House of Gourmet

We always come here when we are looking for food in Chinatown. I think the food is very slightly better at King’s Noodle, but you get much better value at this place.
I don’t think anything in particular stands out (for good or bad reasons). Our favorite order is the roast duck, which I often just pick up to take home. It comes to around $ 24 after tax.
Portions are pretty huge. Takes credit.

HK style diner in Chinatown with cheap food and one of the few places open late. They have $ 4 breakfast combos, lunch combos and certain items on the menu are only $ 4 (like the congees or the BBQ pork on rice). I usually get the beef tendon in rice noodle soup which is a pretty generous portion that comes out to about $ 5.

I’ve been to HoG thrice now, and i rate it a solid 3.5*
It’s excellent for a more authentic ‘value’ Chinese experience in a group setting (4 or more).
A friend introduced me to it, and pretty much explained how i should and shouldn’t be ordering. This is what i learnt:
— The value of this place lies in the special combination dinners, at the back of the purple menu
— Do not bother with the green menu unless you looking for greasy and cheap
— The combination menu’s come with two x 1lb lobsters or with Duck. Your choice. The combo menu’s are laid out as either being 3 — 8 dishes in with soup. For example, a 4 dish combo with lobster costs $ 63
The lobster is done really well, lightly deep-​fried to absorb a green onion and ginger sauce. The fresh fish of the day (typically tilapia) is done the traditional steam way and it’s perhaps the best thing on the menu along with their specialty in cantonese noodles. Other dishes are decent (not exceptional) and include things like sizzling filet, duck, and so on.
I see some pretty bad reviews here — but i’m honestly quite impressed with the ability to eat decent food for $ 20 (in a group of 4) which includes filet, lobster and steamed fish and all at decent taste.

Classic Hong Kong style eatery. No frills dining with a bunch of crazy animal parts on the menu. Still interested?
If so, this place has basically everything you’d want at all hours of the day. Place has two menus. One is the standard, and other is for their special items.
I tend to stick to their BBQ items, and wash it down with some cheap Heineken. Baby sucking pig, and BBQ are common, and their shrimp wontons give most places a run for their money.
You could spend days eating without trying everything, but stick to what the locals order.
As with most places in Chinatown, it’s not the prettiest. I’d hold it in too if you need to use the washroom — it’s pretty nasty.

a little bit salty. You must drink lots of tea! food supplied in big size! lots of people there. waiter and waitress are very friendly. we three people cost 40 bucks to get a good dinner!

I got the roast duck won ton noodles. The noodles were good and firm and the wontons were 100% shrimp which was very good. The roast duck and roast suckling pig was bland. But not bad for the prices.

I really like this place and I think a lot of others do as well since it’s often busy. This is my go to place in Chinatown for fast, tasty, well priced Chinese.
I’ve always had fast but friendly service and food always comes out as expected, not overly greasy, and hits the spot. What more does a guy need? Recommended!

Recommend by a friend That lives in the area. This establishment was recommended by the son of a friend in Peterhead Scotland. A distance of 5008 miles as the crow flies. Situated on the fringe of Chinatown. The meal we ordered was delicious, a tower of Noodles with Pork, and Sesame Chicken and rice. All the food was prepared as we enjoyed a Tsingtao beer the old standby of China.
The meal arrived in a short time and was enjoyed by myself and my friend.
The décor is simple and friendly none of the tackiness of some Chinese restaurants in Chinatown. The staff were friendly and smiling.
An inexpensive meal for 2 with 2 beers each cost less than 40 dollars a great price for a superior meal. Thank you Gary for this recommendation. I add a photo of Bob locating this interesting restaurant and YES I would return again.

Cheap, fast, good.
You can have duck for a very reasonable price here. Sometimes it feels too greasy so once in a while is better. I would visit them again.

This used to be my favourite restaurant in Chinatown but I have found other places I like more (Ajisen Ramen, Red Room, King Noodle Restaurant, Celebrity Hot Pot, etc). The food is extremely inconsistent and the service is worse than the average standards in Chinatown. The servers constantly speak Chinese to me even after I tell them I don’t speak Chinese (ok cool) and I find I usually have to tell two separate servers for water /​the bill as the first usually forgets. I guess that’s what you get for the low prices here.
The food is inconsistent here — I’ve gotten the shrimp wonton soup and sometimes the shrimp tastes grainy, sometimes they barely put any soup in, sometimes it’s lukewarm, etc. The Chinese BBQ dishes (ie roast pork, bbq pork, etc) are sometimes too fatty /​not fresh tasting. I do love the plain congee and fried donuts here though. It’s always very good. And the drinks are quite cheap here.

