Pei Wei

I’ve been just really wanting decent Chinese food. I hoped that this would end up being someplace I could go for simple take out.
Honestly, we couldn’t even finish our food. We went in and ordered carry out. I got sweet and sour chicken and my guy got pad Thai. After a few bites all I could taste was ginger. At first I was really confused and thought maybe it was in the soy sauce. I tasted some on its own and that wasn’t it. The more I ate, the more I realized I was chewing actual pieces of ginger. At that point I was trying to decide if it was in the rice or the chicken. I’m still not totally sure. It could have been in both! It was seriously all I could taste. It was the most bizarre thing.
My boyfriend said his food was really greasy and tasted like burnt oil. Once he admit he didn’t like his, I let out a sigh of relief and let him know I really couldn’t even finish mine. We took our half eaten food downstairs and threw it out. Then we are slices of cake. That was way better. I guess we’re still on the search for any decent Chinese food in Nashville. :/​
I’m honestly not even sure why I gave this place 2 stars since the food was practically inedible. I guess because the staff was friendly and the service was quick.

It’s a chain so right off the bat not my favorite but I used to LOVE pei wei. They have changed how the menu is and it seems like the ingredients have gone way down hill. Since when is veggies just cabbage and thin slices carrots? Where are the veggies at!!!
I was a bit disappointed in the new menu and prob won’t be back.

If I lived just a bit closer, I’d come here much more often. This trip I ordered the beef prepared «Thai Dynamite» style, with veggies, and a side of stir fried rice. I washed it down with a glass of merlot and man, was it tasty! I highly recommend that combo. The service was friendly and fast. Its a great place to get a yummy quick bite just before the movies in at the Green Hills theater.

You know what you’re getting when you order. I’ve ordered takeaway from this location numerous times… the consistency is very good. Curiously though, the food was great again, but there were NO lids for drinks. Bizarre!

Our food was delivered to our table within a few minutes of ordering. The food was piping hot and fresh. I had the Dan Dan bowl and enjoyed every bite. It’s very reasonably priced as well.

This was my first time here so I wasn’t sure what to try. I asked the employee at the register. She didn’t know. So I tried the orange peel chicken. It was fresh and hot. But more healthy than I was looking for.

Food was not prepared as we ordered. Food bland and cold. This place is overrated. Not worth your time.

Not bad for fast food Asian. The place is always freezing. Just eat order and get out fast!

Absolutely love this fast food version of PF Chang’s! It just seems expensive for the small portion sizes. Maybe it’s just me, but I think you need to add double meat to get a decent portion. Their teriyaki and ginger dish is really good. They just need larger portions and more sauce. If you order extra sauce it’s too salty, so I wish they’d give you more with the dish. But man, it’s good!

This store (Green Hills, Nashville, TN) makes the Pei Wei brand look terrible!
I live and work nearby and love Pei Wei food, but the management of this store is absolutely abysmal. On several occasions (most recently today), I’ve called in orders or submitted them online only to have an undertrained employee tell me they either had lost the order entirely or hadn’t yet even put the order in.
Tonight after waiting over an hour for an in-​store takeout order, when my order finally arrived, the staffer told me, «I’m not even sure what’s in here. If it’s the wrong thing, it’s because we ran out of what you ordered.»
As it turns out, all three meals in the order were indeed wrong. An order of lo mein with chicken and extra veggies that was merely a box of lo mein being the most comical.
If you’re going to staff an entire crew of high schoolers, they really need to be trained and managed better.

Not bad, for a franchise restaurant!
Slipped away from an art exhibit and decided to have a quick dinner here.
Like everyone else — 1) fast 2) cheap 3) fresh 4) convenient.
It’s not as salty as PF Chang’s.
It’s not expensive like PF Chang’s.
It’s not overly crowded with long wait lines, like PF Chang’s.
good.
What it is, is fast, cheap, freshly made food.
I had the Spicy Korean plate with fried rice.
Plentiful, not real salty, good for the hunger pangs, easy on the wallet, decent on the pallet.
I want to return and try a couple other dishes that sounded good.
I appreciate how the manager runs the restaurant. He understands Repeat Customer Satisfaction.
There are many restaurants in this town that don’t!
I will return and try more dishes.

So much good quality food! Anytime my husband and I are in a town with a Pei Wei, we try to go. It’s basically the same quality as P.F. Chang’s, but for about ¹⁄₃ of the price. Birmingham NEEDS one of these!
I ordered shrimp lo mein this time and ate the ENTIRE bowl (usually I take half to go). It was so good I couldn’t stop eating it. I really like that their shrimp, chicken, beef, and tofu is the same price — it bothers me when people make beef and shrimp more expensive.

