My family has been visiting this restaurant for years. There's some good and bad to this place, but we keep going back for the delicious seafood.
Toronto has many Chinese seafood restaurants, yet Omei stands out amongst the crowd. The seafood is fresh, cooked to perfection and seasoned with the right balance of flavours. Over the years, we've tried multiple soups, steamed fish, blanched shrimps, geoduck sashimi, the 4 ways cooked lobster and the 4 ways cooked king crab. Amazingly, there hasn't been a dish we didn't enjoy. The chef is really quite skilled to be able to master this many dishes. Verdict? The food is excellent.
The 3 star rating is due to the questionable service and poor seating/decor. As other reviewers have noted, there is no English menu. The waiters and manager will recommend dishes to you in English verbally, but fail to mention the price. Extremely inconvenient way to order food. A lot of times we just end up ordering food without knowing the exact pricing. The manager also tries to sell the most expensive dishes to you first, often he recommends the king crab. If you pay by credit card or debit, they choose their own tip of 15% without asking you first. As for the seating, there's not a lot of space. The tables and chairs are all bunched up together in a way that makes you wonder how to escape if there was a fire. It's not comfortable.
Overall I'd recommend it for the food only.