Strange place. Good food, brought to you quickly, but the quality of service and seating arrangements and the guy who patrols the front of the restaurant make this go from a 3 star to a 2.
First time I went, there was a employee who I’m not sure if they were a dishwasher or cook, but that’s not what’s mattered. What caught my attention was the fact that this employee would not stop picking their nose. For a good 10 – 15 minutes. In plain view. After I coughed enough times while staring at them, they stopped. Since I was beyond hungry, I let it go hoping that they actually washed their hands upon returning to the kitchen or they were not the one making or handling my food (here’s hoping!).
Another time I visited while volunteering for TIFF and was on my own. I totally get not wanting to waste an entire table on one person, but they placed me at a huge round table with 3 groups of complete strangers. They were nice enough, but c’mon, that’s just being cheap/​stubborn in saving space in a restaurant that’s fairly spacious to begin with.
Yet another time I went, and the manager/​guy at the front got so impatient with my question of if they serve pork or shrimp won tons that he was visibly agitated and yelling at me. Again, so hungry I just let it go and ate, passing it off as a typical Chinese food experience where you order, eat, pay and leave, and to be fair, the guy sounds like he’s yelling at everyone, but let’s get real here! I’m a paying customer asking a reasonable question, there’s no need to get all in a twist over something you could have answered in two seconds. Not necessary.
Hmmmm…why the hell have I gone back here so many times??! STOP PICKING YOUR NOSE, DUDE!!!
NOT worth the trip!

Located at 484 Dundas the House of Gourmet is in the very heart of Toronto’s China Town. The place has seemingly been here forever and I’ve dined here many times and have always found it to be one of the better the many Chinese restaurants of the area. It’s nothing fancy and the Chinese food it serves isn’t really the tops of what China ever produce, Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution pretty much wiped that out, but for what it is it’s pretty darn good. And one thing for sure is that you can generally tell you’re in the right place as most everyone in the place is speaking in Chinese.
When I lived in Toronto I usually got the BBQ Duck, a hanging display of which they always have in their window, but now that I live in Florida where Chinese restaurants only served warm water spiny backs, I went for the lobster knowing I’d get the more tasty cold water lobster, which in fact I did. The lobster I order came chopped mixed in with varying noodles and vegetables done over with an oriental garlic like sauce. Whoever chopped the lobster did it perfectly. Every chop was clean and precise leaving no little flakes of shell or shrapnel, allowing one to easily pick the meat from the shell, all of which I found to be flavorful and good.
The service here is extremely fast, almost to the point that you might believe they had to have your order prepared before you ordered though it is only prepared upon order.
There isn’t anything classy or upscale about the place, it’s just a good Chinese restaurant serving good though not exemplary or unique Chinese food.

Cheap price for not bad food. Worth visiting when u felt so hungry around Chinatown.
We four people came there for lunch, ordered three noodles, two rice roll and one liver congee. All dishes were delicious although noodle soups tasted all the same because of added oyster-​sauce. Won ton was delicious with lots of shrimps inside.
The portion of food were really large, we cannot eat them all. It also provides classic hk breakfast for morning. The restaurant was always crowded with people and open from early morning to late night. It maybe not that clean because all the staff were too busy.

We started with the shrimp wonton with egg noodle soup: The broth was delightful and the shrimp dumplings were big, juicy, and perfect. The noodles were a little thinner than I’d like, but overall, this $ 4.75 bowl of deliciousness was great!
Next we had the Cantonese Fried Noodle ($ 11.00) that was equally delicious. The «gravy» was more flavorful than usual and it was full of a variety of vegetables and seafood.
We also had the shrimp stuffed crab claw ($ 3.50 each) that was pretty good. It was a snow crab claw that had a big shrimp puff fried on top of it. This was just OK — I think my husband and I could have split one since it was pretty big. It also came at the end of our meal so we weren’t very hungry when it arrived.
This place makes me excited about Chinese food again and I would love to come back again and again to try stuff off of their incredibly large menu. It was a toss up between four and five stars and I went with four because although it is really good Chinese food, it’s not the absolute best I’ve ever had in my life. House of Gourmet is definitely worth trying. And, they are open early so you can get an early breakfast when a lot of other shops are still closed!

Discovered this restaurant after the awesome boat cruise event this week because my friends and I were so hungry! It was a surprise in every aspect. I’m usually skeptical about eating in Chinatown because most of the Chinese restaurants are hit or miss like Rol Saan which I will now replace with House of Gourmet. Unlike Rol Saan, this place is not overpriced and offers a wide variety of dishes and was pretty delicious! Definitely coming back here, I also liked the fact that the service was pretty friendly (which you dont usually expect at an Asian restaurant) and the restaurant itself was super clean being the fact that it’s in Chinatown.
Go here if you want delicious gourmet Chinese food downtown.

