Spadina Garden Restaurant

Been going to Spadina Gardens for years and have always enjoyed the food. A must try is the crispy ginger beef and the peanut spicy beef.
Family owned and run, always friendly and good service

I ordered a chilli chicken from here with hot and sour soup and a spicy noodle dish, not one of these dishes tasted the way they were supposed to and I was very disappointed with my food.

I came for take-​out based on the great reviews. I found that the food was too heavy, saucy and deep fried. It was totally swimming in grease. The take-​out bag was full of oil and coated my kitchen table in oil when I took the take-​out containers and put them on my table. I prefer lighter cuisine with less grease. Their vegetable spring rolls weren’t great — they were far too greasy for me. The fried rice was barely edible and tasted strange to me.
I’m not saying that the food isn’t any good — I think it just wasn’t to my taste. I do like a good thai basil chicken, red curry chicken — but those dishes are much lighter than this cuisine.
I’ll have to keep search for my ideal Chinese take-​out place.

I absolutely LOVE Spadina Garden! after have been going to so many other Chinese restaurants in the City, I can actually say this one is one of the best!
Food is great– every dish has been a ¹⁰⁄₁₀!
Service– Quick, friendly & very polite (most staff actually speak very well english)
The only 2 downfalls I would say are the hours. I believe its Sundays that they don’t open until 4pm… would be a nice spot to sometimes go to during lunch hour (1 – 2)
and also parking in that area can be a hassle and quite expensive.
Besides that, the restaurant is fantastic! Nothing fancy but def a place to check out for some tasty chinese food!

I don’t know why, but their food place stinks, and food isn’t as good as it was at all! So sad.

Loved it. Awesome Chilli Chicken (got the white meat) and even better spicy calamari with black bean sauce. Even friendly service and good prices.
I consider this to be a hidden gem. May go back again tomorrow.

I have been going to this place for years, it’s staff at first may seem standoffish, but once you get to know them they can be quite entertaining!
Favourites are a MUST which are chicken corn soup, hunan beef, chili chicken, peanut tofu, and not for the faint of heart… shredded tofu (Very spicy!)

Amazing chicken cashew chicken, no 67 I believe…
I’d get #67 if I were you.
Fast, friendly. Great food, bit pricey. I think this was Roger Ebert’s favourite Toronto restaurant… I think…

The lunch special is one of the best deals in the area. Hot and sour soup is always a pleasure. For the main I like the spicy peanut chicken or the hot beef and vegetables — the beef is always really tender and the veg includes some good leafy Chinese greens.
As well, I’m in their delivery area and order from them regularly. Portions are generous and delicious. The spicy chicken, General Tso, and garlic eggplant are always good.

Food was not good.
What irritates me more is when we were getting the bill, the owner told us their credit card machine system was not working properly so we need to pay with debit or cash and after we told him that we don’t have cash or debit card at the moment the credit card machine was magically working once again.
Never going back to this place.

Finally a meeting of the minds. I love this restaurant and now my husband loves it too. My husband liked the Cantonese chow mein. He said it was the best he has had from all the restaurants we have been too. I thought the beef chow mein was better than the chicken. But my husband liked both the beef and the chicken.
Again the spicy peanut chicken was awesome. And the food tasted as back in the day. I did not have to salt my dish.
This restaurant is spicy so if you love spice u will love this restaurant. If you don’t like spice like my husband, you may want to ask them to dial down the spice — it will still be good.

Love this place. The décor is minimal and certainly not the reason to dine here, but I love the food.
Fried rice is great. The crispy child shrimp is awesome and the crispy ginger beef puts a smile on my face. Those are my go to items but everything else I have had is great too.
I like family style restaurants so going with 8 to 10 people which is my usual outing with family, the price works out great.

We loved this place! It is clean, the food is great, and the service is fast and friendly.
The orange chicken was moist and light, with a very tasty orange sauce. It tasted very orangy, unlike the so-​called orange chicken from the mall food court. The Szechuan scallops and the Szechuan tofu w/​eggplant were both delicious as well. We really liked the Szechuan sauce and the side of rice was very generous.
But the star of the meal was their delectable combination house fried noodles. It was a ginormous platter of noodles, chockful of veggies, pork, chicken, and shrimp. My petite 13 year old daughter inhaled the dish with minimal help from the rest of us, and proclaimed her desire to come back to Toronto for another delicious plate of Spadina Garden noodles. Too bad this was our last dinner on this trip.

