Restaurants
Restaurants in Chinatown
Restaurants
Ajisen Ramen Chinatown / Asian
Ajisen Ramen has opened shop in Chinatown, making this their third GTA location. I have to admit it -- I'm a bit of a ramen fiend. And rarely does a week...
Asian Legend / Chinese
Asian Legend has a large menu of banquet dishes and every time I go I think about trying a new dish - but never do. I always get the...
Bahn Mi & Che Cali / Vietnamese
Bahn Mi & Che Cali (BMCC) has long been my go-to spot for random Vietnamese desserts. I'm not always sure what's being scooped into my take-out containers, but I know...
Banh Mi Ba Le / Vietnamese
The first time I walk into Banh Mi Ba Le on Dundas Street just west of Spadina Avenue, there's a strange sound similar to skates swooshing through ice on a...
Banh Mi Nguyen Huong / Sandwiches
Banh Mi Nguyen Huong Vietnamese Sandwiches is one of the most famous Pho bun bakeries in Chinatown. For only $1.75 you can chow down on a Vietnamese sandwiches with a...
Bo De Duyen / Juice Bar
Bo De Duyen has re-opened in Chinatown. Exclusively offering take-out, this re-incarnation is all about fresh juices, smoothies, bubble tea, fruit and frozen vegetarian dinners....
Bun Saigon / Vietnamese
Bun Saigon in Chinatown is a welcome addition to the neighbourhood's pho landscape. Service is super fast and the offerings are fresh and reasonably priced....
Canton Chilli / Chinese
Canton Chilli is obviously keen on a little heat, which might be just what you need for a pick-me-up after a long night. Open until 4 a.m. during the week...
Chinese Traditional Buns / Chinese
I love the almost musical lilt of Mandarin. I've studied it on-and-off for years, vainly hoping that some of it would stick. It definitely takes a little while for...
Dim Sum King / Chinese
Dim Sum King is one of those restaurants that pretty unequivocally states what their specialty is right in their name. Located in Chinatown, this rather simple restaurant specializes in serving...
Ding Dong Pastries & Cafe / Chinese
The Ding Dong bun house is a narrow, pleasant Chinatown shop. The walls are lined with tanned and golden buns, reclining under steam-clouded domes, weirdly reminiscent of Brigitte Bardot...
Dumpling House Restaurant / Chinese
Picking out a restaurant in Chinatown can be a little daunting sometimes. There's always an overload of options and you want to make sure you leave satisfied without a large...
Dumpling King (Chinatown) / Chinese
Dumpling King now has a downtown Toronto outpost. Take a walk down Dundas just east of Huron and it'd be hard not to notice Chinatown's newest restaurant. With its bright,...
Dundas Spring Garden / Chinese
Dundas Spring Garden serves up reasonably priced Chinese fare in Chinatown. There are hundreds of items on the menu so there's no lacking in variety....
E-Pan / Chinese
E-Pan brings a touch of class to Toronto's Chinatown. Nowhere to be found are the familiar plastic tablecloths or neon signs. E-Pan does it up in a contemporary setting. Most...
Family Dumpling House / Chinese
Is Family Dumpling House what we get when Mother's Dumplings has a quarrel with father? If you're looking for the insider's answer I don't have it. What I do know...
Flourish BBQ Restaurant / Chinese
Flourish BBQ Restaurnt is a simple traditional Chinese barbeque restaurant in Chinatown. While it's not an ideal place for a date (unless your partner enjoys dingy decors and plastic tablecloths),...
Forestview Chinese Restaurant / Dim Sum
Forestview Chinese Restaurant offers authentic, reliable dim sum as well as the increasingly rare pleasure of choosing your selections directly from the cart. Photo by Bobolink on Flickr...
Gold Stone Noodle / Chinese
Gold Stone Noodle is one of the few Chinese restaurants south of Dundas on Spadina. It's open late and serves up terrific steamed dumplings, hot and sour soup and more...
Golden Pineapple / Asian
Golden Pineapple is the latest name for this revolving door of a restaurant at the corner of Spadina and Grange. Like its predecessors, the restaurant offers plenty of seating and...
Hong Kong Bistro Cafe / Chinese
Hong Kong Bistro Cafe is one of the few places downtown that serves Canto-Western food, and as such gets very popular during mealtimes (and therefore very crowded). For the relatively...
