Established in late 2020, the restaurant operates in a strip mall in the southeast Portland part of the Montavilla neighborhood, in the space that previously housed Wong's King.

[2] The restaurant has also served fried squab and salt-and-pepper squid,[3] Peking duck,[4] braised fish head in a clay pot, and glutinous rice.

[1] Excellent Cuisine opened in late 2020,[6][7] in the space that previously occupied Wong's King, which closed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In 2022, Katherine Chew Hamilton of Portland Monthly wrote: Excellent Cuisine might not be a perfect dim sum spot, but it's serving solid versions of classics and pushing the envelope with more modern dishes.

[8]In Eater Portland's 2023 list of sixteen restaurants for "delectable" dumplings in the metropolitan area, Thom Hilton and Seiji Nanbu called Excellent Cuisine "the hotspot for dim sum in Portland right now", with food "executed with aplomb" and "some fun options ... that are a little harder to find at other dim sum shops".