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U & Me Restaurant
- Hours:
Mon-Sun 8 am - 4 am
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Price Range:
-
$$
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- Yes
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Wi-Fi:
- No
- Noise Level:
- Average
- Has TV:
- Yes
- Caters:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- No
18 reviews for U & Me Restaurant
18 reviews in English
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Review from Terrence L.
Calgary, AB
4/29/2012
To be honest, the ratings actually alternate between 3 and 4. There are some dim sum meals on weekends that I would give the freshly made food a 4 star rating. There have been some dinners I've had that would be 3 1/2 to 4. And then there are the late night meals that are 3 at best, with wildly alternating quality and selection (I've walked out a few times because they actually ran out of some of the most basic snacks at night).
This resto is about as close to a 24 hour chinese restaurant as there can be in Calgary, as it's open every day from 8am to 4am 365 days a year. The food is usually pretty authentic, and it's all satisfying sober or drunk. Service is usually pretty good, even despite the odd server or two who passes by with english 101. Just don't expect a lot from the decor or the view, and just enjoy the company and the food. -
Review from Chelsea W.
Calgary, AB
1/16/2012
5 Things:
1) When you're blazingly drunk
2) It's 2 A.M. when most businesses are closed
3) You're in downtown and can somewhat crawl, walk, or stumble drunk to Chinatown
4) You want a "memorable" and "cheap" night with friends dining (depending how much food you want
5) And you just really want some god damn dim sum and don't care about the quality
................... Go to U & Me, it's about as good as the place gets
If you're sober and you know what good quality dim sum tastes like......let's just say that your opinion might be very different to what it was when you were in a lesser lucid state of mind. -
Review from Michelle L.
Calgary, AB
2/29/2012 2 Check-ins Here
Came for dinner. Service and food were excellent. Very fast very tasty. The hot pot dishes are super yummy!
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Review from Peter A.
Ottawa, ON
5/26/2011 3 Check-ins Here
Like Agnes, I was raised with the understanding that honesty is the best policy. Thus, I shall not lie either.
U&Me is amazing. I love it here. Dim Sum 22485 hours a day?! Yeah, you don't have to wake up at 9am on a Saturday to go here, you can slum around the house until 3 pm and still get your Tripe in Ginger and Onion Sauce, BBQ Pork Steamed Buns, and your shrimp dumplings.
The food here is good. and most importantly, it's cheap. So cheap. I took my mother and brothers here for Mother's Day (because I'm also cheap, but sweet), and for the 5 of us, it was something like $70 with tip. And let me tell you we gorged.
Obviously, there are better places to grab some dim sum in Chinatown, I think of Silver Dragon, but U&Me is a pretty great place for you and me to go. -
Review from Simon K.
Calgary, AB
7/10/2011 1 Check-in Here
I was there with my wife for dim sum this weekend. We got there at around 1 p.m. and got seats right away, which we thought was a little strange. It has been a while since we've been there for dim sum, but we had to wait for seats every time in the past.
U & Me always have innovative dim sums, we noticed something on the wall about specials and new dim sum dishes, so I had to go take a look. As I was reading the poster, one of the waitress came and talked to me in a somewhat rude tone saying 'we don't have it'. I question her on what they don't have, and she said the specials... it's over. So I said fine, I wasn't looking at the specials anyway. I asked her if she had the new dim sum dishes and she responded by saying ' yes, but they are at the regular prices'. Instead of calmly explaining what is going on to a customer that doesn't mind paying regular prices, they came across as very rude. My wife later went up to the same poster and was greeted with the same rudeness by another waitres... Very disappointing!
Here is my rating:
Food: 4/5 stars
Service: 1/5 stars
Price: 3/5 stars (there are many places in Calgary where you can get similar quality dim sum for less)
There is one more thing. This place does not accept credit card payment for bills under $30. I didn't argue and just pay cash, but as it is well known to me, that violates one of the mechant agreements with credit card company. It is time for U&M to wake up! Even Misai/Forbidden City/T.Pot don't have a minimum limit for using credit card anymore, as they know it's wrong. -
Review from Agnes C.
