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Federick Restaurant
Category: Restaurants Chinese Chinese [Edit]
160 New Delhi DrSte 25
Markham, ON L3S 0B6
(905) 472-1682
- Hours:
Mon-Thu 11 am - 10 pm
Fri-Sat 11 am - 11 pm
Sun 12 pm - 10 pm
- Attire:
- Casual
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Price Range:
-
$$
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Wi-Fi:
- No
- Good For:
- Dinner
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Noise Level:
- Loud
- Has TV:
- Yes
12 reviews for Federick Restaurant
12 reviews in English
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Review from Christine R.
Scarborough, ON
5/8/2012 5 photos
Sooo Happy Frederick FINALLY opened a new location! If anyone knows the Ghetto Hole in the wall that is the Scarborough Location this is like a breath of fresh air.....my only question about this location is why they didn't make it larger...but it's still better than the original!
For those of you who don't know about Fredrick's they specialize in Hakka Chinese Food which is Spicy Indian Style Chinese Food.
Our party of 5 arrived around 6:30pm on a Saturday and we could see the line up of people waiting for tables. FYI they don't take reservations unless your a group of 10+. I was a bit confused as to how you alert them you need a table as there is no hostess desk but I soon learned from the line up of customers that you either flag down a waiter or go to the cashier where people are getting take out orders and they will give you a number which you wait to be called.
Also the numbers they give you don't go in order, they call out numbers based on the table availability... so if a table for 2 opened up and your a table of 5 that couple of 2 who came after you may get a table before you. I could see the frustration in customers waiting in line not comprehending why others with higher numbers who came after them got a table before them.
Anywho we waited for about 35 minutes for a table. The food comes out super fast and they do table turnovers and clean up in lightning speed.
FYI No free refills here as Pop is served in the Can. They set the table with a pitcher of water and trust me the food is sooo spicy that water is greatly appreciated. We also ordered a green tea and they fill a mug of green tea and place it on the table and brought extra cups so we could all share. There green tea here is pretty tasty too!
This was our order
Deep Fried Wontons - addictive chicken wrapped wontons, crunchy and light
Deep Fried Dumplings - pork stuffed plump and delicious
Chicken Pakora - spicy battered chunks of chicken dotted with green chilies *must try
General Tao Chicken - chunks of chicken in a sweet sauce with red&green chilies
Chili Chicken Extra Spicy - battered&sauced chunks of chickens studded with green chilies and sauteed onions *there specialty ***spicy
Manchurian Mixed Chow Mein - spicy flat noodles with chicken & shrimps
Chicken Fried Rice
White Rice
Plus a green tea and 3 cans of pop the bill totaled less than 60 bucks!
We could not believe the amount of food we got! The portion sizes are enormous, you just need one order of each item so order lots of different items to share and try! We packed all the left overs to go which will be more than enough for dinner the next day! Despite the business and chaos of the restaurant the service is outstanding, we never felt rushed and waiters are always checking on you! Food comes out piping hot, fast, with hefty portions and all fresh ingredients and they don't skimp on those chilies either so beware if you ask for your meal Extra Spicy! -
Review from John F.
North York, ON
11/9/2011
Enormous portions of quite good Hakka (Indio-Chinese, not actual Hakka) food. Fairly large menu including many ordinary Chinese standards in Hakka style.
Generally we found the food to be quite tasty, though the ginger beef seemed to lack something in the sauce that I could not quite put a handle on. Chicken pakoras and chili chicken were especially good. The kulfi we ordered for dessert was simply store-bought and served in a paper container and was mediocre.
Atmopshere is modern and bright, with resonably pleasant decorative touches. Servers have some problems with English and can be a bit surly when frustrated with the language. -
Review from Mel C.
10/7/2011
Before this restaurant, my only other experience with this type of cuisine is at Lin Garden Restaurant and I loved the food there so Federick had a lot to live up to. Unfortunately, Federick did not live up to my expectations.
I came here for lunch with my parents and we got the lunch specials. It was a decent price for the portion we got. The reason Federick is inferior to Lin Garden is because their curry does not have that great curry smell nor does it have much taste. My favorite type of curry is the kind that smells great and isn't spicy (because I can't take spicy). I think it's unacceptable for curry to not have that great curry smell AND not have a taste.
Other than that, I'll come by here for lunch or dinner if I want a cheap eat ... I'll just avoid the curry on their menu. -
Review from Andrew Y.
