Danji

I asked for non spicy chicken soon tofu, but i got spicy, so i went back and told them to change one. And they just dump the old one back in the pot, and rinse the foam container, and tada, a «new» non spicy soup! Oh my, how generous! At least gave me a new container! So cheap and they charge .50cents for containers, those things are like 5cent each, how cheap can you be
Usually i could eat a little spicy, no problem. But I wasn’t feeling well that day, and i need something hot and I couldn’t take anything spicy. Its not that I’m picky, its just unpleasant see them do that

Danji is a cute, hole-​in-​the-​wall Korean restaurant that I’d walked by several times but never noticed until recently, when I went for dinner a couple weeks ago, and again with friends last night. It’s a small, cozy place that looks a bit run down but generally is quite clean. The servers are friendly and food was pushed out at a good pace. Both times that I’ve been was around 7:30p, at which the service was quite fast so food was on the table quickly. They only have one waitress (I get the feeling this may be a family owned place, or that they’re understaffed). They helpfully place a jug of cold water at the table which is nice so we can all self-​serve ourselves cold water, which is helpful when having hot food. The food is slightly salty, so be mindful of this if you’re sensitive to excess sodium levels, but generally the food is satisfactory across the board.

My go-​to take-​out kfood restaurant. It’s cheap, filling and delicious. So far my favourite item on their menu is still good old bibimbap with beef. It comes with assorted veggies, a fried egg and some very flavourful bulgogi on top of white rice. It also has some korean hot sauce on the side. We ordered tangsuyuk the other day but the pork was a bit too dry to my taste. it was meh.
My only complaint is that i wish they would give out more banchan when it comes to take out — even kimchi would do. Now its only some Gamja jorim (but very sweet and tasty).

This is my favourite place in the neighbourhood for Korean restaurant. Pork bone soup and kimchi soup is still my favourite. And I usually order spicy rice cake on the side for people to share. It’s perfect as an appetizer because of the portion and the taste. Cheap, convenient location, and nice people! Service can be a little slow if you go during lunch or dinner time. They only have one waitress serving the hall!

Excellent service, food and price. The place was packed but the waitress kept things humming. The Kim chi was exceptional but the Bulgogi was even better. Highly recommended. I will go back again.

Took a long time for our order to be taken — only one waitress? but it arrived fairly quick. potatoes in the appetizer were tasteful but oily and my jap chae were a bit overcooked. I wish I knew chicken was dark meat or I’d rather eat vegetarian, dislike and never eat dark meat. The portion was of average size, didn’t feel full afterwards. My husband says his bibim bap was ok. Don’t think we’ll return.

I called them and told them about the black hair in my food, the girl kept leaving the phone to talk to whoever without telling me, no hold, or anything.
Was on the phone with them and they basically asked me why didn’t I call that day, BECAUSE IT WAS TAKE OUT AND I OPENED IT AT 12AM. I told them this multiple times. My hair is blonde so in no way could it have been mine either.
In the end nothing was resolved. She talked to me in a condescending tone the entire time and the person she was talking to was giving attitude as well, P. S. if you’re going to talk shit when the phones on, make sure the person on the line can’t hear it.
All I asked was to have the meal replaced and they didn’t even offer that. It would cost them less than $ 1 to remake.

The food is so affordable, it was totally worth the price. I had the bibim baap and the bulgogi (spicy beef). Both were good, i really recommended the bulgogi. Also, they have special lunch offers, at a lower price. Great for casual brunches

Can’t believe I’d never gone here after living near it and walking past it for a decade, probably because it’s a literal hole-​in-​the-​wall, but I’m going to make up for lost lunches now.
Stopped in for the lunch special on a whim yesterday and it totally hit the spot. I generally subscribe to the «dolsot or NOTHING» philosophy with bibimbap, but the regular with tofu ($ 6.5) was good enough that I didn’t miss the hot stone bowl at all. (Well, maybe a little.) Banchan was limited but the Gamja jorim (glazed potatoes) were delicious and inspired us to purchase the ingredients to attempt making the dish at home.
A lowlight: they do charge you to doggy bag your leftovers, even if you’ve already paid and left a tip, which is utter insanity.

Danji is so packed around dinner time that the service will be incredibly slow… mostly because they only have one waitress. (That poor girl.)
It’s a Korean restaurant that appears to be a family business, and the number of customers inside usually fluctuate to a crazy high number around dinner time. You get a jug full of water and a bunch of refillable side dishes, and they have my absolute favourite side dish, the SWEET POTATOES! It’s very hard to find a Korean restaurant here that serves it, so this is definitely a plus.
The food is generally quite good but arrives rather slowly. I must say, it’s a lot better to order take-​out from Danji than dining in, so definitely consider this option!
Tip: DON’T wear nice clothes here, the fried oil scent will stick on to you for at least a day.
Favorites: Bibimbap, Kanpoonggi (fried chicken)
Dislikes: Pork Bone Soup (a bit too oily and salty), Calamari (fried squid)

The lunch specials are what keep me coming back over and over again to this place. They’re phenomenally cheap at under $ 7. They include soups, large portions of meat and vegetables along with affordable sides.
The service is quick and cheap, they do offer take out, however you get larger portions and a wider selection of free side dishes by eating in the restaurant. The food is very authentic and I often frequent Danji when looking to satisfy my craving for Korean food. Definitely a hidden gem.

My favorite korean restaurant in downtown.
Best suntufu I’ve ever eaten! I go for the dish at least once a week. Other dishes such as korean pancake, deep fried chicken and bibimpa were all good too.
Quick service, decent price and convenient location.

