I used to really like this place but its far too expensive now. I understand cost of food is up and minimum wage increase has brought up the prices. All things considered, ~$18 for Hainanese Chicken Rice and Cold HK Milk Tea including 10% tip is kind of insane for lunch. read more

Phoenix is the place to go for fast comfort food. This HK Cafe has several locations, and all of them carry the same menu and same quality of service. You're able to grab a quick and filling meal for less than $10, and the portions are generous. Lunch combos come with a drink and the portions are generous! Some of my favorites are the Hai-nese Chicken Rice and the Fish Ball Noodle Soup. These two dishes have always stayed consistent throughout the years, and are served within ten minutes! Baked rice/spaghetti dishes usually take longer than anything else on the menu, so if that's what you order, your friends will probably be finished with their food before yours even arrive at the table. Prepare for a line-up on the weekends! The Bayview location is less packed and is an equal alternative. read more

Phoenix Restaurant - Chinese Near Me - Markham, Ontario

Solid 3-star Hong Kong style diner. The food won't blow you away, but quality is consistent, good portions and service is always quick (but not always friendly). This is as good as it gets for this type of diner in the area imo. read more

New Menu! Items are newly introduced may be found with yellow/gold highlight. These are mostly fusion items. We end up eating our typical fare - cause we know what we want. The dinner combo set is still one of the best bang for your buck - enough rice to share between 2 not big eaters. We ordered a side of deep fried squid. Regret. Sadness... just stick with what you know. Rice and noodle dishes still are the safest. read more

Have been coming here for a while, but now decided to write a review. This place is very popular because the food is reasonably priced and is generally very delicious. The service here leaves a bit to be desired, but the restaurant was packed during the lunch hours. Food took a very long time to come out (everyone at my table already finished eating before I even got my food), so I would recommend going during less busy hours. read more

Phoenix Restaurant - Chinese Near Me - Markham, Ontario

It is a place you need to go to if your in Toronto. It have meals great for breakfast and lunch that are filling. The meals are cheap and worth it. I always get the salty beef in roman and it comes with butter toast with condensed milk. I love this and it is the best meal on the menu. read more

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This place is known for the hainese chicken and it is a chain now across toronto. It has been around this location for awhile but the service and quality has been going down hill. I have friends who refuse to eat at this location. read more

Phoenix really changed the game for cha chang tangs/HK Cafes in Toronto as previously these type cafes were kinda a dive spot but with Phoenix, they have a modern feel. The interior is all modern, the washroom aren't disgusting and the food is actually pretty decent and not oily like most. When it first opened their used to be line ups all the time but since other places have taken on the Phoenix style, line ups aren't as crazy anymore. I go here if I don't want something too rich in taste ie, fatty, oily but the portions aren't as big as other HK cafes and the prices are more expensive. Unfortunately their 230pm afternoon specials aren't the greatest as well. So I haven't really been back in a while since discovering other HK cafes or for the price I'm ok paying a little extra for dim sum. Parking is pretty decent and I'd recommend trying to get a booth as the tables along the side you'll be sharing with strangers. read more

I used to think this place was okay. Now its just an avoid at all cost. It is expensive in comparison to the dozens of other hk cafe places in the area. And they dont have better service or food either. I asked them for breakfast to just separate the pork chop on instant noodles and they inform me its impossisble to do so. Which is retarded. Cause the chef cooks it separate and places it on the soup. After grilling it. This is just lazy on their staff. Avoid their laxy service and expensive hk cafe food. And just go to brother or other hk cafe in the area read more

Phoenix is a great place for solid, HK cafe style food. There are days when the dishes are really good, and others when it's just okay. Known for their Hainanese Chicken, they do one of the better renditions of it in the city - but it is subject to the up and downs of quality that all of Phoenix's food suffers. And the rice isn't yellow enough! Their HK tea is good, as is their coffee/green-tea shake that reminds me of a kit kat in liquid form. Desserts here are also fun - they have a puff pastry with black sesame ice cream which is rather decent. And the super-tall brick toast is classic. While you won't be crossing the city to try this place, this Asian diner is my go-to for an HK food fix. read more

