a third to a half on some salads. You end up with basically a bag of shredded iceberg lettuce with nothing much else on the Original Italian Chopped Salad these days. Would it hurt the bottom line to throw another handful of garbanzos on the salad? Its no longer worth the money or gas to go pick it up.On a cleanliness front, last nights container of dressing had a chunk of tomato and a piece of chicken in it (which has not happened in the past; it was pretty gross to see the lumps fall onto the salad as I poured the dressing over it). This means the staff person filling the dressing cups was scooping from a container where random food items, dust, air and things we probably do not want to ingest can fall in. Did you know an estimated 20-50% of dust inside is made up of dead skin cells?On two positive notes, staff always are friendly, and CPK was open on a Tuesday night which can be painfully slow in our community this time a year.
Boiling Point
153 W Garvey Ave, Monterey Park, CA 91755, United States
Small restaurant, needs to be better ventilated. Good food, interesting type of spicy for hot pot, asked for mild, the soup tasted very spicy even for mild, for the average person who wants mild, would recommend to just ask for non spicy and add small amount of chili sauce / oil. Average service, when requesting to change to a bigger table even before food was served, request was denied. When it is busy, restaurant feels very compacted, wondering if it has gone beyond maximum capacity.
Panera Bread
34180 Monterey Ave, Palm Desert, CA 92211, United States
This Panera and the people here do not focus on quality. They are too busy. Yet we as the customers pay their bills. I know fine dining, hospitality, casual dining, fast food, and everything in between. This place needs help. I took my baby in here after having a bad experience at Pho Vu down the street! Thinking this would be better. The service is terrible. The lady who took my order at the front should not be working there, or offered some severe training to up her effectiveness there. A robot could have done better. She was like talking to a wall. I had to pry information out of her about what my options were when it came to ordering sides. It was literally painful to order. And what happened to them taking food to your table? You have to go get it yourself? I asked for a side of bread to go with my You pick two; she corrected me nonchalantly French baguette. Yes, chick, bread. I want the bread. I asked for a sliced apple for my sons side for his Mac n cheese and she said she could ask but took a big huff (breath) in and acted like it was a big deal. I told her the last panera did it for me so he wont choke. She said shed ask. (Ask?) Cut the damn apple! Lol! Or are you going to hand me a steak knife to do it? What happened to service? After my order I go to find a table in the corner, which ALL OF THEM ARE DIRTY. INCLUDING THE CHAIRS. I ask the lady at the food making counter to please have someone clean a SPECIFIC table for me. She asks me to sit somewhere else. I tell her all of the tables are dirty. I wait nearly five minutes with a diaper bag, a purse, and a baby in my hand after grabbing my own high chair and standing by the specific table I want. Standing. Standing. Standing. No one comes. The same chick who was at the front who took my order walked right past me to the patio doing nothing, wandering. I go back to the food counter and ask about the table to be cleaned. She says she sent the girl but they are busy and understaffed. I told her I understand, BUT my time is valuable too, its been at least 5 minutes, and I have a burden in my hands! (Still holding baby, big diaper bag backpack, purse, and no where to sit without getting my butt dirty) Finally someone comes to wipe down the table and the booth and I can sit with my baby and sit my stuff down. When our order comes up soon after, the apple is not sliced. I dont want excuses, I want better service. Compassion. Empathy. BASIC CUSTOMER SERVICE. Basic intelligence? Artificial intelligence? I mean, jeezus.
