Empress Pavilion Restaurant
988 N Hill St Ste 201
Los AngelesCA90012
Payment Methods: Visa, MasterCard, American Express
Opens in 47 minutes
- Sunday
- 8:30am-3:30pm, 5:00pm-10:00pm
- Monday
- 10:00am-3:00pm, 5:00pm-9:30pm
- Tuesday
- 10:00am-3:00pm, 5:00pm-9:30pm
- Wednesday
- 10:00am-3:00pm, 5:00pm-9:30pm
- Thursday
- 10:00am-3:00pm, 5:00pm-9:30pm
- Friday
- 10:00am-3:00pm, 5:00pm-9:30pm
- Saturday
- 9:00am-3:00pm, 5:00pm-10:00pm
- Average Rating
- Total Reviews
- (73)
Recommended
1
Not Recommended
0
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Description
This restaurant is permanently closed. Empress Pavilion provides guests with an elegant dining experience right in LA's Chinatown. Called the "Grande Dame of Los Angeles" by Zagat, it is located close to Dodger Stadium as well as the Downtown Civic Center. Empress Pavilion serves authentic gourmet-style Chinese cuisine. It features numerous dishes for guests to try like braised abalone with...
Tips
The Extras: During dim sum service, the waitstaff wheels carts of delicacies like crisp-fried taro dumplings, roast duck and translucent har gow. To order, just flag one of the cart-pushing servers.
Know Before You Go: Empress Pavilion is in the Bamboo Plaza, which has a garage with validated parking.
Editorial Reviews
Awesomely large, with an assortment of sliding walls that open to accommodate 800 diners, this ornate, bustling Hong Kong-style seafood restaurant looks like it was plucked right out of.well.Hong Kong. Despite the volume of business, the… Read More
Food20 Decor19 Service17 Cost$26
Zagat calculates ratings on a 30-point scale based on periodic consumer surveys
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A Downtown “favorite” gets a new lease on life, returning under new ownership from nearby Ocean...
Zagat calculates ratings on a 30-point scale based on periodic consumer surveys
* 26 - 30
* Extraordinary to Perfection
* 21 - 25
* Very Good to Excellent
* 16 - 20
* Good to Very Good
* 11 - 15
* Fair to Good
* 0 - 10
* Poor to Fair
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A Downtown “favorite” gets a new lease on life, returning under new ownership from nearby Ocean...
This restaurant is now a private event space empress pavilion restaurant review:
Chinatown's beloved dim sum parlor of 25 years closed in 2013, but was reopened by Ocean Seafood owner Andy Lau (and revamped to the tune of $2 million) in 2014. It looks much the same, but with the former dingy décor scrubbed clean, and a plush new gold-and-crimson carpet beneath sparkling crystal chandeliers, the giant room remains warm and inviting. This Empress 2.0 still offers the lively...
The royalty of high Chinese cuisine, where Peking duck and shark's fin soup meet dim sum favorites.:
The Scene
In this cavernous banquet hall, a fleet of black-tie servers look after every table with eyes like hawks. Though they will readily offer thoughtful recommendations, they may...
In this cavernous banquet hall, a fleet of black-tie servers look after every table with eyes like hawks. Though they will readily offer thoughtful recommendations, they may...
Information from the business
Empress Pavilion Banquets and Events is one of the last great Cantonese restaurants in Chinatown, With the start of the New Year, we will no longer be serving our world famous Dim Sum or Dinner, instead we will become a destination Banquets and Events venue. It's 15,000 square foot space and 700+ seating capacity is the ideal venue to hold any size events, from Baptism to Bar Mitzvah. We offer...
