Shun Lee Cafe
New York, NY 10023-6601
Phone: (212) 595-8895
11/27/2002 Posted by rob_b99
This is easily one of the best chinese restaurants in NY or anywhere else. The menu is quite substantial, with a number of chicken, beef, and seafood specialties not found at your typical chinese restaurant. The dining room is classy and elegent, the service is attentive (perhaps a little snobby). I've been to shun lee on 3 separate occasions. Each time the food was perfectly prepared -- i.e. crispy beef was crisp yet juicy. Grand marnier prawns not overcooked and flavored well. Major detraction to this place is the prices. It's at least double the price of regular chinese. Normally this would really bother me, but i don't think about this as going out for chinese so much as going out for a really nice, elegant meal. Other similar quality meals in nyc could easily cost twice as much as Shun Lee.
Pros: menu specialties, nice portions, elegant dining room
Cons: prices, stuffy waiters
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