Yi Kebab Bar — Restaurant in Monterey Park

Pls don’t waste an hour of your day here. No one greeted us at the door. We sat ourselves down. Our table wasn’t prepped. We ordered at 8:35 and the food didn’t come out yet. It’s 9:32. I swear they are cooking their food on a candle. But even a candle wouldn’t take this long. Go to Little Skewer for fast food, great atmosphere and an extensive menu. This place need to step up their game. Our group is never coming here again. I are taking our food to go instead

After we asked the server to check on our food. She never came to our table to do a follow up

LOL omg the lady came to us and said “oh you didn’t leave a tip on the bill”

I said it took 1 hour to make the food. She said “oh we make it fresh” That’s totally nonsense. We used to eat here all the time. It would take at the most 20-30 minutes for the squid. So what’s the deal today taking 60 Minutes? Is she taking 45 minutes just to dump seasoning?

My friend walked out with me and asked if it’s mandatory to give tips now in California. No. No it’s not.

We gave them a couple bucks and left.

Literally 1 hour of lives. We are never getting back. AND they asked for a tip. So...

Not a bad place. Prices aren't too bad. Seasoning is what it is. A lot of the skewer places don't really have much difference to make it distinct, but this place tends to add a bit more kick to their spice blends, which is great. The tower of beer is a nice touch! I'd prefer taller towers, but the fact that there are towers, is cool, nonetheless. Best of all, service was the best! My major complaint was that sitting outside, we had a canopy covering us, and there were some other guys smoking. Yeah, it's technically "outside" but I think they were really bending the rules, and kinda' stank up the place. They should only allow smoking in a tiny corner of the outdoor seating, away from the doorways, but if they put up that canopy, they really shouldn't allow smoking at all. That's not the staff's fault, but be careful with others you're sharing space with. Also, as nice as the canopy is, and nicely lit, if you expect to have a conversation as the trucks and cars are roaring by on Garvey Ave, that's gonna' be tough. So you may want to consider eating...

I came here 4 times and the food is good but I will not be coming back because of their service. Our food took more than an hour to be served while everyone else including those that came after eating already. Because of time constraint, we changed our dine in order to take out after being there for 40min already. We had paid for our meal before the order was brought out in order leave quickly. After we got our items and was getting up to leave, their employee stoped us for a tip 🫤. Just saying, probably won’t ever be seeing...