A LA Kitchen - Markham, ON

CLOSED June 30, 2025

11 Fairburn Dr, Unit 11

Established 1997 

Visited December 31, 2010

At lunch time, customers packed the place with a queue extending out the door. With so many restaurants in the area to choose from, I saw the queue as sign of good food. The inside is small holding maybe about 50 people.

GuangZhou Tai Ping Sha Chinese Restaurant - Markham, ON

 CLOSED mid(?) 2019

The GTA Chinese populated areas continues to morph from Hong Kong to China. I can't say if this evolution is good or bad but only that it is. Time will tell. No. I retract my statement. It's bad because it's driving real estate to outrageous and egregious levels. How do Torontonians making typical wage survive? BMWs and Mercedes hog the parking landscape. How did so many Mainland Chinese acquire so much wealth?

New Garden Kitchen - Markham, ON

 CLOSED

8360 Kennedy Rd Unit F07

富景濠宴 Glorious Chinese Cuisine - Markham, ON

CLOSED late 2019

1661 Denison St Unit T1

Good, cheap, and a lot of value. That't the magic combination we're always looking for when we go out and it's especially applicable with the Chinese tapas aka dim sum.  How does Glorious hold against this standard?

Lo's Wok - Markham, ON

CLOSED 2018(?)

First Markham Place, 3255 Highway 7 East

Mong Kok Chinese Restaurant - Markham, ON (CLOSED)

CLOSED 2016(?)

The banquet hall is huge and without ostentatious decor, filled with people present for dim sum.

Peaktop Restaurant – Markham, ON (CLOSED)

CLOSED early 2017(?)

First Markham Place C-Unit 17, 3235 Highway 7 East

Sushi on 7 – Markham, ON

CLOSED March (?) 2016 and renamed Sushi 8

4568 York Regional Rd 7

Visited March 30, 2013

雲吞生麵食 Wonton Time – Markham, ON (CLOSED)

CLOSED 2018

4392 Steeles Ave E

Wonton Time has made a name for itself and gained the reputation of offering good wontons. How good we would determine.

神燈 Magic Wok Restaurant – Markham, ON

CLOSED Dec(?) 2017

4331 14th Ave, Markham, ON

Magic Wok was packed to the rafters and there were no parking spots. It was packed but it turned out the two way jam was caused by one lone car parked 5 minutes too long in the driveway for passenger pickup of elderly. I get working with elderly. I get that the parking lot is dangerously icy. But have some consideration for others because the world isn't just about you.

八太郎 Hachitarou Japanese Cuisine – Markham, ON (CLOSED)

CLOSED late(?) 2016 

8515 McCowan Road #9

Hachitarou is another in the line of all you can eat sushi restaurants that dot the GTA landscape. It feels like we've started our quest to eat at all of them.

Miu Garden – Markham, ON

CLOSED

4390 Steeles Ave Market Village

Miu Garden continues to survive and thrive in an changing and evolving restaurant landscape of Village Market.  It must be doing something right.

Best Cook Restaurant - Markham, ON (CLOSED)

CLOSED 2011(?)

8380 Kennedy Rd, Unit C7-13

Maison du Japon – Markham, ON (CLOSED)

CLOSED  late(?) 2018

7500 Woodbine Ave

It’s not a self serve buffet but it is all you can eat.  Check off on the paper menu all you want to eat. Then they bring it to you faster than you can eat. Eat everything you order or they’ll charge you for waste.