Greens Vegetarian Restaurant

Friendly, welcoming staff, good food, great service for a reasonable price.
Atmosphere is bright, clean & modern, even the washrooms are clean!
Would highly recommend.

Worst service I have ever experienced. Was in the restaurant for literally an hour and received no food. Got up and left. Go to buddahs

My husband and I come here when we are hungover and eat ungodly amount of mock chicken. I can’t decide what’s better, the crispy chicken nuggets in chili sauce? Lemon chicken? Sweet corn and mock chicken soup? Why decide when you can order it all and feed two hungry hungover vegans into a two day coma for under $ 50. That gets a five star from me!!!

WOW!!! heard the service was slow… But WOW.
I think the waitress needs a shot of B12 for her memory issues with our order.
Did I mention the service?
After 15 min of sitting waiting for a menu I put my stopwatch timer on and 40 minutes later our appetizer showed up.
The food was ok…
Try Buddhas down the block, better service and food.

Me and my vegan homies have come here several times and always left stuffed to the gills and happy.
Please, please order their «chicken» ball things. I had one and nearly died from the deliciousness.
The staff are very friendly and hard-​working, even if they are a bit overstretched at times.
My favourite dish is probably the lettuce wraps. I also appreciate that they have seaweed salad on the menu.
Is this a fancy restaurant? Hyellll nah. Is it somewhere I would go back to and take a friend? Absolutely.

I have loved you since you stopped being Full Moon. Even when you went through a period of listing all of the stuff that wasn’t vegan, and my beloved Wonton Soup was included on that list.
You were often the middle child between Buddha’s and King’s (geographically and figuratively), but now you’re the best.
Friends, Greens is officially all vegan. Sure, I’ll never order their fake seafood dishes, but that’s because I find that fundamentally, seafood (real or imagined) is vile.
The folks who work there are so lovely. Whether I’m grabbing food to go, or dining in, they’re so welcoming. And is it just me, or do I only get the best fortunes in my fortune cookies when I’m there?
My go-​to order is the bean curd sheets, the aforementioned wonton soup, and mock beef on rice noodle. If you can’t quite decide, you can always order a combo, which serves up a ridiculous amount of food for $ 10. Most importantly, you can finish your meal with deep fried banana and a scoop of ice cream. Definitely enough to share with someone, but who am I kidding? I’m not sharing that.
Bonus points for some prime window-​watching as the world goes by, and as people walk their dogs.

I’m not a vegetarian but this place has some tasty dishes. Their deep fried tofu balls are so good. And hot and sour soup is amazing. It’s friendly and quite restaurant.

What happened!!!
We have visited Greens many times and enjoyed our meals immensely until our last visit about a month ago.
Our favourite, Singapore style fried turnip cakes, (savoury crispy salty spicy curried nuggets of goodness) were so bland, as was the hot and sour soup and the assorted gluten platter. I had to «doctor» the soup with vinegar and chili sauce, and the gluten literally had no taste. These dishes were always flavourful and tasty in the past so I’m not sure what happened.
I also ordered several takeout dishes for my sister and she said that except for «chicken» lettuce wraps, everything else was tasteless.
We were so sad and disappointed because we loved Greens. Now, I am not sure we will return.

High quality of food, great value for money, friendly staff, and convenient location. It is by far my favoritate Chinese vegetarian restaurant in Toronto Chinatown.
Love it!

I have visited green’s vegetarian restaurants multiple time. My dining experiences have been very consistent:
Overall, the food is delicious and I am always impressed with the portion. It is an excellent choice for food if you are tight on cash but very hungry.
My favourite combination is the small hot and sour soup ($ 3.99) with a spring roll ($ 1.69). The spring is freshly made on the spot and significantly larger than other Chinese restaurants’. Most of other Chinese restaurants serve spring rolls that are frozen before cook. Vegetables are fresh! The presentation of dishes is very nice as well.
However, I don’t recommend the mock meat dishes, I have ordered #40 (don’t remember the name) and the lemon «chicken» before, both dishes were quite under seasoned and deep fried in oil. Another problem I have with the dishes here is that I am quite positive that Green’s is NOT MSG free. I sometimes can taste it in the vegetable stir fry dishes.
Moving on to the atmosphere and service, the restaurant is brightly lit and very clean. However the down side is that the servers are very slow. I do think it’s their personality though, they are just very slow, relaxed, friendly people. But still, 25 min for dishes to arrive (one by one, not even altogether) is a little bit too long of a wait when I am hungry. The language skill of the servers is somewhat limited so sometimes customers arrive at the door but are not hosted to the table right away because only the owner’s English is good enough to direct customers.

