Reviews for Top Island Seafood Restaurant in Alhambra, CA
One of my favorite Chinese seafood restaurants. The king crab, lobster and steamed fish are to die for. They are fresh from the... tank. Food is delicious and service is great. Be sure to ask for the chef special dessert. The special clam and geo-duck stirfry with snow peas is another to-die-for item. Dim sum is tasty and available until late afternoon. Nice restaurant for weddingbanquets, birthday parties or other events. Read more
Delicious yum cha! It was packed today, of course, Thanksgiving. Don't usually pay attention to the prices here, but 2 people... for dim sum cost $77! Not sure I'd there was a Thanksgiving surcharge... Read more
Dim Sum is good but it is lack of variety dessert. Mainly this restaurant has more salty food than sweet stuff.
If there's a 'zero' star, this is it, very unhappy service people. Felt like we're begging for food there. Good Chinese friends... recommended this place so my wife and I stopped by on our half-way home from a long road-trip for Dim Sum today. Disappointed atthe services there and felt discriminated against non-Chinese speaking folks. Big boss, manning the register at the back with anattitude, set us down at the very back corner table (out of site with many carts blocking our table). (1st sign) He simply tossthe ordering ticket like it was a dirty napkins onto the table like not wanting us there. (2nd sign) No service cart came forover 10min then finally one showed up but lady left her cart next to our table after being upset. 2nd cart lady didn't want toshow us what dishes she had...she got mad at us when we ask to see since we didn't speak Chinese. (3rd sign) I asked the youngwaiter, who don't speak much English, for a rice dish since no more cart came. He brought the 'big boss'...big boss was upsetand ask rudely..."What do you want?!" So, I request him for the rice dish but decide to get it as take out since I lost myappetite at this point. I noticed the workers were upset but I didn't expect the big boss to be so rude also. This is what Icalled "First and last time" place. >> To Top Seafood Island Restaurant: If you don't want my money...there's many places thatdoes... I'm not Chinese but I'm Asian also. Read more
First off, I went to this place with an open mind. My wife and I had past by many times and always wanted to give it a chance.... Yesterday morning, my wife, son and I decided to finally give it a chance. When we first walked in, we were seated right away,which was pleasant. But after that, it was a negative experience. Our server, a middle age man never came to our table to clearour table whenever we finished a dish. If you are familiar with dim sum, whenever you finish a dish, it is always cleared fromyour table. At first, I thought maybe they did it different here, but noticed that all the other tables were cleared when acustomer finished, leaving room for more to be served. Also, we always had to flag a worker down whenever we needed more food toeat. A couple of times, we were ignored. I hate to say this, but I know it was because we were discriminated. We are aMexican/American family, and everyone there were Asian, mostly Chinese. I am not one who finds humor in putting any businessdown, but it wasn't a pleasant experience at all. I will never eat here again. If you don't believe me, and are not Asian, giveit a chance and see for yourself. You will be treated with such disrespect. Read more
Food was good, came out quick, we ordered 8 dishes, forgot to take pics for other dishes, great service, restroom ???? was... clean, not crowded (3 other groups) roughly 10-15 ppl Read more
Went for a dinner with friends around 7pm... No waiting.. Dishes are tasty and hot . ????Love it!! Every dish is all in party... size so it's good for to-go, but not cheap!! Will come back for their Lobster dishes next time!!! ???? ???????????? Read more
One of my favorite places for dimsum. I've been coming here since I was in high school. The place hasn't changed a bit. Still... the same taste. They do tend to be a little pushy with dishes that doesn't sell well though which is why I give it a 3 star forthe service. Other than that, I love the place. I recommend the steamed pork ribs, chicken feet, shrimp dumplings and egg tarts. Read more