This place is hard to stay away from if you are downtown and hungry. There’s another one of these at Keystone at the Crossing which is good too, but I really like this one downtown at Circle Centre. The decor is upscale and the atmosphere has an interesting feel to it. I have some friends who live on the outskirts of Indy in one direction, and I live in another. So downtown is the perfect solution when we get together for lunch. We’ve gone to other places downtown but I said if they wanted to make this the destination every time, I wouldn’t mind.
There’s a huge number of choices on the menu. If you can’t find something there that you like then you should be eating at Denny’s instead of a Chinese Bistro. I always choose something that’s got some heat in it. Kung Pao this… or Szechwan that. I have this thing about Hot and Sour Soup too. Sometimes I just order the huge bowl that’s meant for 3-4 people and have that by itself…and ask for some fried noodles too. To me fried noodles are the chinese version of crackers. I always try the Hot and Sour Soup at whatever Chinese restaurant I go to. I’m keeping mental notes and sometime I’m going to try and make some at home.
I really don’t eat out that often…so no matter what restaurant I go to, I think the service and the table you sit at is just as important as the food. It’s the whole experience. I have refused to sit at tables that are next to the kitchen doors with waiters buzzing past me, or tables by the bathroom entrances for obvious reasons. At P. F. Changs, once I refused to be seated out in the overflow area in the mall corridor when they were really busy once. I’d rather wait longer for a good table. The choice of chairs at the table itself is important too…at least to me. Each chair has a different view. Here they have these giant horse statues inside that are kind of cool, but I try to make sure I get the correct table and chair so I don’t have an anterior view of the horse. From my experience, I would suggest sitting at one of the booths looking out on Illinois Street.