Phoenix is known for its spicy Malaysian curries, Hainan Chicken Rice and Fish broth noodles - I've tried all of them and they are all good! Prices are higher than other HK-style cafes and dinners only come with a drink and not soup. Baked Pork Chop Rice ($8-$9) - The rice portions are smaller than competitors', but fine with me. The pork chop is a bit hard and salty, but the rice is good. I like that there are two sauces - tomato and cream, and it tastes good with the melted cheese on top. Baked Beef Curry Rice - They have a baked version which is thick, yellow curry sauce with beef, potatoes and rice - really flavorful and not too spicy. The other version of curry is the Malaysian style, which is more spicy and served with white rice. Baked Walnut Chicken Rice - this one isn't good. The chicken steak is salty, and basically it's just cream sauce with walnuts on top (not walnut flavored). There is also an almond cream sauce, which was pretty special tasting when I first tried it years ago, but I think they changed the pork chop to fish now. read more

It's everything you'd expect from a Hong Kong style cafe. It's a cheap and quick meal (lunch specials all under $10 bucks). The food is alright and the portions are generous. The service is not amazing... as expected. I met some friends for lunch, there's always a lunch special menu, so we didn't bother looking at the regular items. We ordered: *Baked chicken in red curry sauce. *Two sauces pork chop on rice *Some form of fried rice with salty fish and assorted seafood The sauces weren't particularly tasty or spicy. I'm always a bit disappointed if a HK style place doesn't have black pepper sauce or Portuguese sauce available for baked items. The HK style tea is really good though. Worth +0.5 a star good. I'm not sure if I'd come back here with so many other options nearby. read more

I was in the area and needed some lunch so a friend recommended this restaurant. I ordered the veggie pad Thai bc I thought it was a safe choice. I also ordered the veggie spring rolls. The pad Thai was dry and lacked flavour and literally had a few pieces of bell peppers and bean sprouts... That's it. The spring rolls were fresh and very good on the other hand. All in all I Wasn't impressed. The restaurant was dirty but the waitresses were nice to talk to which is why I'm giving it 3/5. read more

Phoenix Restaurant - Veggie pad Thai - Chinese Near Me - Markham, Ontario

This place is a great HK style breakfast diner. Great specials and they often offer discounts for future returns. Hainanese chicken is one of the best here and pretty decent value. Honestly I've been here probably 20 times in my life and never had a bad meal..........except the one time I got food poisoning and never been back since. read more

3 stars Reliable choice for a HK style cafe. Good variety of meal selections and desserts for reasonable prices (under $10) What I liked: -modern decor -prompt service -food delivered fast and hot -HK milk tea -plenty of baked rice/spaghetti selections -unique dish offering of a clam, mushroom sauce, with a puff pastry on top -combo specials come with a choice of drink (hktea/ice tea) before 5:30pm -desserts What I didn't like: -helps to know Cantonese when ordering and service in general -food is good but not exceptional, kind of bland and needs the assistance of spices/salt/sauce provided at each table to kick it up a notch IMHO -can be very sunny in the restaurant. choose your seating wisely, depending on time of day. -louder than average atmosphere to have conversations read more

Food is just so so, comparing to City Hollywood Restaurant in Market Village. Price is not that cheap. But the good thing is they have various desserts which look so good! read more

Phoenix Restaurant - Chinese Near Me - Markham, Ontario

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The Phoenix is a place you'd only go to if you were looking for poor service, queues, or if there was no where that you wanted lunch at and it was close by. Incredibly poor service with attitude. The food has taken an exponential dip in quality per year. Parking is difficult and quite the battle with other patrons in the plaza. Only redeeming item is the Hainanese chicken, which is alright. 1/5 would try not to return. read more

