Genghis Grill opens today in Georgetown, Texas
June 8, 2009 at 2:51 pm , by Jenel Looney
Genghis Grill, The Mongolian Stir Fry, opens today at Wolf Ranch Mall. It’s located near the water fountain around the corner from Sephora and across the parking lot from Vino 100. As a member of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce, I got a sneak peek yesterday. My husband and I went for lunch. It was delicious!
(So you all know, my policy here at HometownGeorgetown is that I’m always sincere, and I’m always positive. That means if I didn’t like a local restaurant or get good service from a local business, I simply don’t write about it. It’s the whole “If you can’t say something nice…” philosophy I learned at my mother’s knee.)
The Genghis Grill concept is an interesting one. You “build your own bowl,” as they put it, meaning you choose what goes into your own ultra-customized stir-fry. The lunch bowl is a fixed price of $8.99 no matter which meat, spices, vegetables, sauce, and starch you choose. The dinner bowl is $9.99. Which is interesting because the size of the bowl doesn’t change.
When you choose the starch - more options than just rice or noodles - the gentleman who takes your order will holler out your option, and all the other men in the grill area holler it right back at him. They just opened, so they don’t have it down pat yet, but it should be a fun little moment once they get into it. The food is cooked on a round grill about six feet in diameter, with each order separated by long wooden poles. You can stand there and watch your food being prepared, or go to your table and let the wait staff bring the food to you.
The food was delicious. How could it not be, when I created it myself? They even give you a chance to taste the sauces before you choose. It can be as mild or as spicy as you want. And if you’re not in the mood for Asian, you can even use their ingredients to create your own fajitas. One of the starch options is tortillas. (Are tortillas?)
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by cubby112
On June 9, 2009 at 9:05 am
I tried this place out over the weekend as well. it was good but nothing new (in general). new for georgetown but if you have been to the Mongolian Grill in Austin, then this is the same with a few differences.
Food was good and fresh. would like to see flat bread as an option to have with your dinner. could have used that scoop up the last bit of rice and soak up the sauce.
i agree with the pricing between lunch and dinner. i asked the guy there from corporate (in dallas) and he stumbled through his answer. nutshell was that they add additional meat at dinner and a few more things, but he realized that was not enough and was “looking into” getting bigger bowls. i pushed and asked why. the portions as they are were good, why not just lower the dinner price? no response except, “we are looking into getting bigger bowls.”
other than that, good experience. nice to have another option in georgetown.
by Jenel Looney
On June 9, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Thanks for posting a comment! Bigger bowls is an interesting idea. They should provide bigger bowls for lunch and dinner, and give diners an option between small and large. (But then charge the same price at dinnertime as they do at lunchtime.) Unless you can look at it as a supply and demand issue, and they’re trying to manage the number of dinner customers by charging higher prices.