Best Cantonese restaurants in Toronto

Cantonese seafood banquet house, the original home of Lobster Mountain

• Elite 30 #13Source ↗

  A traditional, flavour-first banquet hall with bold, straightforward seafood and no dim sum. The reviewer sees it as the original home of Lobster Mountain and a long-standing choice for grand Cantonese seafood banquets.

  Standout dishes: Lobster Mountain, king crab, abalone, seasonal live seafood

• Signature DishSource ↗

  A dramatic pile of oversized Canadian lobsters with crispy garlic. The group keeps its own lobster holding facilities on the East Coast to source the large lobsters.

  Standout dishes: Lobster Mountain

Cantonese seafood hall known for Sky-High Lobster Mountain and dim sum

• Elite 30 #4Source ↗

  Feast-style dining with generous seafood platters in a vast dining hall, anchored by the Sky-High Lobster Mountain. Veteran chef Franky Yeung's Chiu Chow and Cantonese background underpins the seafood, and the dim sum shows care too.

  Standout dishes: Sky-High Lobster Mountain, crystal rice rolls, ming ha gok, in-house dry-aged steak

• Signature DishSource ↗

  A dramatic pile of oversized Canadian lobsters with crispy garlic. The group keeps its own lobster holding facilities on the East Coast to source the large lobsters.

  Standout dishes: Lobster Mountain

Richmond Hill Cantonese room for shrimp-stuffed chicken wings, roast squab and winter melon soup.

• Elite 30 #2Source ↗

  Cantonese classics that take time and skill, cooked by Chef Samuel Su Wei-jian with a practised hand and precise technique. The reviewer noted crisp-skinned fish that stays tender and soup with a clean sweetness.

  Standout dishes: eight treasure winter melon soup, stuffed chicken wings, deep-fried duck with taro, steamed eel with dried tangerine peel and black bean sauce

Hong Kong style hot pot with a night market look and fish maw chicken broth

• Elite 30 #25Source ↗

  A Hong Kong street-market setting with themed stalls and neon, serving well-marbled hand-sliced beef, springy handmade meatballs and comforting chicken broths. Generous portions and fair prices stood out.

  Standout dishes: fish maw chicken hotpot, drunken chicken hotpot, hand-sliced premium beef, tangerine peel beef meatball

Downtown Cantonese dining room for dim sum such as scallop and prawn dumplings, and an afternoon tea set.

• Elite 30 #11Source ↗

  Cantonese technique under new kitchen leadership, with Executive Chef Hayden Sin's wok cooking and seafood showing control of heat and seasoning. Dim Sum Head Chef Victor Huang's delicate, precise work makes dim sum the highlight of the meal.

  Standout dishes: lobster dumplings with caviar, layered swan pastries, scallop and prawn dumpling, pumpkin fritter