Silver Pond Restaurant

Silver Pond Restaurant sits inside the Oakland Shopping Center at 4285 North State Road 7 in Lauderdale Lakes, part of the same plaza cluster as Gou Lou Cheong BBQ, Maxim’s Bakery, Asian Prepared Food and Caleb’s Mountain Pizza near the northern end of the city’s State Road 7 corridor, close to the Broward County line with Lauderhill and Coconut Creek. The restaurant is specifically categorized as Cantonese, a more particular designation than the generic “Chinese restaurant” label attached to several of its neighbors, and its own customer review, the only one attached to its Yellow Pages listing, calls it the “best Cantonese in South Florida” and specifically recommends the pepper and salt baked shrimp, describing the food overall as “authentic, flavorful.”

That same reviewer notes that the restaurant can draw a wait during peak periods and advises calling ahead during busy season, a detail suggesting Silver Pond has built a following that extends beyond its immediate plaza and possibly beyond Lauderdale Lakes itself, drawing diners specifically seeking Cantonese cooking rather than the more common Americanized Chinese-restaurant menu found at several other kitchens along the same corridor. Cantonese cuisine, associated with lighter sauces, steaming and stir-frying techniques, and a wider variety of seafood preparations than some other regional Chinese cooking styles, is less commonly the specific focus of a restaurant’s marketing in this part of Broward County, which makes Silver Pond’s positioning somewhat distinct among its State Road 7 neighbors.

The restaurant keeps long, single-block hours seven days a week, open from 11:30 in the morning until midnight, later than most of the other Chinese restaurants profiled in this collection and closer to the late-night model followed by Fortune restaurant a short drive south. It accepts the standard range of major credit cards according to its directory listing.

No corporate registration exactly matching the Silver Pond Restaurant name was conclusively identified through Florida’s Division of Corporations search for this profile; the search returned several similarly named but evidently unrelated entities, including a real estate company and a general business filing, none of which could be confirmed as tied to the restaurant. Given the strength of the single available customer review and the restaurant’s specific Cantonese positioning, Silver Pond is included here as a well-regarded independent kitchen, but its corporate paperwork trail is thinner than several of the other Chinese restaurants profiled alongside it, and anyone with a specific need to confirm its legal ownership structure should contact the restaurant directly.