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I decided to try this place out given its fairly positive marks on here. I ordered 3 items from the Dim Sum menu. It was all very expensive considering there are so many other cheaper alternatives in the area. Aside from that, the service was horrible. I waited about an hour for a take out order. I had to be assertive when placing my order after waiting patiently for about 15 minutes. I ordered a can of ginger ale and the guy even repeated it back to me. Big surprise, I didn't get my ginger ale and when I approached him (kindly), he patronized me and said I never asked him for one. The food was ok. Ingredients very very fresh, yet the food was soooo bland. In the end definitely NOT worth the price. If the service would have been good, well then it may have been worth the price.

In our experience, Red Egg is good for: 1) Anyone new to dimsum. 2) It isn't crowded. 3) and there isn't anyone speaking to anyone else in loud Cantonese or any of the unpleasantries in a typical Chinese dimsum spot. Further, we like their lamb dishes, carrot cake, taro puff with minced pork & durian puffs are excellent! It's best to try the dishes on the alacarte weekend brunch menu (rather than the happy hours on weeknights).

No cup of tea to start? Bad biz! No communication between waiter and customer. Gave rare steak without asking how should it be cooked. I just felt like i ordered from a regular Chinese restaurant and at it in a lounge.

I have been to Red Egg before & had an OK time. Wasn't impressed to be honest. I decided to give this contemporary Chinese Peruvian restaurant a second chance. Since work in the area and decided to try their lunch. And I must say that my experience this time around was a completely different. The food was much better and seemed fresher. The service which is really what disappointed me last time was on point, there was no language barrier, and the service had a full knowledge of the menu. Their Dim Sum Menu is terrific and the price is half off during their happy hour, this info was news to me & I plan to take full advantage of this with my coworkers. ALSO including their great cocktail menu. I know am a believer of second chances.

Here's the good: Décor is nice considering the other places around the area. Bathroom’s nice & clean too. Service was attentive enough. There were more waiters than tables they need to attend to (5-7 tables occupied that had mostly Caucasian people & ABCs (American Born Chinese)). Here's the bad: We ordered at least 6 dim sum dishes & one entrée. The dim sum mostly had a nice presentation, but none of it was stellar tasting…just good/edible. They were rather small & expensive compared to the other places. (Much more expensive if you order them as appetizers for dinner, $4 for small?!) As for the entrée, we actually liked it! Had the curry bread bowl w/crab meat, chicken, & pork. Nice flavor & it was definitely something different we won’t get in Chinatown. For dessert we ordered the young coconut with coconut milk pudding and ginger brulee. Ginger brulee was sub par, lacked much needed ginger flavor & texture was not as soft as it should be, it was slightly rubbery. The coconut was quite tasteful, however, it really just reminded us of sweetened coconut milk that comes from those cans from Thailand. I also found a piece of eggshell on my portion. For a Friday night dinner, it was pretty dead there. Not a great noticeable location & just not good in general for the crowd it’s trying to attract which are not people that live in the area. The food was also not really comparable to other places. The dim sum menu was not as diverse as its competitors as well. Though it seemed “fresher” (according to an ABC’s review), the same can be had at other places, you just have to be proactive & smart about when the fresh ones come out (besides, not all places do the carts). For the Chinese people, it's always been about the food (preferably at affordable prices)...this place is not exactly more "civilized" that others, just has nicer decor. If you want civilized, Red Egg should move to a better location in Manhattan. Overall, not impressed. We are definitely not coming back & will go back to our Chinatown norms. Seeing as how not a whole lot of people are coming here anyway, don't think this place will be around that long.

Waited for 2 hours and no food was being served to us. I can't even taste the food to even give a rating. Someone took our order but the food never came. So we waited for about an hour and we asked the waitress where was the food, they said we never give in our order. But we did.. So they told us to reorder. ANd so we did. And then we waited and still no order came. All of sudden the waitress came back and asked us to fill out another order form again. We got up and left and no staff even bother to ask us to stay. That was horrible experience.

Quite honestly I only went to Red Egg because I heard they offered peruvian food. I ordered the lomo saltado and was not impressed. This is my favorite dish and it was unlike any other I've had. It tasted like General Tso Chicken although it looked like lomo saltado. Lomo is not supposed to be sweet and creamy. The beef was soft and chewy as if it had been boiled. To all those who are looking for authentic peruvian food....look elsewhere. I did have some dumplings which were excellent. I would go back but for the chinese food!