Fire Bowl Cafe

Compelled to leave a review. Completely polar experience today as the menu/ food is actually really good, but the service and hospitality were beyond poor, it was atrocious. The staff and especially what appeared to be the manager, were obstinate and flat out rude. In fact, I have not encountered such offensive comments and behavior in a long time. Never going back.

I really wish I could write a good review, but after years of coming here, it's gotten to the point where 50% of the time something in my food tastes rotten or has gone bad. It's always either the tofu, onions, or bell peppers. When it's good, it's good, but the amount of bad food I've bitten into is ridiculous- I have never had this experience at any other restaurant. Apparently I'm not the only one with this issue as well, according to multiple other reviews.

Some of the best noodles ever! The Kungpow sauce is the best!

Fire Bowl Cafe is great choice for a wide variety of Asian cuisine. The price is just right for the type of Asian food they serve, and they have a huge array of options. The environment of the restaurant is also pretty nice and clean, with modern decor and feels. Overall, a pretty good option for Asian food, especially if you or your guests are not the type to explore more authentic culinary options. Parking: Plenty of parking, the location is just a little tucked away in the shopping center.

Very surprising they said there is no WiFi for guests when I attempted to get the password. When I questioned that as it showed up on available networks they said it was down. It was very disappointing as I had already ordered and paid for my food. I was looking forward to a quiet lunch reading through my Flipboard. I've not been at an eatery in years that did not offer WiFi. The staff was so nice. But Management needs to get their act in order.

To put it simply, the food just sucks. Overpriced for something you can make better at home

Ordered Pad Thai with shrimp and 2 Crispy Veggie Egg Rolls. Egg roll gue insides scalded the roof of my mouthand had no flavor. Pad Thai had no flavor too . Expected at least tamarind, soy sauce and fish sauce. Just brown something. Will avoid next time. At least it only cost twice as much as last time.

I used to love this place growing up in the south Austin area, food was always super tasty, fresh, and quick. Alas, times change. We waited patiently for 40 minutes before asking what was going on. Apparently they chose to turn off the grill so the repair man could work on it in the middle of service. Appliances fail understandably, but the staff didn’t even come out from behind their counter to tell the 3 parties waiting 40+ minutes why it was taking so long. They just let incomplete orders sit there until the rest was done and didn’t bother to remake anything so it was fresh. When we finally tried our food an hour later it was lukewarm, bland and flavorless, seriously lacking in salt and sauce. Extremely boring compared to what we’ve made at home and you can make way more portion wise at home so firebowl is no longer worth it when you consider how easy it is to make americanized asian food these days. There are plenty of frozen pan asian meals fresher and more flavorful than the food we got at Firebowl so we ended up throwing it away. What a wasteful shame also that they put each of our 6 fresh rolls into their own individual plastic boxes with their own individual plastic sauce containers instead of just using some bigger ones…

We both ordered the orange chicken with fried rice. The chicken was delicious, but someone dropped a salt shaker in the rice. Too salty to eat, and by this, I mean the amount of salt was gritty. Next time ... white rice!