Pei Wei

Great fresh food and clean restaurant. Friendly and very accommodating staff. I’m a frequent visitor. This is a sister restaurant to PF Chang’s, but without the formality or higher prices. Great place to eat if you want the same style foods as PF Chang’s, but a more laid back environment without the need to dress up or spend more.

I love their food. I have gone there multiple times and still think it’s great. I especially love their soda machine. The Mongolian Beef dish is my absolute favorite.

Ordering online is fast and easy. But, the last 3 times they have messed up our order. Why can’t they double check the food ?!

Sesame Chicken very tasty, brown rice nicely compliments. Friendly service, clean tables. Healthy choices, reasonable prices. Will definitely come back.

Pei Wei has become a favorite «take out» spot for both myself and my girl friend. We drive a little further than the local Taco Bell — KFC combination fast food stop, but to eat healthier it is certainly worth our time.
Yesterday, after our Silver Crafting Class, we drove the 2.4 miles and not only enjoyed a relaxing healthy lunch, but then purchased «take home» orders so we would have our evening meal in the refrigerator waiting. (I brought my husband home an order of his favorite Kung Po Chicken with brown rice.)
If you haven’t give Pei Wei a try, stop in some time. I believe you’ll enjoy it – that is, IF, you enjoy Asian dishes.

The woman who took our order was nice but gave me wrong information. I advised I didn’t want tofu in my Pad Thai and she said to choose the meat I wanted so I picked steak. There was more tofu in it than steak and I had no idea there was over 4000 mg sodium in the dish I chose. I cannot recommend it due to it is not healthy especially for older people or anyone watching their sodium intake.

I eat regularly (3 – 5 times a month) at Pei Wei, usually in Scottsdale or North Phoenix. My wife’s doctor is across the street from this Pei Wei, so we have been stopping in when we go to her baby check ups. It is, without a doubt, the best Pei Wei I have eaten at. It is consistent, they don’t get frustrated if you customize your order, and the cooks on always on point.
Wish this location was closer!

OH MY GOD, this place. I used to like Pei Wei until I moved to Surprise and this location ruined it for me. They consistently screw up on orders, have huge wait times, and run out of key ingredients on an alarmingly regular basis. We just spent an hour waiting for a take out order (kung pao veggies and vegetable fried rice), which was twice the time they quoted us, only to be told they were out of WHITE RICE (how does a chinese restaurant fail to foresee the possibility that they might serve a lot of white rice on a Saturday night?!). I may have chosen to stick around the extra 15 minutes if they hadn’t already had to re-​make half my order after making it incorrectly the first time. When I change up an order even slightly to accommodate for allergies/​dietary needs, they have to re-​make it at least 75% of the time.
If the food was consistently delicious, I’d rate it higher, but honestly, it’s only okay.

Pretty good food a chain. You do get a lot of food for the price. However, every time I have ordered online there has been a mistake. Sometimes they tell me they never even received my order when I received the confirmation email. Also, if you in during a busy time and have a teenage girl as a cashier, you’re chances of having a pleasant experience with her are slim to none. This has happened to me multiple times with multiple different cashiers. I have spoken to the manager and he is always very apologetic, but I guess you just can’t get stressed teenage girls to be nice to customers. I will continue to go here as the food is good for the price and they are relatively quick with preparation. Nice options if you’re veggies as well.

As a vegetarian, it can difficult to find places with good options, but I love getting a tofu bowl at Pei Wei. The first time I had it, I had to double check because it looks and has a similar texture to meat, but it’s great. I love going to Pei Wei

The wait time for the food was way too long– 30 minutes for a bowl of spicy noodles with some veggies. I’m a guest from out of state but this is nothing better than my local Panda joint. They should probably let the customers cook the food cause we could do it faster.
The food was okay but the portions were a bit big. While I was waiting for the food (+30 min) I noticed a lot of people just ate a few bites and left the food on the table. So much food wasted– there must be a reason for that right?
The bathrooms weren’t clean, barely had soap no towels and toilet didn’t even flush!
I hope next time I’m down here that it isn’t this bad.

Pretty good, not great. Definitely overpriced. It’s barely a step up from Panda and not worth the price difference. Not saying it was bad, but $ 25 for two basic dishes is a bit much and they didn’t make the order how I requested.

I love Pei Wei. The food is delicious. The atmosphere is chill. The restaurant was clean and staff friendly.

