Great Wall Mongolian BBQ

This is a great place for an inexpensive, filling, tasty, quick lunch of relatively decent quality. After a nice, long stroll through Stanley Park my brother and I wanted Ramen but were in too much of a rush to wait in line at our favourite place. We opted for great wall and weren’t disappointed. Pack your bowl with whatever you like from the bevy of options and 10 minutes later you’ve got yourself a very satisfying meal. Great choice of veggies and meats and the sauces are tasty. And I did not feel an MSG hangover afterwards. The décor is nothing fancy, but I kind of like it that way. I can imagine this would be great fun for kids!

This would be the third time I tried out Mongolian BBQ, and I am glad I did. We were a group of about 12 people who went for dinner around 7 pm on a cold January night.
The interesting thing about a Mongolian BBQ is that you can choose your own ingredients (meats, vegetables, noodles, sauces), and there’s a cook at a large grill who cooks them for you. Not only is this great for people who have dietary restrictions, but it is also fun to mix and match ingredients and try out a bunch of varieties.
I had previously been to the downtown branch of the same franchise, and was slightly disappointed with the location and interior of that place. But, the W Broadway branch was a cut above on both accounts. Although the price of the AYCE at this branch is $ 2 – 3 more than the one in downtown, the ingredients here looked fresher, the waiters were pleasant and served with a smile, and the cook on the grill was super efficient with the huge number of orders coming up his way. One of the ladies serving us was even kind enough to give me an extra serving of the dessert (picture attached) they were offering with dinner specials and AYCE.
Apart from the grilled food, they serve a bowl of soup, a bowl of rice, a mildly sweet bread covered with sesame seeds, and a «puff» for dessert.
Definitely recommended.
Tips: 1) If you love eating as much as I do, then go for the AYCE option instead of the dinner special one. The dinner special ($ 13) allows just one bowl, whereas, for
an extra 3 bucks, the AYCE offers unlimited servings. :)
2) In case you have never done mongolian bbq before, the meat, once cooked does shrink up. So, you might want to slightly compress the contents of the bowl with a spoon from time to time while filling your bowl to the brim.
3) Sometimes, when there are long lineups, it just makes sense to have multiple bowls lined up at the grill, to avoid having delays between two bowls.
4) In case you go for AYCE, it might make sense to have a mix of all kinds of meat in your first bowl. That way you would get a good idea about what would be the ideal choice of meat for the second and onward bowls.
5) If you opted for the AYCE but could not have more than one bowl, no problem — you pay only at the end, so if you ate one bowl, you pay for only one.
6) Lunch AYCE is slilghtly cheaper.

Fresh ingredients and friendly service! Our stir fry was delicious, and the hot and sour soup was so good. I like that they have Asian ingredients like black fungus. A great place to go for a quick healthy fresh meal!

I love this place! $ 14.95 dinner AYCE, $ 11.95 one bowl. Decent price for decent selection of meat, veggies, and noodles. It’s cooked with your own choice of sauces. We have been to the Great Wall Mongolian BBQ in downtown. honestly this place is way better. They offer fried bun, kimchi, rice/​miso soup/​sweet sour soup before you start and puff after you finish. The food quality is good as well. Can’t say no to a $ 15 AYCE place like this~will definitely bring my friends here next time.

The Great Wall Mongolian BBQ is very much open.
I would frequent the other ‘mongolian’ type restaurant on main street, but that location upped it’s AYCE menu to $ 15 so I thought that I would revisit this location which would be the same price.
I’ve forgotten that this has way better quality ingredients. Better sauces, better cuts of meat and better veggies. This one even has chinese mushrooms.
Everything was great flavoured and the quality is on par with other trendier places such as Noodle Box which I think is a bit of a hipster ripoff.
If you’re looking for a cheaper AYCE option, for lunch it’s $ 13 which is still reasonably priced.
As a plus they leave a pitcher of water at your table.
In my books, it’s worth the drive over from main street.
The washrooms are clean too.

If you ever ask me about Mongolian Grill I would recommend Great Wall in a heartbeat. Why?
— Fresh meat and veggies
— Deliciously cooked
— Friendly staff (Always the same peeps)
— Fantastic prices
Do you honestly need more reasons?
I used to visit Great Wall all the time when I went to UBC. It was easy to get to by bus and heck, I was poor. It was the best meal I could get for the price and I was actually full after.
Don’t worry if someone in your group is a vegetarian. You create your own bowl so you always get what you want.
Also, don’t worry about picking big bowl, small bowl or all you can eat. You pay at the end. So if you thought you could do all you can eat but only end up having a small bowl they only charge you for 1 small bowl. Very reasonable people.
One peeve of mine though is when places don’t have fountain drinks. So no free refills. Get your pop by the can.
Their décor is a bit outdated but they tried to keep the place renovated.
They don’t exactly open «late» so hit them up around 6pm is good. They can get really packed for dinner. Free parking out back but limited. Metered parking out front.

I went here today for the first time and it was my first experience at a mongolian grill. When I got all my food together in my bowl and got to the sauces, I had no idea what to throw in that shit. So the cook, a tall black dude who seemed to enjoy singing, asked me what I liked, sweet, salty, spicy… I told him what I liked and he said he would take care of it. Once i started to eat it, I was super stoked. It was delicious!!! It’s people who work in customer service fields, like him, that make me a regular customer. He was awesome and so was the food. I will definitely go back! The server we had was nice enough, she asked us if we wanted water when we sat down, but we didn’t even get those cups of water till the meal was almost eaten. There was only one other table in there. But whatever, that won’t stop me from going back to stuff my cheeks with grub.

