Cravings Asian Cuisine

The name enticed me, that’s what initially intrigued me about this place. Who wouldn’t love a one-​stop shop for any type of Asian cuisine you might be wanting? It even drew my attention away from their neighbour the ‘Burgers Priest’ and that’s normally hard to do. Regardless, it landed on my list of places to try and one of my best friends was eager to join me.
The interior décor is inviting, atmosphere feels intimate even when the place was packed. Both my friend and I revelled at the beautiful chandeliers adorning the ceiling. And loved the subtle touches in place for the holiday.
The menu is extensive and portions are tapas style providing you with opportunity to a) order more items and share or b) be able to indulge in your craving of more than one thing.
Prior to getting into why I only gave them three stars, I promised my friend I’d include her thoughts. She loved the almond coated shrimp and thought it was the tastiest shrimp she’d ever tried. She also had no complaints about anything she tried and would definitely come back!
I, on the other hand, had a different experience (despite sitting at the same table). Servers were hard to call over when you had a question. They promised to bring out everything around the same time yet my friend had her drink and food before they brought me my beverage. When they did bring out my first selection, it was not what I ordered. I finally found, and called over a server, who told me it was what I had ordered and perhaps was just prepared differently than I was expecting. As I hesitatingly took a bite of coating off what I knew was not chicken, another server came over and said they suspected it had been delivered to the wrong table and it was in fact not what I had ordered. Thank goodness, I don’t have a severe allergy to the protein they served me. The sushi roll that I ordered was a sweet potato tempura roll that was packed with sweet potato (win!) but for something that should be deep fried before putting it in a sushi roll, it was relatively raw and was probably one of the worst sushi rolls I’d ever had. When they did finally bring me the correct first item, it was quite good and the accompanying sauce was a mystery but delicious.
All in all, my recommendations:
1) don’t stray far from the ‘craving favourite’ suggestions. Those were the items that were disappointing.
2) if something doesn’t look like what you ordered make sure they double/​triple check that it is.
3) try more than one item, price point is reasonable enough to do so. Prices will also give you a sense of portion size.
Will I come back? Perhaps to try the almond crusted items which I admit smelled wonderful! But otherwise, probably not. However, my friend, as mentioned above, had a very different opinion and would definitely return.
Therefore, I leave the decision up to you!

Have been here a few times now, once for my birthday and twice for tasting menu~ overall their food is very good. The sushi is pretty good but I have a pickier taste, rolls were quite good, their sushi particularly blowtorch is great! Their seafood fried rice is ADDICTIVE. I swear when you eat it you can’t stop! Also their skewers are quite yummy. Sashimi could be cut into smaller pieces… But their tuna tar tar is very good. Tasting menu isn’t too expensive either but you have to talk to the owners ahead of time and the budget you have in mind~ they do have blowtorch sushi but you have to request coz it’s not on the menu. But definitely quite yummy if you like Asian fusion food!

Love it!
I’ve been here a few times and I have yet to be disappointed.
Serving sizes are very generous and food is always hot and fresh.
The UFOs and mushroom beef rolls are great for starters.
Most of their Asian fusion dishes are nothin short of great.
Sushi (for a non-​only-​sushi restaurant is good. Fresh and tasty.
They are priced well. Service is also great.
Definitely worth a try. You’ll probably be back for seconds.

I’ve eaten here dozens of times because I live so close. Personally I agree with many fellow reviewers who say that this is fast food (sugary goop, salty goop, bland goop) in a fancier setting. And they do nickel and dime with extra sauces and dressings when requested.
I wish I could say nicer things because the owner is so friendly, but Cravings really needs to get with the program or evolve to join their tasteless and uninspired local competition (like Riz) who will certainly win since they at least offer their subpar fare in an AYCE format.

This food is awful and they chince you so hard. Food is unauthentic garbage and I don’t recommend anyone going there.

This restaurant was great. My friend and I ordered the mango salad, «everything» salad, spicy tuna roll, spicy butterfish roll, cucumber roll and the sushi benedict pizza (because it sounded so off-​the-​wall!). The salads were huge and delicious. Best mango salad I’ve ever had, with the mango being of perfect ripeness. The everything salad was totally addictive, something about that dressing! The rolls were excellent and the sushi pizza (I’m vegan so I didn’t try it) was apparently tasty as well, if exceedingly rich. Presentation of the food was also very nice. Service was attentive and polite. We were the only patrons, but we were dining at a somewhat odd time. As has been mentioned, the interior of the restaurant is lovely. While I do enjoy riz north very much, I would actually return to Cravings as a first choice. The food was of a better quality, portions were very generous and I don’t need to stuff myself with AYCE to enjoy dinner out. My friend and I left completely stuffed! Their menu is extensive and very creative, everything we had was delicious, waited upon expertly in a beautiful setting. What’s not to love?

