Beijing Legend Restaurant

This write up is based on Feb 7^th experience. I booked a table for 6 at Chinese New Year eve dinner on Feb 7^th with some friends. I have been here for dim sum and it is not bad. Since I couldn’t get home to Vancouver, I thought a nice dinner would be appropriate. They sat us at a table where 2 of our chairs had sticky food stuck on them and then food that had spilled all over the floor beside one of the chairs. Needless to say, my friends were not impressed as their first venture into this resto.
I ordered 8 dishes for our group. We waited 1 hour and 15 minutes and we had not yet received our first course. It was busy but wasn’t packed since we arrived at 5:30. I had asked about our first course 45 minutes in because we saw other tables getting course after course and all she said was that they were very busy. With my friends being very hungry, we just left and explained to wait staff why we were leaving. We ended up going for sushi, but this experience embarrassed me because I had invited guest for New Years eve and I had told them how impressive the meals were and this turned out to be anti-​climactic. New Years Eve dinner ruined but salvaged as we ended up at 10 Sushi for all you can eat!

One of the worst dining experiences of my life. I went out last night with a group of six and couldn’t believe the service. It took an hour and fifteen minutes for any dish to arrive and we ordered appetizers and mains. The appetizers showed up one by one and the soup was really strange. Very gelatinous. I ordered a hot and sour seafood soup. The hot and sour was delicious but it was obvious the «seafood» was added at the last second. It was very pungeant seafood and just tiny hunks of mystery meat. It was also stone cold. So I hailed a waiter (they run around everywhere and never stop to ask you anything) and asked him to change it to a regular hot and sour soup. Twenty minutes later a waitress came back with the same soup! And then she said I wasn’t allowed to change my order. I was extremely angry by that. Our dishes were all gelatinous with corn starch and not very tasty. We ordered rounds of drinks that never showed up. The staff was rude and inconsiderate of their customers.

2.5 stars. The food was a bit on the salty side. It was also my first time seeing a headless and tailless fish. Interesting. Service was good.

The Legend was a myth.
When this establishment first opened it served fine food at great prices. The spring rolls that came with the 7.99 lunch special were incredible. The quality of the lunch special remains, but at 9.99 it’s no longer such a great deal.
I opted for dim sum and enjoyed great sticky rice and so/​so coriander shrimp dumplings. So/​so because the dumpling wrapper was as tough as leather. The total for these two baskets came to a hefty 12.00!
So the spirit of this restaurant has been consumed by greed. To bad … I had hoped for a happier ending.

I went there with my parents for a celebration. We had authentic Chinese food and its one of the best in the City for overall Chinese food (if you want seafood then the place to go is Sea King Shark Fin Restaurant).

I just serviced myself… I no one answer my package require. I don’t konw why, since there’re only two customers in this restaurant. I guess they just don’t care after you paid.

What a disappointment. I was so excited when I saw this place. Lovely décor and space however the buck stops there. The absolute worst excuse of a Chinese restaurant I have ever eaten at. No service at all… none. It’s like you have to beg to get what you need while you are there. You end up feeling like you are an inconvenience for the staff. Even the guy at the table behind us had to get up from his table and walk over to ask someone for a drink because he couldn’t get service. The egg drop soup was deplorable and nothing more than a watered down broth with vegetables thrown in. I get better Chinese food at a take out place near me. Never again.

Came here for dim sum lunch on a recent weekday; it got about half full while we were there. They do have a lady with a cart but there is also the option of ordering off an English photo menu. They don’t always have everything available though. Lots of standard items like turnip radish cake, egg tarts, little pork ribs (salty and somewhat fatty… right up my alley), tripe (really good here), «phoenix claws» (chicken feet — not bad), har gow (wrappers too thick), and chicken in sticky rice (a little dry and under seasoned). They also had something I’ve never seen before — white siu mai, which is basically made with shrimp instead of pork, so it’s very similar to the har gow — it was quite good as it was made with large chunks of shrimp. We also ordered the stir fried beef with flat noodles — that was ok, not enough wok hei for me haha. Overall, a decent authentic Chinese restaurant, though from reading other people’s reviews, it seems like it probably has separate menus for Asians vs non-​Asians, which is too bad.

Very good chinese food. Overall very authentic. Nice decore. Best Chinese restaurant in town

First time here. Dim Sum in Ottawa is a SAD situation, but surprisingly as another Unilocaler said, i didn’t hate it. It actually is decent here. Seems like they are willing to put in quality ingredients. Comfortable setting too. Next time i’m in town i would chose here for dim sum.

Great food! Great service!
I almost allowed the kryptonite of some of the bad reviews of this place keep me away but I had been there once before and my memory was foggy but was positive, so I needed to try it again my self.
G13 — «Super Spicy Chicken in a Hot Pot». This was a fantastic dish! It took me back to Beijing for sure. It is 1″ pieces of Bone-​In Chicken in a Sichuan flavored broth served in a pot over a small flame. Although the name says Super Spicy, if you are a fan of spicy food you would describe the heat level as Medium. As long as you are OK with working around the fact that there’s bones in each piece then this is a very tasty authentic Sichuan dish.
I also had the Hot & Sour soup and a vegetable dish that were both good.
The service was very attentive and they clearly wanted to and did give excellent service.
If you’re looking for some new flavors then give Beijing Legend a try.
P. S. I think I had the M9-​Spicy Beef Slice Pot — on a previous visit and I think it was also fantastic … that was a few beers ago so I’ll have to go back and refresh my memory.

Avoid. Too expensive, too greedy, and tasted bad! I, a 100% Chinese reviewer, is writing this review to tell you that, avoid this restaurant!

Came here for dim sum on Chinese New Year with a group of friends. The place is pretty easy to find and we were seated almost immediately. Thankfully we got in just before the rush!
I really dislike dim sum in Ottawa so my mind wasn’t going to be changed… but funny enough as we ordered plate after plate I noticed something. I didn’t hate it. Why? The wraps weren’t overly sticky or dry. The food not overly oily and the hot sauce pretty delicious! Though the food was decent the dim menu is limited compared to the 2 big Chinese restaurants in Chinatown and Mandarin Olgilvie.
This place is now officially my go to stop if I ever want dim sum, I enjoyed it that much compared to all the other places in Ottawa. It’s comparable to some of the places in Toronto we go to when we want to avoid the lineups of some of the better dim sum restaurants.
As for what I’d recommend? I’d say ask the servers what they have and if it sounds like something you might like you should definitely give it a shot. There were 9 of us and our bill came to $ 88!
I can’t speak for the Canadian Chinese food offered here but the dim sum… not bad at all. If you order the Canadian Chinese food… you might as well just order the burger on the menu. It’s probably going to suck: P

The good:
The setting is pretty and comfortable. The staff was helpful and nice. The garlic vegetables that came with the lunch special were fantastic. Very tasty.
The bad:
Pretty much the rest of the food. The General Tso’s chicken was hard and chewy, even though the flavour was decent (I could not get myself to finish it). The Szechuan shrimp was bland and tasteless (we did not finish it). The wonton soup was the worst I have had in Ottawa. I adore wonton soup, but this was so bland I didn’t even finish it. We both added salt to try to salvage it.
I complained to the server, who apologized for my not liking the meal but seemed a bit flustered and didn’t seem to know how to properly deal with an unhappy customer. I will not be back.