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Monday
Mar292010

PF Chang's China Bistro

Located in the Annapolis Town Center at 307 Sail Place AnnapolisMD 21405.

Sunday night March 28th, and the place is packed. In the Annapolis towne center on a rainy sunday this place was one of a very few that boasted this many patrons. While PF Changs is pretty big a chain restaurant, on this day you'd have thought they had cornered the market on Food, flavor, presentation and ultimately service!!!
From start to finish. We waited roughly 3-4 minutes when we were told we may have to wait about 15 minutes. 
We were quickly seated, and shown menus. Our waitress was a young lady, smiled alot and had a great sense of humor. She took our picture to remember the evening, and we just sat back in a big comfy booth to await the beginning of what was to be one of the better meals I had served to me in quite awhile. We were quickly served our water with Lemon, no ice, and for me an extra treat,, I rarely can find a restaurant that serves anything but Odoules non alcoholic beer. generally because most restaurants do not respect non drinkers ( in my opinion)
Here at PF Changs, the serve Kaliber which was icy cold and fantastic, served in a chilled Tall glass.

Our appetizers were the Lettuce wraps ( a tradition at PF Changs) and the seared Ahi Tuna. Our waitress served this with some condiments of blended dipping sauces which she explained excellently.

The appetizers were crisp, fresh and just all around great.  Full of flavor, and presented with care. Timing between courses was as good as I have seen. Water service was on time, and no hovering over the table asking how was everything. She did this only twice throughout the entire meal, and it was timely, as well she did so with cordial confidence. In other words "she sold it" all the time. For how young she must have been, she came off as a server far beyond her years, wise, yet attentive, humble, and worked hard, i.e. I saw her sweeping floors and doing buswork (yes they do have busboys there too) 
The Entree, we split, as Tami had her Wraps as an entree, oh and I almost forgot to mention. they brought us a free "order" of Calamari, wether a mistake or not, this was a nice touch and for sure gave off the we "do not throw out anything" even if it was a mistake order for someone else. And rather than feed the staff more,, they decide to make their customers happier!!
I thought this was too cool! And yes the Calamari too was fresh and the sea salt mix made it just another thing to brag about!!

The VIP Duck came out with extra large portions of Fresh wok cooked spinach which was wilted just right, as well with some Asparagus seasoned just right with seared onions, and was just the right blend of flavors. Cooked al dente, and hot!!
The duck was tender and as good as I could have hoped for. the crisp homemade Grilled Chive tortillas were a great accompaniment to the duck as well.

Tami and I were both comfortably full!! When our waitress described the desserts we decided to do a take home of a Crispy Banana eggroll dessert with a homemade coconut, vanilla mango like ice cream, with caramel. It held up well for the ride home as our great server said it would!! It was the topper to an evening that likely could not have gotten better to that point. We were both very Happily filled to the brim, and will definitely be coming back soon. 

I am sure this place has good and bad days, but the service here far outweighed how well everything else was, even though it was all good.  This server was very very well trained, and our service was unforgettable on this night. 5 out of 5 stars!!

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