This small little restaurant located on Yonge is quite cozy and comfortable. The service here is absolutely amazing. They move with such speed and finesse like you would find in michelin restaurants. They would be right around the corner the second I lifted my head, and never once intruded on my guest and myself during our dining experience. This is very rare to find anywhere in Toronto. Their menu is quite large, it ranges from dim sum, to sushi and sashimi, to stir frys and some fusion items. Some of their dishes are pretty standard, we didn’t try those ones. The ones we were recommended though, were all uniquely flavoured and plated very nicely. Definitely worth a try. Ask your server for recommendations, you won’t regret it.

What a hidden Jem!
If you’re looking for very good tasting asian (Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, etc) food, upscale atmosphere and good pricing look no further. It’s a definite must try!
We had the green curry chicken and pad Thai and was excellent! I’m going to come back and eventually try everything on their menu.
I love their banana coconut dessert! *drool*

Great food. They need to compete with Riz down the street. All you can eat is needed at this place. It use to be very busy here all the time… it was dead tonight, all the customers are at Riz. Please change your pricing if you can.

Let’s start with the big positive: Ambiance (interior) is probably the nicest I’ve been to an Asian restaurant in recent memory. The inside is refined and decorated with much restraint which is perfect fitting with its slow jazz as background music to accompany your lunch. Our waitress was very attentive, helpful and food was expedited quick
Now the let-​downs: Despite having an extremely wide varieties of Asian food (from Curries, Thai Satay, Sushi and Wok-​style dishes) it over exemplifies typical Westernized Asian food. For instance, if you ordered anything breaded (shrimp /​calamari), it would come in over-​cooked and excessive breading with your typical sweet chili sauce which you had eaten thousand times over.
For a quick lunch spot — I probably could recommend as they would be decent for what you pay ($ 15) but I certainly couldn’t recommend this place for a fine dining Asian restaurant for any special occasion which I believe they at least try to strive to become.

I really liked this restaurant! They have a large menu which includes Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese and Malaysian cuisines.
We had the lunch special ($ 12 for 3 course meal) which I loved. I had the Mango Chicken and my friend had the Spicy Sesame Chicken. The server was very nice but didn’t speak much English.
The restaurant is beautiful and would be a great «Date» restaurant. Highly recommended!
Roger

A trendy flavourful restaurant in North York. Highlight? Pretty good food with average pricing. Fortunately their «asian fusion» is only reflected in their variety on the menu, and not in the actual food itself, leaving you to fulfill your authentic experience.
The service was decent — not the best english so it can be hard to express your order if it’s not simple and straightforward. The waitresses were all friendly and attentive though which was pleasant.
Recommendations
— Green Curry with Chicken — extremely flavourful with a stronger kick than most green curries I’ve had.

Noodles were tasteless so i complained and all get did was add over-​sugary cheap sauce.
Service is good.
I’ve heard the sushi is good however, but I’ve never tried it.

I came here for a large birthday gathering of 10 people. They had a table set up in the back that was nice and secluded and worked perfectly for a large group. If you have a large group, I suggest making a reservation and you’ll be set.
The menu is quite extensive, and you’d probably find many different things you could try each time you go there. It’s a variety of thai food, with some dim sum slipped in here and there, oh yeah and sushi too. They do it all! In that sense, I almost want to say it is like Spring Rolls, but a lot better as I must say that I was jealous of all the other food around me. I wanted to eat it all! So that is definitely a good thing.
I started with the vegetarian gyozas, which while good, I think I’d rather order the beef siu mai the next time. I had the Vietnamese curry noodle dish as my entrée, which turned out to be just curry pad thai, but that is how I prefer my pad thai anyways, so score! While I enjoyed it, if I went again I would try something else… like one of the specialty dishes like the crispy schezwan beef, or the phoenix nest one (I forget what’s in it, but it looked amazinggg!)

Went there after reading Unilocal reviews. Was quite underwhelmed. Food was a little too sweet and otherwise bland.
Apps: We had the chicken wontons (flavourless), calamari (passable), enoki beef rolls (tender and fairly nice sauce), and the lettuce wraps (best thing we had all night – flavorful and crunchy
Roll: Tempura shrimp roll – very forgettable.
Sushi pizza (salmon): It’s hard to go wrong with a fried rice patty dipped in soy and wasabi, but the topping was subpar. You normally get a nice slice of salmon sashimi on each slice. Here, we got some shredded /​dry salmon stuff. Very disappointed.
Nice seating and great service, to be sure, but the food left much to be desired, I’m afraid.

