Supreme Taste is a new Cantonese roastery & restaurant in #EastChinatownTO. Owner, Ben Yin, is a former treasury banker with management experience in the QSR space. When the previous owners of Sing Sing BBQ were looking to retire after being a fixture in the ‘hood for decades, Ben jumped at the chance to become his…
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Dumpling House ~ 619 Gerrard St E ~ (416) 901-0288
First of December, and it’s beginning to look a lot like… holiday lunch season. Dumpling House has been a fixture in the #EastChinatown neighborhood for as long as we can remember. The Li family has been introducing Riverdale families to a wide array of Northern Chinese cuisine for a couple of decades now. This was…
Simon’s Wok ~ 797 Gerrard St E ~ (416) 778-9836
Simon’s Wok Vegetarian Kitchen is a popular Riverdale hole-in-the-wall that does veggies really, really well. With over 100 items on their menu, Simon can whip-up just about anything you’d find on a typical Chinese food menu. He’s got a knack for texture, using an array of vegetarian ingredients in such a way that you often forget…
Wok & Roast Chinese BBQ Restaurant ~ 349 Broadview Ave ~ (416) 461-3811
When my favourite Chinese BBQ restaurant in the city (Ka Ka Lucky) burned down this summer, I was in shock. Sure, some of it had to do with the fact that I was eating there at the time. The aftermath left a gaping hole in my lunchtime routine. Then when Kom Jug Yuen closed-up shop…
Federick Restaurant ~ 1920 Ellesmere Rd ~ (416) 439-9234
Federick Restaurant is renowned for bringing Hakka food to Toronto. Well, Scarborough actually. And with a recent expansion into a new Markham location, these guys are obviously doing something right (their take-out bag suggests they’ve have been doing so for the past 20 years). I am taken here as a Father’s Day gift. My expectations were exceeded on many…
Su-Good Chinese Restaurant ~ 2626 Danforth ~ (416) 691-8828
We recently ran into one of my wife’s friends at our local Target. Turns out that we both moved into the same neighbourhood not so long ago. We began exchanging stories, mostly about being new parents:) Anyways, the conversation meandered into the realms of food, and then local food. And though neither of us have lived in the hood…