Mandarin Restaurant

The mandarin in North Bay is not the place that your minds probably all conjure up when you hear the name. When I think of the mandarin I think of buffet lines, Asian antique décor, and beautiful oriental waitresses. This is not the case in North Bay.
The Manadarin in North Bay (who; how they got rights to the name still baffles me) is a locally owned and operated restaurant which has a sit-​down area and also offers take-​out. The food is nothing more than your typical Chinese food. I’m not sure how my Mom ever fell so deeply in love with this place since it really is nothing special. The one waitress they do have (the times I’ve been) is an older woman (one of the owners). Which is not any problem I’m just trying to make it clear how it differentiates from a real Mandarin restaurant. She has always been very pleasant though (I’ll give her that much). The food is always good. The place is always clean. We have never had any disgusting surprises (unlike some other Chinese food places).
But like I said, cliché, boring, dissimilar from what you expect out of the Mandarin name.
Indifferent on whether you should make the effort to visit this place or not.