The Phoenix Restaurant
Chicago, IL 60616-1809
Phone: (312) 328-0848
- Price:
- $
- Cross Street:
- Cermak Road
- Directions:
- El: Red Line to Cermak-Chinatown; bus: 21 to Archer Ave/Princeton Ave; 24 to Cermak Rd; 62 to Cermak Rd/Princeton Ave
- Best of Citysearch:
- Dim Sum 2007, Dim Sum 2005, Chinese Food 2004
- Hours:
- Mon-Thu 9am-9:30pm, Fri 9am-10:30pm, Sat 8am-10:30pm, Sun 8am-9:30pm
Editorial Review for The Phoenix Restaurant – by J.P. Anderson
The Scene
Two banquet-sized, second-floor dining rooms (total seating for 500) are tastefully decorated with white-clothed tables--and none of the kitsch and glitz found at nearby Chinatown Square. Service is speedy and friendly; communication can be tricky if you're not familiar with the menu.
The Food
From the exotic (shark fin soup, spicy jellyfish) to the mundane (lemon chicken, orange beef), Phoenix's lengthy menu brims with tasty, platter-size portions of traditional Chinese dishes, with some pan-Asian influences thrown in for good measure. Excellent dim sum brunch happens daily from open till 3pm; be there early, or you'll wait one to two hours. Don't miss light, flaky spring rolls and zingy hot and sour soup. Favorite entree? Shrimp in a crispy "bird's nest"--subtly sauced and piled with fresh snow peas and carrots in a crunchy taro root nest.
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User Reviews for The Phoenix Restaurant
04/18/2008 Posted by Coda95
Shark fin is tasteless. The soup is flavored with chicken or beef broth to get flavor. Chinese view sharks as having medicinal qualities, but sharks get tumors, cancer and other diseases as well and no scientific evidence has shown shark fin soup to have ever provided health benefits. Shark Fin Soup has led to the decline of the world's shark populations by up to 90%. Annually millions upon millions of sharks are slaughtered exclusively for their fins. The sharks entire body is then dumped back into the ocean, therefore wasting the entire shark. DON'T EAT HERE!!!
11/26/2007 Posted by s4iscool
Used to go for the past 10 years, and I will no longer after my last visit. I was seated in the middle of 15 other tables, so as you can imagine in a DIM SUM place WITH CARTS, you are not going to get any attention. We waited 10 minutes while watching everyone around us getting serviced by the cart servers. Either they are blind or really dumb in not asking the people at the inner tables what they want. It took one of their managers to eventually come and take our order...whats the point of carts and DIM SUM then?!? Even after taking our order, it came out incomplete and when we asked where the rest of our order was, they said its coming. 10 minutes later, and no food, we paid the bill and walked out.
Pros: Food tastes good, when you can get service!
Cons: Terrible service, seating in the middle of other tables!
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