P.F. Chang’s

I used to be a really big fan of P.F. Chang’s. The last few times have been pretty disappointing for several reasons. The most serious problem is the product that you pay for. It is becoming more expensive here, and the portions are getting smaller. The quality of the food is also not the same as it was. I was also sad they no longer offer vegetable dumplings, and the rice does not seem as good as before. The coconut curry vegetables is pretty good otherwise. Will come here again occasionally but not as often as before.

Went here for a Sunday birthday lunch. Wait staff was nice and tried to be as efficient as possible, but with 12 people, I understand how he could forget some stuff. I am usually good as long as you get my drink to me shortly after ordering. He did okay. The food portions were large and tasty. I had the sautéed spinach which was excellent – good garlic and soy flavor and for the small side, I thought it was a really good portion. I also ordered the ahi tuna salad and the summer rolls. The summer rolls were delish and fresh. Didn’t get to the salad until yesterday at home for lunch – it was very good. My husband got the ribs and he said they were very good. He too got the summer rolls (good) and the pork dumplings, which were just okay. Overall, I was fine with the experience but would probably not choose this for an intimate dinner location. Too trendy and loud for my taste.

The taste and quality has come down. Got a fried rice today on to go for lunch and it was terrible. Wouldn’t go again

Underwhelming. Perhaps we had a new server. Or maybe they had several call offs and were under staffed. What I do know, this service was the worst ever that I’ve had at a place where I pay even close to these prices. It started from the beginning. It took forever before we even saw our waitress. Then another nearly ten minutes to receive our drinks. That same theme continued with the appetizers and the main coarse. First time at a p f changs. I know I won’t be back to this one (bummer Neckar it is close to where we just moved). I doubt I’ll try another location either. Even worse was that when our entrée got there, part of it had seemed like it had been waiting as it was lukewarm. What a bummer! Paid way too much for this experience.

I’m only giving 3 stars because the food was actually good.
This establishment is not a family friendly restaurant. The young adults act more like young immature children. I’m not sure they understand that customers CAN hear what you are talking about, and CAN see you grope/​grab each other.
The managers should be ashamed of themselves for letting their employees act less than professional.

The new menu is really good. I wish that soup came with the meals at lunch like it used to.

PF Chang’s has been around forever, and it seems like they have gotten more laxed with their food quality in recent years. We did the meal for 2 deal, and I was not impressed with any part of our meal. We started out with Won Ton soup which I had to ask for because it wasn’t listed on the menu. When it came out, it was incredibly salty and definitely not the greatest. Then we shared chicken lettuce wraps which is always my favorite part of a meal at PF Chang’s. Sadly though, I was disappointed to see brown spots all over the lettuce, proving that it wasn’t fresh.
For an entrée, I tried the ginger chicken with broccoli which was fine, but not the greatest. The chicken seemed a tad undercooked for my liking, and it was drenched in sauce.
And the dessert portion of the meal for 2 is a joke. The «dessert wontons» are a bite size piece of fried dough filled with a custard. They were oily and the custard filling part wasn’t very good.
Overall, I left feeling underwhelmed and our bill was still around $ 50… I wouldn’t say it was worth that at all.

Underwhelmed
PF Chang’s used to be a go to spot. I hadn’t been for some time and this visit doesn’t make me want to start going again. Was excited to go and left with a very blah feeling. It has changed, don’t know if it’s a location thing or a chain thing. We went on a Sunday evening, we made a reservation but don’t think it was needed and after eating there I see why. The quality and quantity have declined but the prices have increased dramatically. The food was cold, portion size was small, the presentation was poor, and taste was nothing spectacular. Service was ok. Total waste of time and money.

Very prompt service. Good ambiance and awesome food.
Loved the chicken satay with peanut sauce. Veg spring roll was good although not the best.
And the Chang’s Coconut Cooler is one of the best drinks I’ve ever had in Columbus/​Dublin.
Little pricey in comparison to other Chinese outlets, however totally worth!

