New Sky Restaurant

Delicious seafood fried noodles ! I tried the razor clams they were a bit spicy and good. I love how they give you free soup and dessert soup as well. Service is good. They come when you wave. Definitely decently priced for good food. It would be nice if they gave us a bigger table so I can have a chair to put my bags on… since there was only one other party there since it was late .like 9 pm.

Reliable quality, great service, awesome food.

Chef’s Special Chili Chicken on a hot plate… yummmm…the chicken is grilled and sufficiently hot and comes with crunchy fried noodles that add texture!

I went here around 4:30 and service was great very friendly I asked to order from the Peruvian Chinese «CHIFA «menu. And once I got the food I was impressed I have recently come back from a stay in Peru since this is where my parents are from and it truly took me back, I took some home to my parents and they loved it and said it brought them back. The waiter was great about payment and ¹⁰⁄₁₀ will be coming back my guest also truly enjoyed the food and he is a picky eater. Will bring my whole family next time.

I used to go to this place every once in a while after night outs with friends. The food is not bad given the options after midnight. However, the service last night was awful! The waiter was literally making fun of (and laughing at) one of the guests in our party because she asked if she could order chow mein noodle on the side.
When it came to paying, I used my Amex in the machine, and I was halfway through putting in my pin when he pulled the machine out of my hand, and pulled the card out when the message says «do not remove card». He then almost yelled at me and said they don’t take Amex. I tried to explain that their machine was actually working, but he was so rude that I gave up.
Avoid this place if you care about customer service.

Great peruvian-​chinese place! On top of the abundantly common menus in the area, this place gets the extra edge by having a «secret» menu of Peruvian-​style Cantonese a.k.a. «CHIFA»
The «chancho al ajo» was very very good!
Also the traditional fried wantan, «chicharron de pollo» and the «Chi-​jau-​Kai» were like the typical CHIFA de Lima.

Our go-​to Chinese restaurant in Chinatown. This restaurant has been around for a long time and serves good traditional Chinese (Cantonese style) food. The service is meh and the décor is dated but we keep coming back!
For their delicious steamed crab rice wrapped in lotus leaf. Their stir fried green beans with pork was also pretty good. Meals always comes with house soup of random pork or chicken bones with carrots beans or random vegetables. I also recommend their sesame beef and seasonal fresh seafood.
Don’t expect great service they usually just want to get you in and out as fast as they can!

Been going here since I was 9, loved it then and I still love it! They always ways remember return customers and make sure the food is to their liking. Their service is mediocre, but their food is what gets me to come back :)

Probably the best general Chinese restaurant in Chinatown (non-​general Chinese restaurants being hotpot, spicy restaurants, etc.)
The set menu is amazing, the hot and sour soup is awesome (I might order a large one to go), and the service is OMG good. The last time I came here (last weekend), the server refilled my teacups when passing by! Also super friendly!

Excellent food. Best Chinese restaurant in Downtown. Always see non-​Asian customers complain about the service, but it’s a Chinese place no one cares the service. I always get the «Koh-​Loh», pork belly stewed in some kind of black sauce. Deep-​fried Garoupa also yummy.

I absolutely love this place. Really good food. I recommend the general Tao and deep fried beancurd. Just look at what other people order

It’s been a couple of years since I’ve been here… the last time I thought the food was absolutely delicious. Today was a totally different experience… was there early so a busy resto was not the issue. The service was curt at best… hot & sour soup was unbalanced… more sour than hot. The crispy ginger beef was drowning in sauce and lacking in ginger… the fried chicken was bony and over-​cooked. They neglected to order one of our dishes so we were just as happy to cancel it. Sadly I won’t be returning.

The crab rice we ordered was absolutely the bomb. Perfectly cooked steam rice mixed with crab meet and paste. Absolutely amazing. The seasoning of the ginger & scallion lobster and black bean clams was also spot-​on. An unassuming Chinatown joint with the kind of homey ambiance and friendly staff of a neighbourhood restuarant. The price also offers great value. I would highly recommend this restaurant if you are looking for some authentic Cantonese style seafood dishes in downtown Toronto.

I haven’t been here in many years, but we had a craving for snails and clams, so automatically thought Chinatown as nothing beats seafood cooked in black bean sauce. Our go-​to place in the past has always been Sang’s Great Seafood Restaurant, but remembered our last time there it wasn’t that great, so came to New Sky since it was just up the street from Sang’s.
Since it was late around 11ish on a Thursday night, the place wasn’t busy with only three tables occupied. Therefore, we got friendly, fast and efficient service like most of the Chinese restaurants in the area. Perhaps it helped that we spoke Cantonese as we always seem to get somewhat better service if we spoke Cantonese. I guess it helps some of the staff since their English can be very limited at times, but the server we had spoke English very well. He even was going back and forth speaking both Cantonese and English with us, even though we spoke Cantonese to him the whole time, but we were speaking English among ourselves.
Server informed us they’re open until 5am on Friday and Saturday night. Perhaps he assumed that both my friend and I were in our 20s. I have long passed my days when I was out until that early in the morning, but it was nice to know should I ever need a seafood fix at that time if I’m still awake, then I can come here.
We ordered the sweet yam leaves which was cooked in a shrimp paste with lots of garlic. It was very tasty and the leaves were quite tender. I’m guessing not many people know about the sweet yam leaves as they’ll probably opt for the sweat pea shoots, but try it next time if it’s available in the Chinese restaurant you dine in.
The snails and clams we ordered were cooked in a black bean sauce. The first few we had tasted good as it has been a long time since we had them, so the taste of nostalgia returned to us momentarily. That didn’t last too long since we found the dishes to be too salty. Thankfully, we ordered a bowl of rice to share to absorb some of the saucy goodness.
We also found the prices a bit higher than what we normally would pay, since usually three dishes would cost under $ 30, but for it to cost close to $ 40, we were a little surprised. Perhaps it was market prices for the items we ordered, we don’t know as we just ordered without looking at the menu since we knew what we wanted when we arrived and just placed the order with the server.
I guess next time we should look at the menu or ask for pricing to avoid any surprises, but when one needs to satisfy a craving, we simply do not care too much about prices as long as it tastes good.
Perhaps we should learn to read Chinese because there’s a special menu listed on the wall only in Chinese characters.