9/9/2011
accommodated our group of 30, though they were not too keen on it. We pre ordered the food order so they were prepared when we got there. The food was what we ordered and was even modified for vegetarians. Also, price was cheaper than we calculated ourselves. And it's halal. This is what we had:
Steam Dumplings $3.50
Fried Dumplings $3.50
Chicken with Black Bean Sauce $6.95
Sliced Fish with Delicious Curry Sauce $7.50
Singapore Rice Noodle $7.00
Kan Shue Green Beans $6.50
Beef with Bamboo Shoots and Mushroom $7.75
Manchurian Bean Curd $6.50
It was all good. Go for it! -
Review from Reezo B.
Toronto, ON
9/30/2011
This is the new location of the Scarborough restaurant. The decor is much improved.
The chicken pakora was great!
I wanted to order another set. The chicken balls also had a great set of meat.
We went on a Thursday night and it was packed. There were people waiting at the door for up to 20 minutes! It was noisy and the music was also playing pretty loud. They had sports playing on the tvs on the wall.
I have to say, given that every seat was full, plus there was a line up, those waitresses were constantly clearing out our table of six of empty serving dishes and plates.
I recommend this place -
Review from Devan R.
1/28/2011 ROTD 2/5/2012
I was overly excited to pick up lunch today from the NEW Federick's location. The difference in time from when I first heard there was a new location, to me actually being in there, was less than 45 minutes.
I was stoked to say the least. It's like hearing for example Aunties & Uncles opened up a new location in Richmond Hill, to me that would be big tings!
Ambiance and décor at this new location is the exact opposite of the OG location. It's sleek, welcoming and clean. It's truly a new and improved location in nearly every way.
Chicken Pakora's were strikingly on point. For the price, the portions are banging. They had to use a rubber band to keep my take out container closed because they put that much chicken in it.
Chili chicken was not bad, a little overcooked, great colour, but slightly under seasoned. A few pinches of salt or soy glaze would have made the world of difference.
Crab corn soup was not bad, I've had better but overall it wasn't bad.
Rice noodles with beef were solid. I was expecting flat rice noodles similar to a pad thai noodle or ban pho, but this was closer to a vermicelli, still very good.
Chicken fried rice was seasoned well and appetizing. I know you may think there is not much you can do with this dish but trust me, I've had some terrible experiences.
Finally, service was great. All the staff I spoke with were courteous and helpful, I can't say the same about the OG location.
If I had to choose from now on I would only go to the Markham location, not that it will affect the traffic in Scarborough, both these restaurants will kill it going forward.
No question the best hakka I have ever had is Szechuan Gourmet, don't get it twisted. -
Review from Sameer D.
Markham, ON
1/5/2011
[Before reading this review, please see my review for the original Federick's location.]
So it has finally happened. Federick's has another location. It only took them like 20 years. However I predict this location taking the #1 spot for any halal hakka food in the GTA (not including the original Federick's).
I would be surprised if any hakka fan has not yet visited the original location, so if you haven't - do yourself a favour and go. This review is for the new location... which does well in many areas but lacks in a couple.
The ambiance is nice. The original location was poorly spaced, old school tables and chairs. Tacky lighting. Poor layout (pushing through 10 take out patrons to enter the restaurant is pretty annoying!). The new location addresses these issues with a well designed, well decorated, and more spacious layout. They've even put up a TV and play the Leafs/Raptors games.
The food. Not as good as the original location. I hate to say it as I was expecting the Federick's that I grew up with and came to love. Don't get me wrong, it is still better than most hakka places I've been to, however I didn't get the signature Federick's taste. Probably because the new location has a different chef.
To start we ordered chicken pakoras, hot and sour soup, chicken corn soup and crab corn soup. For the main dishes we ordered Manchurian chicken chow mein, chicken fried rice, and their new bite-sized version of their signature sweet and sour chicken balls (side note: the first time I ordered the chicken balls they came cold on the inside however this time they were some of the best sweet and sour chicken balls I've ever had).
Though I prefer the chicken corn soup, the hot and sour soup and the crab corn soup were surprisingly good. The pakoras stellar as usual. The Manchurian chicken chow mein could have done with a bit more flavour as it was a little bland. And as mentioned the sweet and sour chicken balls were simply amazing.
The portions were quite large, and you won't get any complaints here. However by time time we left this place we were too stuffed to speak words.
Buyer's Beware: many have been known to eat more than humanly possible at Federick's. -
Review from Herman S.
Markham, ON
4/24/2011
Taste buds change as you get older and the food that you loved and craved in younger years is just not the same. I will try not to be to harsh on this review, instead compare with other Hakka cuisines I experienced.
Takeout Experience.
Hakka food as we know is usually greasy, spicy and most of the good tasting menu selections are fried.
