Stir Crazy

My absolute favorite place to go when I’m in town on business. I can get a good hot meal that contains a lot of fresh vegetables and protein. Service is great, restaurant is clean, food is fresh. Super filling and can usually get it to go and it will cover more than one meal. Right next to the mall is a great location as it is near several hotels as well. Can’t wait till I get to come back!

We recently visited and ordered from their «tapas» menu. The food was tasty, but portions could have been a bit more generous for the price. The restaurant was not crowded, service was friendly. One really weird thing was that every hot dish served stuck to the table. The plate was immobilized! The waitress was aware of this problem and laughed about it. It seemed as though the table varnish needed resurfacing — I’d never seen anything like it before and it made me wonder if the place was run down or not properly maintained/​cleaned. A bit disorienting.

Party of six and only one person liked their entrée. The food tasted horrible! First and last time. The restaurant itself was nice and clean. Staff accommodating. Very disappointed about the sweet and sour chicken. One friend sent her beef and broccoli back because it tasted horrible. I boxed my good and took home to put real sweet and sour sauce on it.

I wish I could rate this a 0 star. The worst customer service ever! I’ve always found teh food over priced for the options. Today there were little to no veggies at the restaurant. Sauces were poured all over the floor. And our server was amazing. (Sarcasm) we had to beg to get water. Our orders were messed up. We did not get refills. He did not get our checks. And on top of it he was not apologetic despite me telling him the same. Additionally, the place wasn’t even crowded. No wodner why? I would never ever go back and so won’t my friends.

This review should be a 1 star but I think probably there could possibly be a worse restaurant out there somewhere.
SOUPS way too SALTY, Food was sub-​par my fried rice was soggy and flavorless. My wife’s chicken was very dry. A lot of the food we ordered just wasn’t really good and tasted worse than 2 days old average leftovers.
I’m sorry i thought it should have been a lot better but it wasn’t.

I have been coming to stir crazy for 15 years or so. Quality of the food has completely gone down. My last few experiences here were BAD. Recently I end up coming here as an invitation by a friend or family member and every time recently I have been experiencing this bad food with a sour smell. I’m sitting on my table as I’m writing this review and my stomach is flipping. The smell is horrible. I will never come here again for the safety of my health. Our server was very nice though I must admit.

I wish there was a rating with negative stars! For such an upscale restaurant, I was highly disgusted when I found A DEAD BUMBLE BEE in my order of Blazing Noodles during the lunch time today. Utter disappointment !

Awful customer service experience! I made a reservation via open table. Just walked out as I was told it would be a 20 minute wait as they are busy and my reservation does not matter! Why offer reservations if you are going to tell your customers they mean anything? I understand it’s busy, this does not make it right for your hostess to be rude.
Sad part is they do have decent food.

Perfect place to dine in the mall. If you’re short on time, they have items you can order a la carte. The market bar is the best! Pick as many veggies as you like (and be as selective as you wish) and pick your favorite sauce, and they’ll do the rest! You really can’t make a bad stir fry if you stick to one or two sauces. I highly recommend mixing the kung pao, peanut, and teriyaki sauces together if you like a little spice! The servers are friendly, but sometimes service is really slow if you go at prime hours. They have tons of vegetarian and non-​veg options. The desserts are also amazing. Try the banana wontons and you won’t regret it!

What were we thinking dining so close to mall during Christmas season? Oh that’s right, we were in the mood for some delicious noodles.
If I was rating my server alone, I’d be giving this place 5 stars. Kyle was the best, super attentive, and funny. I enjoyed having him wait on us. My glass was never empty!
The place itself is nice. Food was hot and delicious. I opted to make my own bowl, which I do enjoy. I had shrimp, chicken, and steak, all cooked perfectly. My only regret was I wished I had more noodles. It was the first time in a long time I had crab rangoon with actual crab in them!
What took away a star was the cleanliness. The make your own bowl area was a hot mess. Veggies mixed with others, that kind of thing. Not allergy friendly. And the women’s bathroom was GROSS. Glad I didn’t use it till the end or I’d lost my appetite.

Not bad option for a good lunch. It’s quick and it’s not McDonald’s! Nothing out of the ordinary. Good food. Mojito was too sweet.

