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Welcome to Tai Pan

"Tai Pan" is a classy and upscale Chinese restaurant located in Palo Alto, offering a wide range of delicious dim sum and traditional Chinese dishes. With a full bar and a cozy ambiance, it's perfect for a relaxing dining experience. The menu includes Chef Specials like Fried Pumpkin with Salt Egg York and Minced Chicken in Lettuce Cup, as well as a variety of steamed and fried dishes. Customers praise the fresh and flavorful dim sum, especially highlighting dishes like ham sui Guo and sweet and sour chicken. While some find it pricey, the quality of the food and service makes it a top choice for Chinese cuisine in the area.

LOCATIONS
  • Tai Pan
    560 Waverley St, Palo Alto, CA 94301, United States
    560 Waverley St, Palo Alto, CA 94301, United States Hotline: +1 650-329-9168

Welcome to Tai Pan, a classy and upscale dim sum restaurant located in Palo Alto, CA. Known for its delicious offerings and thoughtful service, Tai Pan is a must-visit for any dim sum enthusiast.

With a wide range of dim sum options, from traditional steamed dishes like Shrimp Dumplings and Pork Ribs to unique creations like Fried Pumpkin with Salted Egg Yolk and Pan Fried Rice Noodle Rolls, Tai Pan offers a variety of flavors to delight your taste buds.

Not only does Tai Pan provide tasty dim sum options, but they also cater to various dietary preferences with vegan and vegetarian dishes. Their dessert selection, including Steamed Black Sesame Balls and Mango Pudding, is the perfect sweet ending to your meal.

Customer reviews rave about the quality of the food and the attentive service at Tai Pan. From the ambiance to the presentation of each dish, every aspect of the dining experience at Tai Pan is meticulously curated to provide guests with a memorable meal.

Whether you're looking for a leisurely dim sum experience with outdoor seating or a cozy meal indoors, Tai Pan caters to all preferences. With a focus on quality ingredients and exquisite flavors, Tai Pan truly shines in the dim sum scene of Palo Alto.

  • Location: 560 Waverley St Palo Alto, CA 94301
  • Phone Number: (650) 329-9168
  • Chef Specials: Fried Pumpkin w/ Salt Egg York, Boiled Shrimp Dumpling in Soup, Pan Fried Rice Noodle Roll w/ X.O. Chilli Sauce, Twice Cooked Spareribs, Minced Chicken in Lettuce Cup, Crispy Salt & Pepper Calamari, Porridge Pork Shrimp Beef Chicken, Chicken Salad
  • Must-Try Dishes: Chicken Feet, Black Cod Fish, Sweet and Sour Chicken, Mongolian Beef

Overall, Tai Pan offers a delightful dining experience with a mix of traditional and modern dim sum dishes that cater to a diverse array of tastes. Whether you're a dim sum enthusiast or looking to explore new flavors, Tai Pan is sure to impress with its exceptional cuisine and impeccable service.

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Wendy T.
Wendy T.

One of the best ham sui Guo and ca liong. They also have a great beef ball which I really like and can't stop eating. The seafood. Hong Kong pan fried noodle was just okay. Little bit bland. I do like the fried egg yolk pumpkin. Pastry was flaky but not enough filing.

Huskies C.
Huskies C.

Expensive but really good dimsum and entrees I love this place its my go to Chinese restaurant the service is nice and the dimsum is nice and fresh also I found their general tso chicken to be very crispy too which makes it good everything I had here was good always look forward to going back here idk why it is rated a 3.5 maybe the price?

Eileen C.
Eileen C.

A solid place for an outdoor seating dim sum experience, but pretty overpriced given the portion sizes. If you just crave dim sum in Palo Alto though, it's a good option! Otherwise, I'd stick to Koi Palace or the takeout dim sum places in Sunset.

Grace Y.
Grace Y.

Good quality dim sum in Palo Alto, service was thoughtful, definitely not your average Chinese restaurant servers that are so prevalent down in so cal. While we wanted to sit outside because of the kids, they recommended us to sit inside since there were not that many people yet so disturbing others wouldn't be an issue. Was pleasantly surprised by the tasteful Chinese decorations. It was a little hard for me to line up the name of the dish I wanted to check off with the pencil & paper at first but after a pointer by the sever quickly got the hang of it. The chicken feet were da bomb!

Min K.
Min K.

Originally we were headed to evvia but felt the need to drop by to try the fish! today we had a black cod fish dish and the best sweet and sour chicken! the chicken was so soft and tender I thought it was fish and chips! perfect combo! i absolutely love their service and the ambiance of giving me the same seat each time! How can i not compliment the place. BEST CHINESE IN PALO ALTO

Alex M.
Alex M.

The food is absolutely gorgeous. The perfect balance of the taste, the presentation, and the healthiness. This is a very unique restaurant, where the food is cut in perfect pieces, nice and juicy, yet nothing leaks, nothing makes any mess, the oils are just right, and every single bite is clean and yammmmm!!! Try their fish-maw soup, their scallops, their mongolian beef (melts in your mouth), actually too many dishes to mention but they all share one thing -- gorgeousness ! Service is impeccable, table clothes, waiters in chinese-style uniforms, great servers they are, and the ambience just makes your eyes roll. This is a supreme place. Can't wait to go again. (ah, a little pricy, but reasonable)

Lloyd C.
Lloyd C.

This is an upscale Chinese restaurant, you can tell right away as you are greeted warmly at the front. Full bar. Nicely decorated with nice painting and a large picture box with sculptures and figurines. The dim sum was pretty good. The usual fare of har gow, siu mai, baked bbq pork buns, peasprout dumpling, fried shrimp ball, gai lan, hot & Sour soup, combination Fried Rice, and Beef Chow Fun. For dessert, we had mochi. It was filled with black sesame paste, and crushed peanuts on the outside. Order ahead as these take at least 25-30min. I didn't get a chance to take pics as this was a work luncheon with a new group.

Bonnie G.
Bonnie G.

This is a great dim sum spot to go to when you want a relaxing dim sum experience where it's nice inside, elegant, peaceful, easy to hear everyone at your table. Even has tons of outdoor seating so you can bring your dog. Nobody rushes you, it's such a leisurely good time. Food-wise, while it's not as good as Cheung Hing (the best!), the food is still delicious and fresh and it feels like a dim sum place you can actually eat healthy at, nothing is overdressed or over fried. Love the pea shoot dumplings, pork and chicken sticky rice in the lotus wrap, steamed shrimp dumplings. Totally coming back. 5 stars!!!!