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Dickens Cafe
Categories: Restaurants Steakhouses Restaurants Chinese Steakhouses, Chinese [Edit]
9425 Leslie StUnit 6-7
Richmond Hill, ON L4B
(905) 237-4726
- Price Range:
-
$$
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- No
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Wi-Fi:
- Free
- Good For:
- Dinner
- Noise Level:
- Quiet
- Has TV:
- Yes
6 reviews for Dickens Cafe
6 reviews in English
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Review from Yvonne T.
4/18/2012 1 Check-in Here
Dickens Café has been around for some time as a business. But several of their locations disappeared off the map for a series of years.
Dickens is Western food prepared to suit Chinese taste buds, not dissimilar to a Hong Kong Style Café though the food is predominantly more Western than the former.
While there was a big sign on the exterior mall board, there is no signage attached to the mall. Just walk inside and you will find it.
You can order either lunch/dinner sets or à la carte.
We came for dinner with my uncle and aunt and they ordered the Set Dinner for 2 which included 2 soups (choice of cream soup or "Borscht"), a bread basket prepared à la Chinoise (e.g. the bread is slightly sweet), a Shrimp Linguine and Chicken Steak with beverage (choice of HK-style tea, coffee, or lemon tea).
I opted for the Red-Wine Braised Oxtail (choice of either rice or spaghetti). The oxtail was very tender, and the rice soaked up the sauce nicely. It was a thin sauce as opposed to a thick sauce.
My cousin ordered a Shrimp & Garlic Angel Hair Pasta which was very good. The sauce was creamy and the pasta was cooked to a perfect al dente.
I loved their (warm) bread. It didn't even need butter.
It is definitely a pricier alternative if you're looking for Chinese-style Western food, but the service was great. Our glasses were always refilled with hot tea when they were nearing empty, and the servers took away our dishes promptly and came to take our post-meal drink orders quickly. -
Review from Kat K.
4/15/2012 19 Check-ins Here
Another cha-chan tang, this one is another of my family regular fall backs.
coming here for Lunch is a better deal - since they have soup, garlic bread and drink to go with your entree - plus it is usually way too much food for me to finish - so I almost always have leftovers for lunch the next day.
Favorite dishes is their curry anything and their pan-fried fish with veggies.
Their dinner is more pricey and comes with almost the same stuff as lunch - minus the garlic bread for a regular roll and add a dessert - sometimes a slice of cake or a pudding of sorts.
They also have free wi-fi as well -and a VIP program which is worth the $10 since you usually make it back within 2 visits or if you are my family and go every other week. -
Review from Jonathan L.
Richmond Hill, ON
1/2/2012
Love this place. Amazing western style food. A little on the pricey side, but you get a lot more than most Chinese cafes in Richmond Hill.
Their soups and garlic bread which come with the combos are very filling as well. I usually need to take the main entree home because I'm so full from the soup. -
Review from Qing Y.
Thornhill, ON
5/13/2012
My son is 9 years old, he had his first garlic bread there, and since then, he loves it ( my son doesn't like bread before) sometime he will eat mine, when his kids' combo has not bread.
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Review from Darren S.
Markham, ON
10/31/2011
I really don't get why there are so many Dickens-named restaurants. Can someone explain to me? Is it a HK thing?
In any case, I went here with my family and was immediately impressed with the setup and the service there. The ambience can probably be best described as a relatively classy cha chaan teng. They try hard to make the whole experience a bit more upscale, and I give them points for that.
The food is very much pasta and casserole-related food items, with a few steaks or cutlets thrown in there. We had chicken and ham pasta, cheese and ham pasta, a pork cutlet and a coconut curry chicken. All were very generous in portion size, and was fairly priced (around $10-13 each). I think two people can easily share a dish.
The quality of the food itself was very good, but unfortunately the taste was a bit bland. The sauce was creamy enough and rich enough, but it's missing that "kick"...and no I don't mean spicyness (though some HK hot chili oil would've been great! they only had tabasco...). It would`ve been nicer to have some stronger tasting food but the restaurant was very busy so I guess this is a highly subjective thing, most possibly due to the curse of the Southeast Asian tongue.
Would I recommend it? Yes, actually. The food is of good quality, the taste is not bad, and the service is quite nice. The only negative thing is that many of their menu items have a similar feel to them, so after a few visits you'd start to get tired of the menu, I reckon (unless you really love their style of cream pasta) . -
Review from Jennifer K.
Markham, ON
6/7/2010 10 photos
There are a lot of "Dickens" around in Richmond HIll and Scarborough Area. And this is one claim to be the authentic, original Dickens Cafe.
This location used to be Red Ants Restaurant, so the new owner kept most of the set up and deco, and just put on a new coat of paint.
They do have specials for any time of the day: lunch, afternoon tea and dinner set.
There are 10 lunch sets for one to pick during my visit. Priced from $6.99 and up. Which includes a choice of soup, garlic bread and a drink. 8oz Angus Steak for $12.99 seems to be a good valueI decided on the Curry Chicken with Rice ($8.99)
The borscht soup does taste fresh with tons of veggies.. however, without the usual kick of other borscht soup. Though it is really enjoyable.
The Curry Chicken and rice, I found it just tastes ok. The rice is a little hard and cold... however the Curry chicken though tender is a little cold, same with the curry sauce. There are no steam coming out to fog my camera len, so I know it is not hot :)
But overall all the items I was served were ok.. did not go WOW... but taste ok.
Service though is nice and friendly.
I will be back to try out other things on the menu.. I though remember to ask them to make it at least warmer.. they can just put them in the microwave for 30 sec before bring them to my table!
There are 10% off coupon in some of the Chinese Newspaper, so look for one before going!