The Food is always great at New Sky. Wait staff are fast and attentive — Paul is the man, seems like he has been my server every time for years. Love the chowmein noodles, they are always the right amount of crispy. The spicy crispy chicken was good tonight, first time trying that one, however the crispy beef was definitely the table favourite. Crispy… seems to be the texture of the day for me.

Came here on a Niagara+Toronto vacation half a year ago (so yeah, if the experience stuck around with for that long, that should tell you something). Food was okay, which is the only reason this place is two stars instead of one. Perhaps the reason it did not astound me was because we did not order any of the seafood («market price» tends to scare us away from ordering). But really, the reason for the low score is my GOD the service was terrible.
To put this in perspective, I think people that complain about service at Chinese restaurants are idiots who don’t understand how stuff works there. Seriously, they’re servers, their job is to bring you your food and keep your drinks topped off and get paid a salary plus tips (mostly tips) to do it quickly and attentively. Nowhere in that job description is «make small talk about the weather and how your kids are doing and whatnot». Seriously, how needy do you have to be to judge a restaurant based on that kind of stuff? So when I tell you that the service here was terrible, that should be telling you something.
Specifically: we were seated promptly, but it literally took an hour to get a congee out, and the excuse was that «that’s just the order in the queue» and another party that came in after us got all their food first, and that this was literally the first time in many years of dining out where I actually used the power of the tip to denote horrible service.
As far as the racism allegations, my family is all completely Chinese and we still got this kind of treatment. I think what’s probably the case is that they probably cater to the critics first and foremost, knowing that those people will give them high rankings and reviews, and then they figure they can just coast along because there will be no shortage of people (like my family) who will go there based on that.

Ok so their service is always a hit or a miss but I must say I am a native Torontonian and this is by far the best Chinese in the city!
Now, every time I come back to the city, this place is on my list of restaurants to eat at.
Pepper steak, beef short ribs, beef and chicken lo mein are all fantastic. As far as the appetizers go, their hot and sour soup, egg drop soup and deep fried shrimp balls are great as well. Be patient with the wait staff because the food is worth it.

Just going to put it out there: New Sky’s staff is totally racist. I’m not full of righteous indignation or anything, and I don’t plan on filing a human rights complaint, but there is big trouble in little China when a table of 4 white people have to wait an hour for a bowl of won ton soup and two-​and-​a-​half hours to finish the meal, all the while with tables of Chinese families lapping us and turning over. I don’t think my allegations are unfounded, either — a white guy and his Chinese wife, sitting next to us, received similar treatment and discussed it before she got up to give the waitstaff a piece of her mind.
The food is pretty good here but maybe that’s the strategy… make people wait until they are so unbearable starved that anything will taste good.
Best parts were the won ton soup, salt and pepper shrimp and general Tso’s chicken (I know, not authentic but still tasty).
+3.5 stars for food, –1.5 stars for racism.

I’ve been here many times with my boyfriend’s family and every time I love the food.
Aside from growing up in a vietnamese household, I also grew up in a chinese one as well. So when I know good chinese food, i know it.
This place gets very busy during dinner time and every time i come here, everyone orders their fresh lobster and seafood. At the end they even give you complementary oranges and sometimes free dessert. (but maybe cause the bill is always around $ 150. Either way i’m not complaining)
This place is so good that i’d take my parents there but my mom is a vegetarian.
The manager is very friendly and the service is quite good for a chinese restaurant!
Food 5 stars :)

This place has the best Cantonese style Chinese food on the Spadina strip. Although Toronto prides itself on its diversity in ethnic food, most people know the good Chinese food is in Markham /​Scarborough. And while that is true, New Sky will have you returning back.
Having been here by recommendation, I have since been a returning customer. It saves me a trip to the suburbs when I crave the food of my people.
Beware though, they have a secret (better) menu in Chinese that I’m assuming would only be given to you if you appear to be Chinese. And although I am Cantonese, both times the Chinese menu was only offered to me once I’ve asked.
Recommend dishes: Fried snow pea leaf, sizzling satay beef, fish and tofu clay pot, scallion and ginger stir fried lobster.
OH: also, BONUS! The servers here are very friendly. They all speak decent English and are relatively attentive.