Green Elephant Gourmet
#44 in USA
#5 in San Jose
Restaurant
- 3950 Middlefield Rd. Palo Alto, CA 94303 USA
Company Description
Green Elephant Gourmet provides fine Burmese and Chinese Cuisine. Both cuisines emphasize freshness, health, lightness and visual appeal.
Review & Rating
Not great quality food. Service is pretty average too.
Good food 👍 we had too much ofz everything!
Their food was generally good. The Hot and Sour Soup was too salty. The Lemon Chicken was good. The Pork Fried rice was very good. The Mongolian Beef was good. Service was poor to bad. Maybe they were tired but this visit was not even as good as my previous visit. We called ahead 2 days to let them know we had a group of 15 for a birthday celebration and showed up with 11. They actively argued with us over wanting to move two tables closer to each other so we could all sit together. After we got them to move a small table next to the large table and we're all seated another group was seated at the other large table. The other table got served first and left before us. Mostly because we were neglected. For instance we were not offered tea at all. For the Birthday we had brought a cake. We asked if they had a knife to cut the cake. "No we don't!" was the firm answer. Bottom line is there are better and even worse restaurants but for this level of service we don't plan to return.
It was fine, service was fine. I expected a bit more flavor out of the curries but worth a visit.
Yummy Burmese inspired Asian restaurant. I especially like the tea leaf salad and the mango salad. Friends always get the fruity nutty chicken or the fruity nutty prawns. Everything's good here.
Green Elephant has delicious food with lots of variety and plenty of vegetarian choices. The service is friendly and usually quite efficient. The atmosphere is very pleasant, bustling but not loud, with attractive decor.
I constantly come purchasing some food in this spot. I enjoyed the efficient customer service and well cooked dishes. Keep it up.
My parents regularly visit the Green Elephant. The food is always very good and the service 5 star. Last week my elderly father took a tumble outside their restaurant. The owners came out and assisted my father and mother. Compassion, loving and caring..........thank you for caring and feeding my parents too. The world is a better place!!
It's OK. The Spring rolls are good. I'm still looking for a good lemon chicken since my place closed down a while ago. I don't understand why this restaurant says they have lemon chicken but when you get it it's chicken in orange sauce. Not a fan of orange chicken. Why would they do that?
Seated quickly, order taken quickly, food arrived quickly. All four in my party were very happy with the quality of the food. My pad thai was top-notch. Definitely worth a visit!
I eat here with my family fairly often - it's a convenient and serviceable neighborhood restaurant, but not somewhere I'd go good for a special occasion. The food is reasonably good (our young kids really like it). The service is usually good enough, but with the odd wobble - the one time we came here with another family of 4 there was a lot of friction with the staff and the experience was pretty tense. Reading other reviews I wonder whether they're not so comfortable handling big groups. I also wish they'd give the bathrooms a good scrub. But we look past that and keep going back.
Their food was generally good. The Hot and Sour Soup was too salty. The Lemon Chicken was good. The Pork Fried rice was very good. The Mongolian Beef was good. Service was poor to bad. Maybe they were tired but this visit was not even as good as my previous visit. We called ahead 2 days to let them know we had a group of 15 for a birthday celebration and showed up with 11. They actively argued with us over wanting to move two tables closer to each other so we could all sit together. After we got them to move a small table next to the large table and we're all seated another group was seated at the other large table. The other table got served first and left before us. Mostly because we were neglected. For instance we were not offered tea at all. For the Birthday we had brought a cake. We asked if they had a knife to cut the cake. "No we don't!" was the firm answer. Bottom line is there are better and even worse restaurants but for this level of service we don't plan to return.
Good food 👍 we had too much ofz everything!
Yummy Burmese inspired Asian restaurant. I especially like the tea leaf salad and the mango salad. Friends always get the fruity nutty chicken or the fruity nutty prawns. Everything's good here.
Not great quality food. Service is pretty average too.
It was fine, service was fine. I expected a bit more flavor out of the curries but worth a visit.
Green Elephant has delicious food with lots of variety and plenty of vegetarian choices. The service is friendly and usually quite efficient. The atmosphere is very pleasant, bustling but not loud, with attractive decor.
I constantly come purchasing some food in this spot. I enjoyed the efficient customer service and well cooked dishes. Keep it up.
My parents regularly visit the Green Elephant. The food is always very good and the service 5 star. Last week my elderly father took a tumble outside their restaurant. The owners came out and assisted my father and mother. Compassion, loving and caring..........thank you for caring and feeding my parents too. The world is a better place!!
Seated quickly, order taken quickly, food arrived quickly. All four in my party were very happy with the quality of the food. My pad thai was top-notch. Definitely worth a visit!
I eat here with my family fairly often - it's a convenient and serviceable neighborhood restaurant, but not somewhere I'd go good for a special occasion. The food is reasonably good (our young kids really like it). The service is usually good enough, but with the odd wobble - the one time we came here with another family of 4 there was a lot of friction with the staff and the experience was pretty tense. Reading other reviews I wonder whether they're not so comfortable handling big groups. I also wish they'd give the bathrooms a good scrub. But we look past that and keep going back.
It's OK. The Spring rolls are good. I'm still looking for a good lemon chicken since my place closed down a while ago. I don't understand why this restaurant says they have lemon chicken but when you get it it's chicken in orange sauce. Not a fan of orange chicken. Why would they do that?
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