The food is excellent with some interesting twists. Particularly recommend the Birhani and their appetizer platter. As others have said, it's a little pricy, but here's a hint. Go to restaurant.com and purchase a coupon, searching for a discount code before. This gives you a $20.00 off coupon for $2.00 or $ 3.00 bucks.

We had gone to Mantra to celebrate a birthday mid week. The atmosphere is pretty decent and the seating is average. This place was surprisingly not very crowded given that Palo Alto has a lot of restaurants brimming over even mid week. We had a reservation and the table was ready for us when we arrived. The food was decent... More

The good: 1) Good menu and i would rate the food at 8/10. 2) Great tasteful ambience - no blaring music, no bright lights, no boisterous crowds... 3) Decent cocktails although they could be stiffer. The not so good: 1) The service is hit/miss and depends on the luck of the draw. We experienced great service and poor service (food... More

My wife and I decided to celebrate, at Mantra, our 9th anniversary of the moment when we first met. I checked on the web and found multiple dinner hours listed on the web - Google listed 11pm closing for Thursday (tonight) and Mantra's own website stated that they close at 10pm on Thursdays. To be safe, I called the restaurant... More

Spicy and delicious.

Beautiful surroundings, great service, excellent wine list, wonderful food.

very disappointing - way to expensive for the poor quality... the desert tasted really bad

It was better before they changed the bar menu. Nice atmosphere.

Another favorite! I don't usually like fish, but they have a sea bass that is amazing! Great food and wine, service is stellar.