Hong Kong Bistro Cafe

Was in the mood for a nice HK style breakfast place and stumbled upon this place on the Unilocal app. Great nice place for HK style breakfast. When you walk inside, it gives you that kind of atmosphere. It wasn’t too busy but once it got closer to the later noon hour, the place became very packed. This place only accepts cash so make sure you bring some money. I ordered the Baked Pork Chops with tomato sauce on rice along with a cold HK style tea. It was quite delicious and I was surprised on the portion of the dish. It was quite large and filling. The prices are quite reasonable and the staff are quite friendly. Overall, great little hidden gem for HK brunch in Chinatown. Will definitely recommend this place.

Been going to this place for the past year! They have so many options that I don’t think I’ve gone through half the items even though I’ve been going forever. Best time to go is during lunch for the special which is under $ 10 and comes with 3 items (soup, main, and drink). My personal favorite go to is the chicken steak in any of their sauces!

This is my go to for «cha chaan teng» for the last several years. Affordable price, great food, and textbook milk tea. The lunch special menu changes everyday so I always look forward to the surprise for what’s on the menu. My favourite lunch special would have to be the black pepper sauce chicken steak!

You probably wouldn’t even know that this place existed unless you had eagle eyes or a friend who told you about it. Go up the narrow flight of stairs and you’ll find yourself in a simple, no-​frills spot. Décor leaves much to be desired, but that’s not what you’re here for now, is it?
Came here for lunch this past Sunday around 1pm, and the place was packed. They had lunch specials that day ($ 7.50) and I ordered the garlic sauce steak with spaghetti, which also came with a soup (minestrone, cream of corn or seaweed) and a drink. The plate was HUGE and we had a hard time fitting everyone’s dishes on the table. The food was tasty, but nothing spectacular. Minestrone tasted a little diluted. My honey-​lemon drink was pretty good (costs an extra buck though). I’d be curious to try some of their other menu items, because I love HK-​style Western food!
Service was… hmm, how should I put it, authentic? One of the servers was a little snippy, but the other was quite friendly and patient in explaining the specials, and wasn’t annoyed (at least not outwardly haha) when we called her back to change one of our orders. This place was very understaffed. We didn’t get our drinks until halfway through the meal and the main courses arrived before our soups… but you overlook it, seeing how busy these guys are (the poor dude at the counter was up to his elbows washing glasses and handling the cash register)! Other than the university students chatting away in English, this place almost makes you feel like you’re in Hong Kong.

Huge portion with incredibly reasonable price and authentic taste!

This place has one of the best baked pork chop rice I’m GTA and it’s really the only HK style restaurant in downtown Toronto. Good service and good value.

Of all the HK style Chinese restaurants, this is the best — seriously. My favourite is the baked pork chops in tomato sauce with spaghetti (rice would be the other option). None in the GTA comes close to its flavour — and I’ve been to practically most of them.

I come here for the lunch specials whenever I can. $ 7.50 before tax for a decent sized lunch, hot milk tea, and soup. As for soup choices, you can choose between chinese soup of the day, russian borsch or some cream soup. I always recommend the Chinese soup!

This is the only solid Hong Kong café that I’m aware of in Toronto — which is shocking to me. I mean, come on, who doesn’t love inexpensive, Chinese-​Western fusion food? Why aren’t there more? I really hate having to go to Markham for a decent selection of HK cafes.
Despite having no other clear competitors (as I believe Red Onion is now closed and Goldstone on Spadina isn’t like the Goldstone in Vancouver), it’s actually a pretty decent option for Toronto. Service is good, lots of daily specials and lots of lunch time combos available.
My all-​time favourite dish and standard HK café order is the Baked Pork Chop on Rice with a HK Milk Tea/​Coffee on the side. It’s far from top tier, but it’s decently represented here — usually lots of onions and mushrooms in the tomato sauce.
While this place pales in comparison to the selection available further north of the city, it’s a decent Chinese diner option in the core. Believe it’s open until 10PM everyday.

As soon as we walked into this second floor restaurant, our senses told us on no uncertain terms that we have arrived at a Hong Kong style café. Is it the quintessential smell of milk tea? Is it the chairs with their plastic covers and metal backs? The typical glasses for our tea? The Chinese menus on the wall? Whatever it is, we knew we had arrived at a place that will satisfy our cravings for east meets west café food.
I had the lunch combo of chicken leg and egg on rice that came with a good helping of broccoli. It was pretty good — nothing fancy, and a good size. He had diced chicken and salted fish fried rice which was decent as well if you’re into savoury and pungent flavours.
Super glad we found this place downtown as there are so many more options in this style uptown than in the heart of Toronto.

