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Triple Crown Restaurant

Restaurant Chinese restaurant Seafood restaurant Asian restaurant Chinese takeaway Delivery chinese restaurant Dim sum restaurant

One of the Most Reviewed Chinese restaurants in Chicago


Address

2217 S Wentworth Ave, Chicago, IL 60616, United States

Website

www.triplecrownchicago.com

Contact

+1 312-842-0088

Price rating

$$ $$

Rating on Google Maps

4.30 (3.3K reviews)

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Working Hours

  • Sunday: 10 am to 9 pm
  • Monday: (Washington's Birthday), 11 am to 9 pm, Hours might differ
  • Tuesday: 11 am to 9 pm
  • Wednesday: 11 am to 9 pm
  • Thursday: 11 am to 9 pm
  • Friday: 11 am to 11 pm
  • Saturday: 10 am to 11 pm

Featured Reviews


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  • 5/5 Alvin W. 1 year ago on Google
    This place is awesome. We decided to go to this place because we asked a local Chinese auntie and she told us that this is the best dim sum place. 大三元 in Chinese. The amount of food they serve are much more than other Chinese Dim Sum places and also much cheaper. I would recommend everyone to go there. The food is so delicious. We ordered too much and we end up being too full. I really like the stir fried turnip cake & the beef honeycomb.
    10 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Jerry d. 1 year ago on Google
    Great place for dim sum in Chicago Chinatown. We ordered a variety of dishes. All were tasty. Staff was helpful in assisting us with deciding on what to order. If you aren't familiar with dim sum, it's similar to tapas, snacks, or small bites. You will need to order several so all parties will be able to have enough to eat. We ordered a variety of buns, dumplings, rolls, chops, and other bites. All were delicious. I recommend trying this place out if you visit Chicago Chinatown.
    6 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Chicago Bae R. 3 months ago on Google • 173 reviews New
    Triple crown restaurant! Let me get into it! The food here was very good. If you don’t know TCR is a dimsum place. All the food is very good. The quality is great! You can taste how good each dish is that you order. And the price is worth every bite! The service was okay seemed a little chaotic with the amount of people who work there walking around. The atmosphere was great. You can over look the main road and see people and things happening outside which is a nice change! It defiantly was welcoming when you first walk in. Overall, I will say give TCR a shot if you wanna have good tasting dimsum.