Sweet fried noodles are really tasty and less greasy than others. The noodles have a nice chewy texture which is really pleasing to the palette.
I would definitely choose chinese style deep fried spicy salted squid over this one. It's less oily, the batter is lighter so it soaks up less greasy.
The dry chilli chicken is what it is, greasy & spicy. It tastes great and has a nice punch of spice which hit the taste buds without overwhelming heat.
Spicy fried green beans came out way too soggy and loaded with grease. shanghai style would be the better choice.
All in all compared to Tangerine, Frederick's still better and would be my choice for Hakka cravings.
The reason I gave this location 3/5 is because when we got home and opened up our take out, the hot noodles were so hot is melted a hole through the bottom of the Styrofoam container. That's a huge fail, should lined the container with tin foil like all the other restaurants do.
Customer service was ok. They opened up the ticket for takeout before even offering us a menu, standing there annoyed that we had to look through the menu for the items that we wanted. When the food arrived, They never offered, napkins, takeout utensils or extra sauces. I guess customer service is really dependant on where you are located. I never have a problem in Richmond Hill, Leaside, West end Markham.
In my opinion Frederick's do provide good food for reasonable prices. I hope they don't get to bigheaded and lose their focus on what got them to this point; loyal support.
Herman -
Review from Roma M.
1/9/2011
I visited this location of Frederick for the first time yesterday for take out. Being promised a wait of 15-20 minutes, I found myself and others waiting for over 45 minutes. While no apologies were given, the next batch of customers were also quoted the same 15-20 minute wait.
The food was just okay. My chili fish was sub-par and watery, the Manchurian Pakoras were overly soft and undercooked and the other dishes were over salted and full of food colouring. Make sure to order plenty of drinks if you'll be heading to Frederick, -after a single bite of anything your mouth will feel like you've swallowed a bit of the dead sea.
If you like shoddy, rude service and overrated food by all means head to Frederick. I've even had a more satisfactory meal at Tangerine's during their lunch specials.Listed in: Blacklisted!, Hakka-Inspired
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Review from Steven K.
Whitby, ON
5/8/2011
Being a Scarborough resident since the 70's, Federick was the first Indian Chinese place to open in Toronto! Needless to say, this new location is far from overdue, as the other location is getting somewhat outdated and crowded.
We went to this brand new Federicks for Mother's Day, and let me tell you it was busy. My initial impression of this place was it was quite unorganized right from the beginning, nobody was around to find out how many people were in our party, when can we expect a table etc. However, granted that it was Mother's day i will let this slide.
The new location in terms of decor is very modern. The red lights remind me of a Moroccan oasis, not " indian-chinese" at all. But the decor was impressive, well done on that. The only TV that was on, was showing a formula one race! Not what i was expecting in these types of restaurants, where bollywood music videos are the norm. To me, that is what also makes an indian chinese restaurant " indian!..know what I mean
On to the food...
We ordered the chicken and fish pakoras for appetizers and let me tell you I was quite impressed. Given the fact that this place was busy, the pakoras were very fresh. 5/5 on this!
We then ordered the chilli chicken ( white meat), szechuan beef, veggie Manchurian noodles, and Manchurian pakora balls ( veggie).
Chili Chicken was good 4/5..szechuan beef was horrible, like really that was not szechuan beef..its wasn't spicy at all, in fact I thought they brought the wrong dish!..1/5..Veggie Manchurian Noodle's bit salty..but okay 3/5..manchurian pakora balls..kinda sweet..not what i expected 3/5.
Overall, the food was just okay. The decor is what i remembered. I have eaten at many Indian Chinese places across the city, and for me Federicks has lost its charm. I can now say that I have tried both locations.
The GTA now contains many Indian Chinese restaurants throughout. Do yourself a favour, and try those..( Tangerine, Chopsticks, Guddi's, China Cottage) you will get better food. -
Review from Maria C.
Markham, ON
6/2/2011
It was our first visit to Federick's after our friend raved about this place. We have tried all the Hakka Chinese places in this corner of Markham.
Tangerines
China cottage
Golden china
Federicks has the nicest decor I think , since it is the newest.
I would go back with a group of friends as it can accommodate large groups.
In terms of food, it is pretty good, but I still like golden china the best for being unpretentious, and having great tasting, great value food...their lunch combos include soup and drink, but Federick's only includes a pop. -
Review from Wayne H.
Markham, ON
4/20/2011
Don't know where all the other bad reviewers were but I have been to the Markham location twice and take out once. All I can say is the service was great and the food good every time I have been there. Great value for your money. Don't let other bad reviews put you off, try them for yourself.