House of Gourmet / Chinese
When going for dinner in Chinatown, it's so easy to stick to a few fave places and ignore the rest. Sometimes though, it's nice to try someting new... and...
Jang Su Chon / Korean
Jang Su Chon is a Korean restaurant offering ramen, gyoza, and BBQ dishes, as well as other traditional Korean foods....
Ka Chi (Dundas St.) / Korean
Ka Chi is a popular Korean restaurant juxtaposed into the heart of Toronto`s downtown Chinatown. Not only does it survive despite its rather peculiar location, it actually thrives, especially with...
Kim Moon / Chinese
I go to Kim Moon Bakery for breakfast when Toronto's feeling like Hong Kong - polluted, muggy, and crowded. I guess it's the weather that gives me a craving for...
King Lobster / Chinese
King Lobster in Chinatown is there to satisfy those pesky scallop cravings right up until 6 a.m. on Saturday nights (or Sunday mornings). Open until 5 a.m. all other days,...
King's Noodle House / Chinese
Beyond the roast duck and squid hanging in window, King's Noodle House has been serving up fresh noodles (along with a full Chinese menu) to hungry patrons for decades. ...
Kom Jug Yuen / Chinese
Kom Jug Yuen is an unassuming spot and regular hangout for white-haired grannies and grandpas seeking out senior's deals after their daily stroll around the 'hood. It's definitely an old...
Kuni Sushi Ya (Spadina) / Sushi
Kuni Sushi Ya at Spadina is the popular all-you-can-eat sushi restaurant's second location, and has a similar menu of Japanese offerings such as sushi, sashimi and tempura....
La Casita Chinese Eatery / Chinese
La Casita Chinese Eatery is a subterranean spot on Dundas that offers up a long list of soup, chicken, beef, duck and seafood options. ...
Lee Garden / Chinese
Lee Garden is a favourite late night spot to dig into vegetable fried rice or some other fresh out of the kitchen creation. ...
Liuuil Hot Pot / Chinese
Liuuil Hot Pot is a Chinese hot pot formerly of Baldwin Street (where it used to be called Liu Liu Hot Pot...see what they did there?) which currently inhabits a...
Mio Japanese & Thai Fusion / Asian
Mio is a recently open restaurant on Spadina in the heart of Chinatown. The menu features sushi and Thai cuisine....
Mother's Dumplings / Chinese
It was a Tuesday night and I was being led down the stairs of 79 Huron Street by friends who swore I was about to try the best dumplings in...
Nak Won (Chinatown) / Korean
Nak Won, the popular Korean restaurant, finally has an outpost downtown. Find it just east of Spadina on Dundas in the heart of Chinatown....
New Ho King / Chinese
New Ho King is one of the few tied, tested, and true go-to places for late night Chinese eats in Chinatown. Open until 4am, it's a hot spot for post...
New Hong Fatt BBQ Restaurant / Chinese
New Hong Fatt BBQ Restaurant is yet another one of those hole-in-the-wall Chinese barbeque restaurants with good meats, yet tired interior (is there some sort of a rule that the...
New Sky Restaurant / Chinese
New Sky Restaurant takes me back to childhood memories of banging chopsticks, spilling tea and poking holes into plastic table coverings. This is a classic destination for large groups and...
Noble Restaurant / Dim Sum
Noble on Dundas (just west of Spadina) is definitely my favourite cheap dim sum place in Toronto. Partly because Mon-Fri til 4pm you can get near any dish for...
North-East Chinese Restaurant / Chinese
North-East Chinese Restaurant is a seemingly barren, unassuming, basement cave with bright fluorescent lighting and giant menu boards outside. But the real question is--how's the food? En-route to my local...
Number 2 Restaurant / Chinese
Number 2 Restaurant offers cheap, all-day dim sum near the corner of College and Spadina. ...
Ocho Restaurant / Pub Food
Ocho is the restaurant, cafe and lounge space in the new Ocho boutique hotel near Queen and Spadina. The airy two floor space is decked out with designer furniture but...
Owl of Minerva (Dragon City) / Korean
Owl of Minerva has many locations in the GTA but perhaps none as famous as this 24 hour destination inside Dragon City mall at Dundas and Spadina....
