3.5
Pros:
Friendly service
Northern Chinese specialties
Cons:
Not many seats
Menu could use more items
This place used to be the Cha me Cha location in North York. I walked by many times while they were renovating. There aren't too many seats at this place. There are about 3 tables total. It's more a niche type of place if you ask me. I'm a little surprised there's only so much seating as the previous business had a lot more seating.
On to the menu. If you're familiar of Northern Chinese cuisine, you know for he most part it's spicy. One quick note at the menu will confirm this. Everything on the menu is spicy to some degree. While I understood this fact I was still hoping there would be a few non spicy options for my little one. They couldn't even make the noodles non spicy. I didn't factor this too much into my rating because like I said, it is the nature of the cuisine.
We ordered a saute chicken noodle, beef ramen, tofu skewer and Chinese hamburger. My GF enjoyed the saute chicken noodle very much. She said the portions were just right, not too little, not too much. My beef ramen was pretty good as well. I liked the noodles and the broth was pretty good. There was a good amount of veggies which tend to get neglected in these dishes. The beef though was a little too tough. I had a nice little battle trying to chew through some of it.
The service here was pretty good. Everyone was nice and friendly and patient as well. Overall, I do like this place but because of our little one not being able to tolerate spicy right now, we can't come back until much later. I'm definitely hoping it's still around by then.