New York Eats guide · checked October 2026
Dim sum in New York
18 dim sum restaurants, carts or menu, from Manhattan's Chinatown to Flushing and Sunset Park, each checked open in October 2026 on its own website, menu, or recent local news.
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Carts or menu
Dim sum is the Cantonese meal of small plates (dumplings, buns, rice rolls, turnip cakes) eaten with tea, usually in the morning and early afternoon. Some halls still push carts between tables; others order from a menu. Weekends are busiest.
The 18 on this list
They're in 6 regions of the state. The longest at the same address: Nom Wah Tea Parlor in Chinatown-Two Bridges, Manhattan, there since 1968; Golden Unicorn in Chinatown-Two Bridges, Manhattan, there since 1989; Jing Fong in SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square, Manhattan, there since 2021; Spin and Savor in Pittsford, there since 2024. 37 other places in the app's directory have “dim sum” in their name; they're in the directory and the web search, but not on this list until we check them.
How the list was built: In October 2026 we looked up every place here in a 2025 or 2026 source (the shop's own site or menu, a dated post, local reporting, or a tourism listing) and matched its address. No current source, no listing. Review sites played no part, and the order is by region and city, not by anyone's rating. Menus and hours move, so call first.
A New York City place carries the Health Department's letter grade and the date it was given, wherever we matched one; elsewhere in the state, the latest state or county inspection, where one is published. In the app, this list puts the nearest places first, with Apple Maps' live card a tap away for hours and photos.
Jump to a region
The list is grouped by New York's 10 economic development regions, New York City first.
- New York City (13)
- Long Island (1)
- Mid-Hudson (1)
- Capital Region (1)
- Central New York (1)
- Finger Lakes (1)
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New York City
13 places, by borough, most in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. See the New York City page for the region.
Bamboo Garden
6409 8th Ave, Dyker Heights, Brooklyn
Dim sum Known for: pig-shaped custard buns, duck carved tableside
Sunset Park banquet hall on 8th Avenue serving cart dim sum.
Grade A · graded Feb 5, 2026Official NYC Health Department grade
East Harbor Seafood Palace
714 65th St, Dyker Heights, Brooklyn
Dim sum Known for: flour dumplings with pork, peanuts and mushrooms, bean curd skin rolls
Large cart-service dim sum hall between 7th and 8th Avenues, on the Sunset Park/Dyker Heights edge.
Grade B · graded Nov 5, 2025Official NYC Health Department grade
Pacificana
813 55th St, Sunset Park (East)-Borough Park (West), Brooklyn
Dim sum Known for: dim sum
Second-floor Sunset Park dim sum hall at 8th Avenue; Time Out now lists it as Pacificana/Pacific Palace.
100 Feast & Lounge
100 E Broadway, Chinatown-Two Bridges, Manhattan
Dim sum Known for: cart-service dim sum
Second-floor Cantonese banquet hall on East Broadway with cart-service dim sum; a lounge and rooftop terrace are upstairs.
No letter grade on file yetLatest NYC Health Department inspection Jun 22, 2026
Dim Sum Palace
27 Division St, Chinatown-Two Bridges, Manhattan
Dim sum Known for: pork congee, taro dumplings
Division Street branch of a local dim sum chain with several Manhattan locations and a weekday dim sum happy hour.
No letter grade on file yetLatest NYC Health Department inspection Sep 14, 2026
Golden Unicorn
18 E Broadway, Chinatown-Two Bridges, Manhattan
Dim sum Known for: dim sum · At this address since 1989
East Broadway Cantonese banquet restaurant that has served dim sum since 1989.
Grade pendingNYC Health Department, inspected Aug 13, 2026
House of Joy
28 Pell St, Chinatown-Two Bridges, Manhattan
Dim sum Known for: egg custard, red rice noodles, black sesame rolls
Pell Street dim sum restaurant with traditional cart service.
Grade A · graded Apr 29, 2026Official NYC Health Department grade
Jing Fong
202 Centre St, SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square, Manhattan
Dim sum Known for: dim sum · At this address since 2021
Chinatown Cantonese dim sum house with cart service, now in a smaller room on Centre Street.
