Hunan Taste

We love this restaurant. Food is pretty good. Today we went with a group of friends. We got a table next to families with young kids (sweet but noisy), when we asked to improve our position to a quiet table - they refused to give us another table (on the other side of the restaurant which is calmer). Our waiter literally dumped the menus on our heads, offered no tea or drinks. The rudeness of him was beyond comprehension. A rude robot !! Saturday is busy and as more people gathered around our table and bar area the fortune cookies and check were thrown on the table (we didn’t ask for them) we got the message - and left. To complete the terrible (mean) service we had inside the restaurant came the rudeness of the parking valet that was even more shocking. We know this valet man for years. Today he didn’t like the dollar bill my husband gave him (sorry that’s the only small bill I had), and he threw it at my husband telling him “do you want it back?” At this point my husband took the bill and got into the car. Our friends saw that and were shocked. They quickly pulled another dollar bill, yet two dollars weren’t enough for this man tonight and he asked them “do you want it back?”. Our friends told him that this is not the way to talk and treat people, but he was already running to insults another customer….or not .. maybe $5 or $10 will calm his valet hungry ambitions……

Went to Hunan Taste tonight. They always have great food, outstanding service and an exciting atmosphere. I ordered some hot chili oil and I was overzealous with the oil. I definitely needed to drink a lot of water. I was served by many waiters all helping each other out including a waiter with the tattoos. (Which for some reason I was focusing on by looking at prior reviews.) I thought he was very professional and was serving up plenty of water too. I ordered the happy family, cold noodles with sesame sauce, and steamed vegetable dumplings. All were excellent and I highly recommend visiting Hunan Taste. I have for over 30 years!!

Will never return. Went with my family for a celebration dinner. The valet was rude and backed my car into oncoming traffic where he was met with a very angry driver honking at him. Then my car was “parked” with its hazards on just on the side of the road. Inside the greeting we received was “yes”. We had a reservation and waited about 10 minutes to be seated. Once seated menus were literally thrown on the table. Never were we asked if we wanted drinks. When we did order the waiter appeared very rushed and almost annoyed. Appetizer and soup came quickly, however our meals took forever and two tables seated after us received food long before we did. Never did anyone come by to check on how things were. Our waiter with the earring and white crew cut was rude bordering on angry as if we were imposing on him. We asked for and received the check, again very rude. Check was basically thrown onto the table, without so much as a thank you or good night. The food was fine but nothing extraordinary. There is absolutely no reason for any business to treat customers the way we were treated here.

It was almost comical, how rude and obnoxious the waiters we’re at this place felt like I was in a Seinfeld episode from throwing the plates on the table to rushing out the orders. My daughter who was with us who is not from the area wanted to know if all restaurants treated their people this way the owner has to know what’s going on, I think it’s a little inside joke that he plays with the customers in any event. The food was good but you have to think twice about going to pay that much for Chinese food if you’re gonna be treated that way

Is the staff racist? I don’t know. Despite the 3.9 star avg review we decided to try for ourselves. Even with lowered expectations for a Chinese place, everyone but one support waiter was rude, rushed, or disinterested in our experience. I’d echo what others have said about not getting the warm towels when we sat next to tables that did. The main waiter (Spider tattoo guy) even told the support waiter in Mandarin to stop making the Peking duck pancakes for us. The support waiter was nice and even brought two giant scoops of ice cream for my daughter’s birthday. I tipped 15% and gave the support waiter a cash tip. The food wasn’t good enough to overcome a lot of the concerning negatives about this place. The good: - fried rice, mapo tofu, eggplant, shrimp dumplings, food came out quickly, Peking duck The bad: - service, portion size on shrimp dumplings