It was awesome. Eric Chong even served us personally!

Great as always! The fried chicken protein content was lower than expected but still great!

good food and service. The duck was well made as well.

Loved the food! Loved the decor! The service was excellent! We’ll be back!

Chef was amazing, it is obvious that he has taken a lot of thought into his food, a rareity for restaurants in Toronto.

Amazing night at R&D. The service was great- food was amazing ! Duck was incredible- definitely will be back soon

Excellent service, the servers know the menu really well and make great suggestions. Food is all to share which is fun for a date - we had the dim sum buns (amazing!), bone marrow, low mien and bok choy side, all very good but I’d say dim sum and bone marrow were our Favorite. Cocktails are also incredible, if you can make it there before 7 for the $7 special. Worth it to pay full price though, very nice ingredients.

I think our servers name was Ray...he was very attentive and knowledgeable. Thank you!

"best duck in town' is the best! Now it's my 2nd time eating this and it is just as good as the 1st time. Perfectly done, juicy. All the other menu offering are also very good. I recommend it highly.

It took us six years after Eric won the first MasterChef Canada competition to finally make it to his restaurant. We ordered the marrow, fried chicken and fried rice which was very filling for the two of us. Each dish was so flavorful. We were able to scan a QR code on the table to view the menus on our phone. The staff were all great about providing a safe dining experience with excellent service. Will definitely come back again to try some of their other dishes.

For a first time visitor, I had an amazing experience at R&D. Everything right from the friendliness of the servers to the food options and the food taste and price was absolutely wonderful. I definitely have a new favorite to go again..👍👍👍

We had a fantastic meal at R&D: delicious dishes served in a great setting. We didn't try the self-proclaimed "best [Peking] duck in the city", but we're mightily tempted to come back for it!

I had a good experience. The food and service was great

Fabulous. Innovative menu and superb flavour and presentation. Great friendly service. Love the decor too.
Will go back again and again.

Beautiful design in the heart of Chinatown supercool

I really enjoyed that it wasn't basic Chinese-restaurant food. It was pretty hip (and noisy), but then again, my visit was on a Friday evening.

The food was nothing to go crazy over; just fancy descriptions and not much to support it. The server was good but each dish was brought out independently, forcing us to wait a while for the entire order to be fulfilled.

NOthing but great things to say. They are doing it right

Super delicious food, great service and vibe. Will definitely be returning.

Good overall, very limited options for vegans or vegetarians though.

Great place and a delicious modern twist on Chinese food. The duck is something you must try if you come here!

As fans of MasterChef TV show, we went to taste and experience food of superior quality, taste and finesse - and we found exactly that. Never had food so brilliantly prepared, multiple layers of flavour just explodes in the mouth. Nice and cozy restaurant with great service. It was an honour to meet MC Canada season 1 winner Chef Eric.

We went here for a Valentine’s Day date and ordered the duck in advance because we had to see if it really was the best duck in the city. Can’t say I was disappointed. The ambience helped contribute to a wonderful night with a great playlist and great lighting. We only had the duck and sake flights which were both delicious in their own right. We will definitely be back to try out the rest of the menu.

Fantastic food and service, would definitely come back

The food was delicious and came out really fast, maybe too fast? They arrived before our drinks. Our waitress was very kind and attentive.

Great first experience. My girlfriend gave me a special gift after taking her here. Will do again.

It was great spot. Service was awesome. Ray the server was cool. Food and choices are pretty tasty.

Recommended drink: the passion fruit cocktail
Recommended food: the beef spring rolls.
We went there on Valentine’s Day and while the service was good we felt like they were trying to rush us a bit.
Perhaps it would be better on a less busy evening.

We have been to R&D many times now and my wife and I always look forward to the next time. The food, the atmosphere are great and the staff are very friendly.

I felt that the service was not that great because we reserved a table for 8:30pm and ended up being seated around 9 and it seemed like the waiter paid more attention to others. But once we were seated, what I liked was he would ask us how we were doing once we got the food. I went for winterlicious and felt the food quality was ok. Not bad but not great (possibly let down by my high expectations). I would recommend going to experience it but most likely will not go more than once.

