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    Goody Cafe

    3.3 (79 reviews)
    Open 11:00 am - 8:30 pm

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    Chris B.

    Looked up places that serves pho, came across this Yelp recommendation. We've already tried majority of pho places in town, was just look to try somewhere else. I should've known where this was headed when I had to order by the American name of the dish. It came to about $14 to go, and definitely not worth the money. It tastes like packaged beef broth from the store with added salt. The meat was not the correct "thinly sliced beef" that usually comes with the dish, rather a chewy wrongly sliced other cuts of beef. The veggies consisted of bean sprouts, jalapeños, and cilantro with slices of lime. Would definitely drive 10 mins down the road for any other places that serves pho next time. Pros: amount of food Cons: expensive, salty and generic broth, poor packaging

    Beef hot pot
    Kathlyn G.

    My husband and I come here for dinner sometimes and love it! The food is always piping hot and so flavorful! We got the beef hotpot for about $25, and it was a good size and perfectly spicy! Just great to warm you up on a cold and rainy day. Usually quiet with plenty of seats available, so it's my go-to when I don't want to unwind and don't want to wait forever to be seated at a super packed restaurant.

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    Jinfeng C.

    Great food and good service. On a weekday night, the turnaround is super quick for a pick up order, which is about 15 minutes. Really convenient for someone who live within 15 minutes of drive

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    Tedan H.

    After so many more visits to this restaurant, I think it deserves some good words. I have not run into the same man on the front desk but instead the very friendly female owner. I have taken my coworkers here many times to try some authentic Chinese food. My go-to dishes are always Dong-Po Pork, fish sauce eggplant, saute green peas, thin-sliced potatoes, pork elbow, and spice fish filet. The food is always delicious and with speedy serving. For anyone who wants to have authentic yet affordable Chinese food, this is definitely the spot!

    Bubble tea

    Tried their bubble tea which was pretty good! The ambiance could be improved though..

    It says nothing about the beef being raw.  I'm not sure broth that has been delivered to a home would be hot enough.  Is this safe?
    Jeffrey B.

    I am floored at the rude customer service my friend and i received last night ordering delivery from Goody Cafe. I typically like to support small businesses in the area and am reluctant to post such an awful review for an est. in my neighborhood. But this was egregious - within the world getting food at least! I had ordered from there before and it was good! My dish was good! Crab rangoon was fine! My friend ordered the D5 "Beef Thick Rice Noodle" for $10.95 from the delivery menu I had. It was listed under the "Chinese Dinner Menu." The beef looked raw to me and my friend (he is a student from Kenya) was perplexed. I thought perhaps it was very rare roast beef so I called to ask about it. Immediately the defenses went up and I was polite and just trying to clarify what the dish was. The woman who answered kept giving me unsatisfactory answers when I inquired. When I asked if it was raw she said that it was "cooked when you pour the soup over it" and I clarified with her that that meant the large plastic container of broth. She kept reinforcing that that is how the dish is prepared and I have no expertise to say that is incorrect. But common sense tells me that perhaps that dish is best NOT delivered. First there is the issue of the temperature of the broth when it arrives to my home - is it hot enough? Secondly, we had no idea that it was raw so what if we had simply waited and had very cold food without reheating? Yes, I have had carpaccio or tartare when that is what I expect and it is the proper cut of beef and been prepared under health code violations. This was not the case here. She repeatedly asked me if I had read the menu - rather than diffusing the situation which would have been so easy at that point! We were old friends getting together near Christmas and had no intentions of having Chinese Food delivery stress! She could have replaced it or offered suggestions to rectify but no, she just kept arguing. Finally, I handed the phone to my friend and told him I was done with the place and he could do what he wanted. He decided to have the meal replaced. When he selected something slightly more expensive she wanted to charge him! Say what? He just picked something that was the same cost. When the delivery person came in a fairly nice looking smaller SUV I wondered if this was an owner or manager as it wasn't the typical car of a delivery person. I decided to let him handle it at the front door while I stood at the back door watching my dog in back yard. She could have just said, "sorry" and handed him the replacement dinner as he was less upset than I was and would have let the issue drop. But she kept arguing. Her voice started getting louder and more shrill and his voice was not louder at all! I heard her say, "I want to see the meat!" I'm coming in there and you are showing me the meat." I walked through the house and told her she was not welcome in my home and needed to leave. She wouldn't leave. My friend told her she was being argumentative...you got it...no she wasn't...it was bad. Rather surreal because it is just Chinese delivery for heaven's sake! After asking her to leave repeatedly I cautiously closed the door as she continued to stand there. She left finally leaving the front gate where she had entered standing wide open no latch. So many missed opportunities to rectify this almost trivial incident (no one was sick). Such poor customer service. I wanted to give them a chance again to simply acknowledge that this was not a good customer experience last night and could be unhealthy eating raw beef unknowingly so I called. The first person who answered hung up on me when I asked for a manager. It was a clear hang up - I know a hang up... I called back and she tried to convince me that he had not hung up on me and then began speaking to someone else on another line. She missed the final chance to make this better before I wrote this review. The owners of Goody Cafe on Lindell in the CWE desperately need to watch an episode from the tv show Kitchen Nightmares called "Amy's Baking Company" in AZ. The owners will not take criticism and Chef Ramsey walks out on them (his first on the show) because all they did was defend themselves and not try to do better. Along the way they told the customers they were wrong! Owners of Goody Cafe please watch this show! It is on YouTube and was so over the top that people made cartoons about it and it took on a life of its own. Today, I called the St Louis Health Dept and told them about the raw beef. I don't want the Goody Cafe in trouble. I want people to eat properly cooked food or know that they aren't. Crazy huh? Never called before and don't intend to make it a habit. Longest review I ever wrote too. It is a shame we can't get decent deliver in the CWE from some of the places! This is the type of area that has high income and college students both of whom ord

    Willa X.

    This is a great place for cheap, authentic Chinese food near the CWE (read: the only place.) As another reviewer mentioned, it's true home-style cooking, and not the fancy dim sum style some may be expecting. Ignore the lit up screens on top with all the Americanized dishes (unless you're just looking for lo mein and fried rice), and go for the secret menu on the counter instead. If you're not with a Chinese friend who can guide the way, ask the staff for a recommendation. I personally recommend the tomatoes and eggs dish, as it's a good intro to home-style Chinese food. The bubble tea is also solid. My favorites are the red bean and green bean ones. Fyi, you can ask for less sugar to taste. The rice, bowls, and utensils are self-serve. Get used to it. UPDATE: Goody Cafe's made a few updates to their menus and the authentic Chinese menu now has accompanying English translations! Woot. They also have a variety of "Chef specials" on a whiteboard in the back of the restaurant near the doors. Unfortunately, it's all in Chinese. Fortunately, they're all delicious. You can ask for recommendations from this list if you want to be more adventurous (e.g. intestines, pig ears.) There are also new hot pot soup and make your own stir fry menus that are AWESOME. Also, after tearing through essentially their whole menu by now, I can say that dishes are either a hit or miss. There are a few places on Olive that I prefer a great deal more in terms of flavor and quality, but the convenient location of Goody's can't be beat. I love popping for a quick meal or takeout when I'm too lazy to cook, and am craving home comfort food.

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