I'll make this short and sweet for you busy foodies. We came here for dinner on a Saturday evening. We called earlier in the day for a table for 11. Glad we did because it was pretty busy. Service was a bit slow at first but picked up once we placed order. It took us 45 minutes before we got our order in. About 20-30 minutes of that was waiting for our waiter, but next time I'll just flag down one of the suit dudes. Quick food summary: * Salted yolk pumpkin lobster (5/5) * Braised pork belly (5/5) * Crispy bbq pork (4/5) * Peking duck (4/5) * Sautéd scallops and prawns with truffle sauce (1/5) Food is very good overall. Below are the pictures of the ones we like. These are all 4/5 star dishes taking into account taste and value. My favorite is the lobster because who doesn't like bits of salted yolk on seafood? We also ordered a couple of vegetable dishes (not pictured). They were a bit pricey at $22. What's not so good is the sautéed scallops and prawns served with lots of greens. For $38 it's just overpriced. Couldn't taste anything truffle as it claims to be in the sauce. We also didn't get our steamed fish with tofu or they simply took so long making that we cancelled. Unlike most Chinese places where they'd smirk at you for canceling an order, this place offered complimentary taro buns in addition to the free bean dessert. I can appreciate that gesture especially when my 7yo loves the buns. This new restaurant has good but not great service. We may also try their private rooms priced at $800 minimum order for a table of 10. We'll certainly come back to try their dim sum. FYI, our table of 11 (6 adults and rest are young kids) was $408. Not overly pricey for pretty good sit down Chinese seafood. read more

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First the food is decent like any other DimSum restaurant. The price is pretty high, we have 7 people and the bill ended up to be 300+. But the whole environment and experience is horrible! There was a wedding going on which is ok, happy for the new couple. But then they have the lion dance inside, basically next to our tables, very super loud noise even for outside. And it last at least 30 mins. Not only all clients like us can't hear each other at all. I had to walk out and stay outside because of high blood pressure. After the lion dance stopped finally, we continue with our dinner. But the service is horrible too! We don't have any body come here to check what we need. After I waved to catch attention to a waiter who was passing by, he gave me a weird smile and walked away!! Never came back to ask what I need. I eventually noticed why! Because they already included service fee in the bill! So even though they provide poor or zero service, they got the tips, no matter how angry the clients are. I will never to back again! read more

18% gratuity added to the bill. It was listed clearly on a laminated sheet along with the menu. We arrived right when it was opened at 10am, and of course seated right away. Place is huge, bright. Dimsum - it depends on what you ordered. The usual siumai was good, the rice rolls were decent, the bean curd rolls and pork ribs were just okay. Service - the server serving the area was okay, and so much more friendly when serving returning/familiar customers. read more

HL Peninsula Restaurant - Dim Sum Near Me - Milpitas, California

I came here around 10:30AM on a Sunday with 2 of my friends and I was surprised to find that there was no line. This is definitely the prettiest dim sum venue I've been to. The interior has high ceilings and chandeliers and 2 large TV screens inside so that no matter where you're sitting, you can view the screen. The TV was playing a promotional reel on repeat of HL peninsula and showed shots of their various dim sum dishes and some clips of how the place looks like when it's used as a banquet hall for a wedding. We ordered the shrimp dumpling (har gow), sui mai, shrimp rice roll, crispy wild rice shrimp roll, chicken feet, Chinese broccoli, pan seared pork bun with cabbage, pandan egg tart, and piggy custard bun. My favorites were the crispy wild rice shrimp roll and the sui mai! Some notable things about the other items I tried: the rice roll that envelopes the shrimp in the regular shrimp rice roll was really thin so if that's your vibe then you would like it. Personally though, it was too thin for me and I prefer it at other dim sum places where the rice roll is not as thin. The chicken feet was chopped up in a way that I wasn't used to. It wasn't necessarily bad, but just different. I'm used to the whole chicken foot as one piece but here, they chop it in a way that you get 1-2 fingers at a time and not the whole foot as one piece. I was really hoping to like the pandan egg tart but the pandan flavor was very subtle and the egg flavor was more pronounced (definitely would not order that one again). The items I would re-order in the future: sui mai, crispy wild rice shrimp roll, shrimp rice roll, chicken feet, and chinese broccoli. read more

