Tam's Restaurant — Restaurant in Santa Cruz

Do not order takeout using Yelp or the Eat24 app. Tam's probably won't read any instructions that you give them. It's sad, I've eaten here 16 times and they have botched the order in one way or another about ¼ of the time. If you need a slight variation due to dietary restriction it can be a challenge.

In my case I'm vegan and I asked in the notes on Eat24/Yelp in-app ordering, in very large type, please make sure that this is vegan/vegetarian with no egg and no animal products whatsoever. The dish that I came home with had egg and pork and I'm guessing beef or something. Cooked animal muscle is sad and disgusting. it's frustrating that they can't get this right. It's not the first time this is come through with egg and meat product in it. We order takeout to save time. Having to return a meat laden dish both wastes the food and wastes time.

I wish we had a vegetarian restaurant on...

Last I knew there was only one place in town for Dan Dan noodles and it was the Chinese place across from the Red room under the previous ownership. I hadn't seen it anywhere since(granted I didn't spend a lot of time looking. Other places may have it but they're not along my travel route). To my surprise I saw it available at tams. I gave it a shot and it was good. Can't speak to the rest of the menu. The decor inside is rather stark and cold and not for me, thus the one star. Others may feel differently about the dinning environment. I liked my dish and wouldn't let that influence my decision to return because I get it...

Food is mediocre- not the best, but good for the price in Santa cruz. Biggest issue was their deceptive sales and packaging practices for their more expensive items: ordered a container of honey shrimp for 20$ and chicken for 13$... they came in the same size container, but half of the shrimp container was filled with tasteless, styrofoam- textured dry noodles while the chicken container was full- I paid twice the price and got half the amount of shrimp with no prior indication that the serving size would be so dramatically different. The shrimp wasn't that good either- skip their seafood, but their noodles and...