Summit Garden Chinese Cuisine

There aren’t many dim sum places left in the GTA that still have staff push around carts loaded with dim sum treats. Summit Gardens is still one of these Chinese restaurants.

Located in a plaza at the northwest corner of Hwy 5 & Winston Churchill Blvd, you’ll find a large but very busy parking lot.

We were seated immediately. We watched as meal carts rolled by all the while staff announced what they had. Note to self: why were they all wearing latex/plastic gloves “but essentially doing everything (...like pushing carts...) and also handling food items?”

Our whole meal consisted of 3 small ($2.80 per), 4 medium ($3.60 per), 7 large ($4.50 per), and 2 extra large ($7.65 per) totalling 16 items for $78.65 tax included.

Summit Gardens gives complimentary tea so your saving at least 60 cents per person and I’ve experienced as high as 1 dollar; we have 7 in our party.

The service and food was good. The decor was dated. Restrooms were clean.

Now I paid using my credit card and chose to give the option for a 10% tip which the restaurant calculated the amount with the taxes included; that my fellow diners translated to an actual 11.30747% tip. Very sly....Many restaurants and services are doing the same thing but I didn’t knowingly agree to tip on the taxes! Oh well, if staff get the tips, NO PROBLEM. If ownership gets this money, very sly and crooked.

So overall, my review had several plus and minus of stars but I feel generous today.

went with friends because the proximity to their place, ordered some garlic flavoured greens (蒜炒豆苗), the grilled meats platter (烧味拼盘), sizzling beef, and yangzhou fried rice (not pictured). the first two are great, quite flavourful and i would say authentic, so is the fried rice, but the sizzling is more exciting than the actual beef part, it’s mediocre at best. overall i would go there again and probably try their dim sum

I gave it a 3 stars because of the service and decor. Usually I don't care about decor as much but I've been coming here since I was a kid and it still looks the same. Food is really good and comes out quickly. Service is blunt and you have to ask multiple times for things. When you look over at the fish tanks and none of the fish are moving and piles of darkness lay at the bottom...not a nice sight.