I was there last hight with a group. Food is fine. But they allowed a group of performers (for a wedding party) to make loud instrument noises (drum and some other metal instruments) for like 15 mins. A lot of us had to cover our ears with both hands. The performance is a Chinese tradition performance typically done outdoors! Never come back. read more

Newly open grandiose Chinese restaurant. It's a branch of the famed dim sum restaurant from San Francisco. When I walked into the restaurant dining hall, I felt like I was back in China. The interior decors are very similar to the big restaurants in China with huge TV screens, high ceilings and humongous dinning hall with hundreds of tables surrounded with glamorous chandeliers and glitzy gold walls. We went there for lunch on aa weekday. No pushing carts here for dim sum. We ordered our dim sums from a menu by checking off the items we want and the food were delivered to our table freshly cooked. The dim sums were quite good. They are high quality food. Since the food looked so good, we ordered a few more than we should. Besides the typical dim sum items, I noticed that they offer ed some of the dim sums that you can only find in Southern China. One particular dim sum I liked was the black gluttonous rice pancake with peanut and granular sugar fillings. I remember I had this dim sum in Guangzhou When I visited the city almost 10 years ago. They made them delicious here. Overall, dim sum here were very good with high quality. The prices were very reasonable as well. I found that their dim sum prices are less than LA. So when visit San Francisco, please stop by this place to have dim sum in a nice environment. It's very convenient to get here as it's near the new 49er stadium. read more

HL Peninsula Restaurant - lantern decor - Dim Sum Near Me - Milpitas, California

We dined here a few weeks ago after making reservations in advance for their dinner banquet menu. I was worried they would serve us the wrong menu, since they have quite a few available and the person on the phone brushed me off when I tried calling back a week beforehand to confirm. He said they noted the correct one down and we'll be served the correct dishes. We unfortunately were not and had to clarify mid-dinner as one of the dishes was supposed to have scallops, but it didn't. Their manager was very nice, however, and rectified the mistake later on, but that was after gaslighting us by telling us that the red clams in the dish were scallops. Regardless, they did give us the correct dish and also added some desserts at the end to make up for their error, which was a nice touch. In terms of food, we did enjoy all the dishes that came out, both in terms of taste and presentation. We actually dined here to get an idea of their menu because I've been looking for a restaurant to host a wedding banquet. Their prices are a bit on the higher end compared to competitors, but the food they serve is pretty good and their restaurant space is very modern and spacious. They have a private dining space available and they're also able to block off portions of their restaurant to accommodate based on the size of your private event. However, just note that they do require a minimum dining limit you have to meet and this is before service charge/taxes. read more

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4/5 stars for dim sum experience. We came here for dim sum last month and the service and quality of food was up to par with your traditional dim sum restaurants. They have a lot of varieties. You order from the sheet, and they bring the items out to you. I do miss dim sum carts--I actually prefer that than ordering from a sheet of paper. 1/5 stars for our recent Lunar New Year dinner. We made reservations weeks ahead and were asked to "pre-order" our dinner. From the start, it was a huge mess. We arrive 3 minutes after our reservation and there was a huge line to be seated. People were cutting in line and the line was not moving. Took us about 15 minutes to be seated, and then once we were seated, service was non-existent. Room temperature food would be dropped at the table and no one to serve the food to us. Flagging a staff down for something was tough. Disappointing experience when you're hosting other guests. I get it...busy time and not enough staff, so we should've lowered our expectation, but unjust to the patrons when you're charging "special" (higher) pricing for lower quality food and service. read more

