Kitchen M

Oh Kitchen M… Food wise this place is mediocre and there is Phoenix just up a bit farther on McCowan.
I’ve been here twice now and both times, the service we received is pretty bad. It seems almost all the staff are grumpy or have some sort of attitude. I will say though, that there is one server who is sassy but entertaining because of how blunt she is.
The restaurant itself is decently furnished. As a fan of Hot Toys, the owner here has a decent display of various Iron Man figures.
Go at your own risk!

Came here for lunch. Cozy kind of place. Its a nice HK café kind of place. Serves you tea. Free WiFi. Food is pretty good and portions are decent. Lots of room for large groups or just a couple of people. Perfect for a quick bite. Would definitely come back for food!

Okay, I take back everything I said in my last review.
I came here last week for a quick lunch during my break at work (1 hour) and I wanted to get in and out.
The place was probably ¼ filled on a Saturday afternoon and my boyfriend and I were seated quickly.
I ordered a baked cream ham and chicken rice and a ham & egg sandwich (toasted).
The one thing was absolute negative service. I’m okay with the «Asian» service i.e. efficient, quick, no effort at communication besides taking your order — that I have 0 problem with. But if I’m getting attitude while ordering for no reason then I am 100% unhappy to be there.
While ordering the lady had 0 idea of what I wanted from the menu while I even pointed at the menu and I do speak fluent Cantonese. When I told her I wanted my bread toasted for the sandwich she literally looked at me like I was insulting her and told me it would cost extra.
WHY DOES IT COST EXTRA TO TOAST BREAD???
I said it was fine and I’d pay.
The sandwich came with the bread untoasted & this waitress literally dropped it off and cross-​countried to the other side of the resto. She avoided my table for the rest of my meal.
The baked rice was 100% tasteless. They deprived the entire dish of salt.
They took half an hour to bring everything out.
I am so completely unhappy with their service, the time it took to cook, and their food.

Been here a few times. It started off being okay but they seem to be going down. Terrible staff service. Very unacceptable

Me and my wife went there around sunday 1pm after shopping at markville mall across the street. The thing i like most is they have large parking lot, easy to find spot.
We were seated quite fast even they are packed as turnover and service are quick.
We ordered a ramen and all day special with sandwich & noodle soup, both come with drink, both taste good for hungry eater.
We just took 30mins finished our lunch then we can go for part two shopping.
We will definitely come back.

Typical HK style café right across Markville.
This place has a huuuge menu. Food is ok la in my opinion. Ordered the curry with pancake which needs more pancake lol and the black pepper beef noodles which had a huge portion!
The short haired lady with the bob is pretty rude. When she took back our menus she just threw them onto the table beside us loooool. But the other one is pretty nice so she makes up for it.
They didnt have wifi when I came in even though they advertised free wifi outside their door… Boo!

This location has probably been the most unsuccessful locations for any restaurants. It has change so many times I probably haven’t been to half of what it were. But now that it’s a HK style café, and seems to have quite the business, I thought I would give it a try.
To be honest it is pretty average for a HK style café. Very typical food offered but they do have things that are really random. They offer the typical HK style breakfasts like macaroni, toast, instant noodles, etc. They also have congee and rice dishes, even poutine! (Some of the cheese curds were kinda rubbery but it’s not bad)
Price-​wise it was decent, nothing out of the ordinary pricing for these kinds of food. They have a lot of space and a lot of staff so there always a seat and quick service. There is also free newspaper for customers to take home!

Went in on a weeknight as I was craving for some hk style food and was in the neighbourhood. The menu had a huge selection on items which was good but it was very hard for me to choose since I wanted to try everything. Tried the chef recommendation which was the shrimp fried rice for $ 13 and it was good. The portion was ginormous which i had to take home as the waitress told me this can feed for 3 people. Also ordered the chicken skewers and they were alright. I really enjoyed everything about it except that it closes early. Will be back for round 2!

This is the ever-​changing restaurant as I would call it. It seems as though every single restaurant that takes up this space fails to last. This space once was some sort of western style restaurant, then it turned into a AYCE sushi place, eventually into an a la cart sushi restaurant and now finally a HK Style Café. It’s almost like this space is cursed.
Anyhow with the history lesson aside let’s begin! My disclaimer is that I never had great expectations prior to going in and you shouldn’t either. The very idea of HK Syle Café equates to affordable and decent tasting food that is served fast. And with that I believe this place delivers. I won’t say the food is mind blowing in any way but it does the job. Some dishes are strong (like stir fried noodles and rice) while others are a bit weak (baked rice, soup noodles. etc) but what this place does have is variety. The menu is vast and very creative with enough variety to satisfy anyone. Another plus is the affordability; you get enormous portions for Scarborough prices. As if that’s not enough of an incentive, they offer all guests a free dessert at the end of your meal. The desserts they serve are not the rejects either (unlike most places where they serve those red bean/​green bean porridge crap that noone touches).
The service is attentive and pleasant the last few times I have been there. No complaints. I just hope this one is here to stay and break the string of bad luck this space has endured.
If you’re hungry and need your HK Café fix, stop by.

