It was like being back in Chinatown for a large group dinner! The food and service was just as good as it was at Wu's Wonton King. The same familiar vibe, but a bit nicer setting for sure. For dinner our group enjoyed the fried anchovies, wonton soup, sautaued Chinese Broccoli, lobster with sticky rice, Peking Duck, whole fried chicken, short ribs, lo mein noodles, and my favorite, Lamb chops. I highly recommend it for a genuine Chinatown experience but more conveniently located on the UWS. Great for large groups to enjoy meals family style. read more

Recommendations: Sautéed Pea Shoots with Garlic, Typhoon-Style Seafood, and Peking Pork Chops Major note: I really wish I could give this place a 3.5, as 3 seems a bit harsh. Rating is for the neighborhood/in Chinatown, it'd probably drop another half a star. Also, there is a 10% cash discount, which helps with the prices here. I hosted a relatively large dinner, or at least by American standards, with seven others at this new Cantonese spot a couple of days ago. As the name suggests, they are related to Wu's Wonton King on the outskirts of Chinatown near East Broadway, with the owner being a former owner of that restaurant. In comparison, this place is a good four times the size, with enough space for 200 guests, if not a bit more. Overall, the food was comparable to one of the mid-level Canto spots in Chinatown, which makes it a lot better than most other places, but a bit worse than their original location. To drink, I stuck with tea, which was free at dinner, but I believe it is extra during dim sum, which just feels a bit wrong. The service felt a bit rushed, and I would almost recommend ordering dishes in waves, as the majority of the dishes outside of one came out very quickly. They also didn't come to our table often enough, which was a problem because we weren't able to order rice. The first thing that arrived was the probable best dish of the night, the Sautéed Pea Shoots with Garlic/蒜蓉炒豆苗 for $28.95. There was plenty of garlic flavor, and the dau miu/pea shoots were perfectly blanched. There were also large pieces of sautéed garlic, which added extra flavor. This was excellent and better than most spots, even in Chinatown. Next best was the $32.95 Typhoon Style Shrimp/避風塘蝦球, which was the one dish that arrived later, as we were originally going to get the $38.95 razor clams in the same style, but they were out. The dish came with eight large shrimp, which were juicy and tasty. For flavor, there was a lot of fried garlic along with some saltines and a bit of heat from some chili. Overall, this was excellent, easily the second-best dish, and a good version of this style. I wouldn't mind trying their fish fillet or other dishes. In terms of dishes that I have ordered from Wonton King, there were two. The better of them was their Peking Pork Chops/京都骨 for $24.95. The sauce could have been a bit less sweet, but the meat was pretty tender, and the breading wasn't too thick. I love this dish at the other location and liked the one here, so in other words, it was good but not great. The $32.95 half Signature Garlic Chicken/招牌蒜香雞 felt a bit worse as well. The chicken was pretty tender, but the outside, while crispy and full of garlic, was way saltier than before. There was also the Clams in Black Bean Sauce/豉汁炒花蜆 for $28.95. The clams were mostly fresh, though one of them was not open, which was disappointing based on the price. Outside of that, it was lighter flavored than most, as it wasn't overly salty from the douchi. Overall, they were fine, but I like other spots more. Another dish was the Honey BBQ Pork/Char Siu/蜜汁叉燒, which is listed on the menu for the same price as the clams, though I remember it being a few dollars less. The pork was pretty tender and flavorful and less sweet than the typical version. I prefer some other places with a bit more flavor, such as Ming Wong and others in Chinatown, but it was decent. The Fish Fillet & Tofu Casserole/斑腩豆腐煲 for $25.95 was a mixed bag. The tofu, though, was excellent, with a wonderful texture, but I disliked the fish as it was fried with a batter that was a bit too thick. Combined with the dish not being sizzling like it normally is in Chinatown, this led to the fish cooling down and having an unappetizing texture. Overall, I liked part of it, but I would get the eggplant version instead next time to avoid said fish. Rounding out the meal was the $23.95 Braised E-Fu Noodles with Mushrooms/北菇乾燒伊麵. The noodles could have used a bit more wok hei, but they were fine and plentiful. I also appreciated the plentiful bok choy for both flavor and color. This was decent, but not one of the group's favorites. After a while, as it took a bit to flag down the server, we got the check. Notably, they were missing the Mango Jelly from their other location. If this were anywhere outside of the Upper West Side, it wouldn't be as notable, and I likely wouldn't go back. However, if I'm in the mood for some decent Cantonese food that appeals to large groups, I would try again. read more