One of my favorite chains. Perfect for Fridays in Lent because you can get any dish with Shrimp in it. We come here every once in a while from work when craving Chinese. Their spring rolls are my favorite. They are typically not over fried like some tend to be.
My favorites are the honey seared chicken and their lo main. On Friday I got the lo main with shrimp and was really impressed by how many shrimp they gave me. In the end I had more shrimp than noodles left, which never happens!
I just got water but next time I would definitely try the fancy soda machine, someone I was with got a Strawberry Sprite which was pretty tasty.
Overall this is a solid location of the solid chain. Sometimes I like knowing exactly what to expect.

Not thier best effort with the Thai Dynamite. Only half the chicken was sauced and overwhelmingly vinegary. Spicy Korean was better.

My first time at Pei Wei was on a Sunday night and being its the Xmas season and in the middle of the Green Hills area, the joint was busy…
The food was decent, but not enough out of Panda Express’ league to justify the extra $ 2 – 3 per entrée.
My friend had a tofu dish because they had run out of shrimp (the guy said the truck never showed up). Her dish showed up and for a second she thought they had screwed up and put chicken on instead of tofu. I had a taste and it was tofu after all, and it was delicious, I’m not a tofu guy so I was really impressed at how good the tofu was!
My dish was the caramel chicken. It had the little icon indicating it was spicy, but the heat level was very tame. The dish worked though, and was quite tasty. Some of the white rice was too crispy, as if some sections were undercooked.
The restaurant was kind of chaotic, I had to hunt around the joint for a napkin. The chili garlic sauce and mustard sauce jars were all close to empty, but hey, grab as many fortune cookies as you’d like! There were unbussed tables everywhere.
The bathroom was kind of gross. Water everywhere and no paper towels.
They did a great job of getting food out, but probably could use more on the bussing/​cleaning/​condiment stocking end of things.

Pei Wei isn’t so much a restaurant as a tool to scratch a particular kind of taste-​itch (titch?). Commentary on its authenticity or sense of place is entirely beside the point.
PW fills its role quite well as long as you take advantage of some basic knowledge:
–Most of the sauces taste the same. Just get the Orange Peel; it’s less salty than most.
–You can get your chicken steamed instead of fried. For some reason they call this «velvet.»
–The brown rice is much better than the white. Get it.
–The tofu option is good. It’s nice and seared on the outside.
–Two people can easily split a dish, so it’s possible to eat well here for about $ 6.50 a head. They offer extra plates at the tables, which makes sharing easier.

If Panda Express and PF Chang’s had a baby it would be Pei Wei. Basically it’s an upscale fast food American Chinese joint.
Positives: cheap, fast, easy, convenient, options…
Cons: bland, boring, predictable, fast food quality.
I ended up getting some sort of salad with too much lettuce and dressing and not much else. It was only 7ish dollars, but quite frankly I would have preferred to make my own salad at whole foods.
Oh well, it’s fast and easy!

Oh god, the oil. The oil. «Drill, baby, drill» was probably conceived right here in Pei Wei.
The ambiance was nice and all that, but when the food came, it was floating in an ocean of sesame oil. For simple-​minded vegetarians such as myself, there was a little green symbol next to the food items that signified what was meat-​free. But the portions were large enough that I had to take home some of what I’d ordered. That or my stomach shrank after a few mouthfuls.
For decades after eating here, my mouth felt dry and I was thirsty No amount of water could quench my thirst. A wise man also told me that oil and water don’t mix and that I should not be surprised. He also told me that if I crave authentic Asian food, I must never return here.

Don’t judge, but I kind of like this place. As far as East Asian food goes I honestly prefer it Americanized (Spider J., you may kick me in the shins next time I’m in the SGV). It’s not that I’m not adventurous, but it’s easier to eat meat-​free at a place like Pei Wei. Anything with a leaf next to it on the menu can be ordered with no meat or animal byproducts. The food is pretty alright in that context. I was able to get spring rolls, and veggies with tofu in sweet and sour sauce over brown rice. The portion was very generous, and I wasn’t able to finish it. It’s not fine dining, or an authentic experience, but it’s good.
Pei Wei has kind of a pan-​Asian thing going. The last time I was here I ordered Pad Thai, and I saw some Korean food on the menu too. You can also get all the standard fountain drinks as well as beer. And fortune cookies.

Pei Wei is your Fast Food solution to P.F. Changs, offering mostly the same kinds of dishes.
I enjoy the food, but like others I feel the prices are perhaps a bit higher than they should be.
The location is very nice with a reasonably decent amount of parking. You might run into problems in the evening, but for the most part you’ll be able to find something.
For my most recent visit, they kept trying to deliver the wrong food to our table, but we eventually got our food.
I have no real complaints beyond price, and I’m sure I’ll be back.