Great Taste Bakery & Restaurant
63 Beach St, Boston
(617) 426-8899
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Really good dim sum and really good price! The servers are super nice and the food is great. I always go here with family whenever they visit town.
I went there yesterday for a family gathering. We came to enjoy some quality time together and have a good moment. We didn’t have to wait and were seated right away. We ordered some food, and after tasting it, it was just okay. The Singapore mai fun was not very flavorful. I liked the veal ribs with string beans, but they were stingy with the meat it felt more like a plate of string beans than veal.
My dad wanted some ginger oil with the soy sauce chicken, but the waitress said they don’t provide that with this dish. I thought that was strange because it’s just a small cup of sauce that we wanted to enjoy with the chicken(if they said they just genuinely doesn't have it we will understand). Or If they had told us there would be an extra charge, we wouldn’t have minded paying. But she simply said no, and judging us which made the atmosphere tense.
Instead, they brought out a lot of the different sauce specifically for the chicken. but is a lot(a bowl), so we couldn’t finish the sauce with the chicken.
When we were paying, the waitress noticed we didn’t finish the sauce and started mumbling in Cantonese under her breath, which really shocks us. She probably thought we didn’t understand Cantonese. After that, we just wanted to pay and leave. The tip included on the receipt was calculated after tax, and we paid more than 15%, even though the service wasn’t very good. She only checked on us once and never refilled our teapot. Despite that and despite her speaking badly about us we still wanted to be polite and leave a reasonable tip.
However, as we were about to leave, she asked for an additional tip. My dad had already calculated and given her enough because our family usually tips based on the amount before tax. The recommended tip amounts at the bottom of the receipt were calculated after tax, and she pointed to those. My dad didn’t want to argue, so we gave her more.
We definitely will not be coming back again. I know the restaurant will continue to get new customers, and maybe that’s why they treat people this way because losing one customer doesn’t really affect their revenue.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 3
Service: 1
I didn’t want to write this review because I don’t want a crowd to surge to this hidden gem!!
The molten egg yolk buns and fried turnip cake were actually unbeatable
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 3
Came here and got an egg tart. Took it to the other side of the place to sit and eat for 5 minutes. The staff rudely shooed me away and said “just take it to go.” Uh, no. Nobody is sitting here and I’ll be less than 5 minutes. If you don’t want people sitting at your restaurant, maybe don’t have tables…
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 3
Service: 1
It’s a pretty small dim sum place but they make the most out of it! The servers were attentive. As for the food, I thought the selection and quality of the food was average compared to other dim sum places I’ve been to. Nothing that was phenomenal, but nothing that was bad either. I particularly liked the shrimp dumplings. They also had a photo of red bean buns dressed like minions on the wall that we ordered. However, they gave us what I think are egg yolk buns instead, with no minions which was disappointing. Not sure if it was a language barrier or if they messed up our order.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Service is okay but food wasn’t. A bit disappointed. Hopefully find something else good in town.
force you to give high tips
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 3
Service: 1
great baked goods at great prices! recommend the custard bun
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Bakery
Okay food in general, one dish tasted thawed from frozen. Tables old and cramped. Everything's mid here, you get what you pay for. Convenient to the station is why we came here.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 4
Solid place for a casual meal, food is on par / better than other dim sum places in the area. Service is unstable- have had both good and bad experiences.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 4
Restaurantji Recommends
Small, family-owned bakery and restaurant in the heart of Boston's Chinatown. Prices are low, food is amazing. Service is attentive and efficient. Diners can choose from a full dim sum menu or a menu of traditional entrees.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
I had a phenomenal meal here with great service. The only thing I would ask for in the future is an allergy menu so I could order the popular dim sum dishes, as I've never had the chance to dine that way.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
very mediocre dim sum. $7 for 3 egg tarts. But the in-house bakery has them for $1.35 each. ?? $3 extra to plate them?
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 4
I had ordered Shrimp Dumpling Soup and was served Shrimp and Pork Wonton Soup. When I confronted them about the order the lady was not willing to accept the mistake and didn’t even apologise, instead kept on saying soups come with pork. If thats the case then why do you even list items without pork. What if its a religious thing for some people? Please please avoid visiting this place at all cost. Very unfriendly people too.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Tried the portugeuse didnt like it
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 3
Service: 1
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