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It's finally open - the UWS in dire need of a Chinese restaurant that rivals the deliciousness of China Town's selections. The restaurant is mammoth with a designated bar (aquarium?) area and plenty of seating. It doesn't feel fancy, almost antiquated in a traditional/comforting way. The "bar" area is sort of a problem, though. It's nestled in between all the seafood tanks so if you want to wait and have a drink before being seated, you're standing in an awkward beer garden that stinks like fish. This makes the area completely unalluring. Major design flaw. Anyways, on to the food...and service. The service was bad, to put it bluntly. They got our order wrong, our soup came out way after our entrees and waitstaff was visibly frantic. As for the food - it was solid. The chicken corn soup was just okay, but the shrimp in black bean sauce was yummy. No where near as good as some places in China Town, but solid. I'll return, but for Dim Sum. read more

The line out the door when we arrived--and the equally long wait when we left--makes it clear how much the community already supports Wu's Dynasty. Weekend yum cha was such a cherished family ritual growing up that my grandpa actually built me my very own dim sum cart to push around our living room. (If you are new to this culinary tradition and want a quick primer before you visit, check out my read-aloud of the book Yum Yum Dim Sum here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnLTxr61yVU). Sitting at our table today, watching the traditional steam carts weave through the bustling dining room, that childhood magic came rushing back. The food here is fiercely authentic and absolutely excellent. We feasted on perfectly delicate har gow (crystal shrimp dumplings), savory siu mai, and silky shrimp cheung fun. Both the steamed and fried chive dumplings took me back to my childhood, and the adorable "piggy baos" filled with custard were an absolute hit. It isn't absolutely perfect just yet--they are still working out a few kinks, like needing more food carts actively circulating the floor but we left completely satisfied with very full bellies. Walking out past the beautiful wooden abacus displays, I felt deeply grateful. Having a local restaurant of this caliber means the tradition my grandparents nurtured in me gets to live on with my daughters without needing to leave the neighborhood. It is worth every minute of the wait, and as an added bonus at the time of writing, they are offering a discount if you pay in cash! read more

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Service good. Food is good but the prices are crazy. $24 for wonton soup??? When i asked if I could get soup for one. They told me size only. Yes they have dim sum carts which is nice but everything is priced very high. Also a tea fee!! read more

Lovely space. The food was fresh enough and tasty but nothing excited me to eat here again. The food was not that hot temperature wise. I was hoping but not quite enough for me. read more

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Beautiful place, huge, and nothing like it in the neighborhood. Big dim sum menu with the carts coming around. Everything looks tempting, especially the dessert cart. And I highly recommend the Sesame balls with purple potato and custard filling. So good! We had a big selection of Dim Sum: rice rolls, fried spring rolls, pork soup dumplings, chive and shrimp dumplings, rice in lotus leaf. The sesame balls were my favorite. My companion enjoyed the soup dumplings. I liked the surprises in the lotus leaf package. They just opened TODAY. So they're understandably getting their footing. The service will need a lot of refining. Everyone was very nice. But since I don't speak Chinese, communication was very challenging. Everything I asked about, they assumed I wanted, but I just wanted to know what something was that I was looking at (on the cart, or on the menu), or what was IN something, considering I have food restrictions. But I didn't try to talk to them about that. Even though it does say to tell your server if you have food allergies. I honestly don't know what they'd do if I said I couldn't eat gluten. Nothing on the menu is marked at all. But it's not my first dim sum rodeo, so I probably did OK with educated guesses. But if you're gluten free, I'd be careful. When you enter, and at the bar, there are HUGE water tanks with some MASSIVE King crabs, some Dungeness crabs, some small lobsters, and some of the biggest lobsters I've ever seen, and a few other fish. None seem to be offered on the dim sum menu. They have a lunch special, but your dish just comes with white rice. Nothing extra. Even a glass of tea (which they poured us without asking) is $1.5. This is NOT an inexpensive place. This is a $20 soup place, and lunch dishes range from $25 to $35 mostly. I look forward to seeing if Wu's can overcome the bad luck of this location and stick around for a while. Cheers! read more

