The Empress Seafood Restaurant

Name: The Empress Seafood Restaurant
Address: 2825 W Alameda Ave #2901, Denver, Colorado, 80219, US
Telephone: (303) 922-2822
Price range: $$
Rating: 4.30

Seafood restaurant

Location: 2825 W Alameda Ave #2901, Denver, CO 80219, United States
Phone: (303) 922-2822
Price: $$

Opening hours

Sunday: 10:30 am-9 pm
Monday: 11 am-9 pm
Tuesday: 11 am-9 pm
Wednesday: 11 am-9 pm
Thursday: 11 am-9 pm
Friday: 11 am-9 pm
Saturday: 10:30 am-9 pm

Takeout

Sunday: 11 am-8:30 pm
Monday: 11 am-8:30 pm
Tuesday: 11 am-8:30 pm
Wednesday: 11 am-8:30 pm
Thursday: 11 am-8:30 pm
Friday: 10 am-8:30 pm
Saturday: 10 am-8:30 pm

Food & drink

Vibe

Shumai

Dim sum

Dumpling

Peking duck

Street View

Menus and Prices

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Reviews

Wow! Delightful! We’ve been there now for dinner and lunch; definitely go for lunch if you want fresh carts going around.
The chicken feet are nice and soft and delicious, but for dinner they’ve gotten a bit dry on the tops of them, maybe from sitting in a fridge or under a heat lamp. Service? Great! Attentive, fast, informative.
Salt and pepper pork chop was cut into smaller pieces than were used to eating, but that was still excellent—crispy, savory, melts in your mouth! Chinese broccoli is a MUST. We adore their fried “football” pork glutinous balls.
AMAZING.
Shrimp and eggplant dim sum also excellent.
I’d recommend maybe leaning away from fried taro cake, as it’s very salty. Go! Please go! So yummy.

Owner response

Lydia, thank you for your review and your feedback! We're so happy to know you love our dishes.
We appreciate your feedback on the chicken feet and the fried taro cake, and we will try to improve them for your next visit.
We are glad that you liked our service, our salt and pepper pork chop, our Chinese broccoli, our fried “football” pork glutinous balls, and our shrimp and eggplant dim sum.
You have a great taste in food! We hope to see you again soon.
Thank you for choosing us!

Don’t order Peking duck on the menu! It is not Peking duck, it is pan fried roast duck! The skin is not crispy at all! Very unpleasant! The restaurant keeps arguing this is Peking duck! You should really change your menu and call this dish something else, unless you can make real Peking duck! Peking duck and Cantonese roast duck are two different dishes, they even use different kinds of ducks to prepare.

Owner response

Patty, thank you for your feedback.
We apologize for the inconvenience and disappointment you experienced with our Peking duck dish.
We value your opinion and we strive to provide authentic and delicious food to our customers. We are sorry to hear that you did not enjoy our Peking duck, which is one of our signature dishes.
We hope that you will give us another chance to serve you better in the future.
We have many other dishes on our menu that you may enjoy and we hope you'll visit us again in the future.

UPDATE: Came for dim sum and was pleasantly surprised by the improvement in quality.
The large dining room is perfect for cart service and the quality and variety of items is really good for Denver. Initial review: The Empress has been a reliable Cantonese restaurant for a few decades now, even through ownership changes.
The large banquet room creates a nice bustling atmosphere, especially on the weekends when dim sum is served on cart.
To be honest the dim sum is just ok, but for many Denver Chinese, it’s nostalgic for big family meals.
Def prefer going for dinner and ordering dishes like seafood chow mein, crispy pork, and walnut shrimp.