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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