Grandeur Palace

Grandeur Palace is a large Cantonese restaurant in Chartwell Plaza on Brimley Road in Agincourt, the Scarborough Chinese ethnoburb corridor the city overview keeps pointing to when downtown Spadina is not the whole GTA map. Local writing places the room as a mid-2010s reinvention of the former Dragon Dynasty Chinese Cuisine space: a full interior renovation that kept the plaza footprint while aiming at banquet-scale dim sum and dinner service. The house site frames classic and creative Cantonese cooking, dim sum, and morning tea service across roughly a decade of operation; treat an exact founding month as soft unless you have a primary opening notice. Restaurantji and diner notes credit a Chef Franco on the dim sum and Cantonese menu. BlogTO has included it among Scarborough dim sum destinations.

The format is plaza banquet yum cha and family Chinese dinner, not a Chinatown late-night cafe or a Kensington reservation room. Daytime service runs on paper dim sum sheets: har gow, siu mai, shrimp balls, and other cart-less classics, with weekday early-bird pricing before 11 a.m. noted in local roundups. Dinner stretches into roast meats, soy chicken with ginger-scallion, Peking duck promotions (often half-price with another dish in diner reports), oxtail stew, salty-egg tofu, and advance-order specialties such as stuffed or braised duck with taro that BlogTO flags. Expect a spacious room built for multi-generation tables, wedding and meeting banquet capacity, and parking that is easier than Spadina on a Saturday. Confirm hours and early-bird rules before you go; the house has listed roughly 9 a.m. into late evening, later on weekends.

What it is not: Rol San’s all-day Spadina nostalgia stop, House of Gourmet’s Hong Kong noodle cafe, or Sunnys’ charcoal-grill modern Chinese. Come when you want Scarborough banquet dim sum and can fill a big table. Pair it with Mother’s Dumplings or Rol San for a downtown Chinatown contrast, or keep it as the suburban counterweight when the group already lives north of the 401.

Public Yelp, Google, and local-blog threads treat Grandeur Palace as a dependable Agincourt yum cha and family-dinner hall: hot baskets when the kitchen is on, generous banquet portions, roast meats, and a room that handles big groups with plaza parking. Regulars talk about early-bird dim sum, bringing relatives, and treating it as a Scarborough default rather than a downtown pilgrimage. BlogTO’s Scarborough dim sum list placement still shows up in diner notes.

The same reviews warn about weekend waits, dishes that arrive lukewarm or oily on off visits, washrooms that lag the renovated dining room, and service that can stretch when banquet parties fill the floor. A minority find the cooking middle-of-the-road next to a favorite Markham or Richmond Hill hall. Diners who like it usually want suburban Cantonese banquet scale, not a quiet tasting menu or a Spadina late-night cafe.