Grand Fortune 1104 E Fowler Ave. No. 102, Tampa New dim sum-focused restaurant Grand Fortune made its debut in North Tampa last January, and its massive menu and dining room may set it apart from the dozens of other Chinese restaurants throughout the Bay area. Located in the same plaza that houses MD Oriental and Boil Spot Hot Pot and BBQ, the concept’s large dining room boasts about 20 tables, a stage for performances, tanks filled with live seafood and a few private rooms that are still under construction. Folks can indulge in Grand Fortune’s regular menu of family-style entrees like Mai Fun noodles, salt and pepper shrimp, roasted Peking duck and sweet and sour spare ribs or opt for traditional dim sum service where a variety of dumplings, steamed buns and other small plates are wheeled from table to table on carts. Photo by Kyla Fields Credit: Photo by Kyla Fields
A new dim sum-focused restaurant just made its debut in North Tampa, and its massive menu and dining room may set it apart from the dozens of other Chinese restaurants throughout the Bay area.

Grand Fortune soft opened at 1104 E Fowler Ave. earlier this week and is now open daily for lunch and dinner service.

Located in the same plaza that houses MD Oriental and Boil Spot Hot Pot and BBQ,  the concept’s large dining room boasts about 20 tables, a stage for performances, tanks filled with live seafood and a few private rooms that are still under construction.

Folks can indulge in Grand Fortune’s regular menu of family-style entrees like Mai Fun noodles, salt and pepper shrimp, roasted Peking duck and sweet and sour spare ribs or opt for traditional dim sum service where a variety of dumplings, steamed buns and other small plates are wheeled from table to table on carts.

Alongside expected Chinese offerings, the newly-opened restaurant also features harder-to-find dishes like Thai-style boneless chicken feet, jelly fish, sautéed sea cucumber, cuttlefish and live Dungeness crab.

According to signs on Grand Fortune’s building, longtime Tampa bakery Fortune Star will soon move into the parcel between MD Oriental and the newly-opened dim sum restaurant, although it’s unsure when it will officially relocate from its flagship shop at 8502 N Armenia Ave.

There’s no Facebook or Instagram pages for Grand Fortune just yet, but you can always head to grandfortunetampa.com to check out the new restaurant’s expansive Cantonese and Hong Kong-style menu.

Grand Fortune is now open from 11 a.m.-10 p.m. every day, but may expand its hours after the soft opening phase. 

Credit: grandfortunetampa.com

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1104 E Fowler Ave., Tampa, FL

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This article appears in Feb 1-7, 2024.

Kyla Fields is the food critic and former managing editor of Creative Loafing Tampa Bay who started their journey at CL as summer 2019 intern. They are the proud owner of a charming, sausage-shaped, eight-year-old...