Local Cafe — Restaurant in Cupertino

Local Cafe is a Chinese cafe on Hollenbeck in Cupertino. Authentic, central, and tasty.

The service of Local Cafe was subpar the servers were not attentive at all and there was no polite conversation or any smiles which made annoyed the ambiance of Local Cafe was nice with lots of seating and a cool orange vibe with lots of posters on the wall.

The food of Local Cafe was BOMBB. We got the YangZhou Fried Rice which was fried rice with ham and shrimp. We also got the Three Combo Meat Stir Fried Rice Stick Noodle. I don’t know why the name is so long, but it was a delicious dish! The fried rice had loads of shrimp and ham in it. Both dishes were a little greasy but they were still both delicious. They both had loads of meat. They were also very fresh and hot. The fried rice had some veggies and scrambled eggs mixed in and the rice was very loose making the dish even tastier. The noodles were very tiny and there was t an overwhelming amount of cabbage and onions like usual with noodle dishes. The ham tasted like Spam and was very savory and it complimented the subtle shrimp very well.

Overall, although Local Cafe did not have adequate service it still had a nice ambiance and very tasty food. I would definitely come to Local Cafe for a quick fix and for some cheap food. For its affordability and tasty dishes I recommend Local...

Visited this restaurant a couple of times, and decide not to dine in this restaurant anymore.

The quality of the food was very unstable, and there were times when the dish was served undercooked. Despite this issue, the restaurant refused to take responsibility for their mistake and failed to acknowledge their fault.

Moreover, the staff's service attitude was extremely poor. They seemed uninterested in serving customers and lacked basic courtesy and politeness. I felt unwelcome and unappreciated.

To make matters worse, the restaurant had issues with calculating the bills accurately. They manually calculated the charges, and after we corrected them, they did not apologize but only refunded the difference. However, a few days later, they requested more charges from our bank than what was initially stated on the bill, and we had to dispute the transaction to get back the overcharged amount.

Overall, my experience at this restaurant was very unsatisfactory. I would not recommend it to anyone due to the unstable food quality, poor service attitude, and inaccurate...

12/26/2023

It's been a while since I came back. I didn't like some of the dishes so I stopped coming. However, things have improved.

蝦醬牛鬆炒飯 - 牛鬆means minced beef. Not here. They cut into very small pieces so the texture is very different. Also lack of shrimp paste flavor. They need to at least double it to make it taste stronger.

鐵板黑椒餐肉公仔麵 - The noodle is a little bit soggy. Also prefer to have more black pepper flavor.

焗豬扒飯 - This one was the surprised because I gave up on them long ago cause they refused to battered the pork chop to make it pork cutlet before. Surprisingly, this time regular baked pork chop over rice is with fried pork cutlet. That makes a big difference. The tomato sauce ain't bad neither.

With a little improvement, this can be a go to HK style restaurant at least for those who likes the...