Cafe Hollywood

This place has been around for a long time, and moved to this new location a few years ago. I remember trying to many years ago and it was very unremarkable. Unfortunately not much has changed in terms of food. The interior design is a lot nicer, and the environment is well designed. However i have to say that the food is just as unremarkable as before. The cream soup that came with the meal, had no real taste, it was simply water down cream soup. and the Fish with cream corn sauce, is well just the soup with more corn starch. Overall There isn’t much for me to say in regards to the taste of the food. since it is below average at best. The price is not bad at this place, however i am disappointed considering all the hype people have placed on it, and on top of it, the fact that it is actually quite a busy restaurant.
i would say people around the area, could try it, but dont’ expect the moon. it is definitely not great for food. But interior decoration wise is okay.

Happy hour deal gives 1 star. Service is the worse I’ve ever had maybe lol. What service? I have to be a flag in a tornado to get any attention if I’m lucky. The waitresses slam food and drinks onto the table. The noodles my friend got he said tasted like they were overnight frozen or just highly under cooked. My wings were very good with the jug deal but the service is a killer… only will be back if close by and want beer with wings. Probably won’t be back for a long time till the staff changes though. The 1 star goes to the chef for the excellent wings. Then again, its the recipe of the batter that gets the credit. No hard feelings hollywood, you used to be good.

This place is pretty good for the wings and beer deal: 20 wings on a bed of fries with gravy on the side and a pitcher of beer (pabst) for about 30 bucks after tax. If you’re craving the HK style food it isn’t bad, the selection is small and the service is ok (when they can see you). Looks nicer in terms of décor for this type of place but in the area there are tastier options. I have never had to wait for a seat though which I can’t say for some of the other restaurants that are similar.

I heard this use to be place located in Mississauga but they moved to Markham. Came here late at night for a snack and wow it was crowded for 10pm! Seating took longer than usual since we came in a big group and had to be separated. Coincidentally they have a menu for people that come after 10pm and I got my filling.
I ordered a Japanese Chicken Noodle in Soup and it came with HK style milk tea. If you want quick, cheap, delicious food, I’d recommend coming here.

Café Hollywood offers Hong Kong Style Café food at reasonable prices in a cozy place but its’ food fails to deliver. First off I’d like to say I’m not the biggest fan of this kind of food. It’s not the most enticing of options but I came here with a friend that frequents this place for late breakfast on the weekend.
First thing off the bat, this place looks super nice, it’s warm, inviting and it’s cozy. Awesome! Now if you come here for lunch, automatically nearly half the menu is inaccessible right off the bat. Well, that’s unfortunate. Some pages offered items only in the afternoon, to dinner, then from 10pm onwards. So I just ended up getting the popular $ 6.99 breakfast special — beef satay with vermicelli option. I mean you can’t go wrong with a bowl of noodles, eggs, and bread for $ 6.99 right? The noodles were average but I’m pretty sure it was doused with MSG. I couldn’t finish it, the more I ate, the more it tasted like instant noodle soup base :(On the bright side, the the beef was really good and there was a good amount of it. For the eggs, I asked for them sunny side up, they were anything but. As for the buns, they were great! I totally expected toast so these were a pleasant surprise. They were warm, soft, and sweet. I probably could have ate a dozen.
Service was good and attentive and we had no issues whatsoever. Overall, café Hollywood isn’t terrible but its’ weird menu lack cohesiveness and the food lacks execution. Given the option, I probably wouldn’t come back which is a shame because I really liked the ambience here.

Piss poor service. Front of house was non existent. No one to greet and seat you. People just come in and walk by to grab servers attention. Once seated. The serve staff are too busy chatting and ignoring you. Why does it take 15 minutes to place an order? Servers place items at wrong table then 5 min later will bring to you. Excuse me but I expected my order to be fresh, no fresh off someone else’s table. Management and wait staff are incompetent. Don’t waste your time here and move onto other cafes further north or just south of Steeles.

The food is decent for a café. When the bill came I put my credit card out and was informed the entire system was down and they could not accept any cards (ie it became cash only). As I did not have enough cash, I had to go across the street where I got hit with the banks service charge and my own banks service charge. ($ 4.50 to get $ 20). That was certainly not pleasant. A warning would have been nice (I was informed it was down for 2 hours yet I saw them just put up some sign at the door a few minutes prior…). The waiter was apologetic about it though…
Also extra charge for takeout which I agree that it’s fair.

I’d say 3.5 stars after having been here several times.
The food portion, like a lot of other people have said, is pretty big and you can definitely have leftovers. I think it can be a hit or miss depending on what you order. The minced beef dishes (like the baked spaghetti and the minced beef with egg) are better I think. They also use thick toast for their french toast, which I love, but the egginess is mostly on the inside (the batter doesn’t seep through the whole slice of bread).
The service can be spotty. When you go in, no on greets you — it’s only when someone notices you that you get taken to a table or told which order you are in line (so can get chaotic during busy times). Some servers are really nice, and some are your typical mean Hong Kong servers who yell at you. The first time I ordered the Portuguese chicken with rice, there was hardly anything on top. Someone else ordered the same thing with a much better presentation and more chicken/​sauce, so I asked an older lady if she give me more sauce, especially when I could compare it with someone else’s. She yelled at me and said it’s all the same — it was so obviously not. So then I asked someone younger and she was much nicer. She gave me a new plate of my order that was much better, with more sauce and chicken and better presentation.
Also, like others have mentioned, if you want to change anything on their existing menu, prepare to be disappointed — they make a lot of things in advance, so they will either say no, charge you extra, or take away something (e.g. drink).