  • 3/5 Megan B. 10 months ago on Google
    We went for dim sum on a Saturday. We were immediately seated, and the host reminded us that they were only serving dim sum at that time. We were given a paper menu with pictures of each dish. You mark what size and quantity you want on the menu (small, med, large, etc.). The server picks up the menu when you are ready to place your order. They come out with a cart with the dumplings and drop them off to each table that ordered that variety. We were served tea and water and given one small dish of dipping sauce. The tablecloth was sticky. The food came out quickly. The BBQ pork buns and the soup dumplings were tender and flavorful. The fried octopus was hard and chewy. Okay overall, but I have had better dim sum elsewhere. The atmosphere was not the best. The entry had a dirty indoor pond with two sad fish swimming around. There were some plastic plants in the water, covered in algae. The way to the bathroom was lined with dirty fish tanks, mostly empty, but one had several crabs. One of the crabs was on its back and appeared to be dead. The bathroom was dirty. The tank lid was off the toilet, sitting on the ground. The bathroom floor was very sticky. Triple Crown was okay. We will try somewhere else next time.
    5 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Sgt. Pepper L. 4 months ago on Google • 86 reviews
    A decent and reasonably priced restaurant. Food is delicious. Service can be a bit slow, especially during evening/dinner rush hours. Portion is huge, and good to serve two people for 1.5 meals easily. Cleanliness could be improved. Overall positive.
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Cathy B. 1 year ago on Google
    Really enjoyed the dim sum. We ordered about 12 different plates to share among 6 of us and it was just the right amount of food. The Baos are excellent. Also enjoyed everything else. Favorite was the chicken soup dumpling. Great egg rolls.
    4 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Elizabeth H. 1 year ago on Google
    Exceptionally delicious dim sum but a really difficult seating process. The wait was about half an hour longer than was quoted and the waiting process (wound up waiting about an hour and a half) is a little stressful. You go upstairs to get a ticket (like deli numbers) and then they shout numbers inside the entryway only. You can’t leave your phone number and you can’t wait outside, you can only wait with the crowd inside. But oh man, as soon as you get to your table and your food arrives, it’s worth the wait. So delicious! They bring out a few different sauces as well which is great. The dough of the dumplings is the perfect consistency. The fried dumplings are so deliciously crispy. The steamed dishes are perfectly soft without being chewy. Really bright flavors in everything. Good prices too.
    3 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Rachel Arias - Tripp I. 1 year ago on Google
    Really good food, love the dim sum variety. The other dishes were good as well. You get good portions, considering the price. There was a bit of a wait to be seated, once we were seated service was spotty and took a while to place our order. Once our order was placed, it took a while to receive all the items. One dish took so long we ended up taking it to go. There was a steady flow of people in and out, we never seemed rushed and were lucky enough to get a window seat. Customer service could use a little work. Would recommend.
    3 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Catherine F. 1 year ago on Google
    I understand why all the travel blogs, reviews and Trip Advisor recommended this restaurant. The food taste amazing, the service is really fast. It was a great experience and I recommend it. Be careful as the plates are huge! Good place to share few different meals to allow you to try as much as possible!
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 T H. 1 year ago on Google
    So delicious! We went to this restaurant years ago on a Chinatown food tour and went again recently for lunch. Great dim sum, super friendly staff, and an overall great experience. Highly recommend! The BBQ pork buns and piggy custard buns were amazing!
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Sergio D. 6 months ago on Google • 49 reviews
    A Chinatown staple, delicious comfort food! Came here for dinner with friends and we were ecstatic about the variety - there was something for everyone and prices were fair! Some highlights included the chicken feet, the turnip cakes, and siu mai. For service, make sure to flag down wait staff. Decor and furniture was outdated, but we didn’t mind because the food was so worth it!

  • 4/5 Somsubhra G. 1 month ago on Google • 39 reviews New
    Dumplings are delicious. Recommend the short ribs. The duck was nice but was a bit underwhelming. Service is average but timely and professional.

  • 4/5 Aaron P. 6 months ago on Google
    We came for lunch on a Friday. The prices are fair and the food is good. Some of the dim sum seemed less flavorful than we like (less seasoning, herbs, spices). We asked for chili oil and that helped a lot. Nothing stood out but I would go back.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 3/5 Hewe W. 8 months ago on Google
    Visited Triple Crown for the first time after several years with my family for DimSum and I was not really impressed. The food was pretty decent for a Chinese restaurant, it doesn’t wow me or anything. The portions are small for the price that you’re paying. Service was relatively quick, however, I must say that not everyone is always paying attention, they’re just doing their jobs so you have to call for them. The environment of Triple Crown Restaurant was kind of disgusting. The restaurant is dim, the floors are sticky, the bathrooms are filthy and the entrance fishes seem like they are neglected.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Kofu K. 1 year ago on Google
    This restaurant was my first time trying Chinese food back in 2017. I went again after 5 years and I wasn't really impressed. It's located in China town, it's spacious restaurant with huge round tables for bigger parties. We started with sampler plate, there was crab rangoon, pot stickers, egg roll and shrimp toast. Everything was ok but very greasy and heavy, so I just had a bit of everything. For entrees, Sizzling beef short rib was great presentation, steamy on iron plate, veggies were super fresh and tasty, meat and sauce were great as well. Mongolian beef was the best dish on the table, very tender and seasoned perfectly. Fried rice wasn't anything special, same goes for Salt and Pepper Squid, not salty enough & not crispy enough. Not the bad place for food, it's more of an experience, but there are way better tastier places for Chinese food.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Angie P. 1 year ago on Google
    This placed seemed like a bit of a hole in the wall, but it was really nice! The entryway is beautiful, and there is a walk up a staircase to get to the eating area. We were able to get a table immediately despite it being a decently busy day which was a huge change from the dim sum places in Chinatown square. The food was pretty decently priced and most of it was fantastic, although I definitely liked some more than others. My friend, who frequently eats dim sum, considers this place just average in taste but I fully enjoyed everything I had. The wait staff is pretty attentive and kind.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Joannie M. 5 months ago on Google • 27 reviews
    Came to celebrate my husband’s birthday and it did not disappoint. The service was impeccable, prompt and courteous. First time here so we ordered a variety of dishes and everything was fresh and delicious. We will definitely be coming back.

