Charidise Toronto

Charidise

Charidise in Baldwin Village serves what they’re calling Taiwanese gourmet. The menu is an eclectic mix of burgers, poutine, fried snacks, and healthier pasta and rice bowls.

The name is a combination of the word “cha” meaning tea and the word paradise, and indeed a good two thirds of the restaurant’s hulking menu is devoted to drinks like bubble tea, slushes, and milk teas.

Charidise Toronto

The interior of what used to be John's Italian Caffe is lumbering and impressive, two massive floors with a capacity for three hundred outfitted in a teal and copper scheme with tons of geometric shapes.

Charidise Toronto

Fried snacks include light, crunchy calamari ($10.99), tempura fried along with some veg like broccoli and drizzled with two sauces.

Charidise TorontoThe Taiwanese sausage ($8.99) is popular, not too spicy, savoury and topped with some nicely potent garlic chips.

Charidise Toronto

There’s also chewy, squeaky and crunchy fried king mushroom ($9.99). You can opt for a sweet and sour sauce for dipping some of these deep fried snacks.

Charidise Toronto

The Taiwanese fried chicken ($9.99) is made popcorn-style, crispy and well-seasoned. Everything comes in earth-friendly bamboo containers, and they create little “wings” using parchment paper.

Charidise Toronto

You’ll need drinks to go with all that: standard milk teas are around $6, and you can add tapioca or jellies for fifty cents. 

Charidise Toronto

As for mains, they’re holding up the gourmet end of their promise with frenched New Zealand lamb chops on spaghetti with red sauce ($15.99). The lamb is well cooked and the sauce is tasty, not for a bad price. All noodle dishes are served with broccoli.

Charidise Toronto

The shrimp ($15.99) here are great, plump, juicy, and definitely jumbo, on the lighter side paired with an alfredo spaghetti.

Charidise Toronto

The huge space is dynamic enough to accommodate many different needs, especially those of nearby U of T students.

Charidise Toronto

A semi-private room with a skylight near the back is good for parties.

Charidise Toronto

Quieter areas further to the back and upstairs suit studying. There’s a patio out front, and one on the roof too.Charidise Toronto

Photos by

Hector Vasquez


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