My wife and I went to Ku Noodle to celebrate my birthday ( major tip: if you're a local, the SLS gives you $30 off a $60 check in the month of your birthday!)
Ambience: the restaurant is fairly informal. When you walk in, you go through the bar area which has a fairly large bar and some regular tables. In the back is the main dining room with booths along the wall and high top tables in the center. Again, fairly informal with no tablecloths, and fairly Spartan decorations.
Food: We started with the Superior Wonton soup. It had a ton of bok choy and egg noodles with a few shrimp and pork wonton thrown in. The portion is huge, more than enough as a starter for 4 people. Good but not great. Next we have the pork and shrimp siu mai. This consisted of 6 fairly small dumplings that were not very flavorful. I have had much better in local restaurants. We followed this with an order of lo mein. This dish was fabulous. They had hand pulled noodles with ham, mushroom, cabbage, and scallion. Fairly large portion. Every bite delicious. Our final dish was the shrimp pad thai. A very large portion pad thai noodles in a spicy peanut sauce with a generous helping of shrimp and a garnish of a single giant prawn. Fabulous!! But we saved the best for last. What is a birthday celebration dinner without a decadent dessert? We had a portion of shaved ice for dessert. The presentation was outstanding (see the picture). And the taste was even better than it looked! I will come back here just to get that dessert again.
Service: our server, Bailey, was at our table almost immediately to get our drink water. Because we were first timers, she helped us make some of our food selections. The food was brought out at a very nice pace . Daily check back with us at regular intervals to make sure that everything was going well. Overall the service was excellent.
This turned out to be a great place to have a birthday celebration dinner.