City Chopsticks

One tip that a lot of people do not know is that most Chinese restaurants will actually offer lunch special pricing even on weekends! A lot of restaurants will only have the lunch specials on weekdays, so my mom and I like to have Chinese foods on the Saturdays we go out.

We just stumbled upon City Chopsticks when we were in Petaluma. I got the Honey Walnut Prawns lunch special, and my mom got the Sweet and Sour Chicken. It comes with soup, fried or white rice and an egg roll. The portion size was huge and we both couldn't finish our food. The food tasted fresh and delicious!

I wanted to love this place, a friend recommended it and said that it was equal to anything in San francisco which has a large Chinese community and MANY restaurants. It was Easter Sunday and we thought we would enjoy something different the usual ham and sides.

The restaurant was mostly empty, the person that waited on us was just kind of there, no smile or small talk verging on unfriendly when we picked up our takeout order. I decided to order things that are ubiqutous to most menus for comparison sake and here is how it measured up. I am giving it two stars but wow what a letdown!

1. Mongoian beef. Very tasty a nice ratio of beef to vegetables and well seasoned.
2. Orange Chicken; It was crispy and the sauce was perfect not too sweet and a nice delicate orange flavor.
3. Deluxe vegetables; I can't complain but it was nothing to get excited about, sauce was meh and selection of vegetables very mundane nothing Deluxe that I could see.
4. Shredded pork with garlic sauce; pretty bad. Barely any pork, tons of onions and chunks of whole raw garlic. The sauce was some glop that tasted like a sweet vinegar thing. It was very unappetizing.
5. Combination Chow Mein; It's pretty hard to ruin chow mein but somehow they managed it! We paid thirteen dollars of a pile of noodles and three shrimp. I went digging through the pile and managed to find one very small piece of chicken and something that I guessed was grey pork and a scant amount of cabbage. It was REALLY bad.

Total was $80 dollars. I called and spoke to David, told him about the chow mein and he said there "should be a combination of meat in there, thanks for calling." and hung up on me.
All things considered I would say stay away unless you can count on preferrential treatment.

Always reliable! They have a great all-around selection of dishes. Best choices: daily specials are always delectable and varied!!!

I stopped in for a quick lunch in between seeing patients. The lunch special was served quickly. There was an enough food that I was able to have dinner. I had the princess chicken with fried rice. It was quite tasty. The staff were friendly. The place was clean and comfortable

Everything was good except for the Duck which was very old. It tasted rancid and was very dehydrated. I'm surprised the chef would let it go out like that.

In my rather short 26 years on this earth I've eaten quite a lot of Chinese food. Of all of them, this one certainly stands out as a solid choice. Superb flavors, huge portions, and a very simple quiet atmosphere are the perfect mix for a solid dinner spot.

The service is efficient, attentive and speedy. Food is cooked precisely to order.

A particular standout for me is the Princess Beef. The sauce is killer!

I'd definitely recommend this place for any fan of Chinese food.

This was my first time eating at City Chopsticks.

The ambience was very clean and tidy, and the menu selection was good--and reasonably priced for Sonoma County.

The servers were all male, which I noticed caused a bit of disturbance with a couple of customers. They were brisk and did not completely understand some of the female customers' requests while also acting more friendly and conversational with male customers. Very odd!

Other than these observations, the food was very good, although for the chicken eggplant dish, I asked for "mild" and it still had plenty of pepper flakes on it. Spicy-wise, the dish was tolerable, so I let it go.

In traditional style, fortune cookies are served at the end of the meal. These were in plastic pouches, something many Chinese restaurants are moving away from. It would be nice to see City Chopsticks take up this practice.

Parking is plentiful as they are located in the Trader Joe's/Raleys/Ross parking lot.

Food is just ok. Ambiance is awful.
I would not return. Service was pretty good. Their war won ton soup had only 1 small shrimp, laughable!

Best Chinese food in Petaluma! Try the salt & pepper squid, shrimp with lobster sauce (a classic done right) and orange chicken. Service was fine and ambience is elegantly simple and a nice quiet background for the outstanding food.

Food was very good. Space is clean and tidy. Excellent service. I always enjoy my experience there and look forward to my next visit.