86 Seafood
86 Seafood
Takes Reservations: Yes
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
7 reviews
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From the same people as 86 Fu Kee just down the block, this is a fairly standard Cantonese restaurant serving dim sum by day and dinner by night. Environs are adequate, if a bit tired. Several large round tables for groups or communal dining, a few smaller square tables for groups 2-6.
Dim sum is wholly unremarkable. Brought by push cart, variety is limited to the usual suspects (steamed pork dumplings, shrimp dumplings in translucent skin, fried chicken feet, beef balls, rice noodle rolls, spare ribs, etc), with even these running out often. Quality is middling for the most part. Oddly, the supple, smooth freshness of the rice noodle in the beef rolls did not predict the same in the inedible ones topped with spare ribs, tasting day old with hard edges, nor the average ones wrapping shrimp. Rice noodles at Fu Kee are usually very good, but only the beef rolls held up to a comparison.
Although dinner had yet to be tried, takeout rice dishes purchased to go were good in flavor and preparation. That included salty fish, meat, and eggplant stir fry, mixed beef with peas, and braised pork belly with preserved vegetables.
Won't be back for dim sum, but will be back for takeout, and to try dinner.
Place is fine. Run of the mill Chinese restaurant to me (being Chinese and all). Decent food, typical staff and medium sized space. I'm rating dinner, probably was here for dim sum before, can't remember which means it was fine.
I come here for dinner when family wants to get together for something like (grand) mother's day or her birthday close to her Brooklyn home. Not a bad place to come as there are not as many options in the Bensonhurst area.
Tip: Cash Only
This place has been renamed many times and 86 Seafood is its newest name. Dim Sum here is very good. Like most 86th street Brooklyn dim sum places, they make things in small batches so the food is always piping hot. The service is very good as the waiters came by to pick-up empty dim sum containers and plates frequently. As I have written in other posts, in my opinion, 86th Street Brooklyn dim sum places are on average better than those in Manhattan Chinatown and 8th Avenue/Sunset Park Chinatown.
Overall: would recommend if you are in the neighborhood and/or want to avoid the hustle and bustle of 8th Avenue Brooklyn.
Specs; on 86th street below the train tracks. nearest train station is Bay Parkway on the D train. Cash Only. If you don't speak Cantonese, you might want to bring someone who does 🙂
If you don't know already by know, 86 Seafood is actually owned by Fu Kee too.
My parents took me and my boyfriend to 86 Seafood for dinner one night. It's a mid-sized restaurant, slightly bigger than Fu Kee. The service is on point and the staff are nice and friendly. I don't remember clearly what we had for dinner that night but this is what I do remember having –
For soup, we got the Fish Maw soup that came with a plate of vegetables, fish, mushroom, and tofu. I love this soup because it has a bit of creamy taste to it. This soup is very tasty and a family favorite.
Fish Fillet with Vegetables – The fish that was used in the soup was used for this scrumptious stir-fried dish. It consisted of carrots, yellow chives mushroom, fish fillet, and sugar snap peas. It was a very tasty dish.
Lamb with Dry Bean Curd Stick casserole – I love, love, love lamb! This dish was pure heaven! The lamb was moist, tender, and full of flavor and deliciousness! A yummy comfort dish that I could never get tired of
Assorted Mushrooms with Egg Tofu – This was a new one. We've never really ordered this during family dinners but I liked it. It's a nice vegetarian dish and I absolutely love mushrooms – any kind of mushroom!
There were at least 3-4 more dishes that we had, but I don't remember exactly what it was.
For dessert, we were given red bean soup and a plate of coconut and chrysanthemum dessert. It was a hot day and since the red bean soup was hot I decided not to to drink it. The coconut and chrysanthemum dessert was chilled and cool. I've never had chrysanthemum in a gelatin form before so it was interesting to see and try. Light and smooth like j-ello.
Overall, not a bad place to grab a simple family dinner, but there's definitely a lot more options along 86th street to choose from. The food quality here was about average, can't say it was excellent. Any way, I wouldn't mind coming back here just to try the dim sum.
My family and family friends were originally going to another restaurant but they were super busy and couldn't take us in, so we came here for dinner. They have few open tables which indicated to me and my husband that it might not be a good sign since the other two restaurants we wanted to go were maxed out. The food we ordered were okay – nothing spectacular. My 2 stars is really for the service. Our waiter was not friendly and did not want to work. My husband asked for forks at one time and the waiter saw him but walked away. When he came back my husband immediately grabbed his attention and asked for forks the second time, and he went "ai yaa" and grunted away. Eventually we got forks, but we did not appreciate his attitude when we asked for help. We ordered fried rice along with our food.. when he served us our entree, he told us that we don't need white rice since we already ordered a fried rice. I found that rude! Who is he to tell us what we should eat or what we shouldn't?! There were few people on the table that wanted white rice and not fried rice..so we asked another waiter to get us few bowls of white rice to eat with the entrees we ordered.
Anyway this restaurant would have received better rating if that waiter did not work there that night. He simply did not want to be there.. and obviously rubbed off on his customers. To note, they were not even busy!
TAKES RESERVATIONS: For dim sum, absolutely not. For dinner, they probably do like most Chinese restaurants.
GOOD FOR: Dim Sum, Dinner.
RESTAURANT SIZE: Not huge, but the spacing is excellent. There's plenty of walking room between tables.
MENU SELECTION: I came here for dim sum and the variety was good. They serve the usual dishes, but there was also a fair selection of the desserts too. The only gripe I had with the desserts was that there were no Malay Steamed Sponge Cake. I've seen more items served at other dim sum restaurants, but I've also seen some dim sum restaurants offer less too.
FOOD: Unfortunately, the quality was a little below average. The quality of the main dishes were ok, such as the shrimp dumplings, shaomai, spring rolls, etc), but the dessert was a disappointment. I ordered the Coconut Jelly, which is usually one of my faves, but the Jelly was a bit hard and not soft like they usually are. It also lacked depth of flavor.
SERVICE: The same as any dim sum experience. Grab what you want.
NOISE LEVEL: Average, wasn't that loud. You don't have to scream, which is a good thing.
FINAL COMMENTS: Would I come here again? Sure. Would it be my first dim sum choice? No.
This places serves all the basics of dimsum, rice noodle (beef, shrimp, celery, etc), chicken feet, spare ribs, buns, egg tarts, and so on. Everything was just alright. The 86th street chinese community doesn't have much options in terms of dimsum but it gets the job done. It satisfied my dimsum craving. It's definitely not comparable to east harbor(8 ave) or redsun (18ave). If they had more options (bacon balls!) I'd give it 4 stars!