It’s ok… it was better before. Not sure what happened. :(

I’ve eaten there a handful of times and it’s pretty good. I always get the make your own because I like a lot of veggies. I’m gluten free and they are very accommodating for that. My only complaint is that I notice they use kale as a decoration and I wish they would serve it or include chard or something other than spinach. Overall the food is pretty good and I will go back every so often

This used to be one of our favorite places. I am not sure what the root of the changes are (new management, new corporate owner?) but the menu has changed. That’s fine except the food is nowhere near as good as it used to be. And the prices are much higher.
I took my two girls out to dinner last Sat night. Drinks, even soft drinks, are $ 3.59! We ordered the spring rolls which were good, same as always. They no longer have the tempura green beans on the menu but we asked and our waiter said they could still make it. It was ok but somehow not as tasty as they used to be
My daughters got make your own stir fries. They were good, the girls mixed their own sauces so they liked it. Tofu or vegetable stir fries are $ 12.99, add more $ for meat. I will say the stir fry portions were good.
The worst though was my meal. I ordered the Szchewan chicken. It’s indicated spicy on the menu and when I ordered I asked for spicy. What I got was chicken in a bland, starchy sauce with next to no flavor. The vegetables tasted like they came from a frozen stir fry mix. That disappointing dish was $ 13. I didn’t even want to take it home.
Our waiter was ok. Service average overall. We ended up paying $ 80 for 3 people for a mediocre meal. It’s really a shame because we used to love Stir Crazy at the Oakbrook Mall. We won’t be going back.

I came with my family late on a Sunday afternoon, a group of 7 people, plus a baby in a stroller. We called ahead and they told us that they were empty so we came in and still waited about 10 minutes for them to figure out where to seat us. In the almost empty restaurant. They set up one table and then had to set up another, because apparently we couldn’t keep our stroller by the first table (the stroller was open with the sleeping baby in it the whole time).
We ended up waiting at least 40 minutes after we came in to actually get our food. Although a rush came in after we were finally situated, parties that were seated after we were received their food before we did. The food that finally did come was pretty good though!
We ordered Crazy Shrimp, pot stickers, Mongolian beef, sweet and spicy chicken, sweet and sour chicken and mango sesame chicken, which was plenty of food for the 5 adults and 2 kids (9 and 13) in our party. The mango sesame chicken could have used a little more flavor for my taste and the «sweet and sour sauce» definitely tasted like straight soy sauce… but the Mongolian beef, crazy shrimp and sweet and spicy chicken were all very tasty!
When the waitress brought out the check she also brought 2 $ 10 Stir Crazy gift cards, because of our wait time at the beginning.
I would be willing to try this place one more time, and hope for slightly better service.

I am a huge fan of stir fray and have dine at many Stir Crazy locations. My favorite location is located in Schaumburg IL and have dined at least 3 – 4 times a year since I was 18.
I heard that they made a few updates to their menu and decided to give it a try.
The Oakbrook location has a small patio area which isnt all that impressive as it consists of roughly 4 tables with tiny umbrellas and a view of the Sears Parking Lot.
The restaurant was clean and our waiter was extremely friendly which is why I was able to give it the 2 stars instead of less.
For starters we ordered the Poo Poo Platter. Our chicken dumplings were very chewy and definately failed to provide a fresh appearance. The «new» BBQ Ribs are extremely sweet and and were again cold. Regarding flavor the ribs are not worth it at all. The chicken wings were solid and offered a sweety tangy taste with a slightly spicy kickback. My wife is a huge fan of the egg rolls and I must say these were the worse Stir Crazy Egg Rolls we have ever had in the last 10 years. The egg rolls seemed very doughy and underfilled, there was 1 carot slice in each of our egg roll and failed to live up to its expectations.
The waiter was kind enough to bring us a desert on the house in celebration of my birthday which was great and special. The desert was probably the part of the meal with cinamon wontons stuffed with banana and topped off with caramel and vanilla ice-​cream. I should have just came in for the desert!
I hope to be back to another Stir Crazy in the future but may never dine at this location again! Food quality was a downgrade compared to other chicagoland locations.

I love Big Bowl and Flat Top Grill so I never come here but there was a Groupon so I couldn’t pass that up.
My friend ordered off the menu and I did the market bar. I went up to the bar, picked my veggies and sauce, and proceeded to the counter to have it cooked. What I didn’t realize is that you have to stand there and wait while they cook your food. Actually, you have to wait while they cook everyone else’s food until it’s your turn. In the meantime, my friend received her food and I was still standing at the counter waiting for mine. By the time my food was done my friend was halfway through with her meal.
I sat down to my meal and it was terrible. They added too much water and what I think is cornstarch to my stir fry and what I was left with was a bland tasteless ‘sauce’ over my vegetables. I took a few bites and couldn’t eat the rest of it. I wasn’t going to wait for another stir fry to be cooked as my friend was already done at this point.
The waiter forgot to add the groupon to the check and had to hunt down the manager to fix it. Not a big deal but he also grabbed my credit card that was sitting on the table and I didn’t even know what the total bill was.
As we were walking out to the car I realized my hair smelled like smoke. It was from standing at the stir fry bar waiting for my food.
I don’t recommend going here but if you have to, order off the menu. The only reason I’m giving this place two stars is because the dish ordered off the menu wasn’t too bad.