Eh.
Came here on a Sunday around 9PM for dinner, and the place wasn’t so packed. I believe they get busier after 10PM.
No one was there to greet us, though there were many tables empty, I only saw one server on site.
It took us a few minutes until someone finally came and seated us.
I asked if I could order one of the items in their Midnight menu that starts at 10PM, though it was only a bit after 9PM, and the server said ‘Yes’ I can order them, but I won’t get the free coffee /​tea with the combo of $ 4.99, and that was fine by me.
I got the $ 4.99 French toast with Ice cream, and my BF got the garlic porkchop with rice and gravy. That combo cost $ 12+ and it comes with soup and a drink. $ 1 extra for cold drink.
So when the food came, they gave me a French toast with no ice cream, so I had to get a server to get the correct order and the food came back with the ice cream on top that I ordered in 1 minute. That was good, very tasty.
Porkchop with rice and gravy was also very good, and the price is pretty good for what you get.
This will most likely be the last time I go here, as there are wayy to many better options in the area, especially if I am craving Chinese /​Hongkong Style food.
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As far as cheap eats go, this is pretty awesome. I got their club sandwich (slice of white bread, BLT, slice of white bread, egg and ham, slice of white bread = a two layer sandwich) for $ 4.95 and it came with fries. The sandwich was pretty good. There was a decent amount of bacon in it. The fries were really crispy. Tea got refilled quite often. Good stuff. I’ll probably be back in the near future.

I didn’t even know this place existed, yet I must have drove by it a million times! Like your other HK style cafes, this one had about the same vibe, but maybe not as good as the ones I typically go to.
Décor was quite nice, with very modern decorations, and interesting lighting throughout different areas of the space. A bit funny in terms of the general area, as it used to be a Burger King, so the drive through is no longer in use.
The menu was a little limited in my opinion, with not a large variety to choose from. I ended up settling on something rather than really wanting something.
I ended up getting the Malaysian Beef Curry, and my friend got the Twins meal with Pork Cutlet and BBQ Pork.
The curry was a nice consistency, but not the best curry I’ve had. The beef in it was just regular slices of beef, which was a little disappointing.
The Pork Twin meal was a little better, as the cutlet was quite good, but the bbq pork was way too skinny, to the point where it was chewy and tough to get through.
Prices were reasonable, and the service was quite quick and friendly, but the food was their downfall. Probably won’t come back as there are definitely better places down the road.

Came here to catch one of the Blue Jays game a while ago. Their Tv cut out on one of the most pivotal innings. Although their milk tea and value food items are good, it will never compensate me for missing the last part of the game.
Also, they don’t have their liquor licence, so no beers here (despite their menu saying otherwise)!

About 3.5 start from me.
This is a nicely decorated version of the old City Hollywood that I used to frequent back in my high school days (the owner made a cute comment to me about how he sees many people bring their girlfriends, then their NEW girlfriends, then their NEXT girlfriends, and finally their wives — love it!). This location is a bit swanky, spacious, without any of that crazy chaos you normally find in many cha chaan tengs. And that, for me, is a plus. The most impressive thing is that it’s not as if this location used to be a fancy restaurant and just got bought by the Café Hollywood people, it used to be a Burger King for God’s sakes. Looking at it now, you’d never think this was a space where Whoppers and ketchup packets were flying off the shelves.
Anyway, the food selection was interesting. It wasn’t diverse and was mostly simple. Basically you had a main menu, with many portions of the menu were only available during certain times. If you’re cool with this timeshare style of edible options, you’ll be OK here. But the quality you get for your price was pretty damn good. My wife had a Cantonese fried noodle, which wasn’t excellent but very decent, while I had a chicken steak in black pepper sauce, which was bang on par with my somewhat lofty expectations (which is: tender chicken, decent sauce, and excellent fries). This was very good overall, and we had a lovely time here.
Service was a bit hit or miss, some servers were friendly, some looked like they were a little bit grumpy. But overall I’d come back. Maybe to try some of their wings!
Also, does anyone know if those lovely buns they serve at the start of each meal are unlimited, or do you only get one? Those things are WONDERFUL and I need MOAR.

