We tried the new P.F. Chang's in Legacy Place in Dedham today and are left with a single question: Why?
Why, in a big city like Boston, with plenty of actual Chinese restaurants, would anybody go there?
The food was OK (bonus points for the chicken and shrimp in the wonton soup; minus points for egg-drop soup that tasted more like beef broth than egg). But amazingly high noise levels (it seemed like every single conversation in the place was being beamed right at our table), topped with insipid sorta-pop music (not even Chinese pop music, but good ol' American dreck) made for a frenetic, unsoothing experience. Now throw in amazingly slow service (when the waiter brought the wrong dish, Nancy finally had to get up and find a manager, because the waiter, no doubt busy, had, once again, disappeared; to their credit, the right dish did get to us very quickly).
Next time we're in Dedham and just can't wait the ten extra minutes it would take us to get to Mandarin Gourmet in South Brookline, we'll take the Tahiti over P.F. Chang's.
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By anon
Fri, 01/22/2010 - 11:03pm
You people are all crazy. PF Changs is fantastic. Most chinese restaurants the dishes all taste the same, overly saucy crap. PF Changs uses high quality meats and not dark meat unrecognizable meat. I love it ... and I've eaten in fantastic Chinese restaurants in San Fran, Boston, Chicago, and New York. I still go back to PFs as having some of the highest quality chinese food ..... one way you can tell if you have good chinese food is if it tastes good the next day from your frig. PF Changs always makes great left overs...most other chinese restaurants...their food turns to mush on day 2. So there you have it.
Most Chinese restaurants are
By Eric
Mon, 01/25/2010 - 9:47am
Most Chinese restaurants are mediocre. Going into Chinatown is definitely better, but for people who don't speak Cantonese, it's not going to be easy. E.g., most of the push-cart ladies at dim sum restaurants don't speak English, so eating at one might be a gamble, especially if you have allergies. I think PF Chang's covers that middle area where the food is better than the sketchy corner Chinese restaurant, but is more accessible/less intimidating to non-Chinese speaking people than Chinatown restaurants.