Excellent servers, they are all very nice and manner servers even during busy lunch schedule with so many orders. Love the food and the add on drink for $2.50 during lunch specials

Good portions, good food, and efficient staff! This restaurant is typically packed. They have a lot of tables. The place is always clean when I visit. Park in the free parking structure nearby.

This Thursday was my third visit to The Bay Cafe for lunch. My co-worker has brought me to all three visits and I love this place. Their prices are great and you get a lot of food, so much so that I had to get a take out container on all my visits. I have ordered the Hong Kong Style Beef Chow Fun with Chicken CM1 $13.50 twice and the Singapore Style Pan Fried Vermicelli CM9 $13.50 once. The food has been excellent and the flavors and tenderness of the chicken as well as the juicy succulent shrimp in the Singapore Vermicelli was great. Our orders have come out pretty quickly and we have ordered a ice lemon tea on all your visits. The tea is sweet but not too sweet. I look forward to trying their other dishes, soups and sandwiches. The service has been great as well. Thanks Bay Cafe.

The Bay Cafe is located on Main Street in Alhambra. Their Chinese name is called "Tung Lo Wan" (Causeway Bay) but it's not a fancy HK-style Cafe. The interior decor looked a bit awkward with different color lighting and no other decorations with some loud music that I couldn't hear clearly. They have some TVs but always keep them off. They have many customers, despite the loud noise. We've waited about 10 minutes for our table. The food tasted pretty good and flavorful, the portions were big. Service was attentive and the server helped us to refill the drink a few times. Food: 4 out of 5 stars Service: 4 out of 5 stars Ambiance: 3 out of 5 stars Overall: 4 out of 5 stars

My family and I visit The Bay Cafe restaurant here at least once a week for lunch or dinner. This place has affordable prices, with an all-day special available for $10.99 from 9:30 am to 9:30 pm. In particular, the staff members are really kind, courteous, and attitude-free. Bring your family, friends, to enjoy food at The Bay Cafe.

The Bay Cafe is not a fancy eatery nor a place seeking to impress based on superficial concepts. Nonetheless, tonight the hussle and bustle of our table servers was beyond outstanding. There were 2 gentlemen who served our table with Vince taking the lead. Despite bustling several tables they were insanely attentive re-filling my husbands lemonade and providing anything extra we needed so quickly! They even went above and beyond to ensure our table did not wobble even before we noticed or asked. They should both get a raise and are the real reason I was most inpressed with The Bay Cafe. Beside the unbelievable positive customer service, our food choices were quite enjoyable. Most memorable of all, was the Sauted Beef with the String Beans. In fact, not embarrased to state we only ordered this dish based on seeing most tables had it served. Meat was so tender and the string beans were crunchy and cooked to perfection. Our drink were also tasty. We'd return to try other options.....the menu is so extensive and there are select dishes available priced at $10!!!!!! Other things to note: - nearby free parking structure - $2.50 tea lattes - credit cards with minimum $10 bill - available booster seats - outdoor seating - scaled added suggested tips on your bill so you don't have to do the math

$10.99 all day special 9am-930pm (dine-in) in Alhambra. Not my mom's first choice but close and easy. It's decent, if you ignore some sanitary issues. The chicken, and Chinese cauliflower are popular worth it choices. Food isn't too salty and oily which is nice. I liked that this place was on the lighter side of taste unlike other canto, or regional Chinese cuisine places with lunch special. For $10.50+ and comes with rice, it's hard to complain at that price with the portion size they offer. For Friday lunch time, it seems crowded and filled with seniors like my mom who loves deals over quality at times, and non-Chinese or tourist looking eaters....similar to ppl I would see at Mama Lu's in mpk. We've been here before but guess I forgot it. I would place it like a 3.5 stars and just rounded up because of it's amazing prices. My kinda dirty napkin and cup were a turn off. I flipped my clean looking napkin to find that it was a little dirty in the back. I guess they aren't wasteful? I'm just hoping everything else is clean enough? The SO was craving fried rice. This place is not a fried rice place. But I did enjoy that it wasn't greasy or overly salty. If anything, it needed more salt.

TLDR: One of the last restaurants in the LA area where you could get a full meal under $14. Their best deals can only be claimed dining in, but the rest of their menu isn't that far off in price. Taste is not as great as other established locations, but you're here because you're willing to sacrifice 10% of the taste to save a few dollars. Cold cut crystal chicken: Bland, bad bone to meat ratio, and a ginger sauce that's too salty. You get this because you're a chicken fan and a half chicken for $11 is a solid deal. French style fish: Fish is seasoned beautifully and the texture is very good. It's a generous serving with flavors that go very well with rice. Shrimp in Satay Sauce Lo-Mien: It had potential but the dish fell short overall. The noodles were fine and the shrimp was good. However, the satay was less of a sauce and more of an essence. It could be that they just didn't mix the dish well or not enough sauce was used. Either way, it looked way better in the picture and I was disappointed. Stewed Tilapia w/ Beancurd skin and Tofu: $14.99 for a whole fish, eggplant, tofu, and tofu skin. This is the best deal of the meal. The dish wasn't too salty, and it matched what one would expect to taste in a tofu hotpot. The dish was cooked well and it was a sizable piece. The tofu was good and the tofu skin's texture maintained even when buried beneath a bunch of sauce. Not the best tasting dish of the meal, but it's the best deal. Service: It's a classic Chinese restaurant, so expect the bare minimum. You're given what you ask for and nothing more. The only thing they'll be proactive about is the free rice refill. You'll have to call and ask them for the rest. This is a negative for most, but I don't care. Ambiance: The place has an interesting environment. It's never full but you won't say that the place is struggling for customers either. There seems to be an endless cycle of middling when it comes to capacity. It becomes funnier when you've been inside for 90 mins and you notice that the same tables being vacated are the same tables being given to the next guest.

On our way to Santa Monica , this place was recommended for authentic Chinese cuisine. We are not disappointed. The place was very simple. Located on first street. The ambiance was very family friendly. We were seated right away and ordered food. It was served fast hot freshly cooked . The steamed tilapia was served last because of cooking time. The food overall was satisfying. Loved the freshness of it . The deep fried sole will always be our favorite. Crispy and fish was cooked tenderly. The steamed tilapia with black bean sauce was juicy . The sautéed green beans was crispy and tasty . It's garlicky which we liked. The chow fun with gravy was very filling. The salt and pepper fried pork was not oily yet super good. Overall it was true Chinese cuisine. Rice is free. They different selection of boba drinks too.