I've long heard from people that had to try HL peninsula and heard that the original location was better than Koi Palace. We finally made it for dim sum on a Saturday morning, and I appreciate that they accepted reservations since we had a big party or 12! We started at 10:30, but by the time we left around noon, despite the massive size of the place, there was a wait. The restaurant is huge and grand, good for large banquets, and as you eat, you just watch their wedding banquet ads and menu items on these huge screens. Since it's a pretty new location, everything is bright and clean. Ordering is by menu, but they have the occasional cart (I think just for transporting what people ordered). We got the usuals: - Har gow: quite generously sized, with a bit of tobiko on the outside - Shiu mai: again, huge - Daikon cake: I wish it had more of a char - Black pepper spare ribs - Char siu bun: non traditional, more saucy and sweet - Tofu skin wrap: flavorful and good variety of stuff in the filling - Sticky rice in lotus leaf: nice with the dried scallop - Fried taro dumplings - Chicken feet: not my thing, but family liked it - Steamed sponge cake: pretty big, fluffy - Steamed shrimp rice noodle: again, generous on the shrimp, good texture on the noodles - Ling cod two ways: chow fun and porridge - interesting preparation. I wish it weren't bone in, but flavor was good Food came out surprisingly quickly given how busy it was, but their dim sum service is a well oiled machine! We had plenty of food, and it was around $300 all in for 12 people with some leftovers, so not bad! read more

Bad service! The restaurant has a big sign to tell you they mandatory charge 16% for lunch and 18% for dinner. Emphasizing that is not tip or gratuity so tax will be added on top of the 'service charge '. That is fine since it's close to what we tip. But we didn't get an average service. We sat down for almost 10 min and nobody came serve us. We ate until it's about the closing time for lunch. A waiter told us rudely: 'we need the table back' ! Food is Okay--Little pricy than other dim sum restaurants. Dinning room is nice--New and spacey. read more

Even though the restaurant was busy, we only waited 10 minutes for a table. The food was so flavorful and the wait staff very pleasant.

Beware! They impose a mandatory service charge of 15% & 18% for lunch & dinner respectively. They have a laminated sign at the table when you sit down so kudos to their transparency. Dimsum was actually above average but service was a bit off... and I expect it to get worse since why would the staff work any harder when service fee is already set. read more

Excellent HK style cuisine. Service was good, no frantic waving of arms to get a waiter's attention. Very authentic Cantonese restaurant vibe. quality of dimsum is very high, superior to most in the Bay Area read more

See prior photo, reposted Updating review in response to managers response to the definition of what constitutes as an "automatic 15-18%" service charge. "No need to tip" but this is not a "tip or gratuity" I'll let your patrons decide whether this service charge, is truly "tip/gratuity" or not. Also it doesn't justify the "service" or lack thereof that we received. Bravo, for not fixing the issues at hand but arguing a moot point. read more

HL Peninsula Restaurant - No need to tip but this isn't tip or gratuity? - Dim Sum Near Me - Milpitas, California

Expensive, complete rip off and the icing on the cake is the 18% service charge for 4 people and the service sucked! Missing dishes, had to remind the server if you could find him, absolutely terrible. Spent 300 bucks for dinner for 4 and it was not worth it at all!! I get it that it's New Year's Eve but my goodness, better off going to Panda. read more

HL Peninsula Restaurant - Dim Sum Near Me - Milpitas, California

Upscale and expansive, HL Penisula is a place to take someone to impress them. I only dined here for Dimsum so my review is limited to that menu. I think their shrimp dumpling in ginseng soup and wild rice crispy shrimp rice roll are worth returning for. These are unique items that you would not find at many other places. For the rest of the standard Dimsum fare, there are cheaper and equally good places to get them such as Joyful Dimsum Bistro (Fremont) and Tim's Teapot (Hayward), although none can quite match HLP on its grand ambiance. read more

Waited one hour to get the first dish on the LNY's eve, then waited another hour to get next two dishes. Total spend 2 hrs for only 3 dishes. Bye HL Peninsula. We couldn't see each other again. read more

HL Peninsula Restaurant - Dim Sum Near Me - Milpitas, California

Great dim sum gathering restaurant. All dim sum dishes are made fresh, dinning area is super clean, serving staffs are also friendly. Definitely recommend and will return again soon! read more

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I have never been so disappointed. Such a beautiful space but service was extremely lacking. It was so hard to track down our server, almost felt like he was avoiding us, and when we he did come to our table it was always a rushed interaction. We came on a Friday morning and there were still a lot of empty tables, so it's definitely not because of the crowd. Additionally, we asked for a side of soy sauce and chili oil FOUR times, yet we never ended up getting it at all. That's pretty baffling. The food wasn't even mind blowing enough to make up for the service so I will not be returning. read more