This place was recommended to me by vegetarian friends so I had high hopes.
Food was decent in terms of taste as would be expected. Got the spicy egg plant and green bean dish which I enjoyed.
My friend got the mango salad and it looked bland. Him being a meat eater was none too impressed with the salad and his noodles. I was quite content with me food
The portions are very generous.
Staff were good as one can imagine from such an establishment. Not being rude is the only thing I look for at these joints.
Only downfall was that I came specifically for the turnip dish as I had seen it on Unilocal!Server said it would take 2 hrs for them to make it as they make it from scratch. WHO has waited 2 hrs for this dish please make yourself known? Was it worth it? Tell me you lucky bastard.
Sad to not have been able to try that.
Would def recommend this place. Got parking right across with no probs on a Saturday during peak hrs.

The mock duck is not a duck facsimile :(
Never been here before. Saw all the good reviews so I thought this would be a good place to try. I tried going meatless but my body rejected it. So I like to try different mock meats when I have a chance. Really like Wu Tai in Markham.
Anyway like other reviews said, the portions are bigger than expected. We ordered the small soup for appetizer and the bowl is way bigger than what you would expect. Not sure how big medium and large size would be :)
I understand the mock duck is terminology thing. Like Bear Claws at Timmies is actually a pastry or hot dogs contains no real dogs.
Presentation is nothing fancy but clean.
Thank you

Barely edible food and shitty customer service. Had to call for over 10 mins just get a menu and ask 3 times for water because the waitress kept forgetting.

I just can’t emphasize enough how lovely the people who work here are. And the food is just delicious. You will find your favorites and become a regular like me in no time. It’s just heavenly.

This place is worth visiting if your into vegan/​vegetarian food. The food is tasty and the servings are well portioned that we still had leftovers after the meal! Price point is inexpensive so its not bad to bring in a bunch of people.
This is purely an asian inspired cuisine so if your looking for something savoury then this is the place to eat.
Would definitely go back in the future!

I had high hopes coming in this new place after reading the reviews. It is kids friendly and the ladies that works there are very accommodating and friendly. Very affordable. The food was okay and a little too oily. Service was a little slow but the plate was large.

finally tried, i’m a new comer in the vegetarian world and not going to lie its’ hard!
so after many reviews i decided to tried this place
i order first the crispy wonton, i was kind of disappointed by the taste, it was meh and the sauce was aight but it was really small even tho you have 10 pieces
then came the pad thai… HUGE plate, almost regret to have tale a starter, was a battle to finish it!
But the pad thai was really good, you had sone crispy tofu along and it goes really good overall.
I saw some other people took the the soup, which is cheap 5 $, and the bowl was also enormous! so i will definitely come back for that!
recommend some place if you craving for some veggies and want for your money!

Outstanding Chinese vegetarian restaurant.
Nothing austere here.
Huge menu.
Enormous servings.
Strongly flavored dishes.
Lots of exotica.
(This is the first time I have seen mock kidney on a menu anywhere. Maybe I have just been too sheltered.)
Interesting personality choices in the execution of dishes.
Hot and Sour soup is made with a part tomato base — a decision which changes everything.
Vegetarian pancakes don’t need an ounce of sauce although the sweet and hot sauce that comes with them is not unpleasant.
Plenty of hearty dishes on the menu both in the soup bowl department and in the plate department.
A fun and entertaining place which is good for you too.
Well maybe only half good for you.
After you scarf down all those heaping yummy plates of food, you will get fat.
However, if you get fat from eating vegetables it doesn’t count as really being fat, right?

I really wanted to love this place but I just couldn’t! Perhaps being chinese with a vegetarian mom has made my pallet very selective.
The food variety was HUGE. It would help if they had pictures on the menu though.
Food was alright, full of msg and starch but I’m not really complaining.
I would come back to try the chicken nuggets and stir fried rice noodles with my mom.
Food portion is huge btw.

I don’t expect much from most of the restaurant in Chinatown area but Greens Vegetarian Restaurant is definitely a nice surprise.
Clean, nicely decorated, spacious and even a clean washroom!!!
I really enjoyed most of the food we ordered and shared but I love carb and veggie than meat.
Hot and Sour Soup ($ 6.99) — has a lot of ingredients and a nice balance of hot and sour
Spring Roll Platter ($ 5.99) — love mango and rice paper roll
Eggplant with Tofu in Black Bean Sauce ($ 7.99) — love eggplant and the nice sauce
Deep Fried Mock Chicken in Lemon Sauce ($ 7.99) — meh
Sweet and Sour Mock Chicken ($ 8.99) — love sweet and sour sauce and the batter is light and crispy!
Spicy Ma Po Tofu ($ 7.99) — really bland tasting and too watery
Singapore Style Vermicelli ($ 5.99) and Fried Rice Noodle with Mock Beef ($ 5.99) — surprisingly tasty and with fresh of the wok flavour
Assorted Vegetables Dish ($ 7.99) — good and healthy choice!
Service here has a nice family vibe, though a little slow.
I will be back to Greens Vegetarian for some well prepared Chinese food. I might just skipped those mock meat and opt for the fresh ingredients!