Always thought this place was the best and cheapest for Cantonese style Chinese food til a really bad late night experience in which beef and tofu on rice came out completely inedible. The overcooked beef and tofu both came out doused in Americanized-​takeout cornstarchy gravy. Both had little or not flavor and very strange textures – the beef was barely edible as it had a kind of old freezer burn taste and crumbled In your mouth as if there were too much tenderizer used on it, but frankly it was just overcooked and tasteless. Couldn’t finish it.
My own beef brisket noodles had strangely cut noodles that were either too long or too short, and the beef cuts were particularly gelatinous and lacking in actual meat. They also forgot the iced milk tea. Only get the stir fried noodles here guys don’t get anything else!

One of the few tolerable restaurants in Chinatown. It’s fine when you’re in a pinch for food at the oddest hours. Decent portion sizes; especially, the noodles in soup. You’re also guaranteed to leave with a full belly with your wallet decently intact.

This place is a piece of sh*t! We ordered a whole Peking duck and lobster and pieces was missing, suspect the back of the kitchen ate them before it got to our table! The boss told us to wrap up and pay our bill and leave when we still had food on the table! They still think they’re entitle to a tip?!
We already paid to much for their mediocre food and salty seafood dishes. Never will go back here again!

My regular go to place for a meal whether it be late night or normal meal times. Tasty, decently priced food with efficient service.
I regularly order noodle soups, entrees on rice, set course meals with lobster, seafood and fried noodles. Always made quickly with fresh ingredients. You can also request items be made with no salt, less salt and no MSG.
My favourites are ma po tofu on rice, pan fried rice noodle with beef and bean sprouts, grouper with celery, snow pea leaf with garlic, chicken fried noodle, Chinese broccoli with beef, lobster with ginger and green onion, steamed tilapia, soy chicken and roast pork on rice, shrimp dumpling noodle soup, chicken with black bean sauce on rice and preserved egg and pork congee.

This is overall a consistent Chinese restaurant Chinatown. The food is always tasty and delicious yet the price has remained competitive for years. I believe their specialities are wonton/​shrimp dumpling noodles as well as porridge. Another recommendation is beef noodle soup, the broth is flavourful and the meat is well seasoned. The portion will get you full but not over filling. They also open very late and early in the morning to satisfy patrons with different schedule. It’s definitely a good place to go after late night clubbing and you want something different from Phở. They are also in contrary to Kitchen Nightmare formula (serve small and light menu) by serving large menu, for sure you will find something you like to order here.
However, came here recently to order food to go but sad to see it tends to slip. Ordered half BBQ goose which costs $ 15.99 plus tax, but it was quite disappointing because not only the colour seemed a bit dark, the meat itself tastes a little bit spoiled. It was definitely a sign that the meat wasn’t fresh and it was about to get rotten. I didn’t pay attention to its colour upon order as I thought it’s due to spice and cooking technics, but its taste confirmed my suspicions. It was so gross I actually throw away the whole box. I used to frequent this place a lot so I guess maybe they had one bad day, and I surely hope this was a one time slip. After this experience I’d go order BBQ item from Hong Fatt instead.

Ah le House of Gourmet ! C’est un restaurant où ceux qui mangent seuls sont assis à une table commune. Vous êtes deux? Vous partagerez aussi votre table circulaire avec d’autre convives. Le menu? Rien que 400 choix, enfin un nombre multiple d’au moins trois nombres premiers. Et c’est pas mal ! Pas mal du tout, les portions généreuses, les saveurs pleines. N’y venez pas pour un repas romantique ou la tranquillité, c’est pas l’objectif du lieu !

Premier VRAI chinois de ma vie, car les resto chinois en France il y a prendre et a laisser!
Le service le plus rapide que je n’ai jamais vu, et très organisé! Bön je n’ai pas apprécier la nourriture mais après c’est une affaire de gout.
Bien sur le service est très bien, bon né pas s’attendre à un sourire ou un mot gentil mais il parait que ce n’est pas dans la culture.

Haha le Chinatown dans toute son authenticité! Ca crie dans tous les sens, le service est ultra rapide et on peut même partager sa table avec d’autres personnes.
Perso j’adore la gastronomie chinoise qui est tellement riche en saveurs.
La soupe de nouilles au canard laqué est un délice et leurs smoothies sont très bons !
Les tarifs sont très avantageux: profitez en si vous y allez en groupe ça peut être très sympa.