A beautiful modern decor can't hide the fact that this is a restaurant for people who don't want to venture outside of Leaside to go to a Chinatown. It's *almost* authentic, pricey and has smallish portions in a vain way to elevate and differentiate their cooking from a comparable Chinatown restaurant where you'd definitely get more value.
We had the Peking Duck which tasted great but didn't have the crispy skin essentially to a Peking Duck experience. We also ordered their house special pork which did not look like the dish pictured in the menu. The menu featured a photo of a beautifully sliced roast of pork. What came out looked like a couple scraps from a Chinese BBQ store. The same with the rest of our dinner - from the soup dumplings to a shrimp dish - all of the "not quite" variety.
Parking is very tight, but overall, TAO is a pleasant enough restaurant for special occasions or impressive dinner meals. Just don't expect to get a real Northern Chinese meal.