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The food is excellent and the space is really nice, Chinatown quality dim sum outside of Chinatown.

Overall solid Chinese food & great location! I went for dinner, portions on the smaller side and of course pricey. My complaints are that the soup Dumplings didn't come with the soy sauce & ginger like DTF and seeing the gross dirty plates in the corner felt odd (see photo). This place will do well, clean bathrooms are a huge plus! read more

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OK--- so the food is OK, but double the price of what they should be. The place feels like a large cafeteria with bright corporate lighting and feels extremely inhospitable. its pretty outrageous that they charge an average $25-100 for a dish and then want to charge you for bowl of plain rice. We had the Chinese broccoli and the seafood birds nest. It tasted fine but it's hard to look past the prices and atmosphere. There are a lot of items like fresh crab or any fresh seafood where there are no prices on the menu and they charge by the pound, so a plate of fried crabs might cost you $100. Chinese food is never really fine dining but this place aspires to be with none of the expectations that would normally come with one. read more

Old school Chinatown Cantonese on the upper side westside!?! Sign me up. Not greasy, not heavy, just good old Cantonese fare. Awesome for big parties and families. Have been 5x since opening. Amazing crab 3 ways ($$$), including steamed crab over wide rice noodles, soup dumplings, Peking duck. Dim sum is delicious and better than some Chinatown restaurants. Go all out and don't order the usual chicken and broccoli or kung pao chicken. Get a steamed fish, sautéed peashoots, razor clams! Go for it and be pleasantly surprised. read more

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We had a very excellent dinner last night at Wu's Dynasty. We were greeted by a very friendly front desk staff and led through a large, festive but bright dining room to our table. All the food was excellent, quality ingredients cooked with care. The Peking Duck was better than any I've eaten recently - flavorful, moist with a crisp skin and plenty of delicate thin pancakes. The pea shoots were bright green and not oily with small chunks of sweet, soft garlic. The meat in the Beef with Scallions was cooked medium rare, just a little pink in the middle and so flavorful. On the downside the overhead lighting is harsh, the service was lax (hard to get their attention they forgot a dish) and the presentation sloppy. The serving spoon for the hoisin sauce was a disposable plastic spoon, not what you'd want from what seems to be an almost elegant restaurant. read more

Wu's Dynasty has the worst service I have ever experienced. We arrive at 6:30pm asking for table, and the hostess says it will take 10-15 minutes and that we can wait by the bar. 30 minutes later, we are still waiting and ask the hostess again. She says we are next but then the owner says there is another party that will be seated before us, but all the while, they are seating other parties that arrived after us. Almost an hour later, we ask her again. She says we are next, but then the owner interrupts our conversation telling her to seat another party. As we see a party leaving, we ask the hostess if we are next. Then the owner tells us to shut up. As we leave, he calls us stupid. I can't see how this business will survive when this is how it's run. I understand that restaurants may have to work out the kinks after opening, but this was more than that. They just kept lying and allowing certain guests to cut. The most egregious was the owner being an asshole. read more

The food was delicious, the space is beautiful and while I would have preferred softer lighting, the attentive staff made up for it. It's a must try if you enjoy Cantonese cuisine! read more

I live around the corner from the new UWS Wu's and went for dinner the other night. I made a reservation, which I think is strongly advisable, since it was crowded on a weekday night. I was pleased to see that, because that exact spot on West 70th Street has not been a successful one for previous restaurants. I enjoyed the meal very much. The waiters were very nice, and the food was delicious. My one criticism is that the young women at the entrance desk were not that organized or welcoming. But it's early days, and I think Wu's will get even better. read more

