P.F. Chang's

I haven’t been to P.F. Chang’s in a while, My seven-year-old granddaughter wanted to come last week. It is her favorite restaurant. Last week when we came for dinner, we had an exceptional waiter, I don’t remember his name. The food was absolutely delicious! Her children’s fried rice with chicken and broccoli was the best I’ve ever seen it. Every time she had it before they were just little flicks or slivers of breading with such a small itsy-bitsy piece of chicken that you could barely see it. This time, they gave her nice big pieces of chicken in her fried rice. I was so impressed. She was so happy! Her favorite waiter at this particular P.F. Chang’s is Matt, but it was a really long wait to get a table with him , we did, however; get an incredible other gentleman that waited on us. Today, I thought I would stop in for a late lunch early dinner and get the new pad Thai. It is so good! The waitress I had today was a sweet girl. However, I had to take some home so she brought me a container and a bag. I thought OK I guess I have to pack it up myself. I got a bit, spoiled by the gentleman we had last week, actually packed our leftovers up for us and it was a busy Friday night. Today waitress asked me if I wanted any dessert and told me they had a gluten-free chocolate soufflé. I said sure! I had to take it with me because I was too full from the pad Thai and even had leftovers from that. She brought me a bag and it contained what you will see in the photo less than a small muffin sized chocolate soufflé and some ice cream over ice. There was never any mention of ice cream. The soufflé was $11.29! Ouch ouch ouch I did not know that little itsy-bitsy three or four bites of chocolate would cost me so much money. I didn’t see a menu so I didn’t see the price. She mentioned the chocolate soufflé, but never mentioned the ice cream , I am lactose intolerant and cannot have ice cream. I politely explained to her that I am lactose intolerant, I left the untouched, unopened ice cream. I told her I did not know that it contained ice cream. She said she was sorry and left it at that. No offer to remove it from my bill or ask if there was anything she could do for me. I learned a valuable lesson and that is to look at the dessert menu myself to see what is included in the desert and especially the price. This is way too small of a dessert to cost $11.29 , it would’ve been nice of her to tell me that it came with ice cream. I would not have ordered the dessert. I still left her a 20% tip which I was hesitant to do but I have a really kind heart a lot of times I will tip 25 and 30% or more if I have got outstanding service. I’m a little reluctant to come back although I really love the pad thai. I will request a different server next time and I will look at the menu so I know how much I’m going to pay for a few bites of dessert. When you see the photo, you can tell how tiny the chocolate soufflé is because the little container with some raspberry sauce in it is little and tiny.

Consistently good food for gluten free folks and options for vegetarian folks. Something for everyone. Service was good too.