Restaurant Review: Red Lotus (Portola Valley)

Tonight we headed over to Portola Valley's Red Lotus restaurant - about 5 minutes from home. We got there early (5:30 PM) when the place was empty but by the time we left (6:45 PM) there were already a few folks waiting for tables. Red Lotus is a small restaurant - seating perhaps 35-40 people. It apparently also does a robust takeout business as well. Here's their Yelp listing.

We started with the Dungeness Crab Cakes and an Asian Chicken Salad - followed by a curried chicken, the quaking beef, and rare ahi. All of the dishes were great - lots of flavor in the Asian "fusion" style - and the quaking beef was especially good. A bottle of Thomas Fogarty Chardonnay rounded out the meal.

We'll definitely be back to Red Lotus after such a great first visit!

(We seem to be in a festive "red" mood these days - our last review was of Red Lantern in Redwood City!)