Little Bavaria Restaurant

Love this place! Johnny is a great chef and host. He can usually be seen at some point in the dining room greeting guests. The food is great and we live the schnitzel options. They are also willing to accommodate guest requests. Portions are large, so there is usually leftovers for the next day. Prices are great especially considering you also get soup or salad with your meal.
Johnny also hosts special events during the year.
We try to get in here at least once a month. Truly a hidden gem in Scarborough.

Once again, I thought I might find a proper schnitzel here, but I was very wrong, despite positive reviews. This is just another business riding on past customers, making NO effort to provide diners with a decent experience.
1. I first notice the «German rye bread» in a basket, a whole allotted TWO slices of cheap bread that is not German rye.
2. I order wiener schnitzel, comes with two sides, soup or salad. The house salad was bland and watery. I ordered French dressing and got 1000 Island. No biggie, still looking forward to a great schnitzel dinner.
3. The side of «mixed vegetables» was literally two TINY pieces of BROCCOLI MUSH, and two TINY pieces of CAULIFLOWER MUSH that I couldn’t even lift to my mouth without it falling apart. Pathetic. The homemade potatoes were gross and glistened with grease everywhere.
4. The worst was the schnitzel. It was JUST GREASE GREASE GREASE! It wasn’t even blotted up. No chef with self-​respect would serve a pile of grease, both sides, literally forming a moat of oil when I pressed down on either side. I had to use my napkin to absorb the oil, then ate my cold, still greasy slab of $ 17 pork.
Oh, and the «wiener» schnitzel is pork, not veal as it should be. The VEAL schnitzel is 21.95 vs. 16.95 for the pork. But the good news is that I am sure they soak it to death in oil, so ask for extra napkins, blot off all the grease, then just ask them to microwave it for you… no biggie, right?
Pathetic restaurant. I paid over $ 20 for 4 TINY, massacred/​mushed pieces of vegetable and A SLAB OF GREASE.
Avoid like the plague. Toronto has no authentic, PROPER wiener schnitzel anywhere anymore.

This was literally a hidden gem. The food was good and authentic. Very tasty and just what I had in mind. We ordered the food to go because of the location. I had the Parmesan schnitzel with spaeztle. My hubby has the cordon bleu schnitzel. Both were very very good! Very tasty! The meals came with bread and a side salad. We also ordered a side of gravy. We love cheezy food. And the cordon bleu was spot on! The cheese oozing out with the crisp breading was just heaven!
Very small restaurant. Would seat 40 – 50 at most. Very discreet entrance but when you enter, the resto is embellished with all German accessories. I just hope they move to a more welcoming area.
Location location location. We used to live here in the area for about 2 years ago but always wanted to try it. Only problem was the sketchy location. Because there were always people standing around, sometimes drunk. So now we just ordered ahead, picked up, and left. Would have wanted to eat there for the full German ambience.

I have heard about this place for a long time so, we finally decided to check it out. Little Bavaria was a bit tricky to find as it is hidden in a small plaza… thank goodness for GPS.
We went with a group of 6 and most of my friends in this group were German. Tough crowd to please. So… we found that the service was quick and friendly. Food was delightful. A few of us ordered Rouladin which passed all of my friends picky tastes. Phew, I felt relieved.
One person ordered the Cordon Blue Schnitzel and just loved it. Another person ordered Jäger Schnitzel and enjoyed it as well. I must say all of the meals served were very juicy, moist and done to perfection. My friends (who are kinda picky) all enjoyed their food which surprised me. Yay it was a hit!
I thought the prices were fair for the type of food and portions served. Authentic German beer offered. The restaurant may look a little bit cluttered but that is how many German places are so everyone felt quite comfortable. I will be back for sure. Great food, great value and a great night with my friends. Did I mention most of them were picky?
I would highly suggest making a reservation as space is limited.
One point lost for the location as it was in an odd area of the city.

Great little dive in scarborough. Situated in a seaty neighborhood, you’d never know that this is one of most authentic German restaurants in toronto. The food came out very hot and fresh. The schnitzel is incredible. Friendly and fast service. A little pricey but the meal is worth it, a dinner comes with the choice of a soup or salad, sauerkraut, spetzle or roasted potatoes

I hidden gem in Scarborough! Not my favourite area to go to, a very sketchy bar right beside it (feel like I’m I’m the movie 8 mile). Once you are inside you have a great experience and almost feel as if you are in Germany!
Food is amazing you certainly are full at the end of a meal, it is more expensive than most places in the area but the quality of the food and the portion size is well worth the $ 20 or so you will spend.
I would really highly recommend checking this nice place out!

We ordered a Cordon Bleu Schnitzel and a Jäger Schnitzel for dinner.
The cordon bleu schnitzel was a chicken breast stuffed with cheese and ham. The chicken was moist and tender. It was evenly breaded and deep fried to golden brown. There was plenty of cheese, and it was good cheese, but little ham. If I didn’t know it came with ham, I would not suspect it.
The jäger schnitzel was a plain pork steak with a red wine sauce with onion, smoked meat and mushroom. The pork was tender and hammered thin. The sauce was rich with onion flavour. There was loads of mushroom but little smoked meat.
There were 2 waitresses for a crowded restaurant. They were friendly and effective. We were seated quickly. We were left alone most of the time other than order taking, delivery and payment. No asking if everything was okay or water refill. Efficient but can be more attentive.
The exterior storefront is unpretentious, and may I say overly so. It looks old and almost seedy. The interior is decorated richly with everything German — picture, soccer balloon, lighting, poster. It has its character and charms.
Price wise, it was on the expensive side, but it has so little competition that it is pretty much a case of take it or leave it.
Overall 3 stars.