Uhhhhhh they didn't have any brown flat rice noodles at night. Weird. Cozy restaurant. Decent food for decent price. read more

They have a lot of HK-style dishes to choose from and the prices are pretty good for the portion size. A lot of the meals are combos, so they come with a drink like HK-style milk tea, if you're there for breakfast or afternoon tea/lunch. I have been told that the prices have recently increased, but I haven't been back in a little while. read more

Over rated. Over priced. I came for the hainanese chicken rice and it was so fatty and the service was lacking. I know it is a hk diner, but hey, if I have to pay more for my meal, I expect better food and / or service. Lunch combos do not come with soup and a drink like many other hk diners do. Firefly at first Markham is better in that sense all around. Food, service, value. read more

I've come here multiple times, the first time I thought it was great but every subsequent time I was less than impressed and kinda bored. The layout and decor is decent, makes you feel comfortable for those HK style cafes. It doesn't have that dingy feel which is a good thing. The food though, is always decent. They have a good variety but nothing spectacular. The problem that I have with it though is I find it slightly more expensive than every other place. Or they give you just a little less than the other place for the same price. This morning I went there for breakfast, had satay beef vermicelli with condensed milk brick toast for $5.49. See, the great chinese breakfast places will give you that and eggs+ham, perhaps just a hot roll instead of brick toast, but that's ok, cause I get eggs+ham. But this place, no dice. Can't even get them together unless ordered separately. I've come here before for their afternoon tea; the fried wings/chicken is pretty good value. From what I remember it might come with some macaroni salad? Reliable yes, but everything else is left to be desired. read more

Ordered the crab and prawn salad, hainan chicken rice and chicken milanesa rice +egg. I didnt really like the hainan chicken rice but to be fair I never really liked the dish that much. The ice tea dn the hong kong style coffee were good speacially with their fresh pinapple bun. The main dishes were so so. The service was fast. Sadly they only take cash or debit. read more

Phoenix Restaurant - Chinese Near Me - Markham, Ontario

I was here with my boyfriend on a Wednesday night and the restaurant was surprisingly packed, though we didn't have to wait for a table. The fried udon that we ordered was good, but the silver needle noodles that we also ordered were kind of plain. Dishes were also quite small for the price. If Phoenix was on the way to somewhere I had to go then sure, I'd eat here. Other than that, no. read more

I come here quite often with my family as I live in the area. They are always busy. Decent food, fair prices. We always order the baked rice . My only complaint is that although their curry is great (I like the sauce), they give way too little beef in the curry beef brisket dish. Seriously, like two or three small pieces of beef brisket and the rest is fat or tendon that is too hard to chew. Other than that, this restaurant is pretty good. read more

Been trying to find a Hong Kong Style Cafe place since leaving Calgary. Would have thought it would be easy in Toronto but not until I came across Phoenix. Classic HK Cafe fare, tremendous large menu. Noodle soups, curries, rices, noodles, sandwiches, combos etc. Had the Malaysian curry beef, excellent. Chicken with ginger rice, excellent. Baked spaghetti wit beef and tomatoes, excellent. As per cafe, dishes come with a hot coffee or tea during certain times and they have specials on weekends. Definitely a good stop for a lunch meal. Limited seating so this place is packed often at peak hours. read more

Ok just tried their Hainan Chicken here since someone told me about it. Personally, I was quite disappointed, the chicken was excessively salty. I could barely eat it. I ordered their chicken oil rice as well which was meh, I should have just ordered the plain rice instead. I also got their baked beef spaghetti with 50c extra for cheese. It was so so, but I don't think worth the price. I may as well just get it from Metrosquare Cafe which is closer. Service was meh, no free wifi. It is also out of the way from most things except for the Holiday Inn (in which I would recommend people to just go to Metrosquare Cafe instead). read more

