After seeing a few positive reviews, I was quite excited to try this new restaurant but in the end I was totally disappointed.. It wasn't what I was expecting and I felt mislead..I also felt bad that I took my out of town parents who had a positive dim sum experience the day before. They kept saying they much prefer the other place.
We were there at 9 am and there wasn't a wait as we were the first ones to arrive and go in. however, the first dish took about twenty minutes to arrive.
The restaurant isn't as glamourous or high end as i thought it should be..wooden chopsticks at the table is a non non ( are we cooking?) No where the glamourous utensils cutlery to be seen as well or was that it? I didn't mind paying the premium and the high end prices but felt the food, the decor and the ambience offered didn't match the hefty price tag
We ordered 8 dishes all together and from what I can remember:
The shrimp roll was nicely done but not hot enough.
Har gow was big but the skin kind of sticky
The XL tentacles was nicely cooked.
The golden lava buns : which i expected to be the piggies turned out to be regular buns since the piggies buns were a special item at $8!! It was oozing of lava but the bun was hard.
Total bill: $65 for 8 dishes and 3 people
Note: there shouldn't be a sign out on weekends for 10% off for dim sum from 9 to 11 am since the offer is only good from mon to fri. This may be misleading since the mon to friday notation is barely visible or well marked on the sign.
Owner should really hired a consultant to glam up the place and make changes if he wants the restaurant to be marketed as a high end place and survive because in the long run, at these high prices, it may deter people from a repeat experience or ever coming back.
Kudos for them for having some Cantonese staff.
I still will try them for dinner though, just not in a rush to go there any time soon.