Probably more akin to a 3.5 star if I’m being completely honest.
So I’ve seen this restaurant for at least 4 – 5 years now and have always been curious to try it out. As it was the girlfriend’s graduation last week, I thought the timing was perfect to celebrate and give this place a shot.
We ordered the UFO tapas, based on the recommendations on Unilocal,and I found them to be very good but not quite out of this world. They were fried perfectly, but a bit lacking in taste.
We also had the avocado tobiko salad. Again it was good, but nothing too special, and the portions were very small. I also thought that the salad could be a bit colder. This is odd, considering I spend a lot of time thinking how people like cold foods. I still don’t get chilled soups, by the way, but that’s a topic for another day. But the salad felt a little too room-​temperature like, and I thought that was a bit odd.
For the mains, the girlfriend had a spicy Malay rice noodle. It was again quite tasty, but very one-​dimensional in flavour. We could taste the soy sauce, but there was very little depth in the dish. Authentic Asian dishes, especially those named Malay food, should have multiple layers of flavour due to their use of spices. This unfortunately felt like what an Asian chef feels a Western person would want to taste in his/​her Asian dish. It tasted a little eerily similar to the pad see ew at Thai Express. Which is not to say it wasn’t tasty (it was), it just felt shallow and oversimplified.
Finally, I ordered basil chicken. The chicken pieces were extremely moist and tender, which is very impressive. But again the sauce was monotonous in its flavour. Again, I could taste its flavour but not its depth. Still, it’s not a bad dish as a whole, I’ve just had better.
Environment was wonderfully modern without looking like it’s trying too hard, the service was attentive and very polite, and the whole experience was quite nice. It was also nice to walk around the neighbourhood after the meal.
Final verdict? The restaurant’s menu shows that it offers everything from Pad Thai, sushi, curry, and Chinese dishes like kung pao chicken. In doing so, I really think it diluted its offerings. Good place for a date though, based on the ambience, and it’s certainly an impressive enough place to have a fancy-​ish Asian (–ish again) meal. But I can’t help but think that the place is a bit like a stretched out naan bread: still tasty, but spread itself a little too thin :)

Cravings is fantastic. Great service, great price, great food. Met a friend today for lunch for $ 12.00 fixed priced we recieved 3 great choices from a fairly diverse menu.
Heard others around us loving their prix fixe selections.
Excellent choice. Will be back soon!

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I’d like to begin by apologizing for this horrendous attempt to draw a UFO!
The saucer inspired dish made up of a mound of spicy tuna on top of deep fried sweet potato squares is really the main picture that pops into my head when I think back to my lunch experience at Cravings!
The restaurant boasts a rather large menu composed of popular Thai, Chinese and Japanese dishes. I found the seaweed salad and Tom Yum soup to be just alright. Aside from the famous UFO, the spicy tuna roll and thai spring rolls are also decent choices of nibbles before the main course.
Having tried the yellow curry and Shanghai fried noodles (both with chicken), I must say that next time I go for lunch, I will stick to ‘tapas style orders’ as recommended by Lauren W, as I found the main dishes to be somewhat bland and greasy.
The service is very pleasant and efficient, and the restaurant is well taken care of. Recommended if you are in the neighbourhood.

My dad always raves about this place, so I figured it’s about time I checked it out. I went with 4 friends, which worked out well since we got to try a lot of dishes. A large portion of the menu is Tapas, so I suggest going here with a small group so you can try as many dishes as possible.
As for the food, mostly everything we ordered was beyond delicious.
Must try’s include:
–The Enoki Beef Rolls, grilled beef rolls with mushrooms. (A group favourite, and even writing about them is making me hungry!)
— UFO, which is off the Tapas menu. They are sweet potatoes topped with spicy tuna… need I say more?
— Almond shrimp, which is almond crusted shrimp, SO good!!!
Only thing I wasn’t crazy about was the Pad Thai, it wasn’t bad, but I’ve definitely had better. There is a huge menu, and a ton of dishes to choose from. Would definitely recommend this place to everyone.
**Warning** You NEED a reservation here, any day of the week, even if it’s just for two. It’s pretty small inside, and I tried eating here on a weekday at around 7:00pm and the place was rammed and we couldn’t get in.

Cravings definitely holds it’s name proud when it comes to making anyone’s mouth water and their stomachs wanting more.
This Asian fusion creation only opened a year and a half ago and it has has taken the restaurant industry by storm with its amazing combination of diverse Asian cuisine with a very sophisticated and classy atmosphere.
Cravings has an amazing menu with all Asian foods you can think of… Dim Sum, Sushi, Chinese, etc etc etc! This is an amazing idea because a lot of people, including myself, are huge fans of Asian food but love all types!
All of the food is high quality and does not skimp out on freshness or delicious taste.
As well, the food and drink prices are reasonable! This is a great quality because the restaurant’s interior has an upscale look, with chandeliers, candlelight and cozy sitting areas.
For my recent birthday dinner with my boyfriend, we dined out at Cravings and it was a wonderful treat.
Our entire meal, which we split, was amazing. Here is what we ordered, which I would recommend:
STARTERS
— Thai Chicken Springrolls
— Dim Sum Dumplings: Boy Choi Sum (Shrimp and Spinach dumpings in green noodle dough)
MAIN COURSE
— 1 Spicy Salmon Roll (6 large pieces)
— 1 Dynamite Roll (4 HUGE pieces)
— General Tao Chicken with vegetables (Cooked to perfection with just the right amount of spice and sweetness)
We topped off our meal with a nice glass of blush Zinfandel each, which was a nice addition to the dinner.
Even with all of that food and wine, the bill only came to around $ 60.
This place really allows for you to eat out classy, taste delicious food and not go home with no money left.
From other visits to this place, I definitely recommend the Spider Roll Sushi and any of the Asian noodle dishes!
And since Cravings is a more intimate setting, they tend to fill up fast but not to worry, they take reservations!