Panera Bread
2199 Monterey Hwy #80, San Jose, CA 95125, United States
If you want the best tasting frenchbread in the Peninsula . .Id even go the stretch to say the whole Bay Area, at least, in my opinion, and, Im a quarter Italian - having an appreciation for that, delicious, down-to-earth, good old-fashion tasting sour-dough french bread, I would pick Panera Bread. If some of you are not familiar, well, you can find them (the restaurants), just about everywhere.And I would rate them as just aboutthe friendliest chain as well. If I was going to select an eating place, as a mainstay of patrionizing, I would pick Panera.Reasons? They have a fairly varied food selection, to start with. If you started with say, a breakfast apetizer, they have a rather large choice of pastries. They even have their . . par excellance . . 11 x 11 box of assorted cherry and cream cheese pastries, which, I swear, just to look at, starts up those salivary glands, frightfully fast. You look at it and say, gee, I bet the office would love to dig into a nice box of pastries for the morning, eveyone is so busy, and on the run, I bet they would just love to grab a quick morsal of nourishing enjoyment, that would have to put a smile on just any - down-in-the dumpsters attitude, no matter how bad their day was going.And, you dont want to ponder this fortoo long, because the whole territorial mindset just might settle in, and you start thinking, gee (again), I could easily polish off one of these boxes just by myself. I mean, they really lookjust down right deluctable.The price? Just $11.99.The restarant, you could say, reallyspecializes in lunches for the afternoon crowd - though theyre open till 9 pm., and, theres a nice selection of hot soups - such as, basal, cream tomato, and, the broccoli/chedder - always been a favorite of mine. And, accompanied with a nice tall cup of strawberry-lemonade. Sound tatalizing? Trust me, it is! I just recently bought the bowl (and was big too), for just $7½ (with my dollar off as a member). It came with choice of chips, or bread. And, if youve never tried their broccoli/chedder . . I swear . . its to die for!Incidentaly, I mentioned earlier, abouthot. Now, seriously though, where can you find a restaurant that will serve you a piping hot bowl of soup?I remember back when I was a toddler . .hey! it wasnt that long ago!My aunt - whenever I asked her if she likes her coffee hot! Would, without exception, would sit there on her chair giving me a look, as if to say, now, what kind of question is that? And then staunchly exclaim, I like my coffee . . scaaaalding hot! Well, at Panera, you can actually make that happen, because every Panera has a microwave. How bout that!Panera, is generally always very clean, as well as their restroom, but, they do have a high turnover, so, dont be too hard on them, they actually do moniter things pretty closely.Seating is no problem, they havelots of cushiony booths, and, tables, and, in fact, the Panera at the corner of El Monte & El Camino, have a rather large outdoor pateo, with eating that is very nicely spaced apart, for those of you that might have a bit more of a secluded bent in mine.If you go to the Plant, (at the corner of Tully, and Monterey Rd.), there will be a Panera right there. The Plant, has a number of places to visit - Target, Home Depot, Best Buy, T-Mobil, Chase Bank, Jamba Juice, Starbucks, Krespie Kreames, Ross, Apple Bees, Famous Daves, and, more.Oh! Dont let me forget, but, if yousign up as a Panera member, rewards in food items will come your way. Ive been a member for years, and on one occasion, my reward was afree bagel, every day, for a month . . not bad, huh! Annnd, if you sign up online, you can have a free coffee every day. Now, where are you going to get a better deal than that??Panera is more specifically at:2199 Monterey Rd. The cross street, is Tully/Curtner. As I mentioned earlier, Panera is part of The Plant.
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Lure Fish House
1101 Monterey St, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401, United States
Happy hour choices are amazing. Our wonderful server was also a former Hawaiian transplant & served us with great Aloha spirit. While Lure is a chain, their great Pupu selection is Ono. If one is Akamai, then one should run here for their amazingly Happy Hour. The last time I had Pupus this good was decades ago in Honolulu itself. They offer Ono-licious eats that harken back to my halcyon days, when I was at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. We are now Pismo locals, but with our past Hawaiian backgrounds, we are well versed in island eats and Pupus. Getting here early before the rush [~4pm / Monday], not only gets one some serenity, but one of the first cracks at the expansive & Oh so ono Happy Hour menu.Here is what I/we ordered, ranked in order of being Ono.1) Tuna Ponzu- a savory CA take on Tuna Poke. It actually improves on the past local HI formula, with the addition of creamy local Avocado, Crunchy Taro Chips, and a tangy/citrus/ spicy sauce. It was amazing and was recommended by our great Akamai waitress from Maui. Mahalo Makena!2) Charbroiled Oysters- while they use local Morro Bay Oysters, somehow they blow Morro Bay chefs out of the water with their more traditional take on BBQ Oysters. It is a hybrid of Brooklyn style seasoned with butter, garlic, paramesian, breadcrumbs, & parsley, along with the flare of being Charbroiled, which adds some smokiness. It is really hard to outdo the best of Morro Bay, but somehow they outperform. If one loves local Morro Bay Oysters, this is a must. The Oysters are cooked enough to not be overpowering, and more like baked clams.3) Basil Clams- While it should not matter all that much, the cast iron pan that