Peak Top

10 Reviews on “Peak Top”

• Michelle

  came for the morning, not the best dim sum but the restaurant was very clean and the staff were friendlyfor the stir fried noodles, some of the veggies were still raw however the steamed dumplings were good

  June 27, 2016, 3:01 am

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• Sisyphus

  Well, This Restaurant Is As Much On Top Of A Peak As The Mall Has A Mill. E: This Chinese restaurant is typical in that it offers noodle dishes, rice plates, a variety of meat and various dim sum. The menu items are typically numerous. Quantity: check. What about the quality? First, however, there is a point of valid controversy. The restaurant advertises and sells shark fin. This barbaric practice has been flagged and should have been banned were it not for wimpy governments succumbing to arrogant businesses. The Shark Fin Soup is prominently advertised at Peak via tabletop holders.It was dim sum lunch day and most of it was a success; however, here one has to know what to order and what not to. Being in the minority let us get it out of the way. Do not order the Siu Mai. It was not the best and tasted… actually did not taste like much. The menu stated that it is topped with Tobikko, which is the way it should be, which surprised me as I did not know Chinese use Japanese loaner words to describe salmon/fish roe.Everything else was good. The Baby Pok Choy With Conpoy Dumplings was tasty, packed and like the other dumplings benefitted from its thin skin. The Shrimp Rolls arrived with hot and sweet sauce and were so good. The Shrimp Har Gow was a little sticky, but the skin was thin, the shrimp very well done and the temperature right. The Rice Noodle Rolls With Beef were plain, but the sauce it was served with made it good. Finally, the Pan Fried Turnip Cakes were again perfect. The dim sum is (mostly) delicious, the temperature is right, feel fresh and all are large. Fresh everything and thin skin are my hot-buttons and Peak Top Cuisine mostly hit them. The prices are higher than those in Markham or Chinatown, but not by much. It would be believable if the owner wants to claim his rent is higher than elsewhere because he is on the premises of a mall. Still, they charge $1 for tea and dim sum prices add up.-A: Nowadays most Chinese restaurants follow a modern dcor template with brown and black wooden panels. One can see this scheme at many restaurants (think Asian Legend). While the style is attractive it is nice to go somewhere that follows the traditional lucky and prosperous red and golden colours that one associates with China. Peak Top adheres to the olden scheme.Unfortunately, once the Chinese CD (?) ended the speakers started blurting out Sarah McLachlan and Celine Dion. While the former is tolerable due to her support of animal charities, the latter is as desirable as horse manure on the driveway. The older waiters don traditional uniforms. The restaurant is clean. The carpet is clean as well and seems new. It is a larger restaurant and so half of it was empty. There is as semi-private area, which was closed. Upon entrance one sees a tank of water, several fowls and four-legged creatures hanging from hooks and an overhead menu board. It seems out of place, but it is there because they apparently operate a take-out business as well.Every single customer was Chinese. I ran into the washroom and took a hard look into the mirror. Nope. Not every single customer. Speaking of which, the washroom is clean and likely newer. Unfortunately, the soap and paper towel dispensers were grimy and needed a good wash themselves. They seemed like they came from 1999 and predated the restaurant, which could not have been here that long.-T: The restaurant was not busy and the service was prompt. Water and tea arrived right away. Everything else showed the waitstaff are on the ball.A problem here, however, is getting to the restaurant. It is off the main building of Vaughan Mills, but being on the grounds means traffic, cars, turns, traffic, a thousand vehicles, stop signs, traffic, aggressive drivers and fat moms in SUVs that need to be traversed.-S: The service was fine. Refills were happening, plates were arriving on time and dishes were being collected and taken away on time. Again, they were not busy, but so far so good.Most East Asian restaurants either use disposable chopsticks or use generic ones. Peak Top Cuisine offers customized chopsticks with its own name on them. That is a nice touch.This location is the sister restaurant to First Markham Places Peak Top Restaurant. The cashier denied any sister restaurant existing, but she was either defending her turf or was ignorant. As good as the service and the dim sum were this is probably not a restaurant I would visit again. The combination of cruelty inflicted on sharks and the headache of fighting a malls traffic would keep me away. Seems this restaurants owner loves locating where traffic is even worse than average. There is also the problem of Celine Dion potentially coming out of the speakers….

  November 2, 2014, 4:25 am

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• Adam.weisberg

  Alway good – drive from Toronto regularly. Food is excellent. Dim Sum is great. BBQ is good. If you disagree then you don’t know what you are talking about in my respectful opinion.

  April 2, 2014, 11:13 pm

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