The service was good and the waiter was very friendly, but we found the food to be lacking in authenticity.

I thought this restaurant was ok. Although you get a lot of food, a $ 20 dinner at Markham and Eglinton seems like a lot of money.
The food was a bit bland, but my dining partners really liked the their meals, so maybe it was just me!

This restaurant tries to hard to be German and might be just fine for a foreigner but for a German it fails twice.
First the food. The Schnitzel doesn’t give any authentic taste. Maybe its the meat itself or the way its processed or not. It could also be the coating which reminds me of the one you can buy in a Canadian supermarket. The Schweinsbraten is very basic but ok. The meat is tender but too flawless. The sauce again like the Schnitzel coating, tastes like a mix and its not what a Schweinsbratensauce should be like. The sauce needs to be thin like a soup, golden colored (I can hand out instructions). If you want the best Schweinsbraten, you need a piece of meat which also has some fat/​skin layer like the pigs back or shoulder to get that tasty crust. The Sauerkraut and Blaukraut was good. The Spätzle were really plain. I never saw pale Spätzle. Normally they’re kind of golden.
The second part is the decoration which is only secondary and didn’t affect my rating. Its trying to hard to be Bavarian. Nothing in Bavaria is blue and white like this or is the Queen on every single wall, plate and table cloth in a British restaurant? Less could be much more in this little restaurant which otherwise can be pretty authentic.
This all sounds really harsh but I think there is a lot of improvement possible. The reason why I ended up only giving 2 stars has 2 reasons. First the pricing is over the top and can even compete with the typical tourist traps in the Munich city center but if the food quality improves the thoughts about cost will be forgotten. Second, the day after I went to the Dutch restaurant biermarket which has a Oktoberfest special going on and I have to say it tasted better and more authentic.
Maybe one day I’ll take the effort again to bike all the way there from downtown to see if things changed. I’m always open to share further knowledge about certain Bavarian food if wanted.

I am German and have had the food there. The LBR definitely holds up to the name. I must admit that I love their Beer more than the food. Fresh cool Hacker-​Pschorr from the tap is probably the nicest drink in the world when accompanied by Schnitzel, Sauerkraut and Spaetzle. However, I could never figure out why they parked this gem in the midst of a rotten strip mall in deep-​end Scarborough. This area really smells. This restaurant would be a top pick if it was located in central Toronto. Enjoy the Little Bavaria Restaurant without regrets, it’s the best right after the Musket out at Kipling. But only if you survive the trip to get there without getting bullet holes in your windshield ;-/

There are not that many traditional German restaurants in Toronto. and it is really rare in Scarborough to find a «Western» or a German restaurant!
Little Bavaria is located right at the corner of Markham Road and Eglinton… in a seedy strip plaza. A location which I doubt I will come by myself in the evening!
The interior is nicely decorated with German memoriabla and cheesy German items… like a soccer ball hanging from the ceiling… and German music playing in the background and you might think that some dancing waitstaffs will come out from the back and perform German Folk dance any minute.
The nice waitress here does wear a German folk looking top but not a Dirndl and she is not German :). And of course no dancing. no low cut dress but the food here is authentic German…
The food choices here are really simple with lunch specials starting from around $ 9 that includes soup or salad and some cardboard tasting good for you Rye bread basket. I do love the soup… Goulash Soup is great. dumplings Soup is meh… the veal is tender and the sauce rich in favour.
Little Bavaria for sure is a little German gem in this Scarborough area! It is an great alternative if you are sick of Asian/​Middle Eastern/​Indian food in the area.
They accepts Visa and Mastercard.

This is my review which pays RESPECT to all those hard-​working future Chefs, but temporarily Culinary Students. For Restaurant details, please refer to Jennifer K’s review.
We were offered the Lunch Menu and we ordered a stand-​alone HUNGARIAN Goulash Soup which is in the first quarter of your curriculum, Soups & Stocks. It was hearty with flavourful Beef Stock and an added kick of Paprika. The Beef Chunks were cooked tender and the Potato Cubes (Peel & Pre-​Cook) as well.
Rahm Schnitzel in Creamy Mushroom Sauce ($ 10.95) included a Dumpling Soup as starter which was your classic Chicken Stock, which you’ll probably remember your Chef telling you not to be afraid to SEASON your food. The Dumpling=Spaetzle made from spooning runny dough past a sieve into boiling water, which comes in the second half of your course in the Pasta section.
We opted for the Sauerkraut but that along with Red Cabbage is going to be during your Vegetarian lesson. It was served warm and soft as I learned from prior German food research. The Creamy Sauce is your Bechamel Mother Sauce with Button Mushrooms. Just don’t make it too THICK with your Roux. Common mistake! Most modern cooks don’t use much Roux anyways, because it’s too rich. Small amount of Beurre Manie will do fine as final touch.
The lightly breaded Veal Schnitzel need some ELBOW grease to pound thin. Cooking isn’t light exercise, it’s sweaty physical hard work. It tasted A-​OK.
For all those future Chefs out there, this place is truly where you’ll see the basic techniques and cookery at display but at the same time that’s why it’s called BASIC, therefore an A-​OK meal for it’s value.
Here’s hoping your success. Zigga Zagga Zigga Zagga Oi Oi Oi!

The best German Restaurant in Toronto.