Casa Victoria Fine Dining

As I write the review of my next restaurant, it is great sadness that Scarborough lost one of its staples in Chicken Noodles Restaurant.  This was a place I had eaten many many times and after twenty years, the bosses decided that it was time to close the door for good.  It will be a place that I will sure miss as the staff was very good to me and their food was excellent. 

Moving forward this past weekend we had a chance to have dim sum up in the Markham area at Casa Victoria Fine Dining.  This restaurant has many other sister restaurants including one is Scarborough and one in the downtown area.  Known for their expensive but delightful food we ventured out as a group of 12 to have dim sum this past weekend. 

Fried Rolls Wrapped in Rice Noodles

 Now dim sum more or less tastes the same.  The best way to blog about it is to talk about some of the more unique dishes and just rate the overall experience.  Aside from the usual shrimp dumpling, meatballs, chicken feet, fried turnips and BBQ buns, we also order 3 unique dishes. 

Fried Eggplant

The first one was a fried eggplant.  Cut into a large C shape and sprinkled with green and red peppers it certainly was an interesting dish.  The eggplant dish actually tasted like a yam or cauliflower tempura.  It was crispy but not extremely oily.  It was an alright dish to have.

Shrimp Rice Noodle

 Another unique dish we had was the fried rolls wrapped in rice noodles aka “ja leung”.  Casa also places a vegetable inside the roll to give it that extra uniqueness.  One also adds some sweet soya sauce to give it some flavor.  The rolls were not crunchy overall as I think the vegetable made the crispy roll a little soggy.  Personally although I could respect the uniqueness of the dish, I personally think that they could have done it without the vegetable.  I like the fried roll wrapped in rice noodles dipped in peanut and soya sauce.  I think this is far more tastier than how they had it done. 

As I said before, all the other dishes were pretty much compatible with dishes from other restaurants.  To me there is nothing more special about their dim sum than other place’s dim sum.  Price wise, yes it is a little bit more expensive.  Given the same types of food and without a great deal of “uniqueness” in its dim sum, it is somewhat hard to justify the slightly higher prices in comparison to its competitors.  The food was descent however it was certainly no different than any other dim sum place.  Out of the 12 of us, we ate 45 plates amongst the 15 different dishes that we ordered.  Overall I give it a 3.25 out of 5. 

Casa Victoria Fine Dining

8601 Warden Avenue #4
Markham, ON
(905) 948-1618