Very well priced lunch — amazing bang for the buck. Had spicy beef with kimchi and special pork with kimchi — both tasted very good. They serve free bean sprouts, and kimchi. Small eating area but warm and cozy

Ordered pickup. It was really busy inside and you could see the back kitchen was well staffed. Service was fast and prices are average but the quality was low. The short ribs were super fatty, tough and too sweet. The seafood soup lacked much in the way of seafood.
Also, even though we did pickup we were surprised with the lack of sides — they didn’t even give us kimchi.

The lunch specials are amazing! $ 8 for bibimbap? Count me in. The bibimbap was pretty good too and they put in a decent amount of beef especially for the price. I also got 3 side dishes to start. The bean sprouts didn’t seem fresh, the sweet potatoes were extremely sweet and the kimchi was very salty but hey you get what you pay for. The point is the $ 8 bibimbap was very good so terrible side dishes aside, I’d recommend this place for a cheap lunch spot. The waitress was confused and disorganized but it seemed like she was doing everything on the front end of the restaurant.

Hello lunch specials!
Danji was suggested to me by my brother/​sister in law, and I don’t know that I would have gone in without a suggestion (don’t judge a book by it’s cover, I guess!). They have awesome lunch specials under $ 8, so it’s definitely a place to check out for a quick/​cheap bite!
Another favourite there is the green dragon roll — it’s so massive and avocado-​y that even a big eater like me can have one and call it lunch! It is slightly pricier than a lunch special at about $ 12 per roll, but don’t let the price dissuade you — it’s a good value sushi roll!
My one complaint about Danji actually comes from my brother/​sister in law — though I haven’t experienced this, they’ve told me that they went a ton of times and always got the banchan complementary. They went once and the server refused to give it to them — saying it wasn’t included. They sat there and ate their dinner while every other person had received the banchan! Very odd, and while it kept us away for a while, we eventually came crawling back.
So, in summary: GREEN DRAGON ROLL.

«Salty» best describes this place. Coming from someone with an Asian background, salty to me is like eating a brick of salt for most. Probably one of the saltiest meals I have ever had.
Although, I can’t argue with the value (lunch specials). While there is a very limited selection, the price you pay is very good for what you get.
All in all, not worth your time if you want something tasty. If you’re just looking for something filling and cheap… AND you happen to love water (cuz you’ll be needing lots of it afterwards), go for it!

Poor portions. Ordered a bi bim bap, and they only gave me one spoon of chicken! I asked the waitress to add more and all I heard was yelling from the chef and nothing extra was added.

I used to come here every so often, and today is a good reason why not to come back.
The only waitress that works there hardly even served us properly. She didn’t take our order until 15 minutes later. We waved her down many times and she said she was coming but never did for the longest time ever.
Once she was taking our order she stopped us half way and ran off somewhere else to do something… Like literally wtf? She came back about 5 mins later to continue taking our order… You don’t just walk away from a table to serve other people. After she took our orders fully this time she forgot to even bring our water until another 20 minutes.
When our sushi rolls came she didn’t even bring our soy sauce for wasabi, or a small bowl for it until we asked.
They’re pretty cheap with how much they give you…
The bowl of rice wasn’t even full… It was a sloppy half a scoop of rice.
My kimchi soup hardly had beef… And less soup.
Sorry but I used to like this place but you just pissed me off so im probably never coming back .
BAD SERVICE
Sept ¹²⁄₂₀₁₅:
Service has improved. Only thing is waitress sometimes doesn’t understand English so can be hard to communicate. I ordered spicy salmon rolls, and I usually do every single time so I would know how they do it. The chef added cucumbers in it for the first time, and I couldn’t eat it. I tried explaining to waitress that I couldn’t eat it, and she kept trying to tell me that’s how they make it and I can’t cancel it… So if I’m allergic to something, and the chef decided to substitute it for cucumbers instead of its usual avocado I am forced to eat it? No… Took probably 5 minutes for her to understand. Either way, they shouldn’t have subbed for anything else other than what was written on the menu without customers approval. My rating was a 2 star before, but I bumped it up to a 3. It gets pretty crowded during the lunch special hours. I often go after those hours anyways and have no problem with waiting!

Having eaten a good amount of authentic Korean food with my Korean belle, I was excited to see what Korean food would be like down town. On a weekday night, some time late after work, I went to Danji to get takeout. Unfortunately, I was a bit disappointed with what I got. I ordered bulgogi and haemul pajeon (seafood pancake) — but these dishes weren’t up to the same level as I’d had at other Korean places.
The Bad:
The bulgogi had lots of other stuff mixed with it (onions, zucchini) instead of just bulgogi beef. It was also not particularly well grilled — it didn’t have that strong grill flavor but rather more of a pan fry taste. The seafood pancake was also very limp, rather than crispy, and the sauce was overly salty (and I can handle really salty). For me, the cardinal sin was that the bulgogi was a little bit spicy but not nearly as spicy as it should have been.
The Good:
On the other hand, they give you miso soup and rice and one banchan dish (sweet potato) with a takeout order. The one banchan dish did seem kind of random — I would’ve liked some kimchi — but it was still a nice surprise. Their lunch special seems to be what to get here — so cheap! Alas, I’m not sure how good or would be given the quality of their other stuff.
One caveat may be that Danji, like other Korean restaurants I’ve eaten at in Toronto, is more attuned to local tastes. That would explain the less spicy, the mixed bulgogi, and the saltier seafood pancake sauce. After all, the gamja tang (pork bone soup) that is really popular in Toronto is very like many Chinese soups you can did elsewhere here. So if you enjoy this kind of taste, you’ll enjoy Danji, but if you are more used to the Korean food in, say, California, this may not be the best for you.
Overall: Danji was nice and fast, but I’ll have to give it another chance the next time I’m in Toronto. On my first experience, I wasn’t particularly impressed, but I’m not sure if that’s because I was expecting something different.