Winterlicious 2020. Been to R&D a few times and like most of their dishes but the quality during Winterlicious was abysmal. Despite offering only the condensed Winterlicious menu and the dishes being just smaller versions of the regular menu, the execution of the food was poor. The fusion concepts were badly thought out and detracted from the enjoyment of the ingredients.

Our visit was during Wintherlicious.
The starter was fine but both main and dessert was a little disappointing - grainy cheesecake for instance.
The service was off, even though our waitress was smiling and nice, she was super confused, didn’t understand our order and brought the wrong main for me. We couldn’t help ourselves from laughing a little bit about how off it was, so in that sense it was entertaining as well.

Great Asian fusion menu. Fantastic atmosphere and great service. Will definitely be back!

Winterlicious had a very nice menu, the steamed bao and torched salmon were great starters for a heavier main course. The dessert was fantastic as well.

Terrible service. Server was rude, forgot many dishes and drinks and still had a terrible attitude instead of apologizing for his mistakes throughout the night. He was disrespectful to many of us and ruined our experience.

This was not my first visit but it is definitely my last

Went for Winterlicious and left full and happy! The Golden Hour cocktail had a pleasant quick and was nice and fruity. The meal options kept true to the authentic Chinese flavour yet unique with modern twists. My favourite this hands down was the Pandan Cheesecake. Perfect blend of Pandan and coconut flavour. Please add it to main menu!!
Our server was the best, so polite and friendly. Would recommend!

From the moment we walked out experience was exceptional.

From the friendliness of the service to the quality of the food we thoroughly enjoyed our evening.

The spring rolls were amazing.

We will be back(again).

Came here for Winterlicious. The food was so delicious and the portions size were great! We also ordered the additional daan tat and gotta say that dish did not taste very good. The desserts were also not that great ... Other than that the baos were delicious, and the mains were amazing!

Food tastes amazing. Love the creations and combinations of all ingredients Awesome experience overall ! Definitely gonna visit again.

DON'T go here for Winterlicious!

I went with my girlfriend for Winterlicious, and had an absolutely terrible experience. For appetizers, I went with the pork belly, and she got the HK street food. The bork pelly was mediocre (something I could easily get anywhere in chinatown, not an appetizer for the price I was paying), but the street food was abysmal; a terrible, gelatinous texture in a brown slimy sauce.

Our main course was poke bowl. Again, no complaints, its just something I could have gotten elsewhere for $11; tuna, avacado, rice, etc. The horror came when we ordered dessert. I had the absolutely disgusting "Pandan Cheesecake"; served in a plastic cup, looking and TASTING like toothpaste, smelling like cheap icing, it was an atrocious end to a mediocre meal. I couldn't believe how a chef could put something so cheap and unappetizing together.

The total came to $75 for the kind of food you can get far better elsewhere in chinatown for <$20, and a dessert you can recreate by eating a pint of toothpaste. Please, if you're looking for a good time during Winterlicious, do not go here.

I went to R&D on a Saturday for Winterlicious 2020. We were a party of two and seated even though we were 30 minutes early for our reservation.

For appetizer we ordered the Hong Kong style street food and torched salmon. The Hong Kong style street food was very forgettable. Being from Hong Kong myself at a supposedly more innovative restaurant, I would have expected it to be slightly elevated but the fish balls, cheung fun and tofu were not that interesting and vastly subpar from an actual street food vendor. The curry flavour was plain, the food was cold and not spicy at all.

For mains, we had a brisket noodle and the 3 cup chicken. I was especially excited for the chicken as it's one of my favourite Taiwanese dishes. It tastes nothing like what it was supposed to. The sauce was generic and had no hints of sesame oil or basil leaves which are the foundation to flavours of the dish. The brisket noodles were tasty but the portion small compared to other noodle dishes you might get a few doors down.

The pandan cheesecake and tres leches desserts tasted very sweet and artificial.

Overall, I was very disappointed with my meal. The service was also mediocre, the server interrupted us while we were mid bite and picked up our dish before we done. I would expect the timing to be a lot better especially since the restaurant was not that full. $85 after tax and tips could get you at least three vastly superior meals for two at any other restaurant in the area.