I forgot to take pictures before but 10/10 amazing.Let's start with our server Paulina. The best is an understatement. Paulina was so friendly from the start, welcomed us with a smile, answered ALL and I do mean ALL our questions, gave us recommendations and popular orders.We ordered the house special soop, it was really good. The meat was perfectly cooked and melts in your mouth.The pork soup dumplings, pork shrimp chives dumplings, and the veggies dumplings were perfect, full of flavor.We will definitely be back.Picture is what was left of our food...nothing...
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Juicy Pork Dumplings, Golden Soup Beef Noodle
Trenton Robinson
Alberto was awesome as always. The food is always cooked perfectly.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Christine Harrison
My friends and I go to Northern Cafe all the time and every time is an experience. We were so lucky to be helped by Alberto who made the experience ten times better. I can’t wait for my trips here!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
D.
Tried a variety of dishes, family style and they were all delicious!
Disappointing they don't allow same day reservations. Even after explaining it was for a business dinner.
Chel-Sea Chen
Omg everything was sooo good!!! The soup dumplings were top notch which surprised me. It was juicy and full of soup.The beef noodle soup was a little too salty but noodles were perfectly al dente.Green beans had a nice crunch.I want to come back to try the other items. I also want to try the Gardena location.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
richard ellenbogen
Wonton soup had to be returned. It was flavorless.. Mongolian beef tasted premade and heated
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 5
Katie L.
RAW WONTONS!!!First time I ever had raw pork in my entire life!!! I didn't notice until I already ate a few!!! This is ridiculous and disgusting!!!
Winnie L.
We went Christmas Eve so they were really busy as I had expected. Service was friendly but again very busy. Served came to check on us several times. Good was delish, and it didn't take as long at all even though they seemed to be swamped with dine-in and carry-out. I would have liked more condiments available like hot chili oil for beef noodle or picked mustard, they only had soy sauce and black vinegar at the tables.I'm taking a star away because of the huge chips in the bowls they served us, they weren't little ones, quite inexcusable to be serving from in a restaurant. I hope this is a one off problem since it was Christmas Eve. Hopefully.
Chip P.
We love Northern Cafe.Vegetable chow main , eggplant, orange chicken, and pork dumplings are our favorites.Takeout app works good also.
Definitely the best northern cafe I’ve been to! Staff are super friendly and the food is so good and always comes out so fast lol The mapo tofu and dan dan noodles always hit the spot! The green beans are fresh and nice and crunchy
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Szechuan Dan Dan Noodle
Chris S.
Nice location with a big open interior with good spacing between tables. Food presentation is excellent and service is solid. Dish sizes could be a bit larger for the rice and noodles, but everything else is portioned well. Only weird thing is the back upper wall behind the counter has some hand prints like it's straight from the Walking Dead or a horror movie - pretty sure it just isn't wiped properly as it's certainly not part of the interior's aesthetic.
Robert M
Not the best dumplings in town but pretty good for the beach towns. Very friendly service, pleasant in an informal sort of way.
I order takeout from here and it was pretty fast to be made and to get my order since I arrived at the restaurant. If you decide to eat here, they do have indoor and outdoor seating. I ordered the beef rolls, shrimp wontons in chili oil, eggplant in garlic sauce, and the house special beef noodle soup.The beef rolls were tasty. The portion of beef and green onion were balanced and the roll was pretty tight so it didn't come undone when we reheated them later (we ordered a lot of food for 2). I wish it came with a sauce though. I ended up using the sauce from the shrimp wonton dish and that was a good combo.The shrimp wontons were underwhelming. It didn't have a pinch of flavor and the shrimp was eh. I had my chili on the side and recommend starting small and then add more spice as needed. The spice sneaks up on ya.The eggplant was my favorite dish we ordered. It also came with other ingredients like black mushroom and I think bamboo? The house special beef noodle soup was good. For takeout they separated the soup from the other ingredients, which I appreciated so that nothing gets soggy. My only complaint about the dish was that the meat was not tender enough to my liking. Other than that it's delicious. They didn't skimp out on the quantity of veggies, noodles, and beef.
