Fast food dim sum on Sarasota’s North Trail?
April 17th, 2009 by Brian Ries in Food and DrinkEditor Cooper Levey-Baker caught this image on the way to work this morning. The property is the old Kentucky Fried Chicken, which seems an odd place for Sarasota’s first restaurant focused on dim sum. Still, someone’s working feverishly on the interior, so it may be transformed into something special. Or, this may be a fast-food and drive-through dim sum joint.
Comment if you know anything about the place.
April 17th, 2009 at 11:36 am
This is from the myflorida.com licensing site.
Name: GOLDEN DYNASTY CHINESE RESTAURANT (Primary Name)
GOLDEN DYNASTY CHINESE RESTAURANT (DBA Name)
Main Address: 5610 MACALLAN DR
TAMPA Florida 33625
County: HILLSBOROUGH
License Mailing: 5610 MACALLAN DR
TAMPA FL 33625
County: HILLSBOROUGH
LicenseLocation: 4195 N TAMIAMI TRAIL
SARASOTA FL 34236
It is a start.
April 17th, 2009 at 11:39 am
The Tampa address listed is for Wang Construction, I found the restaurant, Golden Dynasty located on East Fletcher.
April 17th, 2009 at 11:46 am
I will thank you for the info JP, and refrain from making any comments about the name of the construction company. Also, Cooper just told me a story involving you — about the Columbia — that makes me feel we are kindred souls. Except, of course, you’re willing to pursue public records searches to identify the new dim sum place while I, obviously, am not.
Keep up the good work.
April 17th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
I will never understand the attraction, but god forbid you say something derogatory about the joint when you are with a group.
As for the public record search, real dim sum is worth the time.
June 10th, 2009 at 9:50 am
[...] April 17, we posted a brief news item about construction underway at the site of a long-since-closed Kentucky Fried Chicken on North [...]
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:03 am
Just tried the Gold Dynasty Rest. yesterday afternoon. I’m of chinese descent and was excited to find “authentic” chinese food including dim sum served throughout the day. Hours are 11 am to 10 pm Mon -Sun.
The two dim sum dishes I tried ($3.25 each) braised chicken feet (sounds gross and takes time to get use to) were very good as were the steamed pork rib “bits” with garlic, preserved black bean and chilis. The highlight was snow pea shoots stir fried in a garlic sauce (pronounced dul meo) which you just can’t get any where. The last two pages of their menu has non-chineseamerican dishes listed. Separate dim sum menu. Hope they have lots of business. At last a great Hong Kong style restaurant
July 2nd, 2009 at 11:35 am
[...] Dynasty Chinese restaurant on the North Trail (which we were so excited about, we’ve already covered, twice) perfectly fits my simplified quality-analysis system. The early part of the menu is devoted [...]
August 3rd, 2009 at 9:27 am
Had a wonderful lunch yesterday (Sunday). Nice crowd with a large group of young asians (students??). We ordered chicken feet – just had to try them – great, tasty – braised in soy and anise. We had fresh snowpea shoots (wonder what happens after you pick the snow peas???) . Then steamed whole flounder in soy, ginger, coriander sauce – melt in your mouth delicious. Can’t wait til our next trip here. REAL CHINESE FOOD . YIPPEE