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54th Ave Cafe Restaurant
Category: Restaurants Chinese Chinese [Edit]
7088 Kerr StVancouver, BC V5S 4W2
Neighbourhoods: Killarney, Champlain Heights
(604) 432-6099
- Delivery:
- No
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- No
8 reviews for 54th Ave Cafe Restaurant
8 reviews in English
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Review from Kenneth E.
Vancouver, BC
4/30/2012
If it wasn't for the location, it's just average--being nice. Great to have a HK style cafe without driving to Rmd or Chinatown or Burnaby.
Always like to compare the baked pork chop over rice, and it's so-so, still prefer Goldstone better. It's good enough if one's in the mood.
Plenty of booth seating, and natural light, and enough parking in this mini-plaza. -
Review from Marc D.
Vancouver, BC
7/19/2011 5 photos
* Average level HK style cafe *
There are a lot of HK style cafe options in the Vancouver area. But there is always room to try a new one.
I took my standard test dish of baked seafood rice to see what they were made of. It came on a lunch special which included soup and a choice of coffee or tea drinks.
The vegetable cabbage soup had nice chunks of freshly cut veggies and a surprising twist of lemon peel (like the kind you get in lemon tea) to add acidity. It oddly worked well. Photo: http://www.yelp.ca/biz...
The seafood baked rice was a decent sized portion and had a good amount of fresh seafood in it. There were scallops, shrimp, fish, mussels, and squid. All of the seafood was very fresh tasting. The rice underneath was a slightly fried rice, but it unfortunately did not have good wok hei. It was a bit soggier than usual, and I missed that added flavour of good wok hei. The sauce was also a bit blander than I normally prefer. Overall the seafood was good in this dish, but the rest was below par. Here are some photos of it: Whole dish (http://www.yelp.ca/biz...), closeup of a shrimp (http://www.yelp.ca/biz...), closeup of a mussel (http://www.yelp.ca/biz...).
The cold HK style milk tea came in a very large glass, but was a bit watered down because they put way too much ice and let it melt too much. I prefer my milk tea to have a stronger tea flavour and a bit more condensed milk flavour too. Photo: http://www.yelp.ca/biz...
Long and short of it? I still prefer BT Cafe for this style of food: http://www.yelp.ca/biz...Listed in: Vancouver Chinese Food, Something fishy (hopefully…
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Review from Stephene C.
Vancouver, BC
5/17/2011
Not the best Hong Kong Cafe I've been to.
Me and a friend came here with her kid way back when and we both ordered this chicken thing with spaghetti noodles. It was gross to say the least. The chicken was fried to the point of putrefaction and it was detestably greasy. The spaghetti was bland and over cooked and all the grease from the chicken coated the noodles bleh! That was the last time I went there!
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Review from Johnson C.
Vancouver, BC
11/20/2009
Standard HK cafe with food that leaves a lot to be desired. I've been here a few times strictly out of convenience (I am in the area and couldn't be bothered to drive out any further).
While good value like most other HK cafes - the food here has always been bland. Unlike the reviewer below, I was not impressed with their baked pork chop on rice (perhaps a different chef?). Also had their deep fried silverfish and I couldn't taste anything other than what appears to be really dirty frying oil.
The interior is well-lit with all the windows and it is spacious. But the stay away from the parkade (take street parking if you can find it) as parking is cramped and full of bad drivers.
Doubtful I will return soon but probably the best value in this area of town. -
Review from Ed L.
Vancouver, BC
4/3/2010
Quite possibly one of the worst Hk style cafes around.
They seriously need to hire new cooks as either they really can't cook or they lack taste buds or something. -
Review from Lisa N.
Vancouver, BC
3/24/2010
This place is much like Honolulu. The workers here are not friendly, but they're pretty efficient. I've come here quite a few times in the past couple of years, not for the food but because it's convenient and filling.
The prices are decent for the portion size they give you. it's usually no more than 13 dollars, usually below 10. The lunch combos are pretty good cause they include a drink as well. They have only about a handful of vegetarian dishes but it's not too bad. The vegetables with creamy sauce on rice is delicious. But some of their other items are just downright oily.
I recall this one time they were gonna kick out a friend of ours eating with us cause we brought outside food. We were quite upset since everyone else was ordering from the restaurant (we had about 10 people). But it's understandable so I won't hold that grudge against them.
Other than convenience, there's not much else going on for this place. -
Review from Alan C.
Burnaby, BC
9/15/2009
I still think this place had changed their chef. Going from a quiet dead restaurant to a super busy restaurant really says something about this place. Usually I will be ordering the tasty baked pork chop rice or baked seafood rice, but this time Ive decided to switch it up by ordering curry beef brisket. The dish came up perfect with a generous portion of tender beef and potatoes topped with their curry sauce and a side plate of rice. All three of these dishes satisfied my hunger. Who knows what other dishes of theirs are just as good so I will be returning back to this HK cafe.
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Review from Andrew C.
Vancouver, BC
9/15/2009
My first time at the 54th and this is another one of those good cheap Hong Kong style cafe, last Sunday me and boys went for lunch and the place was full. We had to wait for around 10 minutes for a table. I ordered the classic bake pork chop on rice, it took a little longer but it was worth it. The rice dish topped with a generous portion of pork chop and tomatoes and onion, blended with a kind of tomato sauce and cheese. The whole thing was bake and the cheese just melted on top of everything. Of course the dish came with a drink of your choice just like a good old Hong Kong style cafe, all around for $9. I even had left over for next day, wow!