I love this place. It is super inexpensive, and I’ve never had anything but great food and good service. They could benefit from a few more vegetable choices. It is way better value than other Mongolian BBQ restaurants because they dot weigh your food. It is all you can eat! So I can pour as much delicious sauce as I want and not worry about paying a fortune. Highly recommend this place!

The first few times I visited I had a great experience. Quick service, great interaction and fun. The last time I went no one knew what they were doing. The food took forever, the waitress was slow. I’ll definitely return but might change my mind if that happens again

After a day in the sun at Kitilano, this was the choice of the night.
We came as a party of ten, and my friend warned us the place was small, so if it was busy, we wouldn’t fit.
Upon entry, we were in the clear, but I wasn’t sure what to do? No menu or anything.
I have been to Mongolian Quick meal joints, so I know the process, but I didn’t know the price.
Anyhow, the food and the service was amazing. I enjoyed it very much.
Large Plate: $ 10.95
All you can eat: $ 13.95
Kids: $ 5.95
Prices were about right. Can’t complain at all. The chefs and server were awesome!

Place is now known as «Mongo’s.» There are two different listings for this place on Unilocal.
Summary of my review on the Mongo’s listing: decent food, staff can make flavourful sauces, relatively cheap for all you can eat, great service staff behind grill (chatty, etc.) but waiter service to tables really needs to be improved.

Go in, grab a bowl and go down the line.
First, pick your meat. It’s all sliced nice and thin. Beef, chicken, pork or lamb. Add as much as you want. Then add your noodles and veggies. Broccolli, mudhrooms, spinach, celery, whatever you want.
Now you make your own sauce. They have a guide posted there for different favours. I always get the tall guy with the afro to make mine and it is awesome every time. Leave your bowl at the end of the line and they will cook it and bring it to your table.
Sometimes they have pineapple and snap peas at the end too that you can add before or after it’s cooked.
The place looks kind of old and dumpy but the food is awesome. The staff is super friendly and I always have a great time when I go. All you can eat for about $ 12 but they will charge you an extra $ 3 if you leave lots on your plate, which is fair. One of my favorite places to go with friends.

I’ve been going to Mongo’s (as it’s now called) for about seven years now and while I am a fan of it, I should be honest and say that a more realistic rating would be three, three and a half stars. I’m just biased on the 4:20 front.
AYCE is amazing if you’re eyes are a little more blood shot than normal, otherwise you end up wasting a tonne of food with the left overs. I remember they used to have this deal where you couldn’t take doggy bags with your left overs out with you, I don’t know if that’s still the case but if you become a more regular customer there then they sometimes bend the rules for you. Personally I think it’s kind of silly to just throw out all that extra food but hey, to each their own right.
The service is great, again, I’ve been going there forever so the manager/​head waitress is always really sweet and friendly. The new soup they’re putting out with the meals is kind of weird now, I remember it used to be hot and sour soup, which was EPIC, but alas those days are gone. Either way, I’ll still gladly eat it. Since I drastically cut down on my toking I’m not here as often, but the point is that I still do go in.
The bottom line is basically that if you feel like smoking with some friends and being gluttonous, this is the place to do it.

Due to the excessive amount of wasted food managamenet reserves the right to include an extra 3.00 dine for extra food for left for all hours of operation lunch and dinner included — small take out boxes are permitted but anything larger will incur a 3.00 fine

The food here is good tho could be fresher as their restaurant could be cleaner. The uncleaned dried up teriyaki sauce on the walls next to the booths attract flies. Notice all the flies? And the floor should be mopped more often. I’m a messy person so my standards for cleanliness are not so high. But if you don’t mind the flies and bacteria, their food is pretty decent and priced decently too.

This Mongolian grill is the stuff of my childhood. I remember being very small (second grade?!) and pummeling meat into my little bowl in an attempt to get more food for my money’s worth (my family only ever went for lunch, and never for the all-​you-​can-​eat option.) It was always dirt-​cheap and delicious, and I’d always get excited for a trip to the Mongolian grill the way kids in commercials get excited for a place like Swiss Chalet.
Unfortunately, Great Wall has changed owners several times since I was in the second grade. It’s either this owner switch-​up, or my palate becoming more refined, but the food just seems to have been tasting worse over the years. On the other hand, it has become a lot cleaner, and the service has exponentially improved. Still, I long for the days of my childhood.

I loved the restaurant and the concept of the buffet-​style all you can eat, or fill in a bowl. And of course the big, circular grill that it all goes on. Great price, really good food. I just wish I was more hungry.

We went to Great Wall with neighbors who declared this spot to be their favorite restaurant. And while it did satiate the hunger of this carnivore, we haven’t returned despite the geographical convenience of the place.
The all-​you-​can-​eat option goes for $ 11.95. Personally, I can’t eat that much food and a set plate priced at a few bucks less filled me up just fine. The all-​you-​can-​eat does offer that delightful option of eating just chicken and pineapple, if you’re so inclined.
The service was attentive but quiet. The restaurant is clean — in fact I see the cook cleaning up the grease here when I walk by nightly. He’s even squeegeeing the mirror behind the grill. I appreciate that thoroughness.
If you need quick eats or an intense amount of food, head on in here. But don’t expect anything you couldn’t find elsewhere.