Name: DAO Dim Sum & Chinese Cuisine（Manhattan)
Address: 177 Madison Ave, New York, New York, 10016, US
Telephone: +1 646-918-6189

From the Menu

A kitchen built around dim sum, buns, soups, rice, noodles, and lobster.

Chef-Led Dim Sum

Hong Kong-style dim sum sits at the center of the kitchen. The cooking is guided by an Executive Chef with over 30 years of expertise, so the room is built around steady technique rather than a long list of claims. That matters with dim sum. Small dishes need tight timing, careful folding, and heat that lands at the right moment.

Chinese cuisine anchors the rest of the menu. The home page introduces the restaurant as a dim sum restaurant in New York, and that focus fits the way the kitchen is framed here: one side of the menu leads with dim sum, the other with Chinese dishes that round out a meal. A guest can come for a light lunch, share plates across the table, or build a fuller dinner from the same kitchen.

Chef-led Chinese cuisine with a long-running dim sum focus.

About DAO Dim Sum & Chinese Cuisine（Manhattan)

DAO Dim Sum & Chinese Cuisine stands on Madison Avenue in New York, with a menu built around Hong Kong-style dim sum and Chinese dishes. The kitchen serves steamed baskets, pan-fried plates, buns, soups, fried rice, noodles, and lobster. Each section brings its own pace to the table. Some dishes arrive in bamboo steamers. Others come crisp from the pan or wok.

The restaurant’s dim sum range includes items such as jumbo shrimp dumplings, shrimp and pork shumai, crispy shrimp rolls, and steam egg custard buns. The menu also includes larger plates like General Tso’s Chicken, Sesame Chicken, Peking Duck with bun, and Salt & Pepper Lobster with crispy garlic. Hot and sour soup and sesame sauce cold noodles round out the list with sharper, cooler notes.

DAO Dim Sum & Chinese Cuisine is described as serving authentic Hong Kong-style dim sum prepared by an Executive Chef with over 30 years of expertise. The address is 177 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016. The restaurant is open Monday through Friday from 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM, and Saturday and Sunday from 11:15 AM to 9:30 PM.

The space includes a wheelchair-accessible entrance, a wheelchair-accessible toilet, an assistive hearing loop, and a wheelchair-accessible car park. The restaurant holds a 4.8 rating from 860 reviews.

Steamed dumplings arranged on white dishes.

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Accessibility: Wheelchair-accessible entrance · Wheelchair-accessible toilet · Assistive hearing loop · Wheelchair-accessible car park Guests using mobility or hearing support can plan for an accessible entrance, an accessible toilet, an assistive hearing loop, and an accessible car park.

Visit Details

DAO Dim Sum & Chinese Cuisine stands at 177 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016, United States. The entrance is wheelchair-accessible. The toilet is wheelchair-accessible too. An assistive hearing loop is in place, and there is a wheelchair-accessible car park.

Hours stay consistent through the week. Monday to Friday, the restaurant opens from 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM. Saturday and Sunday begin at 11:15 AM and run to 9:30 PM. That gives the day an easy shape for lunch, an early dinner, or a later meal after work. The address also places it in Manhattan for anyone searching for a Chinese restaurant Manhattan stop near Madison Avenue.