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Grand Lake Chinese Cuisine & Banquet
- Hours:
Mon-Sun 9 am - 11 pm
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Price Range:
-
$$
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- No
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Good For:
- Dinner
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Noise Level:
- Very Loud
- Has TV:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
10 reviews for Grand Lake Chinese Cuisine & Banquet
10 reviews in English
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Review from Sonya F.
Markham, ON
5/19/2012
Grand Lake is the place our family go almost every Sunday! The dim sum in here never disappoint us. Egg tarts are the best compare to many other places.
On weekend there's an early bird special if you pay your bill by 11:30am! -
Review from Sandra M.
3/11/2012
Good advice: since it's often easy to overlook friendships when days are busy with work and family commitments, establish some traditions and follow through.
Each year, a group of about 20 of us meet to eat Chinese style to celebrate the coming of spring. The events are organized by the beautiful Miss T who selects the location and menu. Her choice this year was Grand Lake. What a good choice too: fresh food and good service for less than $25 a person. -
Review from saul m.
11/26/2011 2 photos
Weekday dinner for 2.
There was plenty of parking in the shopping center.
This is a large full service restaurant with an extensive menu.
We noticed a group of 30-40 people playing marjong in the banquet rooms next to the main dining area. Our waiter told us they met daily on weekdays. After playing they had dinner. Otherwise the restaurant was quiet.
Since there were many free tables we were seated promptly. The staff was friendly throughout the evening.
We ordered sauteed sole fillet with snow peas & battered deep fried green beans. Both dishes were very delicious. The portions while good were not overly generous. We easily finished both entrees.
At the end of our meal I noticed a woman a few tables away had been dining with a small dog on her lap. It was not a service dog so it was a probable health code violation. As they walked out a staffperson bent over to pet the dog & chatted with its' owner. Since they didn't take the health code seriously, I began to imagine a host of other health violations....it made me extremely uneasy.
Consequently, I hesitate to return or recommend.
A shame since the food was good & the service friendly. -
Review from Joan C.
Toronto, ON
4/19/2012
This is my favorite place for Asian food. Food was on time and hot. They make the best brown rice that goes well with the food.
Portions are pretty big so expect to take some leftovers for tomorrows lunch. -
Review from Jennifer K.
Markham, ON
10/28/2011 14 photos
3.5 star
This review is for the Dim Sum at Grand Lake Chinese Cuisine.
Monday to Friday Early Bird (ordered before 11:30 am) and Afternoon Tea (1:30 pm to 4:00 pm)
or
Saturdays/Sundays/Holidays Early Bird Special only (leave by $11:30 am), no afternoon hangover specials
Small/Medium/Large Dim Sums all for $2.20.
We were here on a weekday at around 2 pm, the restaurant was empty aside for another 2 tables.
Dim sum still took awhile to be served to us since all the items are cooked when order.
The dim sum selections (over 90 items to choose from) and quality are all decent... and all for$ 2.20 each? I am not complaining.
The decor is a little dated, but Grand Lake just feels like a traditional Chinese dim sum place minus the push cart ladies!!
I'll definitely be back for the specials!!! -
Review from Teresa H.
Greektown, Toronto, ON
I love this Chinese restaurant. They really know how to take care of their clientele, and the food is always fresh and wonderfully cooked.
For Chinese new year:
-Young suckling pig surrounded by jelly fish
-Peking duck, two ways
-- pancake style
--lettuce wrap
- roasted crispy chicken with shrimp chips
-deep fried oysters, two ways
-seafood soup
- fried fish fillets
- dried scallops with fat choy and young snow pea greens
- cantonese style lobster
- fried rice
- rice noodles with beef
- red bean dessert
- mango pudding in the shape of fish
- mini curl cakes
- almond cookies and sesame cookie balls
Now that's how we celebrate Chinese New Year! Luckily Dad paid! Thanks Dad!
