Grace Garden Restaurant Review, Burlingame

Grace Garden is a Chinese restaurant specializing in (as they say term it) Mandarin, Szechuan, Hunan, and Peking cuisine.
They don’t list Korean, but clearly there is some Korean influence on the place (like San Tung in San Francisco), considering you get Kim Chee with your meal. This family restaurant has been located in the Burlingame Broadway shopping district for over 10 years.

The generic decor is typical for a Chinese restaurant, with many locals and families dining when we visited.
They have an English menu with some standard Americanized Chinese dishes and a Chinese menu with the real stuff.

Menu pictures

Specials – On Main Menu too

Free Kim Chee

Picks:

Boiled Shrimp Dumplings ($6.95) gets you a dozen hot home made dumplings with shrimp filling. Decent quality and hot out of the kitchen.
Preferred the ones at San Tung in San Francisco, but these were fine too.

Home Made Noodles ($6.75) were hand pulled and were of the more plain type. We opted not to get spicy sauce on it, which would make it zha jiang mian. Real good and fresh noodles.  Only 1 skimpy shrimp and 1 broccoli in this dish. Quality of noodle is better than San Tung.

OK:

Siu Lung Bao ($6.50) were small dumplings served in the bamboo steamer.  Hot and very juicy, but not too large in size.

Boiled Pork Dumplings ($5.95) gets you a dozen of these dumplings.  A little too much dough on these.

Sauteed String Beans in Szechuan Sauce ($7.25) comes spicy if you want some heat.  Pretty average dish, nothing special, but not bad. Beans were fresh, sauce was not too salty.

Pans:
None

The service was fair at best, they took a long time to refill our tea and actually forgot a dish we ordered, yet billed us for it.
This is a pretty average place, worth a visit if you like this type of cuisine and are in the vicinity.  Dumplings and noodles are the food they specialize in. Probably not a good idea to go their for generic Chow mein and Sweet and sour.

$25 Dining Certificate for $5

Grace Garden Overall Rating: (Good 2)

Come Back?

Food Rating:	(Good)
Service Rating:	(Average)
Atmosphere Rating:	(Average)
Value Rating:	(Very Good)

Guide: 0 = poor, 1 = Below/Average, 2 = Good, 2.5 = Very Good, 3 = Excellent , 4 = Extraordinary

Alcohol:	Beer, Wine
Attire:	Casual
Hours:	Mon, Wed-Sun 11am-10pm
Parking:	Street
Reservations:	Yes
Prices:	$4.95 - $11.95