Best Restaurants for Birthdays in Pasadena

We frequent Pasadena and Los Angeles Fogo de Chao. We love the "Full Experience", everything. Pasadena service was great on 01.04.25. There was a lot of attention to detail by our servers. The only gripe I have is that the restaurant because it's an open hall is quite loud, every time. The meats are always tasty, and salad bar is fabulous 👌🏽.

Ambience was excellent. Everything I had hoped for in an Old Town experience in my last night in LA. The garlic edamame was to die for. Surprising, for such a simple veg. Our server was very helpful through the selection process. Unfortunately I can't recall her name now. I was also able to customize my orders: no eel sauce, add avocado. That sort of thing. It is on the high end price-wise, but it was certainly worth it to cap a wonderful visit to Pasadena. Must visit again!

Our first time there and it was great setting, food and service. We’ll definitely go back often. Live that is an old Craftsman style house and the patios. Thx for a special evening.

This is an amazing little place for an afternoon tea that is SO reasonably priced (and there is a very reasonable surcharge for sharing which isn't always the case)! The food was delicious and the place is charming. We were 6 people at the Pasadena location on a Monday for a 2:30 holiday tea after going to the Norton Simon museum, and it was decorated for the holidays and really welcoming. Some in our party ordered off the menu and the rest of us got the Chado afternoon tea. We all loved it. My only caveat is that it took a crazy long time for our food to arrive (maybe an hour?) we had a lot to catch up on so we just enjoyed drinking our tea and didn't really mind. My daughter and I ordered strawberries and cream when we first arrived since we barely even had breakfast, and we were so glad we did, since everything else didn't arrive for another hour, and even then, my tea tower wasn't ready for another 10 or 15 minutes after everyone else's. We were there on a Monday at 2:30pm and it seems like there might have been a rush before us (it was pretty full when we arrived) and then we were the only people there, and there was only one waiter, so I can't imagine this normally happens, and ANYHOW I would still go back!

We love it wonderful atmosphere and yummy food and a great service