I have to give P.F. Chang’s points because we tried to go to a certain steakhouse down the road and were really disappointed. P.F. Chang’s did enable us to have a nice dinner! Not perfect, but nice.
We came in and were told about happy hour prices, so we sat in a booth by the bar. Some of their happy hour prices were quite appealing (others, not so much — even a discounted California roll was still $ 6, when I’m used paying closer to $ 3-​$ 4 at actual sushi restaurants). I got their $ 3 spiked tea and my boyfriend got the dumplings.
I tried a dumpling, it was pretty good. My tea was really good! It was one of those drinks where you know there’s alcohol in it but it doesn’t really taste of it, which I can always appreciate. For $ 3, I had two. Delicious!
Then we ordered our entrees. I had the lobster fried rice, a new addition to the menu. My boyfriend had a beef dish.
My lobster fried rice left a lot to be desired and is probably my main reason for giving them 3 stars. Instead of the rice tasting buttery and salty as I expected, it was a bit flavorless. This was disappointing, because I’ve had some amazing lobster fried rice from take out places for about a fifth of the cost of the $ 17+ lobster fried rice here. The only flavors I did taste were kind of jarring — lots of parsley, cilantro, and scallions, I think? Whatever it was, I can still taste it after brushing my teeth twice, which is funny because I felt like I wasn’t tasting much at all as I was eating it! The lobster was good but there wasn’t enough of it to justify the cost or the low quality of the rice.
The beef was pretty good — I liked the potatoes and broccoli too. My boyfriend definitely won with his entrée.
We got dessert — a chocolate dome cake and two vanilla wontons. Those were very good. The dome cake was almost a fudgey texture, which I loved. The wontons were warm and sweet, albeit quite small.
Our waitress, though doing double duty as a bartender, was very friendly and helpful.
Overall, we had a good time here and there were lots of great parts, but the lobster fried rice really sunk this rating for me. It was a new addition to the menu, so maybe it won’t be on there long and I just picked a bad dish. The prices are pretty steep so even if I had loved it, P.F. Chang’s wouldn’t be a regular stop for us. Still, glad we tried it!

Good food listed on a menu that is almost too expansive. Friendly and attentive service.

It took forever for the phone to let me download Unilocal.Anyhoo, I was there a couple of Sundays ago. I got food for lunch snd dinner. I had the lettuce wraps, chicken satay, and the seasonal spring rolls. For dessert, I has the cheesecake wonton and the dessert that had the coconut ice cream with it. The food was amazing! Now, let’s talk about the service. I didn’t think it was possible, but the service was so spectacular, it was better than the food. When you go to PF Changs, make sure to ask for Amy as your server. She’s amazing… warm, friendly, efficient, knowledgeable, etc. She only added pluses to my food experience and made the money I spent worth every penny.

PF Changs has dropped a notch on my scale of late. I’m not sure if it’s an economic thing to cut costs or just the evolution of an aging chain.
I used to LOVE going here exclusively for the Mongolian Beef and Pork Dumplings. We decided to do the day-​after-​Fathers-​Day-​dinner Monday night and was quite disappointed; so much so, I will probably take PFs off my list of restaurants on my rotation.
I ordered the same dishes. The dumplings have gotten a bit smaller and are no longer served with potsticker sauce. They are drizzled with a chili sauce that is so skimpy it can barely be tasted. The portion on the Mongolian Beef is smaller and the recipe has changed. The meat was thicker and not as seared with the sweet soy it once was. However, the prices are not slimmer as the dish was $ 16.99 I think. I could tell the portions have shrunk because I was nowhere near having any take-​home (which I normally did). And the last thing is they no longer bring out the sauce trio. You can ask for it, but they do not proactively bring it out and mix it up. My wife had the Chicken Lo Mein and said something was different about it too.
I know PFs is not authentic Chinese (which I also love) but it was tasty food at okay prices. It’s a shame that it no longer has the same standards it once did.

Bad. We waited 45 minutes to get served salty soup and cold dumplings. I sent the hot and sour soup back only to get weird and I do mean weird egg drop soup. I would not describe the scallions as green like a typical egg drop soup should have, rather they were a brown-​green vomit color. After 2 bad soups and the cold dumplings that were very average we left without receiving our meal.

Went to this location with my husband, for a belated anniversary lunch on the weekend. Quiet and serene, which I prefer.
Ordered the Tuna Tataki as an appetizer. The Ahi tuna was good, although slightly gritty; I’ve had a lot silkier and smoother… but it was still tasty nonetheless. The toppings were quite scarce. (The accompanying seaweed salad was pleasing.) That aside, it was still a good appetizer; cleared the plate.
For lunch, I ordered the Coconut Curry Vegetables, and my husband ordered the Sweet-​n-​Sour Pork dish. The serving was plentiful, veggies seemed pretty fresh (although I wasn’t given much tofu in ratio to the other vegetables). I didn’t care for the sauce/​seasoning that much (it was good, but not great). I asked for the dish to be spicy, which they did honor, and gave it a nice kick. Overall, the dish was satisfactory, but I’ve had better tofu dishes at other places. My husband said his dish was pretty good, but didn’t seem awed by it as he has with other pork dishes he’s tried at other Asian places.
The waiter was super-​nice, very classy, yet funny and personable. All in all, the place was good and I would go there again, but try other dishes.