Large, very pretty place with an attentive staff. Unfortunately, the most important thing, the food was awful! There were two of us at lunch. So excited about the idea of a new place for dumplings. So disappointed! We ordered vegetable spring rolls from the dim sum cart. They were ice cold ! We asked them to take them back and they did and they nuked them. Just. as cold, when returned to us and excessively greasy. We asked why they would be so cold and were told it was because they're on a cart and there's air-conditioning that blows on them. That's a story of course no one that eats egg rolls or dumplings or any kind of Asian food would believe. We did not eat them! We ordered vegetable fried rice. Very dry and tasteless. We did not eat them! We ordered the Kung pow chicken. It was, though somebody dropped an entire salt shaker on them! We did not eat them! We ordered the beef rice noodle roll. It was awful. We did not eat it. We also ordered a dumpling it was very gummy and sticky it didn't seem to be cooked enough. We did not eat it Twice they tried to give us tea, for which they charge three dollars, twice we told them we don't drink tea! They gave us the bill in full for all of the food. We did not eat. I told them I would only pay for the Diet Coke, which was the only thing we had. My best suggestion would be go somewhere else!! read more

Tied to get in since it opened - live nearby so not the worst thing. Two of us got seated right away and were served tea. Friend ordered wonton soup and shrimp with scallions. I had 1/2 Peking duck. Duck came first. After at least five minutes sponsored up. And maybe ten minutes later shrimp/ scallion. My friend had to ask for it. Took a while to get plain water as well though refill did come without asking As for the food. Mediocre to good on all 3 Nothing that compels me to hurry back. read more

Super, super bad service and incredibly disorganized. They kept us waiting while seating parties who came after us first. We waited for an hour after being told it would only be 10-15 minutes. When the boss tried to cut the line AGAIN and we questioned him, he told us to SHUT UP. Come here if you want to wait an hour just to be insulted for asking a question. Absolutely unacceptable. The owner has started deleting negative reviews on platforms such as Google and asking people to leave positive reviews, so be cautious when reading the positive reviews you come across about this place. read more

Food was spot on. Everything we ordered was delicious, including Sesame Chicken, Tso Chicken, chicken and corn soup, dumplings, and spring rolls. Entre portions were huge; the appetizers, not so much. The noise level was not insignificant, but we were able to have normal conversations at normal volumes. The service was spotty, but having several managers walk the floor to deal with any delays in service definitely helped. Prices are high, but the entrees are large enough that three adults can easily get away with ordering two entrees. The soup cost twenty bucks, but it easily was enough for three people. Overall, my wife and I enjoyed the experience, and we will definitely go back. read more

A bit more expensive for the quantity of food. For example, whole Peking duck typically has 20 crepes. The one here has only 6 crepes, so we had to order 2 whole ducks at $88 each for 12 people as the ducks were very small. The typhoon crab was delicious at $40/per pound, and they only had 3 pounds. The King crabs were $85/per pound and a typical crab is 7-8 pounds. The rest was enjoyable, bird's nest, veges very fresh. In the future, would order calculated amount of seafood. Service is average as they are very busy. Best to order everything at once! read more

I got take out yesterday, and the food quality was okay--nothing to recommend or extoll. The shrimp in my noodle dish were excellent, though, cooked just right and flavorful, but overall I wouldn't say that the meal was memorable (in a good way!). Prices are way too high and I spent more than I should have for what I got. I'm not rushing back. read more

Yummy, spacious, kid-friendly. We've been twice already in the 2 weeks since they've opened.

Noisy zoo. Food not worth the premium. Management couldn't care less about noise levels. We won't be back.

Asian customers were left waiting for an hour while the store owner repeatedly allowed non-Asian customers to come in and take seats. Watching this happen again and again was upsetting and raised serious concerns about racial discrimination. Whatever the seating policy was, it should have been explained clearly and applied fairly to everyone. read more

poor service and very high prices. food is ok. bright lights and odd tablecloths/chairs feels like a church cafeteria