You want great food and great service? Best to stay away from here. If you want to change your free tea with your meal to a cold tea they charge your 50 cents and in reality they charge you $ 1.00 on your bill. Now if they come back with a hot tea even though you’ve asked to upgrade to an iced tea with the meal you have ordered, they will blame you for ordering wrong and then if you want to still get that ice tea upgrade, they will charge you the hot and the cold tea upgrade combined. So ladies and gentlemen, I know it’s cheap food but that doesn’t mean the service needs to be cheap too. Please just go to another nearby restaurant that serves the same dishes with more reasonable service.

Not a lot of authentic good Hong Kong Style cafes in downtown Toronto (especially compared to the plethora of HK cafes in Vancouver), but this one is quite good. The service I thought was excellent especially for a Chinese Restaurant. Its a little hard to find this place, but thank goodness for Unilocal reviews to help guide the way!

Came here on a Sunday afternoon and it was pretty packed. Good thing we came before the crowd as we saw tons of people come after us waiting for table. This place won’t «wow» you with its décor. It has this weird swinging door to divide the washroom which reminds me of the saloon doors from the old times. haha.
Food speaks volume and I can see why this place is rated highly on the Unilocal community. They have daily special for $ 6.95 which includes soup and hot frink ($ 1 more for cold) There were 3 choices today — Steak in peppercorn sauce with rice or spaghetti. I got the Baked Porkchop with Tomato sauce on rice/​spaghetti and the last option was the Portugal chicken on rice/​spaghetti which my wife got Both dishes were good and the porckhop was pre-​chopped up and crispy. We ordered 2 cold drinks — cold lemon tea and cold ice milk tea.
Overall, I will need to try this place again especially for the afternoon tea time 2−5pm.

Toronto’s Hong Kong style café. Waiters and waitresses are friendly. Food is great as well as the price. (Not to mention the 20% currency exchange discount I got.)
It’s a must go place if you ever want to see what the hkers eat in Toronto.

This is absolutely comfort food for me.
Came here twice before just for the French toast – the filling is crunchy peanut butter which adds a nice texture! Milk tea is just okay, I definitely have had better (I may be biased coming from the West coast…).
I just got over a fever and was in need for some home food. There was a lunch special for $ 6.95, which was soup (Chinese soup /​cream of ham /​Russian borscht) + main dish (beef brisket with radish, roast chicken leg with egg, _​_​) + tea/​coffee. Add an extra dollar for cold drinks, which is quite standard.
Ordered the Chinese soup which was peanuts and papaya, absolutely delicious and how my mom makes it. The beef brisket and radish was hearty as well.
Service is speedy and polite, not in your face. This is a casual dining establishment. There a big screen TV playing in the front.
(Also, yes, for clarification Russian borscht in HK style restaurants is not the authentic version. With Hong Kong cuisine, you will see that a lot of Western dishes are given an Eastern spin to suit the Hong Kong tastebuds. I find it quite delicious!)
Minus one star because it doesn’t serve any soup noodles (i.e. wonton mein), only instant noodles =(

This is one of the more consistent spot in Chinatown. They offer Hong Kong tea style food and large selection of items. The portion is always big and the quality is quite consistent. Their lunch special come with tea and complementary soup and I always opt for Chinese style soup. I like Hainese chicken rice here and chicken is always cooked well. The dipping sauce is ok and I’d prefer it to be a little more hotter, but overall I have no complaint since it always get me full for under 10 bucks. The service is quick and efficient and owner has always been friendly.

Love it! Love it! Love it!
This place is always packed during lunch and dinner times and I can see why. Cheap meals with large portions. Dinner specials are also a great deal. Staff are outgoing and polite. Will definitely return to try out the rest of the menu!

My favourite Cantonese style diner in downtown Toronto! Super cheap price for the quantity and quality you get. The lunch special is less than $ 10 and includes a huge entrée (usually a meat with veggie and choice of spaghetti or rice on the side), choice of soup and a drink. The service is already very friendly. The diner doesn’t have the nicest décor but it’s clean.

Food is okay but their ying-​yong (coffee &tea) is the bomb!

This is a no-​frills typical HK style café right at Dundas/​Spadina (easy to miss because it’s on the 2^nd floor). Prices are cheap and portions are generous. They often have combos that include tea and soup. Expect to find the usual dishes like Malaysian curries, baked spaghetti, ham and macaroni soup, «Russian» borscht, milk tea, lemon coke, etc. If you’ve never had this style of food before, it may seem odd — it’s basically «fusion» before it was a thing — think Chinese takes on Western dishes. Nothing fancy, but oddly comforting. Service is swift and there are TV’s playing Cantonese news channels. There are not a lot of HK style cafes downtown, so I’m glad to see this place is still around (the newer Red Onion on Spadina is similar, in a nicer dining room, but food here is slightly better IMO).