Concept imageryDim sumHar gow
Steamed shrimp dumplings in a translucent crystal wrapper — the Cantonese teahouse classic that shows off a careful kitchen, and a reviewer favourite here.
House-made Asian fusion · Market Square, Napanee
Dim sum, seasonal plates, and a menu that changes with the seasons — from a tiny, chef-run kitchen that regulars drive forty minutes for. Reservations recommended.
Open Wed–Sat, lunch & dinner — confirm hours with the restaurant
Plan your visit
One schedule, one source — adopted from the restaurant's claimed TripAdvisor listing. Hours require confirmation with the restaurant before you set out.
Call to reserve19A Market Square — a small courtyard address in downtown Napanee. The room is tiny, and reviewers agree on one thing: call ahead to reserve.
19A Market Square, Napanee, ON K7R 1J4
Third-party coverage, kept with its dates. Each entry cites its source — the facts stand as of their reporting date.
The tiny kitchen was the subject of a full episode of the Bell Fibe TV cooking series, as reported by the Napanee Beaver in January 2025.
Read the Napanee Beaver reportNapanee Today reported a September 2025 visit by Dan Aykroyd. (A reported visit — nothing more claimed.)
Read the Napanee Today report31 traveller reviews place the kitchen second of 44 Napanee restaurants on TripAdvisor, as listed in July 2026.
See the TripAdvisor listing
The story, as reported
As profiled in the Napanee Beaver in January 2025, Fool's Kitchen was run as a husband-and-wife kitchen — chef David Yeung and Tia — and the Bell Fibe TV series "Full" devoted an episode, "No Fool," to the restaurant. The same coverage traced Cambodian and Vietnamese family roots on Tia's side — flavours that surface in the spring rolls, the herbs, the Vietnamese coffee.
That January 2025 profile also described the habit that defines the house: a menu rewritten roughly every three months, cooked fresh to order. Reviewers tell the rest — a tiny room where reservations are close to essential, and diners who drive forty minutes from Picton or Belleville for har gow and sesame maple ribs. The menu changes; by every account, the care doesn't.