The food is always spectacular, don’t get me wrong. I love the flavour of all their foods. The best ones is their make your own noodle bowl, and their steamed rice. Their breakfast options are okay — wish the toast would be crispier. The service is better this time, at least our waitress did not get our drinks or our food orders wrong. Gneerally some of their staff needs to improve on their attitudes towards their customers. I get that it’s a SUnday afternoon and you are busy, but there is no need to roll your eyes at your customers, especially when we as a large group already agreed to splitting up in order for her to seat us easier (yes i’m talking about the hostess). Anyway love the food, but they really need to work on their service… one of the rare occasions where i had to consider cutting my tip or no tip.

First time here for dinner with family of ten, it is a big place that i can bring my baby stroller in.
There have 36 dishes to choose from for $ 8.25+.
The portion of the dish surprisingly large that still can pack up.

After all the food I ate at the CNE I still had room for more. I guess all that walking made me hungry. I had the beef tenderloin with white rice. The beef was slightly tough only and tasted great with the sweet sauce.
Service was fast, food was pretty good and price is very affordable. I hope this place is here to stay as its really convenient being so close to my parents home.

Had brunch with a friend here. I ordered the baked beef brisket and spaghetti in Portuguese sauce.
This is more or less my go to dish at these hk diner type places. I can’t say it was the best one I’ve had but I can’t say it was the worst.
The meal comes with soup and a drink. I got the veggie soup and cold hk milk tea.
The portions were pretty big. i forced myself to finish my meal and was absolutely stuffed. the pieces of beef brisket were huge, definitely not bite sized chunks. the Portuguese sauce also had potatoes and corn in it too. The spaghetti was cooked well.
Because it is close by, and the options for hk diners within the 10 or so minute radius from where i live are so limited, I’d come back.

A traditional HK café-​style restaurant. The atmosphere of the restaurant itself is quite relaxing. Lots of open space and comfortable seating. My family and I went at around 7 PM and there were plenty of tables open, so we were seated fairly quickly. The menu offers a variety of choices, from individual items to set meals for larger groups. They also have lunch and dinner specials for a good price. I was excited to see an all-​day breakfast section (because come on, it’s never the wrong time for sausage and eggs), but that quickly changed when I realized that there were only two items in that section. What a tease.
We opted to order a bunch of dishes to share, so we got a beef curry with spaghetti (that interestingly came with a side of croutons, cheese, raisins and sunflower seeds), soft-​shell crab fried rice and two noodle dishes. I was most excited for the fried rice, but it ended up being pretty bland and overall disappointing. The curry was tasty, but I didn’t have too much as my spice tolerance is basically non-​existent. The other noodle dishes were good, but nothing amazing. We ended off the meal with a dessert of green bean soup, which was quite tasty.
The service itself wasn’t the greatest. The restaurant wasn’t packed by any means, but the waitresses didn’t seem very attentive to our needs. We had to wait a while for anyone to come and clear some of the finished plates off our of table. Same goes for refilling our tea.
Overall, nothing too special.

Food is okay, but really not special or made specially well. Ive had breakfast, lunch and dinner here before and it’s like they don’t put much care into the way dishes.
And to add basic things is always some ridiculous extra charge. Hot chocolate, coffee, etc is regular but Ovaltine which is the same is 1.00 more. You get a french toast with peanut butter and condensed milk and they just drizzle enough for two bites. Honestly, what are you trying to save on?
Wouldn’t recommend this place and wouldn’t really want to return.

Located in an old plaza across from Markville Mall, Kitchen M takes this notoriously oft-​changing restaurant spot. I don’t know whether it’s the fact that this location doesn’t get a lot of traffic because it’s rather disconnected from anything else you might want to drop by for (the only other storefronts in this plaza are basically a Baskin Robbins & a private driving school) or because this place is somehow just cursed, but restaurants don’t seem to stay in this spot for any longer than a year or two.
Kitchen M serves a mishmash of dim sum, Cantonese a la carte dishes, and some HK-​style café items. The food’s OK. Some of the dim sum dishes are quite large, so you get some bang for your buck. The one standout item for me would be the deep fried milk egg custard buns. Otherwise, in perfect honesty I feel that everything else is take it or leave it. Will Kitchen M succumb to the 1 – 2 year curse?