1/5/2011 6 Check-ins Here
I am not gonna lie, I like this place. In Calgary, it is really rare to find a restaurant that opens at 3am!
When my friends and I want to go for dim sum, this place will be the first pick. Although on the weekends, you might want to go before noon because the line up is just crazy!
Food - hits and misses I would say. But it's dim sum, it can't go too wrong.
Services - well, they are getting better.
Price - very reasonable.
I would recommand this place to anyone who's new to Calgary and love dim sum. -
Review from Wendy P.
11/17/2010 1 Check-in Here
When it's 2 am on a Saturday and you're craving some dim sum, where do you and me go? Why, to U&Me.
I ended up here Saturday night. I couldn't believe how many people there were inside at that hour for dim sum. Probably because it's one of the few places open where you can sit down and get delicious food... no, wait, I take that back. Delicious doesn't do it justice. It's not the right word, but I'm at a loss as to what the right word is at the moment.
We conjured up a good plate of congee, pigged out on a pork dish, dabbled in some dumplings and otherwise noodled about with a few more dishes. The food tastes like good Chinese food should.
I've got to try this place in the daylight just to make sure my taste buds didn't have any beer goggles on... because so far, I'm a fan. -
Review from Chris W.
Calgary, AB
7/22/2010
This restaurant is mecca for anyone who has ever felt frustrated that Calgary seems to shut down at 8:30 PM, leaving you hungry. Nestled in the heart of Chinatown, this fantastic Chinese restaurant is open from 8 in the morning until 4 in the morning. You heard me right- they are open TWENTY hours a day. The hostess explained that they close for four hours a day to clean and then they open right back up again.
I have been to You & Me at 11 in the morning, 9 at night, and midnight, and I have to say, I'm a little infatuated with the place. They have a huge dim sum menu, and the dim sum is really good! I mean, it's not Vancouver dim sum of course, but it's still tasty and satisfying, and you'll stuff yourselves silly for $10-$15 per person. Dim sum is served from opening until 5PM, and then from 9PM onwards (during the dinner hours and nighttime hours, they do regular a la carte dishes). The daytime dim sum menu is more extensive than the late night menu, but there's certainly no lack of choice at night.
It seems like this place is always busy and understaffed. The service is the only reason I've taken a star off. Food sometimes takes a little longer than you would expect (they don't do dim sum carts here as far as I know), and the busy waitstaff can be pretty brusque. We've gotten used to having to ask two or three times for water, and expect that they might miss a dish or two on our order. But all in all, it's worth it for the practically any time of the day dim sum! -
Review from Victor P.
8/28/2011 1 Check-in Here
Was treated to dinner here on Wed 24 Aug 2011 by some friends. Food was okay. Maybe I'm just getting picky after having been in Richmond, BC recently and going to a seemingly endless variety of Chinese restaurants.
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Review from dinah g.
Calgary, AB
10/20/2009
Where can one go for 20 hour dim sum in Calgary? Well U & Me Restaurant of course.
Well one night I treated 16 of my students there to enjoy a dim sum meal. The food was okay and the tab at the end of the evening including desert and drinks was around $160; not bad for treating 16 u's to a meal.
The biggest problem is that it is always a hit and miss when I go to this restaurant. Food can be great, but at times service people have been incredibly rude, or service is great but food comes 30 minutes after ordering, then the drinks. I think if you are in the frame of mind of wanting to eat at any hour of the morning and are so buzzed from a great evening out, don't mind bad service and long wait; this may be the place to go.
The food menu is not limited to just dim sum you also have the choices
of some speciality items like fresh hard oyster shell, thai stir fried clams, bbq duck, jellyfish and beef just to name a few between 7 to 16 dollars. -
Review from Katie C.
Calgary, AB
10/23/2009
My first visit to U & Me was in the middle of the day and both the service (despite the fact that the place was almost empty) and the food was terrible. Anyways, I heard from multiple sources that it had some of the best authentic food in town, so I rustled up some people to go back to check out the scene - late at night this time. I'm happy to relate that this visit was a lot better food wise.