Had a lovely dinner catching up with friends at this PF Chang’s location. Our server was very patient with us, as we were more interested in chatting than deciding on our orders. Once we did decide, our meals came out very promptly and were tasty.
I went a strange route and ordered sides as my meal.
The spring rolls were good and just lightly fried enough to give a good crisp — not soaking with oil. I would have liked a different dipping sauce, the sweet chili was a bit bland.
The vegetable dumplings were okay, but I’m not sure I liked them enough to order again. Presentation was nice, though!
I LOVE their wonton soup. They add more than just dumplings and broth (water chestnuts, shrimp, chicken, mushrooms) so it’s a bit more textural and interesting than typical places.
My absolute favorite part of the order was the side of Spicy String Beans. Yum! While they were salty (deliciously so), they were a perfect mix of garlic, soy and a slight bit of heat… I could have used a bit more spice.
I can’t vouch for the entrees, but overall we each had a good meal, every order came out correctly and seemed to be enjoyed.

The interior is clean & modern. The servers are very attentive and friendly. The food tastes good. So why only 3 stars? Because I care about staying true to a traditional recipe. I feel this place takes way too much liberty in Americanizing Chinese food… so much so to the point where the final product has no resemblance to the original recipe.
You’ll love eating here if you have limited knowledge of Chinese food. But if you’re used to authentic Chinese food, you may be disappointed since you may not get what you’re expecting.
For example, I ordered ma po tofu the last time I ate here. A typical ma po tofu is stir-​fried in a spicy szechuan style chili sauce with bits of pork or beef and served with a side of white rice. The ma po tofu here is deep fried and basted on what tastes like general tso’s sauce, with no meat in it, and served with a side of broccoli. It tasted fine… but it was not ma po tofu. Had they called it general tso’s tofu, I would be a lot less annoyed.
We also ordered oolong tea, which had a significantly floral flavor to it… like jasmine tea. I like jasmine tea, but I ordered oolong tea.
Call me an authenticity snob or whatever, but I have to say P F Chang’s might be the most unauthentic Asian restaurant ever. My wife (who hates authentic Chinese food) would love it here. But I guess it’s not for me.

My wife and I went there for a late lunch around 3:30 on a weekday and had the resturant to ourselves. We ordered the egg rolls which I think were the best I’ve ever had.
Their fry is perfect and very light and flaky. I ordered the salmon off the lunch menue and she ordered the lettice wraps off the happy hour menu. Both of were very pleased with our meals. Just barely had room for the fried banana and ice cream desert. That was a little rich for me but the ice cream was amaizing.

It’s been years since we were here last, but my husband and I stopped for dinner after suit shopping at JCP Tuttle one night this week. Great service, great food, great atmosphere. The veggie spring rolls are excellent, the wine selection very good, and my coconut curry vegetables entrée was wonderful. The leftovers were even better for lunch the next day.

You know how when you get an Asian dish set in front of you and the steam hits your nose? That aroma tells you how good it’s going to be good even before you taste it. It’s called Wok Hei and unfortunately it didn’t happen here. The flavors were fairly bland even though I asked for hot and spicy. Not much fish sauce, peanut or any particular taste at all. It wasn’t bad, but it made me think of the flavors you’d get in a frozen dinner. Adding some extra crushed peanuts, soy sauce and chili sauce helped it out a bit but it was still so-​so at best.
Also, P F Changs «velvets» their proteins which means they dust them in corn starch before it hits the oil in the wok. The idea being that the corn starch holds the flavors better. It also helps to crisp up the outside of the proteins, sealing in the moisture. Basically they didn’t cook it quite long enough as the shrimp was kinda mushy /​gummy and it was not crisped up like it should have been.
I also found it to be odd that it wasn’t served with a lime wedge or bean sprouts. First time I’ve ever had Phad Thai without these before.
I got everything quickly, a little too quickly as my dinner arrived about 4 or 5 minutes after the soup and that’s not a big issue for me but might explain the meh entrée I got.
Oh well. I’ve had some very good dinners here but this wasn’t one of them.
Phad Thai w/​Shrimp, Cup of Hot and Sour Soup and a pot of Dragon Eye (wonderful) tea set me back $ 20.91…so it’s not a cheap lunch folks.