People's Eatery / Chinese
At first glance, People's Eatery on Spadina just north of Dundas looks like any other Cantonese restaurant in Chinatown. Other than its clean appearance, the one thing that intrigues me...
Pho 88 / Vietnamese
The last time I did a Chinatown eatery post, I spoke highly of the cheap and yummy pho noodle dishes served up at Pho Hung. You all suggested I hit up...
Pho Ai My / Vietnamese
Pho Ai My is yet another restaurant that joins the sprawling Vietnamese community in Chinatown. Walking into a white-on- white concept dining room in this neighbourhood is like finding...
Pho Hung / Vietnamese
After spending Saturday afternoon at work in an underground office with only tictacs (having forgotten my lunch at home), I decided that lunner (yes, lunch/dinner) was going to have to...
Pho Pasteur / Vietnamese
Pho Pasteur stands out in a sea of Chinatown late night eat options by being one of the few places to churn out food 24 hours a day. Craving pho...
Red Room / Asian
Gothic older sister of the Annex's Green Room Cafe, the Red Room welcomes you into it's lantern-lit embrace with eclectic cheap-eats kind of menu and one kick-ass Sangria recipe....
Rol Jui Seafood Restaurant / Chinese
Rol Jui Seafood Restaurant serves up delicious, no-nonsense Chinese food brought to your disposable tablecloth-covered tables. It's glorious. No money was wasted on frivolities such as interior design as this...
Rol San / Chinese
Rol San may not stand out from an exterior perspective, amidst the mashup of Chinese food eateries that line the Spadina corridor on the north end of Chinatown, but its...
Rosewood Chinese Cuisine / Chinese
Rosewood Chinese Cuisine might be the answer to dim sum that downtown diners have been looking for. Four months old, and nestled in the heart of Chinatown on Dundas just...
SaeHaNul SaetTang / Korean
SaeHaNul SaetTang serves up traditional Korean cuisine, where patrons use hot pots to cook their own food including beef, shrimp and vegetables. ...
Second Floor Restaurant / Chinese
Second Floor Restaurant is a Chinese restaurant near Dundas and Spadina....
Seor Ak San / Korean
Seor Ak San is a good bet for cheap and tasty Korean eats in the heart of Chinatown. Go for the bibimbap....
Sky Dragon / Chinese
Sky Dragon may not serve the greatest dim sum in the city, but it's still my favourite place to get it! The authentic Hong Kong-style cart service, bustling dining room,...
Strada 241 / Italian
Strada 241 had its soft opening, with minimal fuss and fanfare, a week ago, and is something of an odd man out on its stretch of Spadina. What's even more...
Sushi World / Sushi
Sushi World is a cheap sushi restaurant just west of Spadina on College St. They've got a decent select of maki, lunch specials and other Japanese eats....
Taste Garden / Chinese
Taste Garden is a serviceable but average restaurant in the heart of Toronto's Chinatown that specializes in Cantonese fare....
Taste of China / Chinese
Taste of China has an incredibly thorough menu, which is optimal for those who like a lot of choice. For indecisive people such as myself, a multitude of options, especially...
Ten Mile Aroma / Chinese
Ten Mile Aroma, a quiet, simple eatery in the heart of Toronto's Chinatown, is entered by red carpet. Appropriate, not because a fancy, haute interior greets my entrance, but because...
Tenshi Teriyaki / Asian
Tenshi Teriyaki is a tiny take-out restaurant just step from UofT campus. Go here for cheap teriyaki meals and tasty bento box combos....
Thai Bangkok Restaurant / Thai
Walking home on a bitterly cold January evening is hardly my idea of a good time, but one positive side-effect is friends' willingness to try out any restaurant I pick...
Xe Lua Vietnamese Cuisine / Vietnamese
I think that pho may be the world's most perfect food .Warming on cold days, hydrating on warm ones and always delicious, pho is the ideal antidote to whatever pains...
Yooj Express / Chinese
Yooj Express is a new and brightly-lit Chinese fast food restaurant located inside the rather cavernous Dragon Centre Mall in downtown Chinatown. Featuring a long array of hot dish selections...
Yummy Yummy Dumpling / Chinese
Yummy Yummy Dumpling is a small hole-in-the-wall Chinese restaurant shoehorned amongst the countless Chinese establishments around Huron Street, right by Dundas. Despite its utilitarian interior, it serves good quality dumplings...
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