Bayview Garden Chinese Cuisine

Food taste good, but only small portion per order.

As Christmas was around the corner, most restaurants were closed. Friends and I went here for dinner. The place is not as crowded as before.
As they claim it is holiday season, they do not offer group meal. We ordered four dishes. Food came really fast. The food portion is really small. One of the dishes is beef with black pepper sauce. There is only 4 piece.
The most disappointing part is the dessert. They normally give tofu pudding. It is my first time seeing this dessert without water in it.
If I have an option, I won’t come anymore.

The service has changed and the price on the menu has been accurate. The lunch special are the best value. I would recommend it.

Very poor customer service at this restaurant. We reserved a table for 6 pm but we didn’t get our table until 30 mins later. When we finally got seated, they did not give us any chopsticks, napkins and tea until our food came which is another 20 – 30 mins later. We even have to go up to the cashier to remind them we’re missing a dish almost at the end of the meal. Well at least the food was good. Their lobster and beef were very tasty.

This place is pretty decent for set menus/​a proper Canto-​sitdown meal. It was approx. $ 40/​3ppl with leftovers.
We arrived around 5pm, so the restaurant was completely empty. Server was kind and patient, unlike a lot of the Chinese servers that I’ve encountered lately.
They have a special on fresh tilapia on M-​Thurs, $ 9.99 steamed. It was pretty tasty.
Set meals come with soup and red bean soup for dessert.

It was 6 o’clock by the time we decided to go out and eat last Friday night. I was craving Chiu Chow oyster congee, so we went to Chiu Chow Man. We expected it to be busy, but it was REALLY busy. Same with Chi’s Congee.
So we stumbled upon Bayview Garden.
My family and I dined at Bayview Garden when it first opened. (Looking at the dates of the older reviews, it was probably way back in 2011.) We did not enjoy it at all… the food, nor the service. We also never heard good things about it after that. So… we never returned.
But last Friday, we figured we’ll try it again. We were starving…
The restaurant is a lot bigger than Chiu Chow Man and Chi’s Congee, so we didn’t have to wait long for a table. It was busy, but the servers were friendly and quite attentive throughout the night.
There is a ‘combinations menu’ in which you can choose up to 6 dishes from a list of meat, seafood, and vegetarian dishes. It comes with soup and dessert (or fruits) as well. We chose 4 dishes (half a steamed chicken with ginger and green onion sauce, thousand island pork chops, string beans with pork jowl, and spicy eggplant with minced pork in a clay pot), and we added an order of deep-​fried squab.
The soup was decent. The portions of all the dishes were smaller than expected, but we were pleasantly surprised with the taste and quality of the food. Not salty and not oily. Besides the squab being a bit overcooked, everything was great. As for dessert, I was expecting the usual red bean soup, but we got tofu pudding and it was pretty decent! (It’s one of my faves.)
All things considered… we will definitely be back! There aren’t many good options for Chinese food in Mississauga… so I’m glad we decided to give Bayview Garden another try.
By the way, there’s even a separate party room by the front of the restaurant (with a couch!) for a big group for anyone interested.

Very authentic and the food is delicious. Love their daily soup of the day!

This place is okaaaay, it’s very typical of a small Chinese restaurant. The food is fairly tasty but I have to agree with other Unilocalers that the portions are on the small side… for a Chinese restaurant.
Where this place loses points is customer service. While we were ordering we inquired about a certain dish and instead of helping answer our question the server barked the price at us, snatched up the menus and told told us to «think about» whether or not we wanted the dish as she briskly walked away. I found this to be a common occurrence here, the servers would walk away mid-​sentence or not even bother to wait for an answer.
BTW, she also gave us the wrong price for said dish. It was more expensive than what she said.
UPDATE: I came for dinner and ordered Shanghai noodles. The noodles they used were more like spaghetti and not Shanghai noodles at all.

used to be good…
ordered take out (5 dishes) for 6 ppl (made rice at home) for $ 48.
when we got home to eat we realized the portions were so small we would be lucky to feed 3 ppl
Safe to say we will not return

I ordered take out and enjoyed the satay beef. They also make great hong kong style milk tea, but added too much sugar. I will ask to add the sugar myself next time, or specify how much I take. This is a pretty good place for takeout! They packed the noodles and beef separately so that it didn’t get soggy.

The review is written on the Android phone. Each new paragraph represents a new update during my experience at the restaurant.
Arrived at the restaurant and was greeted by a server. Waiting for our table to be ready.
After a couple a minutes, we were seated. Our server set up our plates, chop sticks etc. very quickly. We ordered our food and the server was attentive. The house daily soup came quickly. The soup was bland and was not seasoned.
The steamed chicken came minutes after that. The chicken and the ginger and onion sauce were average. Ordered two bowls of rice and came quickly. The rice is mushy and did not taste fresh. The bolay tea tasted okay.
The sweet and sour pork tasted crispy and fresh. The xo chives were spicy and was full of flavor. The beer tasted even better with a refreshing taste.
The spicy beef and broccoli tasted good and had a good ‘wok hei’. The dish goes well with rice.
The décor is average but is welcoming and matches the cuisine of the restaurant. The service is average and is sometimes attentive.
Bayview Garden is a restaurant that had high expectations before my visit. Unfortunately, it did not impress me but has the potential to become an excellent restaurant. I would recommend this restaurant to everyone who is looking for dinner to eat.

