{"id":235354,"date":"2026-05-18T15:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/235354\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T15:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:06:12","slug":"ocean-palace-in-albany-closing-at-end-of-may-after-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/235354\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean Palace in Albany closing at end of May after 30 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALBANY \u2014 Ocean Palace, a Chinese restaurant with a 30-year history in three locations in the city, will close at the end of the month. The announcement was made online<\/a> Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

The name originated in 1996 at 855 Central Ave., a banquet hall-sized space that could seat 150. Today, the location is a\u00a0Department of Motor Vehicles office. It\u2019s been run since the beginning by Gene Chan, of Guangdong in southern China, and her chef-partner, Peter Chan, who\u2019s from Hong Kong. (The matching surnames are a coincidence.)<\/p>\n

After taking over\u00a0CCK at 299 Central Ave. in 2008, an existing pan-Asian restaurant that would later become Fairy Sichuan and is now a quick-serve spot called America\u2019s Best Wings, Chan and Chan later revived Ocean Palace in the current, diminutive space at 68 Central, a block up from Henry Johnson Boulevard.<\/p>\n

It closed in 2024 after the partners decided to retire \u2014 Gene Chan is now 66, Peter a decade older \u2014 and found a buyer for the building and business. When the sale fell through, they closed for two months until Gene\u2019s daughter, a pharmacist, bought the building and business from them, enabling them to keep working, at a reduced schedule of five days a week.<\/p>\n

The return of the dim-sum destination with a vivid green exterior, only four\u00a0tables and a menu<\/a> of about 250 items was greeted with joy among Ocean Palace\u2019s devotees, who had eagerly sought and exchanged what scant information was available during the closure.<\/p>\n

During a revisit early last year<\/a>, then-Times Union dining\u00a0critic Susie Davidson Powell wrote, \u201cThose mourning the closure of another long-term dim-sum fixture, the Hong Kong Bakery & Bistro on Wolf Road, should head down Central Avenue. Ocean Palace may not be big, but it\u2019s packed with flavor and is arguably the Chans\u2019 swan song.\u201d<\/p>\n

Through May 31, Ocean Palace will be open 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday to Sunday, closed Monday and Tuesday. Call 518-434-2888 to order takeout. The restaurant does not offer delivery and is not on third-party apps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY \u2014 Ocean Palace, a Chinese restaurant with a 30-year history in three locations in the city, will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30394,38946,1070,844,610,9,11,10,49,51,50,821,31842],"class_list":["post-235354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-alco","tag-closed-restaurants","tag-food","tag-latestnews","tag-local","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-restaurants","tag-table-hopping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}