  • 5/5 Daniel M. 4 months ago on Google • 15 reviews
    Haven’t been here a bunch of times, but my experience was great. I was just before the dinner rush. They serve dim sum all day, so I started with some pan seared shrimp and chive dumplings which were great, then moved on to the Salt and Pepper Pork chops, which were awesome. Yes, you’re gonna have to spit out the bones. If that’s off-putting for you, go to Panda and order the General Tao’s chicken. This was a great experience.

  • 5/5 Jenny H. 1 month ago on Google • 7 reviews New
    Been here 3 times, once in 2016, 2019, and again for Lunar New Year 2024. Food remains tasty and consistent but prices are painfully higher. I find myself unable to order the usual variety and sample dimsun with a group of friends (would otherwise be $100++). It adds up FAST and hurts more and more each time I come 😔 Its a place where I'd go to for special occasions

  • 4/5 Tom K. 5 months ago on Google
    Good egg roll and crab rangoon. Beef was just ok. A little hard to chew. Would be nice to have some peppers or mushrooms in there too. Not upscale. Super quick and attentive service. Place could be cleaner. Seems like it was once a grand place.

  • 4/5 Jay S. 7 months ago on Google
    This time in Chicago I have decided to try a new place for dim sum after a friend's recommendation to Triple Crown and overall was not disappointed. My friends and I had a reduced menu for some reason so it had fewer items than the one shown online. All of the congee and the vegetables were missing. I do not know if it is because we were there for dinner, but that was okay because what the menu contained was more than enough. We ordered what we could and it satisfied my friends' cravings as most of them fulfilled their very first dim sum experience. My favorite was the liquid custard bun (流沙包), the triple crown shrimp dumpling (大三元虾饺), the shrimp & chive dumpling (鲜虾韭菜饺), and the pan fried turnip cake (香煎萝卜糕). One thing I say about dim sum is that when one has it, there's not really a place where dim sum is going to be spectacularly good, because one would expect it to taste like what it is supposed to taste like. Only when it is bad that one would be able to tell right away. So the items I mentioned, they tasted like what they were supposed to taste like, and that was definitely a good thing. Not saying the rest didn't, though, as many other items were good as well, such as the scallop dumpling (带子饺), the fried sesame ball (黄金煎堆仔), the stuffed sticky rice (珍珠糯米鸡), and so on. A few items did not taste as good as I had expected, but were still good enough and would not ruin my experience at all. We ordered twelve different kinds of dim sum and were overall satisfied. My friends who were not Chinese had a wonderful time with their first dim sum experience. It would have been nice if some items like the pineapple top BBQ pork bun (叉烧菠萝包), the Chinese broccoli with oyster sauce (蚝油芥蓝), the puffy egg custard tart (酥皮蛋挞), etc. were on the menu that we were given. But if the reduced menu was a dinner thing, then so be it. I still thought whatever they had would be able to give people a pleasant experience. They also had other menus with non-dim sum items. I took a look but didn't pay much attention. The photos looked appealing, though. I just don't know if I would return to this place to order items that were not dim sim simply because a lot of the dishes I have had while at home in China and grew up eating them (but not necessarily dim sum). But I still encourage others to give them a shot. In conclusion, great food! A lot of other factors ranging from courtesy to sanitation (bathrooms) can be better, but I understand how Chinese restaurants here in the United States typically run their businesses and I am not picky about it. It just means the food is reliably good as it has the heaviest emphasis.