There’s a new location for this restaurant where the old burger King was on Kennedy.
I usually come here for the happy hour which ends at 7pm, where you can pick 2 protein (chicken, steak, beef ribs) with rice or spaghetti, and includes soup, bread and a drink for 8.99.
Today I came a little later at 7:15 and couldn’t order it so I had to order off the menu. The new menu is so limited. They have a few pages. Lunch special. Dinner special (with 7 choices), afternoon tea special, midnight special, kids menu, all day breakfast and chef special. So if you come at dinner. You only have the dinner specials or chef specials. If I wanted to get an egg sandwich I wouldn’t be able to. If I wanted a bowl of noodles with pork chop I wouldn’t be able to.
I got the all day breakfast special with 2 sausages, 2 eggs, ham and toast. But instead of serving me toast for the breakfast, they serve a dinner roll. Can’t complain about the price at 5.99.
My boyfriend got the Portuguese chicken rice, it didn’t have any vegetables, just rice, sauce and some pieces of chicken (some which had some soft bone).
That was for 7.95 on its own.
I will only come back for the happy hour special, otherwise this menu is so limited and all the pages practically have a time restraint. Bring back the old menu from the old Hollywood place!
On the positive side, they paired up with presotea so you could pay a surcharge to have a bubble Tea with your meal (provided it comes with a drink. Lol)

Two golden Oscar trophies greet you at the door. Red carpet experience in Scarborough! I am so full. The portions here are huge! I ordered their basket of wings and tomato sauce pork chop on rice. The wings are a pretty good deal — $ 16.99 for 20 wings with fries. The food was pretty good. It’s a comfy dining area for a Chinese restaurant — it’s modern and western. Specious booths for family and friends.

Came here Sunday afternoon, quite busy, 20 min wait.
Food (noodles, rice, spaghetti) is mediocre, but heard that wings are good.
I ordered the spaghetti with shredded chicken and ham on tomato sauce. It came with a dinner roll and a soup and a drink.
The vegetables in all our dishes were a bit hard.
Friends ordered curry beef rice with egg and barbecue port, huge portion!

Hollywood Café replaced the Burger King that’s been there for quite awhile. They’ve renovated to have a modern-​esque theme with grammy statues at the front of the restaurant, as well as tiny ones aligned ion the middle of the restaurant. As a regular customer of the City Hollywood Café at Steeles (in Market Village), I was quite excited to come here. I immediately noticed that the place was well kept and that they had Preso Tea (a brand of bubble tea best known to Yogen Fruz) inside the restaurant as well.
Once I opened the menu, I noticed that certain food items were only served at certain times which really limited the options I had, which was one downside.
However I ordered a spaghetti bolognese which came with soup, bread, and drink for ~$ 6.50. It came with a Russian Borsche soup which was lacking in richness, and filled with hot sauce, so that was disappointing. The spaghetti bolognese was legit though; the sauce was meaty, flavourful, and cheesy. I was curious to try a panda milk preso tea which ended up being an extra $ 3.25 with the combo (original $ 4.99), and it had a lot of aromatic tea flavours too, and the tapioca was made right.
The service was fast overall and the meal was memorable; but I wish they’d have more options available instead of sectioning them off to different times, because honestly there’s nothing else that interests me on the menu if I were to come back around the same time next time around. Keep in mind that they charge 25c for take-​out boxes. You also get 10% off on your birthday for the whole party.

My husband recommended this place since I wanted to try something new. The décor is really neat. I quite enjoy the look of this place. They have a fanatic sign that reads. A meal without wine is called breakfast something that I truly believe in… well except when in europe. Then it’s beer all day eryday.
Anyway on to the place. The food is good I got the all day breakfast and it came fast. The place wasn’t too busy so the food came quick. My husband had the pork chop rice. Not bad!
Think they really try to cater the younger kids in this atmosphere. They have a 9.99 combo that’s 20 wings and a jug of beer. That is a hell of a good combo!
I’m going to to come back and try that.
They also serve bbt here which is great. I loveeee my bbt.
Must come here!

Hmm, not very impressed tonight. It was super busy and the place was packed, so I didn’t get much attention from the servers. That’s understandable because the place was full, but that shouldn’t affect the quality and freshness of the food. Took a look at my fiancé’s salad that came with her meal and I was completely put off. She made it sound nicer by saying the salad looked «sad». But to me, it looked like it was dehydrated/​hungover and ready to vomit. The soup was also a problem tonight, which was unfortunate (for us –_​-​). All the veggies looked «dehydrated» too, even in the darn soup. That’s just sad. to another level.
Saving grace? Her steak. It was the only thing done right, and my pasta. Not impressed.

Ah hollywood! This place is a somewhat new, more of the second restaurant to the first one by pacific mall. The décor is quite nice. It’s filled with lots of movie pictures framed up, has lots of Tvs to watch games or news, and the lighting is quite nice.
The food is exactly the same as the first restaurant by pmall. It’s still just as good and oh man definitely filling. I love ordering the all day breakfast because it comes with 2 eggs and ham and hot or cold hk tea! I also love ordering the wings because they are nice and piping hot! Watch out for them wings cause they be dripppin dat oil! Serious though careful when you first get them.
the place can be quite packed sometimes… During lunch due to a lunch special and at night around dinner time because this place is cheap and large portions! Also taste very very very good! Definitely a good place to try out!