I forgot to take pictures before but 10/10 amazing.Let's start with our server Paulina. The best is an understatement. Paulina was so friendly from the start, welcomed us with a smile, answered ALL and I do mean ALL our questions, gave us recommendations and popular orders.We ordered the house special soop, it was really good. The meat was perfectly cooked and melts in your mouth.The pork soup dumplings, pork shrimp chives dumplings, and the veggies dumplings were perfect, full of flavor.We will definitely be back.Picture is what was left of our food...nothing...
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Juicy Pork Dumplings, Golden Soup Beef Noodle
Alberto was awesome as always. The food is always cooked perfectly.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
My friends and I go to Northern Cafe all the time and every time is an experience. We were so lucky to be helped by Alberto who made the experience ten times better. I can’t wait for my trips here!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Tried a variety of dishes, family style and they were all delicious!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Sautéed String Beans, Vegetarian Fried Noodle
Disappointing they don't allow same day reservations. Even after explaining it was for a business dinner.
Omg everything was sooo good!!! The soup dumplings were top notch which surprised me. It was juicy and full of soup.The beef noodle soup was a little too salty but noodles were perfectly al dente.Green beans had a nice crunch.I want to come back to try the other items. I also want to try the Gardena location.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Wonton soup had to be returned. It was flavorless.. Mongolian beef tasted premade and heated
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 5
RAW WONTONS!!!First time I ever had raw pork in my entire life!!! I didn't notice until I already ate a few!!! This is ridiculous and disgusting!!!
We went Christmas Eve so they were really busy as I had expected. Service was friendly but again very busy. Served came to check on us several times. Good was delish, and it didn't take as long at all even though they seemed to be swamped with dine-in and carry-out. I would have liked more condiments available like hot chili oil for beef noodle or picked mustard, they only had soy sauce and black vinegar at the tables.I'm taking a star away because of the huge chips in the bowls they served us, they weren't little ones, quite inexcusable to be serving from in a restaurant. I hope this is a one off problem since it was Christmas Eve. Hopefully.
We love Northern Cafe.Vegetable chow main , eggplant, orange chicken, and pork dumplings are our favorites.Takeout app works good also.
Restaurantji Recommends
Definitely the best northern cafe I’ve been to! Staff are super friendly and the food is so good and always comes out so fast lol The mapo tofu and dan dan noodles always hit the spot! The green beans are fresh and nice and crunchy
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Szechuan Dan Dan Noodle
Nice location with a big open interior with good spacing between tables. Food presentation is excellent and service is solid. Dish sizes could be a bit larger for the rice and noodles, but everything else is portioned well. Only weird thing is the back upper wall behind the counter has some hand prints like it's straight from the Walking Dead or a horror movie - pretty sure it just isn't wiped properly as it's certainly not part of the interior's aesthetic.
Not the best dumplings in town but pretty good for the beach towns. Very friendly service, pleasant in an informal sort of way.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Juicy Pork Dumplings, Spicy Wontons
Dumplings and XLBs are delicious! We love both dining in and takeout. The staff are friendly and helpful. Absolutely recommend this place!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Cucumber Salad, Walnut Shrimp, Beef Roll, Juicy Pork Dumplings, Chicken Dumplings
I order takeout from here and it was pretty fast to be made and to get my order since I arrived at the restaurant. If you decide to eat here, they do have indoor and outdoor seating. I ordered the beef rolls, shrimp wontons in chili oil, eggplant in garlic sauce, and the house special beef noodle soup.The beef rolls were tasty. The portion of beef and green onion were balanced and the roll was pretty tight so it didn't come undone when we reheated them later (we ordered a lot of food for 2). I wish it came with a sauce though. I ended up using the sauce from the shrimp wonton dish and that was a good combo.The shrimp wontons were underwhelming. It didn't have a pinch of flavor and the shrimp was eh. I had my chili on the side and recommend starting small and then add more spice as needed. The spice sneaks up on ya.The eggplant was my favorite dish we ordered. It also came with other ingredients like black mushroom and I think bamboo? The house special beef noodle soup was good. For takeout they separated the soup from the other ingredients, which I appreciated so that nothing gets soggy. My only complaint about the dish was that the meat was not tender enough to my liking. Other than that it's delicious. They didn't skimp out on the quantity of veggies, noodles, and beef.