Gobi - San Jose, California

Stefan Gerl

Immer gerne wieder

Humphrey Yeh (Huffy)

If there is 6 stars I would give 6 stars! Super cost effective and delicious food after workout in the City Sports gym nearby. You are allowed to choose two full bowls of ingredients, including various meats, tofu, and other proteins, as well as wide range of veggies and carbons. You also build the seasoning recipe by yourself, making this a very healthy post-training meal with all the nutritions fully under your control and guaranteed the amount. It only costs $20 for the dinner. The front desk lady is also very nice and she built the seasonings for me which is delicious. I would say this is so far the only restaurant in Bay Area that I will feel sad about if it is closed someday. (Hopefully never happens)🙏🏻

Daniel Guo

If you know how to organize your meat well, you'll get good value out of this place. I suggest not getting the noodles and just filling up your bowls with meat, veggies, and sauce, so you can go to the back and get the free rice. It's pretty cool watching the chef cook your food, and there's a good array of sauces and seasoning you can put on your food. They also have takeout boxes on request. Just don't eat the free fried . . . something that they have towards the front. I don't think they ever replace it and it does not taste very good. Also lamb is not generally not available during lunch hours, which is sad because it definitely tastes the best. There's also some cross-contamination between different parts of the self-serve, so be very careful if you're allergic.

The Life Of Aboi

Honestly, had a terrible experience at this place. I’m from Los Angeles. This is my first time trying a Mongolian place in Northern California, as soon as you walk in no one’s really there to greet you, there’s only two employees one cashier and one cook. I came to order to-go food after the gym and I was asking how the pricing works. There is like a billion different signs and prices which are very confusing because many of them only apply for dine-in customers which I was not, she mentioned I can grab two bowls (which are very small you can maybe fit two apples inside.

The food is self-serve and it’s really hard to reach into each individual container because there's a covid style plastic blocking your shoulders from reaching in properly. There’s not enough tongs for grabbing each raw protein (chicken, pork, lamb, etc) as well as veggies so sometimes you have to use other ones.

I’m glad I got an extra bowl because one bowl of protein and one bowl of veggies is not enough portion size to even feel remotely full.

My food was served cooked on a plate (dine-in) after I kept mentioning it was a to-go order, once the cook understood me, he tossed it all in a to-go box. A lot of my meat and veggies were falling off the sides of the box onto the table where everyone gets their food.

It was very hard to understand the workers, I was asking for a napkin to clean oil off my hands after grabbing my box, I also asked for a fork to organize food back into container and they pretty much didn't know what I was referring to.

I was charged almost $30 for a standard panda-style box of food which honestly was very oily and not as good as I thought it was going to be.

I guess people who dine-in have a better experience but I will not be coming back.

Shamsun Nahar

Not all you can eat, price is just for a bowl only. Charge extra for icecream. But overall food quality and variety pretty good on a weekend lunch. Both lamb/beef meat was good, shrimp not so much.

Anusha Ranganath

This is my favorite place to eat in the bay. I always seek mongolian bbq out in other places, but this is the best by far. The sauces and flavors are so good and all the ingredients are fresh. And there’s an ice cream machine 🙂

Deepak Karkala

This place has an all you can eat option for stir fry noodles. Decent options. Try their recipes of sauces as per your taste. Should come out well. Vanilla ice cream was good. Friendly staff and convenient location

Seth Wonner

Delicious food. Fresh veggies and good tofu was key. I liked following the sauce recipe, it was so good.