these clams come out on, help keep these sweet clams hot and succulent. These clams furnished a sweet note and the Basil helped temper or moderate the seafood taste. It had a sort of like a Thai inspired savoriness to them. With some lemon, the clam broth furnished yet another great way to use ones bread up. The Clams went well with the Oysters.Ironically, the clam shells were so nice, it was a shame to throw them out. While I knew they could not be Pismo Clams, I imagined that they likely could take like what I dream that they could taste like. After all my years living in the SLO area, these are also by far the best bivalves that I have had the pleasure of consuming.4) Calamari- While I am a Calamari lover, the pieces offered did not fill my stomach, nor mouth all that well. While very tasty with the furnished sauce, the size was rather anemic. They did not have the great hearty chewy mouthfeel of similar offerings on the Morro Rock oceanfront places in the Bay, but the sauces were much better. Fortunately, it was quite tasty.5) Sliders- Of course, something in a Happy Hour feast has to come in last, and their take on the sliders proved that turf is not a strong point here.Refreshment:Orange Season Beer- While I was not sure of the exact brand, I was given a nice tall frosty glass of this refreshing beer. It had citrus, hops, and some bitter notes. Ultimately, it helped cut through the heavy seafood, garlic, and buttery notes, and cleaned the palate between HH bites. It was also pleasantly discounted. While fashionable, I rather not distract my palate with complex cocktail/wine flavors, nor fog my mind with too much alcohol.Salad: Strawberry Salad- It was one of my Honeys favorite tasty & healthy Vegan salads that she had in a long time.Deserts:1- Chocolate Cake with hot chocolate sauce, sitting next to a nice cold scoop of Vanilla bean ice-cream- This was almost a desert that can get one into a legal mess and could be worth fighting for. Lawyers on both sides of a divorce could fight on the merits of who will win the custody of either the cake or the ice-cream. My honey was granted almost 90% of the cake to consume at will.2- Strawberry Basque Cheesecake-light and fluffyMahalo!
Sushi on the Run
40101 Monterey Ave # G2, Rancho Mirage, CA 92270, United States
Ive been going to Sushi on the Run since the first week it opened and have enjoyed everything Ive tried so far. Their specialty sushi rolls are inventive while delicious (The Arnold Palmer and Citrus Fresh are my current favs). Im a fan of Salmon, and I loved that their menu has many different salmon options and combinations. The fish is really fresh, and the presentation of their garnishes are really nice. The owners are friendly and have great suggestions if you are looking to try something new. My father tried the Teriyaki chicken bowl and said that it had the perfect amount of Teriyaki sauce for the serving. It came with some dumplings, and he gobbled those fast saying they were delicious. I also like that there is a variety of beverages to choose from American soda/pop and some Asian drinks, like the delicious Oolong tea. The space is cute with the wood panels and bright lighting and their quick service areas are clean and organized. Im a fan and will keep trying everything until Ive completed the entire menu.
Granada Theatre
17440 Monterey Hwy, Morgan Hill, CA 95037, United States
I recently celebrated a huge milestone in my cancer journey at MOHI Social. I have been beating the odds and survived stage 4 cancer for the last 5 years. I wanted to pay forward my blessings and celebrate my 5th Cancerversary in a meaningful way. I decided to fundraise for a nonprofit cancer organization near and dear to my heart. I wanted a venue that would be as amazing and memorable as overcoming the challenges I have had to face during my battle.I originally wanted to have the party in the outdoor terrace area at MOHI but when I saw the newly opened Champagne Room, there was no way I could settle for anything less! It is jaw dropping in there! I knew the food would be great since I have visited for happy hour and dinner before. But I would have to say their drinks are show-stoppers and so delicious with a fun and upbeat ambience!I am so glad that I chose MOHI! I have to admit it was way over my budget. But if you want a high quality and extravagant experience, this venue will not disappoint. The venue coordinator, Christina was on point at every level with consistent professionalism, responsiveness, and execution. She was kind, patient and genuinely seemed to care about how much the celebration meant to me.The planning went fairly smoothly. Everything is in-house so it's pretty much a one-stop shop. There was only one hiccup. I wanted to have a slideshow and the venue didn't use a compatible program. That was bit stressful because that was really important to me to have for my guests. However, Christina tried her best to work with me to problem solve.The night of the party went off without a hitch. The venue was stunning. The florals were breathtaking. The staff there was exceptional. I was a little worried that I only picked one option for food due to budget restrictions but the guests kept telling me how delicious the Marsala chicken plate was. The drinks and the DJ definitely sealed the deal for party success! My guests are still ranting and raving about being a part of the “best celebration” they've ever been to!
John Kitchen
667 Monterey Blvd, San Francisco, CA 94127, United States
This place is open until three oclock in the morning they always have a wonderful spongy moist cheesecake that are too dyed for the Pho is amazing also the steam dumplings are great. Always friendly great service and clean. You better get you some especially that cheesecake.