We ordered a chinese formal dinner combo. Food is expensive, quality is ok. The problem I have is that they blast loud sound of music during out dinner and everyone is looking around and surprised. Parking : big warning there! The number of car broken in is as high as SF. Absolutely leave nothing in the car and fold down your seat! read more

This place needs to be reported to the county's district attorney's office. The lamented paper at every table says a service charge will be added but yet at the same time say "this is a required tax on service by the state of California" and then says "this is not a tip." Not only is this confusing is down right fraudulent. The customer then may think this is just a charge required by the state of California and still tip. Run a better business. read more

Pretty decent dim sum. We'd been wanting to try this for a while and the opportunity came up recently. The service is decently fast (we appreciate the multi cultural employees). They missed a couple of the things we ordered though (the menu is very busy), but the we had plenty to eat still. Highlight of the meal was the stir fried xo sauce minded beef vermicelli noodle dish. We would skip the mango pudding next time. Everything else we had was tasty enough for a lazy weekend brunch. Portions are very generous. read more

The last time I came here was pre-pandemic and this was probably one of my favorite dim sum places to go to. The interior is just so so lovely that I even considered holding my wedding banquet there. However, this place had a management/staff change since then. Insider tip: nearly every Chinese restaurant will inevitably change management/staff but they do so without changing the legal name of the restaurant. They only either change the Chinese name or change their English name on printouts by just a little. If you look at the coupon they give you at the end of the mean, the name on there is now slightly different and has the words "Hot Pot" in the official name on there. Like why hot pot? There are no hot pots there! The parking lot is oddly really fenced off for some reason leaving very limited parking for the restaurant. The restaurant wasn't even that full yet but the parking was. I can't imaging what the parking would be like if the restaurant was fuller. The food quality seems to have gone down for sure as well. Somethings like the purple rice steamed noodle thing was way too salty, somethings like our pan friend noodle dish was way too bland, some things like the radish cake only had miniscule amounts of radish. Overall, there was something about nearly every dish that was a bit off about it. My parents and I will probably not be coming again any time soon, not until the next time they change staff again. It's a shame cause I really like the interior here. read more

The service at HL Peninsula is SO SLOW for dimsum on Sunday primetime. I get that the restaurant is MASSIVE so its hard to service that many people but even getting the attention of a server for a refill on tea or the check took 20 minutes. Overall, the dim sum was standard, nothing really stood out. And the wait for a table was pretty much immediate but I'll credit that to how large the restaurant is. Other than that, there are much better dim sum places in the Bay Area and I won't come back here again unless it was for a special occasion or until I've heard they worked out the kinks. read more

I came here last Wednesday with my boyfriend to try this dim sum place, he was so excited but we both came out very disappointed of this place. Food was ok 5/10. Service was horrible, we literally came here when they opened and we had to wait almost an hour for our food while everyone else had their food and on top of that they charge 16% service fee. Very expensive for a very bad place to eat dim sum. Never coming back. read more

Choices, choices, choices! A lot of classic dim sum dishes and some unique ones. I'd say everything we ordered tasted good, above average. Though we went on a Saturday, we were seated right away. Parking was also easy. The dining room is huge but the interior is modern and clean. read more

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Delicious place to share with friends and family -- highly recommend any of the steamed pastries (liushabao, naihuangbao). My favorite to get at every dim sum place is the hargao (the shrimp is massive)! read more

HL Peninsula Restaurant - Dim Sum Near Me - Milpitas, California

Came in multiple times in the past few months. Here is my 2 cents: Service: 0/5 Horrible or no service at all. The waiter took your orders and you won't see them again. Never check on you during your meals. Never rerill your tea pot. When you ask for napkins, it takes forever. I guess since the restaurant automatically add 18% tip for dinner and 15% for lunch. There is no incentive to give u good service. Food: 2/5 Waiters tend to hinted to you to order big tickets dishes,which we did at times. It tasted good. But for regular menu dishes, I guess they used inexperienced chef to cook. It tasted very blunt. We spent anywhere between $200-300 each time ( see attached receipt). For that price,I do have certain expectations. read more

