Oriental Gourmet - Vintage Garden Dinning Room — Restaurant in Toronto

It's a small restaurant at the bottom of the senior residence building. There are at least 2 signs pointing out where the door/entrance to the restaurant is.

It is recommended that you reserve a table. For dinner reservations, there are two times: 5:30 pm and 7:30 pm. There's a 2 hour limit. They only accept cash, so remember to bring cash. We went on a Saturday evening for 5:30. There was a line up by the time that we left at the end of our 2 hours.

We ordered 8 dishes and an extra not on the menu dish number 9. 2 noodle dishes (egg noodle and brown flat noodle), 2 vegetable dishes (mushroom bok choy and chinese broccoli with extremely salty small bits of fish), 2 sweet and sour pork dishes, and 1 fish and tofu dish. We also got the red bean, taro(?), small clear tapioca pearls sweet soup dessert. The extra dish that we ordered was a chow mein.

All the food was enough quantity. The quality was pretty good. The prices were cheaper than expected. The chow mein was $15 for all that food. The flavors were light, not too salty, not too oily. I assume the food is cooked like this because the seniors from the floors above would come down and eat there and with their families.

Would come back here again. Everything was pretty good. We came here as a big family. Felt like this restaurant was like a hidden gem. There really is a Chinese restaurant here, it just hard to see where the entrance is- you can miss the entrance, it's just one small door on the outside of the building.

We spent about $100...

This used to be one of my favourite place to eat. However, we had bad experience with serving attitude at this restaurant when we visited last Thursday at lunch time. The restaurant has three tables (one for four, one tiny one for two and a large table) available but still asked us to wait. We didn't see any reservation signs on any table. Only when we decided to leave then they asked us to sit at the tiny table for two. At the same time, there was another table available (a total of four available tables). We asked for a table (can sit four) by the wall to maintain social distancing and the waiter told us that only we ordered their set menu then we can have the table by the wall. We didn't want to order the set menu which was meant for four people and we ended up sitting on the tiny table in between the two empty tables. The waiter immediately put two "reserved" signs on the other two tables. We found out later that none of the customers sitting on the other two tables had made reservations and they were also two people, ordering the same dishes and same number of dishes as us. This dinning experience was very unpleasant and we felt the pressure to order more food than we can consume. We have no trouble squeezing in crowded restaurants to eat before the pandemic, they should honour our request as we arrived before the...

CHESTNUTS in a “NUT-FREE” dish and bad attitude from server!

With much regret, I will no longer be eating at this restaurant. I’ve been a regular for more than a year but after tonight’s special family dinner, I will not be going here and I will warn friends who have food allergies. We visited a few days ago in person to order a special dinner for a family reunion. I specified that it should be NUT FREE as my son is very allergic to all nuts. I even asked the head waitress if the glutinous stuffed chicken had nuts. She said no nuts. She was wrong. The dish contained chopped chestnuts. When I bit down on the chestnut and realized what it was, I called a server over to ask. She INSISTED that the item was mushroom. I dug out bits of chestnut from the rice stuffing. The server just said “Oh” and walked away. She avoided our table after that. I called the head waitress over and complained. She gave us a weak apology, as if I was just being picky about my food.

Hey, Oriental Gourmet: NUT ALLERGIES CAN KILL. Take...