Service is fast and on time. Love the online ordering-​very convenient! Food is always hot and delicious. However… NO FORKS FOR TAKE OUT? That is poor management. Either you didn’t order in time or there was a problem with the order… either way, hustle your booty to Walmart and buy a couple boxes: Unacceptable!

Disappointed that on Unilocal their hours show them open at 1030am but when you arrive they don’t open until 11am. Waiting in the car to pick up a large order makes me think twice about catering from here. Don’t get me wrong the food is great as always but they need to fix this.

It’s just above average. Portions are decent and cost was ok. Got in and out fast by phoning our order in. Good was ok, it didn’t floor me but it didn’t make me not want to there again.

This is one of my favorite Chinese restaurants! I always get the honey seared chicken because it’s just the right mixture of sweet and tangy goodness! I like to add on veggies for $ 0.99 more to get delicious crunchy snap peas, carrots and broccoli. A regular bowl costs about $ 8 with the veggies added on.
I also like their chili paste, it’s kind of sweet and just the right amount of spicy. They make it there in the restaurant so it’s always fresh and good. It goes very well in their lettuce wraps! (Which are also amazing.) I have tried both traditional and the Thai lettuce wraps, they are equally good but I always go more for the traditional.
The only thing I would have to say is I don’t like their Sweet and Sour bowls. Something is off in the recipe so it doesn’t taste like what it should in my opinion. Other than that the Pei Wei locations I’ve been to have always been clean with polite and courteous staff happy to answer any questions I have.

For being fairly «fast» food. Pei Wei (pronounced pay way I confirmed haha) is pretty darn good. we got a few things to share. I had the Asian chicken salad and was impressed! There was a decent amount of chicken. Some more veggies would be nice, but overall pretty good. The steak teriyaki was great as well as the fried rice. Over all good was good! Nice, clean, and reasonable.

My wife wanted to try this place for awhile now. One of her brothers friends used to be a manager of one in Colorado too. Tonight we decided to try it out.
I placed my order online. Easy process. My wife went with an order of Chicken Lo Mein and I went with Sesame Chicken/​Steak with fried rice as well as an egg roll and 2 pot stickers. Total for everything was $ 24.80 after tax. I drove down and picked up my food. The manager their was friendly, rang me up real quick and I was out the door in no time. This bag was heavy as hell too! Here is how everything tasted…
Chicken Lo Mein– Only had a little of this. Good noodles, good white meat chicken. My wife liked it.
Sesame Chicken/​Steak– I decided to try out 2 kinds of meat. They let you mix and match which is cool… they charge you for the highest priced item. I substituted fried rice for white rice (.99 cents extra). This was touted as soy citrus glaze, red bell peppers, onions, scallions, ginger, garlic and chile paste and sesame seeds. It was just alright. The flavors didn’t really do much for me. It was a tad spicy from the chile paste but overall it was kind of bland. I had some pieces of steak/​chicken that were a bit funky too. I would definitely try out a different dish next time here… if there is a next time ;-). The fried rice was good!
Egg Roll– Eh. It was an egg roll. Nothing fantastic about it but it tasted fine. It came with a sweet mustard dipping sauce which was pretty tasty. Usual fillings of pork, veggies etc.
Deep Fried Pot Stickers– I got 2 of these things. They were good. Small but good. Straight pork filling in the middle of them.
Overall it was just alright. I will say that they give you a GRIP of food. The 2 entrees we got could have easily fed 1 – 2 more people. For $ 24.80 it was a great value. The food just wasn’t the type of thing that you would ever crave and keep you coming back though. While I was eating my meal, all I could think of were better Chinese food places I have had before… wishing I was eating them instead. It filled my belly, service was friendly and the value is definitely there. I’ll probably give them another try and order some other dishes to see if there is something I really like. We shall see…

Even though I’m Asian and I’ve eaten quite a bit of Asian food in my life, I had to have a Caucasian co-​worker explain to me the hierarchy of Americanized Asian cuisine. Top of the chain is PF Changs and the bottom of the barrel is Panda Express. Right in the middle, at a happy medium, is Pei Wei Asian Diner.
Affordable, tasty, probably loaded with MSG… but hey! Sometimes you got to have your Mongolian beef, orange chicken, and gigantic bowl of white rice. I’ve got to say I was very happy after my Pei Wei lunch. I’m definitely a fan.