I'm a dim sum addict so being able access my tasty "ha gao" (shrimp dumplings) at any hour is pretty much heaven for me. It's actually open and busy until 4 am, so it can be a pretty good place to people watch while you're chowing down. Lot's of big and little groups - actually, I would say U & Me is probably one of the restaurants most able to host a large group for dinner with short notice in Calgary.
In addition to dim sum they serve the traditional canadian-chinese menu of mostly cantonese inspired dishes. The dishes are hit and miss - sometimes they are really, really good, and sometimes you wonder if that was actually what you ordered. I'm not the biggest fan of their dinner menu, but it is decent. The service is so-so and the entrance can be difficult to find. This place isn't fancy, either. In my opinion there are better, more consistent Chinese restaurants in Calgary during the day, especially close by, but for a late night snack it is pretty much the top of its game.
Try and get a window seat for some really good views of Chinatown! -
Review from Eric F.
Calgary, AB
9/28/2009 1 Check-in Here
"Open 20 hours
8 am -- 4 am daily"
The first lines of U & Me's website declares what kind of a business this is. This Chinese restaurant is smack in the middle of Chinatown and does it proud - good food and dim sum around the clock. They've turned around from their vermin inspection and are back with a vengeance...
Whether it's for a quick lunch downtown or late-night munchies after a night on the town, U & Me is there for you. It's reliable enough that people keep coming back: At lunch, don't be surprised if you have to share a table with two or three other pairs.
The service is even pretty reasonable, in fact. They also give you a scantron-type form to fill out to order your dim sum - almost feels like a return to grade school exams, but where everyone wins!
I had a headache after eating here once, which I attribute to the MSG in their plain congee, but otherwise no complaints. (I laugh to myself reading this - the things I go through for tasty food...) -
Review from kathy m.
8/2/2010
This place is a little too authentic for me. Half the stuff on the menu had things inside I would never put into my mouth, let alone ingest. Chicken feet and duck tongues, for instance, so negotiating the menu (mostly written in Chinese with brief and vague English translations) was pretty tricky. The staff either had very poor English skills or weren't the least bit interested in providing guidance or the time of day, for that matter. I felt proud when just about everything I deciphered from the menu turned out to be good. The one bad thing--some sort of deep fried pork dumpling that I think was little turds wrapped in a slab of hog's fat then deep fried (like pork rinds except hot and greasy)--gagged both my husband and I. But hey, it was an adventure.
Listed in: I don't know, just BLEEH.
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Review from Koz T.
Calgary, AB
10/31/2010 6 Check-ins Here
Best congee in town. Your experience here will depend on what you order and when you go. We stop in here for lunch on work days all the time and the experience is great! Food is prompt and the congee is phenomenal.
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Review from Tyler b.
1/22/2010
i went here years ago and and this place was pretty bad - only here have i ever seen ginger beef get deep fried and served. i was trying to forget about this place, but something changed last night.
coming home from the bar there were all kinds of flashing lights and official cars and trucks parked right outside. on the side of the big truck was written "hazardous materials response team". there is something so very wrong about a chinese restaurant that needs a truck like that to come. just what the hell are they putting in their food, anyways? -
Review from Willman L.
Calgary, AB
10/23/2009
Since most of Calgary rolls up the sidewalks at 5pm, it's nice to have some late night options besides Denny's and A&W. I've only ever gone late at night and there's pretty good food if you know what you are ordering. The authentic Chinese stuff is quite good and they do have some unique dishes and dim sum late at night is awesome. Not sure how good the western Chinese stuff is as I'll never order that stuff in a Chinese restaurant.
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Review from Cece A.
Calgary, AB
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Review from Bonbon T.
Strathmore, AB
4/6/2010
this place is great. me personally, i love dimsum and this place is perfect since they serve dimsum from 9pm onwards so if youre craving for some late night dimsum this is the place to be.