We all left the restaurant stuffed and happy with giant smiles. I love Chinese banquet style food and this place really knows how to do it! -
Review from Tong J.
8/22/2010
Grand Lake restaurant is a popular place for the locals. As mentioned on previous review, parking is a huge problem. We arrived around 4:45 pm and found plenty of parking, so try to get there early.
We ordered:
- Stir Fried Diced Chicken with Cashew. Very tasty perfectly seasoned and prepared. (8/10)
- Deep Fried Crispy Chicken, Whole, tonight special half-priced (can't beat that deal). Chicken wasn't oily or salty. It was delicious. (9/10)
- Sweet and Sour Pork with Pineapple. (8/10)
- Stir Fried Snow Pea leaves. (8/10)
- Beef Fried Noodles with Black Bean Sauce. It was average for us, nothing special. (7/10)
Service was great from start to finish. Our waiter was extremely patient with us (since non of us speak Chinese). The rest of the staffs were equally terrific in fulfilling our requests (with 5 little ones, it can be overwhelming).
Overall service rating: 9/10Listed in: Asia On My Mind
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Review from Rana L.
6/21/2010 4 photos
Parking is a big problem on the weekend. Walking towards the restaurant you could smell a lil stench of garbage... @@ But once ur inside that's when its better. The food was quite good here & we all enjoyed our dinner.
We made our reservation at 6:30pm but the place was already packed . There were already ppl lining up at the door when we got in & as time went on MORE ppl stood waiting. The dishes were served in a hurry ... another place waiting to get rid of us for more patrons. But it was very delicious & tasty!! We had another one of those 8 - 10 course meals again :)
As usual I enjoyed the lettuce wrap w/ minced beef, duck wrap pancake. The lobster was absolutely divine here! It was HUGEEEE. But it was soooo delish!! I could've had the whole thing....:D I would love to do that someday lol The sweet and sour pork was excellent too! My great aunt doesn't like to eat much but she kept eating it... so that should tell you smth ;)
Dinner was prob. around $300 + (approx 13 ppl). I'm not sure as we were treated by family friends.
Come early & make reservations !!Listed in: Asian Eats Reviews, Wedding Reception Venues in…
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Review from Joan L.
Mississauga, ON
6/7/2010 5 photos
For some reason, my friends like to go to Grand Lake for our special occasion meals. I have been there numerous times already but this is the first time I have brought my camera along. Today, we were celebrating the fact that one of us had a AMAZING NEW job. With this in mind, we had to have a celebration and a 5.5 lb lobster was the victim of our festivities.
Overall, the ambiance was your typical Chinese place - crowded, loud, and clean enough. There was no real service besides that of refilling the teapot / getting the bill / explaining the dishes.
Now, onto the FOOD: The vegetables was ok (not enough spice but I like mine with Belachan Singaporean style) though it was perfectly wokked up (still crunchy). The egg quiche was DELISH due to its smooth texture (so silky smooth that it slides down your throat - sounds kinda dirty but you know what I mean). The ribs were perfectly spiced with enough zing and zang (but really, I can't see any Chinese restaurant going wrong with this one). The highlight however, was the LOBSTER!!! It was fried in salted egg batter and tasted so good that all of us were scrapping the remaining crumbs off the dish. It was cooked just perfect (moist yet crumbly with batter). Mmm mmm good! I might just go by myself and order up a smaller lobster! -
Review from Rudy W.
2/5/2011 1 Check-in Here
awesome, this place was pack. maybe because of chinese new year. but anyhow. I went there solo. ha.
I ordered Chinese lettuce (it was great, as good as taiwanese style, but different)
fried tofu with shrimp and fish. that one was good too.
and finally with lobster with garlic style (dry). yummy.
this place reminds me home and for chinese food. this is great place to get to taste good chinese food.
and the good part, this is the only place in the whole complex that accept credit card.
I want to see if they sell dimsum for lunch.