True Confessions: when I was junior high school and high school aged, THEEEEEE thing to do was grab your best gal friend and hang out at a mall. You bought maybe one good thing (like some fun new sunglasses from Contempo Casual, or lotion at Victoria’s Secret if you were feeling bold), and eventually dined somewhere that felt very mature and cool and chic.
Looking back now at 31 yrs old, I kind of can’t believe Stir Crazy was once in my pool of «mature, cool, and chic» eating establishments but hey, we’re all young and dumb at some point. And really, I wasn’t SO far off. Stir Crazy isn’t embarrassingly terrible. It’s actually withstood the test of time for decent eats.
My husband and I came here late last weekend because I was craving some stir fry and wasn’t sure where else to go. I checked the reviews on the drive over and was a little bit pensive — there’s not one but TWO mentions of food poisoning, several mentions of bad service, and overall not glowing reviews. I felt an impending sadness coming on. All of my post-​The-​Limited-​shopping-​spree-​eating-​sessions here were about to be invalidated. But as we walked in and were immediately seated by a smiling, polite hostess, I relaxed.
We had an AWESOME server who was polite and attentive. We ordered Thai iced coffees and the taste was just as I remembered — strong, rich, decadent. We got lettuce wraps to begin and they were tasty enough. Side note: is there a universal lettuce wrap filling recipe handed out to every single suburban restaurant? How can they all taste PRECISELY the same?
Husband and I both got the make-​your-​own stir fry shtick and wandered up to make our bowl full of veggies and sauce. I loaded up on snap peas and baby corn, teriyaki sauce, and peanuts. Husband got some spicy curry sauce and a whole bunch of water chestnuts. To each their own — which is kinda the point. Both of ours turned out tasty enough, though I preferred my tofu to his salmon. The fish got brutally overcooked in those scalding hell-​woks they wield.
Overall, I enjoyed my waltz through memory lane at Stir Crazy. Sure, it’s kind of a niche restaurant and I definitely don’t have to come back anytime soon, but it was satisfying enough and made me happy to know I didn’t have THAT horrible of a sense of taste in my youth. That white shimmery eyeshadow we all rocked while wandering the mall, trying desperately to look fashionable and trendy? THAT I can’t fix.

I have only been to Stir Crazy twice in my life. The first time was at the Warrenville location which is currently shut down. It was an extremely long time ago but all I remember was I did NOT like the food there at all. Therefore, I decided to never try the restaurant again.
Last week I stayed late at work and my company ordered dinner from Stir Crazy in Oakbrook– so I had no choice… either starve or try Stir Crazy again. I decided to try the «Seared Miso Scallops.» There were maybe 4 – 5 scallops, asparagus, shitake mushrooms, red peppers, spinach, and garlic served over brown rice in Miso broth.
I wasn’t too fond of the scallops and other vegetables, but the spinach and rice drenched in Miso broth was absolutely delicious. I could have just eaten the spinach and rice in the broth and been perfectly satisfied. I would highly recommend this dish. If I was paying out of my own pocket though… I wouldn’t be a fan of paying $ 15 for just the spinach and rice in Miso broth… it’s definitely overpriced, especially since they give a handful of scallops.

Look, on a work trip I don’t get to pick the restaurant (usually). Hence, I ended up at Stir Crazy, which was able to accommodate a large group without a reservation. Appearance-​wise, it’s clearly the Asian Fusion equivalent of a Friday’s or an Applebee’s.
The drinks were just so-​so. My Mai Tai was mostly juice, and the wine list was quite limited. Food was ok; the sushi rolls we shared for an appetizer were surprisingly good. The chicken wings really brought the «fusion» (that is, they were like a sports bar’s version of Asian food) but were tasty enough. My entrée was a stir fry dish served with a TON of rice (like, seriously, we are wasting rice here guys). It was. .. fine. It was perfectly edible, but felt more like a cafeteria lunch than a restaurant dinner.
I will say the service was good and the waitstaff did a nice job making sure everyone at our table had everything they needed at all times.