HL Peninsula Restaurant - Receipt - Dim Sum Near Me - Milpitas, California

I been here twice for lunch with a few close friends on a Wednesday. This is probably the biggest dim sum place in Milpitas or perhaps in the South Bay! Surprisingly got a pretty big crowd during mid week and the service is pretty decent as well. Overall dim sum is average, nothing special. I believe their cost is a bit higher. The restaurant is spacious with high ceiling and do have private rooms as well upon request/reservation. They do have other locations throughout the Bay Area and they all have the same decorations and layout. if you don't want to wait and looking for a decent place for dim sum - this is it!!! I do think Gourmet house in Fremont have better dim sum and price! read more

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Celebrating my wife's birthday lunch here with a party of 6. We made reservations on a holiday with zero issues and were seated in a VIP area that was private and quiet making the food even more enjoyable. The host was exceptionally attentive and comforting offering recommendations and helping check on our very large order. He offered recommendations and provided great service in making our time here super enjoyable. He reminded me of an uncle I have. Highly recommend this place for any meal! read more

One star for the way the restaurant is decorated and setup, good for banquets. Zero stars for their dimsum. We just went to another dim sum place a day ago in Cupertino and wanted to try this place today as a comparison, ended up with a huge disappointment. As someone from Hong Kong and loves authentic Chinese food, I found the taste and quality of their dim sum is not good at all. Out of the items we ordered (pictures attached), the best was shiu mai. Other items were really mediocre. Two worst items were the steamed taro cake (L price). It's tasteless, taro all went into small pieces, and so bland. The other really bad item is the pan fried sticky rice with miso and Wasabi sauce. They brought it with the middle dented as if a plate was pushed onto it, and they said it was the lid. We also saw a piece of red something in the plate that didn't belong to the dish. We got so disgusted and returned it. They didn't remove it from the final check we had to ask them to do so. Make sure you check your tab since it seems like they didn't really care. read more

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3 of us came 1st time with reservation for diner on thanksgiving， ordered fresh crabs '3.5lbs' (蒜蓉蟹）, fish soups(鯇魚),steamed eggs with claims (蛋蒸蚌）、boiled beef prime rib(碳燒牛肋排）。 Crab ok not as fresh as expected, fish soup was great, steam egg claims was great, prime rib was ok, bills = $250 Interior design was very nice, clearness was good, Services staffs are all very friendly but, may be can still some degrees of improvement, e.g. we have soup bowls but no spoons until asked, we had crab dishes & was never offer a clean plat changing, which we thought it's pretty standard for Chinese dining... *gave 5 stars to business owner who read, accepted my reviews, yes, i will try back to taste other good foods on menus. read more

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Amazing food!!!! For context this is a traditional restaurant meaning that some of the waiters don't fully speak English, which was NOT a problem at all. I went to the restaurant with one of my friends and we pointed to the images on yelp for the food we wanted to order. The waiter was extremely friendly and helpful, even after we asked to place a second order. My favorites where the chicken feet, the taro baro, and the purple rice crispy rolls!!! read more

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Great food and service! I always come here to spend time with family. Highly recommended

dinner was great 10 people & we dropped $1300 on the family meal with lobster, abalone and a bunch of seafood i think the reviews in here is harsh, we actually had great service for dinner & i'll post food i'll be back for dim sum soon, i wasn't able to post the soy sauce chicken but that was my favorite! read more

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Food was great and good customer service. I recommend the charcoal sweet crepe roll, it was the perfect amount of sweetness. read more

HL Peninsula Restaurant - Dim Sum Near Me - Milpitas, California

Lunch was great when it newly opened. Tried it again and it was meh. Then we tried dinner. That didn't go well. The service was mediocre. We ordered quite a few dishes but each dish was not up to par. My friend asked if the crab was actually 2.5 pounds. Then manager said have you had crab before. Wow the manger made the us change our mind that we are not coming back for dinner with that type of remarks. The service was horrible and the food wasn't great either for the price point. You'd expect high quality Chinese food and we definitely didn't get any of that. read more

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Food was delicious! Service was great! Very classic Chinese dimsum ambience! Very big base, good for family gatherings and bringing friends! Authentic too! read more

All the dim sum was really delicious and authentic! The service was great as well. I had the servers help me go over the menu and they were very patient. Will come back for more. read more

This is a very Chinese and one of the best restaurants in the Bay Area you can enjoy truly authentic Cantonese food. The atmosphere is great and the food is always consistent. read more