Rose Garden Uptown is a Laotian-Thai restaurant in Oakland (1901 San Pablo Ave, 94612) offering table service and popular to-go orders. The menu fuses regional Thai and Laotian flavors with Californian ingredients, featuring curry roti, pad Thai, panang curry, pad se ew, pad kee mao, mok pa, Laotian spring rolls, and mango sticky rice. Reviews praise flavorful dishes, vegan options, and a welcoming, modern-meets-traditional space.
Food was delicious. Service initially was started by a lady who barely understood anything. Then the man came outside and he was more knowledgeable. Ambience was good but the seats are really hard. They are wooden chairs. If you have a sensitive behind, it can actually cause severe pain. My husband was trying to order egg noodles since he’s allergic to rice. They have egg noodles on the menu, but he said they don’t have. That is why the four stars. Every noodle they had was rice based. They need to have a different option for people with allergies
if not, do not have it in the menu.
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Becca Gomez Farrell
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· 10 months ago
Rose Garden Uptown is a Laotian & Thai restaurant, featuring many dishes common to that region but also Californian ingredients. They offer table service, but the most business was to-go orders while we dined.
From that interior, you can view their mix of modern-day Instagram aesthetics and architecture with more traditional decorated woven trays on the walls and pictures of the menu items that’s nostalgic of many older Asian restaurants: an appealing combination of new and old to me, just like the menu and ingredients. And the pretty sharing plates also brightened my mood.
We started with the Laotian spring rolls, filled with avocado, carrots, rice noodles, and lettuce. The two sauces—one peanut and one mildly sweet and spicy—provided the most flavor for the dish.
Next came the sweet corn salad with carrots, tomatoes, peanuts, green beans, garlic, lime juice, and a mild chili. I love corn, so I expected to love this dish … and I did! Typically, I go for “hot” when asked for a spice level choice, but my friend was right to go with mild here. That added just enough of a kick to complement the corn’s sweetness. The ingredients had a satisfying variety of flavors, textures, and crunch.
We aimed for Rose Garden Uptown’s Laotian specialties for our second dish, settling on the mok pa. That’s catfish steamed in a banana leaf with herbs. It was my first mok pa, and I did not know if I was supposed to treat the lettuce as lettuce wraps, so I went ahead and did so. I scooped catfish into the small leaves, added cilantro and onions, and really enjoyed those flavors and textures all together. The catfish was soft and soothing, and the herbs cooked with it imparted a wonderful freshness. I will definitely order mok pa again.
Would love to try one of their four types of laab another time!
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Gina S
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· 1 year ago
Amazing food!! Great flavors, beautiful presentation. We had the curry roti and the tom kha soup and it was so good. Lots of vegan options.
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Alex Okafor
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· 1 year ago
Ate here with my daughter and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Pad Kee Mow (seafood) and Mango Sticky Rice were amazing. Plus the egg rolls were tasty appetizers. Highly recommend and will definitely be back.
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Apryl Chiem
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· 1 year ago
Homey restaurant with delicious food. We ordered the curry roti (yellow curry), pad Thai, and guay tiew kua gai. I like their flat noodles a lot so I'll probably try their pad see ew or pad kee mao next time. The pad Thai was ok for me, won't be getting it again. The yellow curry was flavorful and went well with roti. Their thai tea is refreshing and tastes really good. Affordable prices!
Went back a couple more times and got to try their panang curry, pad se ew, and combination fried rice. Love their panang curry and combination fried rice. I definitely needed the pad se ew to be spicy.
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