Lai Wah Heen
8 expert reviews
“In the mood for Shanghai, Hong Kong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu or Shandong dishes? No matter what you choose it will be authentic---and likely well-prepared.”
– Gayot
Fodor's
"The service is formal in Lai Wah Heen's elegant dining room topped with a sculpted ceiling and surrounded with etched-glass turntables and silver serving dishes." Full review
Travel + Leisure
"Lai Wah Heen, which translates to “luxurious meeting place,” serves an upscale dim sum menu that's often lauded as the best in Toronto." Full review
Zagat
4.4
""Deluxe", "carefully prepared" Chinese dishes, including "the best" dim sum "outside of Hong Kong"." Full review
DK Eyewitness
"With exceptional Cantonese cuisine, this elegant two-level restaurant in the Metropolitan Hotel redefines and updates classic Chinese fare."
Time Out
"Dim-sum trolleys are wheeled out all over Chinatown at the weekend in Toronto, but none of the food is as fine as the fare at Lai Wah Heen (though you'll pay for the quality)." Full review
Rough Guide
"The name means "elegant meeting place" which this Chinese restaurant most certainly is."
Frommer's
"The interior is vintage Art Deco; spare pictograms dominate the walls of the two-level space. The extensive menu is mainly Cantonese, and regulars come for the excellent Peking duck, dim sum" Full review