  • 4/5 Matthew L. 8 months ago on Google
    It was exactly what I expected it to be. Good dim sum, quick service, right at the entrance to china town. I will say I saw mostly white folks, but I was still pleased by the food. They do not have a bar or anything so if you’re by yourself you get the whole tabletop. Pan fried shrimp and corn dumplings are excellent. Heavy on the shrimp, good texture, good size, great taste. Would definitely order again. Steamed bbq Pork buns - solid, good filling to bun ratio, good flavor on the pork and sauce. Would order again. Shanghi Soup Dumplings - a good example of the dish, but wasn’t mind blowing. If you haven’t had them before, they are tasty, but I’d probably try something else. 217. Shanghai noodles - I like to get a noodle dish to fill out the meal. The noodles were good, the curry seemed powdery rather than flavorful and the pork isn’t seasoned or cured. I wouldn’t order this again. Lots of other options to try in the area, but I’d say this em is definitely a safe choice.

  • 4/5 George B. 4 months ago on Google
    We stopped by for lunch here and over all we were happy. They are busy around lunch, so get in and put your name in before you explore the city for a bit. We got a few different plates and loved them all (some maybe we won't order again but still glad we tried them). Service is definitely lacking tho in this place - you have to flag ppl down. Once the order is in tho, they move fast so it kinda works out. The food comes hot and perfect for that first bite.

  • 5/5 Britney S. 1 year ago on Google
    We got seated right away (we did come around 3:30pm) and everything was delicious! We loved the soup dumplings and got about 4 orders of them. If you don't know what to get, I recommend the soup dumplings and the piggy custard buns. Both were amazing! It looked super busy once we left (5:00ish) so either come early or be prepared to wait.

  • 5/5 Trisha B. 1 month ago on Google • 5 reviews New
    Such a staple within Chinatown! We came to have our first lunch and Triple Crown restaurant did not disappoint. As soon as we ordered we got our food within 15-20 minutes which made the 30 minute wait well worth it. We got combination rice, beef flat noodles, stir fry, egg rolls, pot stickers and to finish we had some calamari! Oh am gee was it 🔥🔥🔥🔥 it was so good that I forgot to snap some photos 🥲 nonetheless highly recommend this restaurant.


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Amenities


  • Parking
    • ✓️ Paid parking lot
    • ✓️ Paid street parking
    • ✓️ Free of charge street parking
  • Payments
    • ✓️ Debit cards
    • ✓️ Credit cards
    • ✓️ NFC mobile payments
  • Offerings
    • ✓️ Beer
    • ✓️ Wine
    • ✓️ Alcohol
    • ✓️ Spirits
    • ✓️ Cocktails
    • ✓️ Quick bite
    • ✓️ Comfort food
    • ✓️ Small plates
    • ✓️ Late-night food
    • ✓️ Vegetarian options
  • Popular for
    • ✓️ Lunch
    • ✓️ Dinner
    • ✓️ Solo dining
  • Accessibility
    • ✓️ Wheelchair-accessible toilet
    • ✗ Wheelchair-accessible car park
    • ✗ Wheelchair-accessible entrance
  • Dining options
    • ✓️ Lunch
    • ✓️ Brunch
    • ✓️ Dinner
    • ✓️ Dessert
    • ✓️ Seating
    • ✓️ Catering
    • ✓️ Breakfast
  • Service options
    • ✓️ Dine-in
    • ✓️ Delivery
    • ✓️ Takeaway
    • ✓️ Kerbside pickup
    • ✓️ No-contact delivery

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