Gordo EX Cafe

These tequenos are wonderful. They’re like mozza sticks with better crusts.
The empanadas are fried, so they’re a bit oily, but when you feel like a crunchy dinner, this will certainly hit the spot. This place is a much-​appreciated addition to Bathurst-​Dupont!
Tip: the entrees are huge; share if you can.
Viva Venezuela!

Good Venezuelan food, slow but friendly service. The Empenadas (chicken) and Cachapas are delicious. The Arepas are a bit salty but OK. Its a bit expensive but for the empenadas and chachapas its worth it. My wife had the Sancocho which was very expensive $ 18 for a bowl of greasy soup she wont order that again.

Very friendly waiter and great atmosphere. Food was very good, filling and authentic.

Second time’s a charm, right? I brought my friend here on a Friday evening (around 5pm) for a meal since I had a positive experience here the first time (it was a take-​out).
Service: It was terrible from start to finish. The place was quiet– there were only 7 other customers (not including two of us), but it took at least 10 min to ask for a menu. The waiter missed some of the items we’ve ordered. It was just a lot of waiting to ask for stuff.
Food: It was great! Everything that we’ve ordered came out fresh (cheese fingers, cold sodas, arepas). Thery were all delicious!
My friend had a chat with the manager about the service because she was so not impressed.
I am not sure if I want to come back to have a sit-​down meal after what happened.
**Price has gone up a bit for some of the items on the menu– e.g. cheese fingers are now $ 1.95**

Best Venezuelan restaurant in Toronto!!! So far, the best arepas I’ve tried in Canada! Totally love it!

Best Venezuelan restaurant in Toronto.
I have been here 2 times and I really liked all the food that I tried (arepa, cachapa, tequeños, jugo de papelón, etc). It’s substantial, not expensive, staff is friendly. The only thing is that they have in the menu passion fruit juice and every time that I ask for it, they tell me it’s sold out. I hope next time they have it available! I can’t wait to go back again so I can try different food and feel like at home again. Thanks for having this place open so far away from home and made the food taste so similar! :)

Amazing food, Venezuelan food is great. Really like it here and have been many times now.

came here with a friend because this was the only venezuelan restaurant in the city he hadn’t tried yet. the food here is amazing — delicious, fresh, authentic. BUT, the service is ridiculously slow. my friend waited nearly an hour (i’m not even kidding. more than 50 minutes) for his cachapa.
at least the cachapa (corn pancake with cheese and beef) was fantastic. seriously delicious, and a generous serving too. i got the pabellon criollo (black beans with cheese, white rice, fried plantains, and shredded beef stew), which was also delicious and too much for me to finish (even with my friend’s help) so i had to pack it up to go.
we also got the tequenos (cheese sticks), which came with chipotle, guacamole, and ranch? sauce. my fav was the guac but my friend was really into the ranch sauce.
the cheese here is incredible. apparently it’s imported from montreal or something, which sounds about right because it’s unlike any other kind of cheese i’ve ever had before and goes perfectly in the tequenos and cachapas.
this place is a bit on the pricey side. those two entrees, plus two tequenos, and a passion fruit juice and papelon con limon (sugar cane and lemon drink), plus tax and tip all totalled to just over $ 50 for lunch for two people. the service is nice enough (and actually pretty cute — the little girls actually made conversation and were sweet), but the wait is kind of a killer. worth it if you’re coming for the authentic venezuelan fare, but just be prepared to wait there for a pretty long time to get it.

Great little place.
Understand you come here for the food, not the service (cause its extremely slow).
Food: 4.5÷5
Décor: ⁴⁄₅
Pricing: ³⁄₅
Service speed: ¹⁄₅
Waiters are overall very nice but they do not hire professional waiters so they have no clue what they are doing. You have to give it to the kids, they do try, but on weekends, service will be slow. The food however is well worth it.

I love the food at this place. Really authentic, great tasting, and hands-​down the best Venezuelan food in town. However, don’t arrive there when you’re already hungry, as you’ll have to wait a long time for your food to be ready — which is understandable because I believe they make everything fresh, and Venezuelan food itself takes a long time to cook.
Also, avoid going there when there’s nobody else except for the cook and his friends. They speak — no, they YELL really loud at each other without considering that the people who are eating at their restaurant would also like to have a nice conversation and hear our own voices. The food is really amazing and I will never deny that, but they should be a bit more considerate of their clients in such a tiny restaurant.

Great place to grab a delicious and relaxed meal. A lot of the menu is gluten free which is a win for me. Arepas and the corn pancake are really really good and filling.
Service and atmosphere not the best, but I don’t care. I’ll keep coming back to fill up on this delicious food!

Amazing little Venezuelan café/​restaurant. They carry uniquely named coffee (tetero (mostly milk), negrito (black) and a couple of other cool ones)
The staff is friendly and helpful.
The portions are big. And if you want a cheese overdose (in the best way possible) you should order corn pancake with white cheese. Delicious! prepare to have your taste buds orgasm in pleasure.
The arepas are of course also amazing. You can choose baked or deepfried arepa. Both are great.
What looked amazing judging by other tables; orders: the fried plantain dishes. mmmmm! yum!
Don’t forget tequenos (cheese fingers) before the main dish.
AND to top it off: the desserts are of course will throw you into a sugar coma but they are totally worth it. The three milk cake is delicious!
Make sure you have a long walk planned after eating at this place… you will need to kill couple of thousands of calories.

Really good food. Very rich though. Dishes are quite filling and heavy. Have small items if you want to have room for dessert. The place is very friendly and accepting. The waitress explained most of the dishes for us (as we didn’t speak any Spanish and the menu was listed in mostly Spanish). Excellent service.

I went to this place with my family, we are venezuelan so we are used to the food. The Pabellon was really good especially the flank steak. Cachapa at the place was OK, unfortunately we order two to go and one of them was all burned, this is bad… you do not pack burned food! We found out when we got home. Service was extremely slow. Decoration is very nice with pictures of Venezuela, pretty cool.

Chill spot, guy. Venezuelan comfort food, yeah? Gordo, indeed.
We like it here and it’s on repeat. I’m happy to pay $ 9 for a simple and tasty meal of 3 tacos (beef, chicken or pork), a nice helping of avocado salad and 3 DELICIOUS house made sauces (tomato salsa, avocado sauce, garlic sauce). The massive apera sandwiches are filling and satisfying ($ 6.75 or $ 7.75 depending on type), but I’m not sure that this will be my favorite thing at Gordo Ex once I try everything on the menu.
Beware: the garlic sauce is irresistible. Fattybakes approved.

Excellent Venezuelan food! The empanadas, arepas, patacones and cachapas are really tasty, the food is just amazing!

Excellent Venezuelan food! Good prices. If you want something different, this is the place. Highly recommended