Place is bigger than I expected based on exterior. Came for lunch on a Sat and were seated in the ratty side room that felt like the backroom with a sofa, fridge, and cases of pop. wtf?
Ordered seafood congee, eggplant and tofu in hot pot, Cantonese fried noodles, and chicken and veg stir fry.
Congee was good but not much variety in seafood. Chi’s next door has better congee. Rest of food not memorable. One dish came out much later than rest of them. Service not great. Maybe regulars get better treatment. Won’t be back I don’t think.

Some of their prices have increased, which was kinda annoying because those changes had not been reflected in their menu. The food is still good and solid for a Chinese restaurant in Mississauga.
In the past I tried their lobster set menu for dinner, which my family liked, however I see that the price has been upped a little ($ 40.99 for 4 dishes which is still not too bad).
The steamed free-​range chicken is a MUST order for lunch or dinner, it is so tender, succulent, and has a nice «chicken-​y» taste to it that is sometimes lost. Their hot-​pot rice (takes 20 minutes to make) is also a nice option, mmm very fragrant, nice crunch but not totally burnt rice. Another dinner item is the fried egg tofu with meat sauce — it is simply delicious.
For lunch I usually go with something simpler like squid ball noodle in fish soup, which doesn’t have as much squid balls/​topping as I’d like, but something I can’t complain for like $ 7.99 and a drink on their lunch menu.

I want to give this place higher and may in a later review, but a few things don’t appeal to me.
Décor: ³⁄₅ — okay for a Chinese restaurant
Ambiance: ¹⁄₅ — how is it you say that décor is ³⁄₅ and ambiance is ¹⁄₅? The music and what the waiters were wearing (ugly pink aprons). The music was depressing and it was very dark outside. When I left the restaurant, I was like «wow, it’s nice to be outside».
Food: ³⁄₅ — tried the eel fried rice and not much eel. Maybe I’m spoiled but any Congee Queen or Congee Dynasty is better.
Service: ³⁄₅ — they were informative, but what I didn’t like was that they posted lunch specials and I had to pay an extra $ 1 and the reason was «eel has gone up in price». They should at least update their menu. n
Price: ⁴⁄₅ for their specials.
Not bad and might visit again, but the ambiance was such a mood killer.

The best part about this place are the prices. The food is good too. Get the cashew with shrimp and veggies dish. The streamed fish dish is also nice.

The Steam Free-​Range Chicken is a must-​try. The combo dishes is what you need to go for, because they are the best values. Also, they uses MINIMAL MSG in their food, if any. So, all their food are authentically taste, not artificial like many of the Chinese Restaurants in the area.
There are people who complain about their service being bad, it must mean they haven’t been to enough Chinese Restaurants, because their service is above average.
As for parking, people need to know, it is much easier to find parking in the rear as there are always plenty without having to wait or fight over spaces. Unless you’ve called ahead to reserve table, after coming in from the rear entrance, go by the country to make your presence known and let them know how many in your party, then wait by the front entrance. There are more space there and that waiting area is not as cold in the winter.

The combo dishes are well worth it-​I mean you get a peking duck dinner set for $ 50.00 that will easily feed a family of 4. Although the size of the dishes are small-​ish, it’s still good value. It’s not Michelin star food, but it’s decent family style Chinese food.

Went back for a second try — not by my choice, mind you…
… and my rating’s still the same: 1 star.
Again, food was okay. But service was just as brutal as the first time ’round — if not WORSE because this time, we sat in a smaller dining room. So I guess if they can’t see you… you ain’t getting served.
Oh, and this time? No mustard at all. Not even Frenchies…
If this place ever deserved an award it would be for: Consistency in Poor Service!

Amazing! Amazing amazing priced and delicious meals for groups!
My mom kept saying get C get C, something must be good about it… something about Peking. I will report back once I figure it out.

I met up with some friends here tonight, and since I haven’t been in Mississauga very often, the place is new to me. But the restaurant is nice, it’s very clean and well decorated, and the food is good. It’s a mish-​mash of a restaurant serving foods from different regions of China, but the prices are very reasonable. The four of us ate a 3 plate meal + a giant steamed scallop rice dish for $ 50, including starter and dessert soup.
The dessert soup was extremely thick and had a slight jello-​y consistency. But it was black sesame, which is already a bonus for not being red bean. The food isn’t very greasy, and well sauced. I wouldn’t mind going back here again while we’re still in town. :)