Grade A · graded Feb 26, 2026Official NYC Health Department grade
Nom Wah Tea Parlor
13 Doyers St, Chinatown-Two Bridges, Manhattan
Dim sum Known for: egg roll, shrimp and snow pea leaf dumplings, turnip cake, roast pork bun · At this address since 1968
Doyers Street dim sum parlor ordered from a checklist rather than carts.
Grade B · graded Jun 30, 2025Official NYC Health Department grade
Ping's
22 Mott St, Chinatown-Two Bridges, Manhattan
Dim sum Known for: pork shumai, pan-fried water chestnut cake
Mott Street seafood restaurant serving traditional dim sum.
Grade A · graded Jan 21, 2026Official NYC Health Department grade
Royal Seafood Restaurant
103 Mott St, SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square, Manhattan
Dim sum Known for: shrimp rice noodle rolls, pea shoot dumplings, mini custard pies
Mott Street restaurant with cart-service dim sum.
Tim Ho Wan East Village
85 4th Ave, East Village, Manhattan
Dim sum Known for: baked barbecue pork buns, pan-fried turnip cake, steamed rice rolls · A branch of Tim Ho Wan, Hong Kong
East Village branch of the Hong Kong dim sum chain.
Asian Jewels
133-30 39th Ave, Flushing-Willets Point, Queens
Dim sum Known for: shrimp dumplings, braised eggplant with seafood paste, banana rolls
Chandeliered Flushing banquet hall serving cart dim sum.
Grade pendingNYC Health Department, inspected Sep 12, 2025
Long Island
1 place, by city or town. See the Long Island page for the region.
Garden Dim Sum
1500 Old Country Rd, Westbury
Dim sum Known for: shrimp dumplings, shumai, weekend cart service · At this address since 2025
Full-service Cantonese dim sum hall in Westbury's Samanea Mall with chefs from Hong Kong and Guangzhou, live seafood tanks and weekend carts.
Mid-Hudson
1 place, by city or town. See the Mid-Hudson page for the region.
Aberdeen Seafood & Dim Sum
3 Barker Ave, White Plains
Dim sum Known for: homemade dim sum
Downtown White Plains Cantonese restaurant that specializes in homemade dim sum made fresh every day. Closed Tuesdays. NYSDOH lists it as Aberdeen Cantonese Restaurant.
Capital Region
1 place, by city or town. See the Capital Region page for the region.
Shining Rainbow
209 Central Ave, Albany
Dim sum Known for: mushroom pork shui mai, rice noodle rolls, chicken feet, turnip cake, Portuguese custard tarts
Central Avenue Chinese restaurant with a dim sum menu of about 46 items alongside its regular menu.
Latest state inspection Nov 20, 20250 critical violations, 6 other violations (NYSDOH)
Central New York
1 place, by city or town. See the Central New York page for the region.
Su Su Dim Sum
549 E Brighton Ave, Syracuse
Dim sum Known for: steamed dumplings, cold plates, house-made noodle soups
Syracuse dim sum restaurant serving steamed dumplings, cold plates and house-made noodle soups. Closed Mondays.
Latest state inspection Feb 6, 20260 critical violations, 3 other violations (NYSDOH)
Finger Lakes
1 place, by city or town. See the Finger Lakes page for the region.
Spin and Savor
2775 Monroe Avenue (Behind Sakura), Pittsford
Dim sum Known for: soup dumplings, shumai, custard buns, glass shrimp rolls · At this address since 2024
Cantonese dim sum restaurant where diners order on iPads and baskets arrive on a two-level conveyor belt. The chef has more than 30 years of New York City dim sum experience.
About the inspection results
NYC letter grades are the NYC Health Department's own, labeled official and shown with the date of the graded inspection: A, B or C, posted at the door. N means not yet graded, Z grade pending, and P grade pending on re-opening after a closure. We never compute a grade from an inspection score. Source: NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, NYC Open Data, records through Sep 29, 2026; the full history is on the Health Department's ABCEats site.
Outside New York City there is no official restaurant grade, and we don't make one. Where shown, the date and counts are from the New York State Department of Health's latest inspection on file (health.data.ny.gov), records through Sep 24, 2026. In NYSDOH's words:
“Any use of this data to develop a restaurant grading system is not supported or endorsed by the New York State Department of Health.”
Any analyses, interpretations or conclusions here are ours, not NYSDOH's. Places are never ordered by these counts.