Restaurant: Hong Kong Bistro Cafe
Cuisine: Chinese
Location: Chinatown
Address: 472 Dundas St W
Price Range: ~$10
1: Poor 2: OK 3: Good 4: Very Good 5: Excellent
Food: 3
Service: 3
Ambiance: 2
Overall: 3
Extra information:
*HK cafe style
*Cheap lunch menu
*2nd floor
Hong Kong Bistro Cafe is located on the 2nd floor on Dundas Street just before you hit Spadina Street. Once you walk upstairs, you will see how small the restaurant is (narrow and long). There were many Chinese middle aged men having lunch when I dropped by.
Ordered: Mexican Fried Rice (seafood) 3/5
*Served with soup (choice between winter melon/borscht)
*Went with Winter melon soup
*Worst soup I've ever tasted and didn't know what it was suppose to taste like
*Comes with mussels, shrimp and squid
*Big in portion, but the rice is very bland
*There is hint of curry flavor
*Needs some kind of sauce (hot sauce)
Ordered: Baked Porkchop on Rice 3/5
*Served with soup (choice between winter melon/borscht)
*Went with Borscht, it was so watery (tasted like water and ketchup)
*Huge portion
*It came a little burnt on top, but there was no cheese on top
*Instead of 2~3 big pieces of porkchop, it was small chopped up pieces
*Tomato sauce was decent (tasted like tomato soup + mushroom soup)
*There were generous amounts of mushroom and onion pieces
*Prefer one from the House of Gourmet although the tomato sauce is better here
Summary: Hong Kong Bistro Cafe is a place to go if you are looking for quick and cheap meal at Chinatown. Don't expect good service or atmosphere here though. But if I was craving HK cafe style food, I would rather visit House of Gourmet,