Empress Harbor Seafood Restaurant

Lighting and decor is pleasant. Lunch dim sum is not very good. Dinner dishes taste as good as other seafood restaurants. Wedding banquets can take up the entire space. They can put up partitions for smaller gatherings. Staff is friendly. Building has underground parking. Used to have raw sewage smell in the lower basement levels. This has been fixed and lighting is also better, with less leaking pipes and wet floors.

Great service and always friendly with the kids. If you ask for an item, they will happily call the dim sum trolley over or deliver quickly. Been a few times with another family and our group of 10 has always had a delicious and good time.

Sunday morning Dim Sum, 15 minute wait to get in the door. Good carts with hot food, great variety. Got teapot replaced relatively promptly. Wife asked for shrimp balls and that cart appeared instantly. Bill was very reasonable, at $35 for two. Would definitely return, probably with a larger group.

We came here for the dim sum on Sunday and it was fairly busy, but for a party of 6 and a child, there was no wait at noon. Three significant problems: 1) limited food options and we waited a very long time for the food carts to go around. Those that did come around offered the same thing. 2) low quality ingredients and food preparation. All of the food that we tried tasted terrible and one person ended up sick. 3) barely anyone spoke English, so we had to open every dim sum steam pot on our own to discover what they offered. The only reason why we came here was because Elite was packed and the wait was an hour long. The second star for this restaurant is for the venue location, which has ample underground parking and wheelchair access.

dim sum was good. All the dishes we ordered tasted really good. Price felt a little more expensive than others. We were seates in one of the corner rooms and felt that we weren't being tended at times.

Came in at 1:30pm... I know it was a little late for lunch but I asked what time the dimsum was over and the sever reported at 3:30.. there were 3 dim sum carts going around and it was just the leftovers from their lunch service with very limited items (left over from lunch because nobody else wanted them). We ended up ordering from the regular menu. Food was decent,but I'm definitely not coming back.

Service was okay, dim sum was okay, nothing special. They put a lot of effort into making the restaurant look nice. Mostly older crowd here, which might explain why the food didn't have as much spice as another restaurant.

While still the size of a small sports arena, Empress Harbor has a cozier feel than your average dim sum palace. Service on a Sunday morning was good, with frequent cart passes and doting waiters willing to chase the occasional missed cart or whip up a special orders. Dim sum was good as well, with a mix of super traditional (rice porridge, bitter melon, etc.) and more casual fare (so many baked bao...). Tea charge is $1, which is nothing, and plates ranged from $2.29 and up, which is pretty darn cheap. Don't let the dingy shopping center surroundings fool you. Nice spot with good dim sum and great service. Ample parking, which is a luxury. Try something new, even the chicken feet weren't bad.