Only been here once for breakfast. The place had 4 customers besides me and my hubby. I ordered a chinese breakfast, consisting of daily congee and a choice of dim sum. I got the pan fried turnip cake. The congee was peas and sliced fish. It was ok, bit bland and watery. My husband got a bowl of soup rice vermicelli and an egg sandwich. He said his food was ok. The prices are cheap here and food is ok, not great, but you really can’t expect much for the price you pay. They offer lots of dim sum choices too but why get frozen dim sum from here, when you can buy some from T & T and steam it yourself.
Ok for a quick bite to eat, if you can read chinese, you can get a free newspaper too.
Er, no I haven’t been back since.

I don’t really have high expectation for Hong Kong Style Café as I just want something fast, affordable and a menu with varieties.
Kitchen M is definitely a good addition to the neighbourhood. I was a little overwhelmed by the menu and all the all day set options. What to eat? What should I order? What is good?
The food here is not amazing but will do the job if you are in the area. Service is fast and friendly.
陳皮鴨腿湯麵+油菜 ($ 9.95) Duck Leg Noodle with Side Veggie comes with a choice of drink was quite decent. The duck was tender and soft. Their milk tea was also quite good.
I will be back to try out other items.

New place. Sister of Ming Kee in Scarborough but Methinks not… Tried this place yesterday with famiy and I was extremely disappointed… in service, price, quality and everything else…
I mean how can one screw up on a chinese restaurant aka «cha chaan tang» its like quick eats… people come in, they order, eat and leave… simple as 1−2−3−4…
Ming Kee use to be a favourite but I think one of the owners left and the quality started going down the slope… so we just stopped going to that location once and for all…
Now this one opened, like the usual, people like to go and try new stuff and if it disappoints… it’s time to let everyone know…
So, I ordered the Porkchop rice with Tomato sauce and cheese, which is something safe and slightly easier to do. it clearly said cheese with tomato sauce and porkchop on it… when it arrived… there was no cheese. whatsoever…so I asked and they said…“Oh, if you order the tomato sauce there is no cheese because we feel cheese does not go right with our tomato sauce” so why did you put cheese in the menu… thats called deceiving customers!!!
So I insisted on getting cheese, the plate comes back… and it had «burnt» marks over the tomato sauce… thats what they call adding cheese to it? OMG seriously??? Are you joking me??? Boy; was I upset or what… anyways…the plate and portions are bigger than normal but it taste HORRIBLE…
family member ordered steak with spaghetti, it was tasteless… and black pepper sauce only had the colour… no black pepper sauce taste in it whatsoever…
The pricing is more expensive than some of the popular places in the area like Phoenix and Congee Queen… I AM 100% SURE YOU WILL GET BETTER FOOD there…
After going home, I felt sick and the food felt like it wasn’t digesting. even until the next morning… I have no idea what they put in the food but I AM NEVER GOING BACK…
I would be surprised if this business will last over 1 yr… if they keep what they are doing now…

2.5÷5, +.5 for service
The long anticipated stall that used to be Toro Sushi has finally opened. After passing by this place at least 10 times a week, I finally saw the open sign lit on Tuesday. Since I was busy yesterday, I decided to wait until tonight to eat here. For 9pm, this place was ridiculously busy. However I assume it was full of people who wanted to try this place for the first time, so I’m not expecting the full seated load to last.
The menu here is very extensive. There was your typical HK style café options, as well as dim sum. There are two featured items on the menu which are also advertised outside the restaurant along the wall facing Highway 7. I decided to try one of them, which was the Shanghai style beef noodle soup (forgot the exact term).
As we were waiting for our food, one of the employees gave us two 10% off cards, which are valid until January 31, 2015. The meal itself was also 10% off for their grand opening special.
The food took a good 15 – 20 minutes to come, however the iced lemon and iced milk teas both came rather quick. The milk tea here seems to be better than the lemon tea, as my dad found the milk tea to be good and I found the lemon tea to be mediocre. As for the noodle soup… it was also mediocre. Edible at least, but definitely not what I would say memorable.
There are a lot of other items in the menu that could be worth trying, but I’m gonna wait for other Unilocalers to review this restaurant before considering coming back.