Reviews for A La Kitchen in Markham, ON

Pretty good shanghai style cuisine. Menu prices were reasonable. Staff was friendly. Restaurant was clean and spacious.

My niece-in-law recommended this place to us for Xiaolongbao (steamed pork dumplings). The food is much better than Ding Tai... Fung (which was our frequent restaurant for Xiaolongbao, but not any more). The place is clean and is always busy. Deco is nice.We are happy with our food, but the food has too much MSG and we were so thirsty after arrived home. I would advise the chefsnot to use too much MSG. The dessert "Sesame Rice Balls with Soy Bean Powder (M5)" for dessert is a MUST to try. Very yummy! Read more

Authentic Chinese dishes with reasonable price! Recommend!

Pretty good quality and authentic Shanghai style cuisine; braised fatty pork really good, also loved spiced braised beef... noodles. Dessert fried Sasame egg white puff was a must! Noticed every other table ordered it. Read more

Last time I came here to eat was 3 years ago... And must I say, lots has changed since. We went in on a Monday around 11am for... a quick lunch before heading back to Montreal. Right from the start we were given attitude like if we weren't supposed to comein this early (They open at 1030). Even with no one else in the restaurant, we had to flag down our waitress to take down ourorder. While we were ordering, our waitress was arrogantly answering our questions while looking away the whole time like if shedidn't want us to be there. The waitress then also started talking about us to the other waitress right infront of us???? Imean, the front counter was literally next to our table and we understand Chinese so not too smart of her. Ordered many itemsto share. The pan fried pork buns were just awful. Barely pan fried, more of a mushy steamed bread with a piece of oilyunflavoured piece of meat in the middle. Then, the house special fried rice cake. Way too much soy sauce, and portion to priceratio was very unfortunate. For 17$ you get a very small portion. We also had the noodles and minced pork in black bean sauce.It was the best dish out of all. Hot, flavourful and delicious. The rest of the food was ok. It was time for the bill. Althoughwe didn't want to tip the waitress for her amazing service, we still gave her 15%. No acknowledgement whatsoever. We gave herthe money and not even a simple thank you came out of her mouth. She went to the back of the counter, opened the folder and madesure that we tipped. Very disappointing... Won't be back. Read more

This might be the best Shanghai restaurant in Markham. We tried the XLB, sesame pancake with minced pork, wonton in hot and sour... soup, and the A LA stir fried rice cakes. On another trip we tried the crab XLB, stir fried eel, sesame pancake, Dan Dan noodlesand fried egg white with red bean. Everything tasted really good and was made with good technique as the boss himself is thechef here. XLB had very thin wrappers and plenty of soup. Favourite is the wontons in hot and sour soup and the stir fried eelwhich goes well with the sesame pancakes. The fried egg white dessert is ok. Staff are friendly and efficient. Read more

Haven't been to this place for a very long time (nothing to do with pandemic) and heard that their steamed crab pork dumplings... taste different and I'm very picky about these steamed buns so gave it a try tonight. I was very happy with the steamed crabpork dumplings ordered. We also ordered the steamed lobster & port dumplings, pan fried port dumplings, pork and vegetableswontons in soup, pan fried pork buns, veggie spring rolls and salty rice roll with fried stick. I find the salty rice roll forthe rice not as sticky as expected other than that everything we ordered taste really good. Will definitely go back as I'm a bigfan of steamed crab pork dumplings. Read more

Haven't dined in since before pandemic. Grabbed take out here this week. Ordered ahead using their online menu. Food was ok! But... disappointed that their promo for free soup dumplings (4) with minimum purchase of $25 - was not honoured. Also disappointedabout the red bean soup dessert: not good at all. Read more