Stopped in here twice while attending a sci-fi convention at the Holiday Inn next door. Both times the service was super fast, and I got food within ten minutes. The first time I ate in with a group and the second time I got takeout. The decor is airy, modern and a bit trendy. Very bright and clean and pleasant place to eat. The clientele is mostly young Chinese folks. (My husband and I were the only white people I saw in there all weekend.) I looked over there two other times during the weekend and decided it was too crowded to go in. At 8 pm on Saturday there was a lineup out the door. The menu is huge and has everything from stir fries over steamed rice to Chineseified western food (think ten different variations on hamburgers or spaghetti, or creative toppings for toast). I was tempted by but skipped the bubble tea, and also the special coffee drinks that appeared to have slices of cake wedged in the top of the glass. I ordered fried egg noodles both times. Could have been more creative, but I love those noodles, and I haven't found anything in Buffalo to cool off my craving for Toronto Chinese food. The Cantonese fried noodles are loaded with meat, seafood, and mushrooms. The shrimp and scallops were perfect, the crabstick was a bit mushy and the squid a little too chewy. The barbecue pork was awesome. The rest of my party enjoyed Malaysian-style curry, ox tongue soup, and shrimp dumpling soup. You don't need to speak Cantonese, there always seems to be at least one person working who can speak English. They take plastic (maybe only debit) but only on orders over ten bucks. read more

At first I didn't know what this place was. I always drove by it or I'm beside it because my bank is there. So one night my Gf and I decided to go try it because we've seen multiple restaurants and thought why not. Now I'm done for cheap, large portion foods that taste good and oh my. This place reminds me of one of those restaurants where you get all day breakfast noodles or garupa cutlets. Hell yea this place was the similar! We both ordered the noodles. She got Satay beef I got chicken steak and hmm so nice! We also ordered the chicken wings and they are definitely HK style, but the taste was a so so for me. We tried the napoleon ice cream sandwich (I think that's what it's called...). The pastry was so fluffy, whip cream, strawberries, ice cream AND chocolate syrup oh my god. The prices are relatively cheap. The cold HK style tea though 3.50 seems a bit much compared to some other places.. Aside from that though this place isn't that bad! Definitely come back to try the lunch combos! read more

The prices went up dramatically. I would not recommend going there again. The food quality overall is good, we usually come here for breakfast. My favourite option is the Satay Beef Vermceilli with Condensed Milk Toast. Recently they raised this to $7. I could get a whole lunch meal set for that price. The Milk tea is delicious. It is nice, strong and the aromas were all on point. read more

My family and I have been patrons of this place for countless years now, coming in several times a week. Throughout the years there have been many changes, both good and not-so-good, but they've still managed to keep the charm of a modern, wide-offering Hong Kong-nese cafe. The food quality itself is excellent and fairly consistent, though they've significantly cut down on their portions over the years - pork chops and fish cutlets are around 60% the size they used to be ten years ago. Price-wise, they're definitely on the upper-end of price ranges as far as Hong Kong cafes go, but my undying loyalty to them keeps me coming back every week. I swear they put something addictive in their Hainan Chicken and Teriyaki Sauce Fried Pork Cutlet Rice. If you're looking for late-night dessert options, they've also got nice variations on the Hong Kong egg waffles (with ice cream and whipped cream). Service is, as you can and would expect, Hong Kong-nese. Though their waitresses are from a variety of regions, they're all fairly courteous but sometimes forgetful or misplace an order. Wouldn't be too good of a first impression for new customers, but I'm a 10-year guy at this place and just shake it off. The food quality helps me forget any errors. Don't expect a quick seating if you're coming for lunch - this place is PACKED! A small cafe located near several office parks and buildings means you're going to get their early, or take a late lunch. read more

Cash or debit card only. I don't carry cash and I'm not going to use my debit card to pay for business meals so the proprietor can avoid credit card fees. It's their choice to refuse credit cards but what is the related customer loss? Great Chinese food around the corner that accepts credit cards. read more

