Mongo’s Grill

I quite like Mongo’s. Being as it’s like Subway, you can end up with every meal tasting the same, so you really have to switch up the sauces and seasonings to get a really different tasting meal each time.
The atmosphere is usually good, although it gets crazy busy at dinner time and you should avoid it from about 6 – 8. They will give you a free meal on your birthday if you bring ID, which is a cool idea.
The only bad thing I have to say about it is that it tends to get a bit messy with so many people grabbing ingredients, but they try to stay on top of that. Also, the bowls for gathering your food are quite small and most people end up with mountains of stuff falling out of their bowls (and adding to the general mess).

As a fat guy, I can appreciate the selection of veggies, meats, sauces and seasonings. What I can’t appreciate is waiting anywhere from 10 – 15 mins between the time I’ve built my stirfry to the time it hits the grill. Outside of dinner (between about 4 – 8) and lunch (between 11 – 2) its great. But during those peak hours, be prepared to be standing around, spilling half the contents of your bowl on the floor, waiting to have your food cooked.
Also. Those bowls are tiny. I am not. And as an all you can eat style buffet, i shouldn’t have to get up for refills after taking 4 bites.

Well, it’s simple. I LOVE Mongos Grill. I have been here so many times that I cannot even begin to count. I enjoy being able to pick what I want in my own stir fry and watching them grill it in front of you is so much fun.
Sometimes I do wish it wasn’t so difficult to keep everything stacked nicely but that is ok. It takes a bit of practice before you are able to truly get the hang of it. Unless they come up with a easier way for us clumsy folk.
It would be nice if they had real crab instead of the fake genre as well.
Other than that, I love their high booths and the service is always friendly.

The build-​your-​own-​stir-​fry sounds like a good idea, but after several attempts at this place, I am not a fan.
For $ 11.99 (lunch)/$ 15.99 (dinner), you grab a good size bowl and fill it with veggies, meat, sauces and seasonings in a buffet style. You then choose noodles, rice or tortillas to compliment your stir-​fry creation.
I like that they have a very wide selection of veggies. There were 3 different onions, Chinese mushrooms, tofu and even bok choy, just to name a few.
The meat selection was pretty average with frozen chicken, pork, marinated beef. I wish they marinated all of the frozen meats, so that they added flavor to the dish.
They also had a selection of deli meats such as ham, pepperoni and sausage. I don’t usually eat stir-​fry noodles with deli meats, so this is kind of out-​of-​the-​box.
There were about 10 sauces and about 8 dry seasonings to finish off your creation. They have everything from garlic sauce to teriyaki to chili. There were just vats of sauces to douce your bowl with.
They do recommend at least 5 – 6 laddles of sauce to give it flavor. I usually put more than that, and my creation still turns out tasteless. They do have cards of recipe ideas, but they don’t specify how much of each item should go in your bowl.
This place leaves me with a dissatisfying meal every time. For the price, I’d rather go to a Chinese restaurant and pay for a noodle and side dish!

This place is the subway of stir-​fry and that is definitely not a good thing.
The selection of items you can choose is pretty good but the overall cleanliness and flavor of the sauces is just disappointing especially considering the hefty price tag.
I had a stir-​fry with numerous veges, tofu, and chow mein noodles with satay sauce. The sauce was spicy but not at all flavorful. I also had fried rice which tasted like the only «flavor» was soya sauce (which is NOT a flavour, it is a seasoning, like salt not like say… teriyaki).
The people cooking my food were very intense and unhappy, one poor kid had a huge burn on his arm covered in a bandage.
Overall I will never return or recommend this place to anyone. The food definitely isn’t authentic, it is not worth the price, and the place was not at all clean.
The only good thing was the guy who «served» us (brought us water and explained what to do) was very nice and appeared to love his job which makes for a better experience.
Like I said earlier, this is the subway of stir-​fry. It is an americanized version of stir-​fry and it is not delicious.

Good choice of ingredients, tofu! Very friendly service & I really like that idea of collecting your ingredients, adding your own sauce & seasoning, bringing them to the grill & watching as they cook it for you. Didn’t take long at all! I do however wish the bowls were bigger. Everyone just stacks up their ingredients anyway! And some of it ends up on the floor which is just a waste. Also they should get an alcohol license.

We came here the other day and it was okay but I wasn’t overly impressed. The whole experience had its ups and downs.
Good: an impressive selection of meat, seafood, veggies, carbs and sauces to choose from.
Bad: tiny bowls for collecting your ingredients — my noodles were spilling over the edge of my bowl while I was standing in line to get it all cooked.
Good: ingredients looked fresh and were well stocked. And I can’t complain about having as much shrimp, scallops and calamari as I could jam into one stir-​fry.
Bad: lack of clear suggestions for combining sauces and what goes well with what. I did okay with the meat, veggies & noodles. I hit the sauces table and got totally overwhelmed. I ended up with a combination of sauces that was kind of bland.
Good: lots of entertaining showmanship at the cooking station. They’re very coordinated and the group at the grill puts on a good show.
Bad: long wait to get my food cooked.
Good: several sides to choose from, including white & brown rice, wraps and some other stuff I don’t recall off hand.
Bad: I asked for my rice on the side; they threw it in with the rest of the ingredients.
Good: I mentioned that I’d asked for the rice on the side, but I told them it was okay (I wasn’t that fussy and I wasn’t about to start all over.) The manager was near by and pro-​actively offered me a card for a free dessert for my understanding and the inconvenience. I really appreciate places that acknowledge their mistakes and put in some extra effort to make it right.
All in all the food was decent, and the experience was fun but I wasn’t totally blown away by the whole thing. The stuff I picked out was cooked nicely, but I could have used a little more guidance in making good selections. The dessert was good (some kind of chocolate cake — Chocolate Explosion or something?). Service was generally good. A shorter wait on getting my food cooked would have been nice.
I’d try it again, but it’s not super high on my list of places to eat at. It seems like a fun family place, something that kids would probably enjoy. It definitely has a family-​restaurant vibe to it.