I’ll keep this one short and sweet (mostly because I’ve written a longer review of this place here:
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If you like flavourful Chinese food, come here.
If you don’t mind that their version of Chinese food is going to be mocked by snobs as being inauthentic, come here.
If you like SAUCE in your dishes, come here.
And finally, if you think that having a red-​coloured, saucy, so-​flavourful-​it-​feels-​like-​Pacquiao-​just-​punched-​your-​tastebuds chicken dish is a good time, come here.
This entire restaurant is run by a family of Chinese people from India, and the Indian-​Chinese cuisine influence can clearly be seen in their dishes (bold flavours with a hint of spice). Service is friendly, interior has been recently updated (if not exactly fancy), food comes out fast, and is super delicious.
And the name of the dish I mentioned above? Yep, it’s the spicy peanut chicken. If Rob Ford had known about this it’d break his crack addiction.

Really fast and cheap place.
This place is really not for me, but if you are looking for a Chinese restaurant that offers really good food this is the place to be.
The sauces are a bit heavy so if you don’t like sauces that have a lot of salt in it, I wouldn’t recommend it.
Great service, the people are really nice and friendly. Always greeting you with a smile!
Spiciness is okay, but it’s not what you except. At least for me since i’m a very big spice fan. It’s a meh.
But for it’s prices, it’s really great.

We ordered the spicy peanut chicken randomly and it turned out to be really good. The other items here we ordered does not taste authentic like the double sautéed pork, and the red braised beef noodle soup, compared some of the other places I’ve been vs. similar dishes I had in China whilst travelling in those regions. However, they were pretty good nevertheless in terms of the texture and the taste. The staff was friendly and attentive.

This is westernized Chinese food. This isn’t real Chinese food. I had the black bean beef dish with wonton soup and it was terrible even for a westernized Chinese food place. Wontons tasted like they were from a frozen pack. The beef was super over cooked and the black bean sauce was like some weird watered down version of the sauce. Keep in mind that I’m a Chinese guy writing this review.
I’ve been to westernized Chinese places which I’ve liked but this isn’t one of them.

This to me has been an icon for over 15 years.
We even held a customer event at this venue several times as it was just that good.
Their value in the Chinese food chain is that they offer Hakka. Hakka is where the Chinese emigrated to India and used local spices in their tradition dishes.
Hakka Chicken Chow mein and Manchurian Beef are the staples as well as traditional Chinese dishes.
So if you like Indian and Chinese and get confused then just be calm and have Hakka and your dining partners can have Hakka or have the usual Chinese fair.
I would add that for many the Hot and Sour soup is such a variable but I really enjoy there version of it and is highly recommended.
I brought my picky children here when they were tweens and enjoyed the traditional food and it has taken me a long time to get them into Hakka. Just order the singapore or curry noodles and they wont figure it out.
as usual skip the spring and egg rolls and save the money for an ice cream down the street or for a shared dish or too if you are a group
再見 (tsai5gien5) 拜拜 (bai5bai5) (goodbye!)

Fast and cheap, you get what you pay for. But if you’re looking for good old Chinese fast food it’s a great place!
Don’t expect much, this is not your Hugh end Chinese restaurant. Oh and request no MSG, you can taste the difference. I had a vegetarian tofu dish and I really enjoyed it. I wish the descriptions of the dishes were a little better but it was so cheap, I can’t complain.

The food here is mediocre, and I recommend this place for lunch.
They have lunch specials and each item comes with complimentary soup (wonton or hot and sour). The hot and sour soup is indeed hot and sour!
I’ve tried their assorted vegetables, which was average. My favorite item was the spicy shrimp with peanuts. The sauce is NOT spicy at all, but was very sweet and it went well with the peanuts. The Szechuan fish is also good!
Overall, the service is really quick, but I wouldn’t highly recommend this place if you want original Chinese food. The flavoring is definitely catered to foreigners and their ‘spicy’ menu is not spicy at all. But you can ask for hot sauce on the side.
Usually some Chinese food is made too salty, but the flavoring here wasn’t too strong. The plus is that the restaurant itself is pretty clean!

Très bon restaurant chinois de style sichuanaise. On pourrait penser que ce restaurant est à l’écart du Chinatown, perdu même, mais il se trouve en fait sur les vestiges de l’ancien Chinatown détruit par la ville de Toronto pour construire la nouvelle mairie.
La cuisine y est excellente, le service parfaitement rôdé. Nous recommandons les ‘steamed dumplings’ ou raviolis chinois passés à la vapeur, ils y sont particulièrement excellents. Le restaurant est très propre, bien éclairé et proche du centre-​ville. C’est tout gagnant.