We came in a group of 4 for breakfast and were happy to have been able to catch the special (before 11am). If you're into typical Hong Kong style breakfast items like instant noodle soups with chicken/satay/porkchop, eggs, toast with condensed milk, this is a great spot. Service was good and what I love about HKG cafes is how quickly you get your food! I'd come back:) read more

Food is reasonable quality, though not necessarily better than many other HK style cafes in Markham. The price is also a bit steeper than most others. However, the decor is a little more put together than the others which are usually more hole in the wall kind of places. Basically if you're looking for cheap authentic HK style cafe food there are better places. But if you're looking to bring people who might want a nicer atmosphere or who need English on the menu this is a solid choice if you don't mind paying a little bit more (e.g. $9-12 or so for a dish). read more

having moved here from Vancouver where restaurants like this existed everywhere and u could drive no more than 10 minutes to get to a local fav, to Toronto...where hk cafes are located mostly and only further away in the city. I was in search for my fav baked pork chop on rice, lead me to Yelp arrived 30 min before closing, was greeted and seated by the friendly staff. order did show up as the wrong item but they gladly took it back and remade my order. I had the baked pork chop with tomato and cream sauce. was good, definitely not as good as what I am used to in Vancouver I would definitely come back to try other items as the menu is quite extensive, just kinda far from downtown! read more

A typical HK style cafe with an above average quality of food, slightly cleaner space, and an enormous menu. This is great for a group of people who don't know what they want to eat - they can each eat chinese style stir fry rice or pasta or steak or noodles. On top of that, they have quite a few dessert options (waffles) which are great for kids. The only downside is that it's slowly increasing its prices over the years and by now it's on average about $2 more than other HK style cafes. It isn't a big deal if you're eating once in a while, but for a family it can be consistently over $10 more per meal. read more

Food taste is so so, service is bad, but expect high tipping. Go some where. Will not go again. read more

Phoenix is a great place for Chinese food as it offer a huge variety of items. The menu have a lot of pictures so you can always find something you like. Service is fast and servers are attentive. The portion here is a little smaller than other Chinese diners but the quality is better. They offer soup noodles, variety of baked rice I haven't seen at other places, curries, etc. They also surprisingly have a variety of cool dessert options as well such as ice cream crepes and toast. Too bad I am always too full to try them. I will come here next time just to try their dessert. Rating: Service: 4/5 Food Quality: 4/5 Comfort 3/5 Decor 3/5 Value: 3/5 Parking: 3/5 read more

3.5 stars Came here for lunch after church and the place was buzzing with people. Parking at this plaza is packed so be prepared. Look for spots on the far side of the plaza. Extensive menu from set lunch to desserts, including bbtea and waffles. Service was fast and attentive. We ordered: 1) fried noodles with tofu, vegetables and mushrooms, and a fried pork cutlet with a fried egg and teriyaki sauce. The fried noodles were yummy-- large portion and nice balance between chewy and crispy. The pork cutlet was delicious: tender meat and crispy panko coating. The teriyaki sauce is served on the side topped with shredded seaweed and toasted sesame seeds. Perfectly fried egg on top of a mound of white rice. Unfortunately the rice was dry-- the sauce and egg made it edible. Also unfortunate was the numerous flies that we had to shoo away. Set lunches come with free drink - we ordered HK milk tea. Debit and cash only. All in all, an authentic HK style lunch that fed 2 adults and two kids for under $20... I'm happy. Will come back to try the other items on the menu. read more

Excellent breakfast selections. The satay beef is perfect. The milk tea is extremely smooth. The thick toast is just perfect. A must do if you love Hong Kong style breakfast. read more

One of my go to places, especially later in the evenings. The hours are good. The 10 steak special is great, sometimes I have two of them! with a cold hong kong tea of course. The set lobster meal with soup, escargot, muscles, the fried lobster (I usually get spaghetti as a side) and then an ice cream for desert is great for $22.00! The decor is the typical tacky 80s Asian restaurant, and is in need of updating, but not at the cost of them raising prices. The waffle desserts are also worth trying. read more