Best New Restaurants 2015: #16, Luckee
Best New Restaurants 2015: #16, Luckee
By Mark Pupo | March 16, 2015
By Mark Pupo | 03/16/2015
By Mark Pupo | Photography by Dave Gillespie and Zach Hertzman
Susur Lee spent his entire career running from traditional Chinese food, determined to be worshipped as a master of invention. Then he turns around and opens a dim sum restaurant. No surprise, he makes some of the best char siu, har gow and beef bao around. And there are many Susur touches, like the five-spiced foie gras and leek-cranberry relish that come with Peking duck, the flower petals strewn across crispy squid, and the peppery yuzu-sake cocktails. The best seats are at the bar facing the glassed-in kitchen, where a troop of cooks work surrounded by bowls of dragon fruit and sesame balls. Quite often, you’ll spy the ponytailed master himself.
309220 Assorted crispy dim sum includes curried shrimp spring rolls and fist-sized bao bursting with slow-braised peppery beef. (Image: Zach Hertzman) https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-02-150x150.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-02.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-02.jpg 1200 800 [] https://torontolife.com/food/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee/slide/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-02/ best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-02 0 0
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309221 Thick rings of squid come coated in “golden sand”—a Hong Kong–style seasoning that’s both spicy and salty. (Image: Zach Hertzman) https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-03-150x150.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-03.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-03.jpg 1200 800 [] https://torontolife.com/food/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee/slide/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-03/ best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-03 0 0
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309222 The best of the steamed dim sum are dumplings stuffed with a subtly floral asparagus and lobster mince. (Image: Zach Hertzman) https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-04-150x150.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-04.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-04.jpg 1200 800 [] https://torontolife.com/food/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee/slide/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-04/ best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-04 0 0
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309223 Steamed rice noodle rolls burst with plump shrimp and have perfect al dente bite. (Image: Zach Hertzman) https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-05-150x150.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-05.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-05.jpg 1200 800 [] https://torontolife.com/food/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee/slide/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-05/ best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-05 0 0
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309224 The warm peanut-and sesame-dressed salad of chrysanthemum leaf, spinach and tofu skin is a must-order. (Image: Zach Hertzman) https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-06-150x150.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-06.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-06.jpg 1200 800 [] https://torontolife.com/food/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee/slide/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-06/ best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-06 0 0
(Image: Zach Hertzman)
309225 Peking-style “Luckee duck” achieves the elusive goal of crispy skin and succulent meat. (Image: Zach Hertzman) https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-07-150x150.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-07.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-07.jpg 1200 800 [] https://torontolife.com/food/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee/slide/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-07/ best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-07 0 0
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309226 Luckee is a red-lacquered funhouse of dragon murals and double-happiness symbols in pulsing neon. Luckee. https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-08-150x150.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-08.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-08.jpg 1200 800 [] https://torontolife.com/food/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee/slide/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-08/ best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-08 0 0
Luckee.
309227 The restaurant was designed to evoke an old Chinese drugstore, with tiled floors and apothecary cabinets. (Image: Dave Gillespie) https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-09-150x150.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-09.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-09.jpg 1200 800 [] https://torontolife.com/food/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee/slide/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-09/ best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-09 0 0
(Image: Dave Gillespie)
309219 Susur Lee serves dim sum all day, along with a menu of larger dishes designed for sharing, at his restaurant in the Soho Metropolitan Hotel on Wellington. (Image: Zach Hertzman) https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-01-150x150.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-01.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-01.jpg 800 1200 [] https://torontolife.com/food/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee/slide/best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-01/ best-new-restaurants-2015-luckee-01 0 0
(Image: Zach Hertzman)
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why don’t you stop reading it? is it THAT much of a hardship for you? a couple of numbers is making life so difficult for you? darren, keep doing it! not just for the purpose of showing how lazy TL is, but also to make chronic victim peter annoyed.
Guys like Peter seek it out.
“Judy” — until you can prove to me that you (and a few other Darren defenders conveniently using aliases) aren’t just Darren yourself, conversation over. If ‘Darren’ even is the pest’s real name.
To everyone else: just look at this Darren piece of work’s profile and how willing he is to engage in snarky, combative exchanges on countless other posts… yet never to address criticism of his stats. However there is always conveniently a whole fleet of the same phantom accounts who DO chime in… every single time out. In a remarkably identical tone and sharply critical manner as to each other and to him in his other posts. And the only time they ever do seem to show up on Toronto Life forums is to defend their man. Seriously, NOWHERE else on here. Always to voraciously stand behind the stat of an absolute online stranger… again, every single time out. Interesting!
So anyway, that’s that. You can draw your own conclusions.