Road Trip: Deerfield Restaurant – City of Industry(LA)

*** Deerfield has closed

I'd read on Chowhound about a branch of Deerfield Garden that opened in the City of Industry, so recently when we were in the area, we decided to drop by for a light lunch/snack. Now finding Deerfield Restaurant was not that easy; you see the address listed was 167 South Hacienda Boulevard, but the actual location is on the far side of a strip mall that really resides on Valley Boulevard.

This location of Deerfield restaurant is actually two restaurants in one. On the right resides a Chinese fast-food restaurant, with a cast of the usual steam table items. On the left is a sit down restaurant, which is what we were looking for.

The dining area is well lit, and quite clean. And on every table is a plate of appetizers.

I started in on the peanuts, before I remembered to take a photo. We looked over the menu, and on the back page were a few items that got our interest.

Unfortunately, several of the items we wanted like the Vegetable Bao were not available.

I ordered the Xin Jiang Lamb Noodle Soup($4.95):

Now this seemed to be a typical fast food noodle soup. The broth had very little flavor, and the noodles were brittle. The lamb had no flavor, it could have been beef for all I know. I had great hope having read about Xinjiang cuisine, I'm thinking that this is probably not a good representation. Overall, not to my taste.

In need of another item, we ordered the Niu Rou Chuan(Beef Roll – $4.95), something we've seen in almost every Northern style Chinese restaurant. To our amusement, it was on the menu listed as a "Chinese Beef Burrito".

Man, this was pretty large! And not bad at all, the 5 spice beef was moist and had good flavor, and the scallion bread was not too oily, and cooked to a crisp perfection.

Not bad, I'd have it again.

We received very nice service at Deerfield Restaurant, the prices are quite reasonable. It's too bad that they were out of a few items we wanted. The lunch crowd there was quite interesting as well, a combination of local business people eating Americanized Chinese food, and Mandarin speaking Chinese eating Jiaozhi and soups.

Deerfield Restaurant
167 S Hacienda Blvd
City of Industry, CA 91745

Kudo's to Captain Jack!

This is a bit late, but I wanted to send out congrats to my Buddy, Captain Jack, who does San Diego Restaurant Reviews. CJ recently had his 1500 Ocean post published in the Blog Diego section of The Reader. You can read the article here. And there's even a link to Alice Q Foodie to boot!