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Greens Vegetarian Restaurant
Categories: Restaurants Vegetarian Restaurants Chinese Vegetarian, Chinese [Edit]
638 Dundas Street WToronto, ON M5T 1H8
Neighbourhood: Kensington Market
(416) 603-3337
- Hours:
Mon-Tue, Thu, Sun 11:30 am - 9 pm
Fri-Sat 11:30 am - 9:30 pm
- Attire:
- Casual
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Price Range:
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$$
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- No
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Good For:
- Dinner
- Noise Level:
- Quiet
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
10 reviews for Greens Vegetarian Restaurant
10 reviews in English
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Review from Rollin S.
Toronto, ON
3/23/2012
Slowwww service, but good food! It's an overall decent Chinese resto. Satisfying taste and good portions. Reasonably priced too. I enjoyed the king oyster mushroom w/ snow pea tips and Mao po tofu.
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Review from Jasper C.
York, ON
2/16/2012
A worthy challenge to the more established HK Buddhist Vegetarian eatery up the street. Full marks for quality of ingredients, presentation, cleanliness, service and value. The hot and sour soup has depth and is not over-powered with vinegar. The fried rice and noodle dishes are quite balanced and not greasy. Some items are less successful and lack seasoning (e.g. the mock meats and wheat glutens; wonton dumplings), but I suspect this kitchen is mindful of using too much sodium in its food. (I certainly feel less thirsty after eating here than most other places.)
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Review from Val G.
Greens is my new favourite vegetarian Chinese restaurant. They used to be Full Moon Vegetarian but they changed owners and renovated last year and it's been a huge improvement!
They serve a lot of 'traditional' chinese food dishes that you might get at meat-serving Chinese restaurants such as sweet 'n sour chicken balls. I never really ate meat so this has given me a chance to try these dishes.
The best dish on the menu is far and away the Lemon Chicken(order with a side of rice). The sweet lemon sauce is so good on the crispy fried batter. If you get a soup, expect it to be huge. A medium is only $3.99, which is crazy ridiculous cheap.
Pretty much everything is very affordable and the portions size are really good.
It's a great place for groups too. I once had 30 people here for a dinner and sharing dishes was great and very affordable. I shared with about 7 people sitting near me and we had each ordered a dish, plus a soup and the total came to $11 with tax and tip per person.
If you haven't tried Greens, give it a shot.Listed in: Vegenomics
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Review from Mama t.
Toronto, ON
9/16/2011
This is my favourite vegan restaurant in Toronto. Especially after White Lotus on Landsowne closed :( The service is incredible. The waitress and owner are so kind and helpful-even after I had my youngest child, my parents went in to buy food, they recognized my children and gave them more food as gifts of congratulations. Where else!!?!!
The food is great-not too heavy (like one of it's neighbours), flavourful and I'm sure they don't use MSG. I can go in for a filling meal for less than $10 for myself and 2 children. Their soups are so good, great for warm or cooler weather.. -
Review from Allison T.
Toronto, ON
12/31/2010
Buddha's was closed (whoops!) so we headed here to give it a try. We were expecting to pay less but the prices were still totally decent. Friendly but slow service. Holy-Stomach-Growling-Batman! I felt like everyone around us kept getting more & more food & we still had none.
Good food when it arrived lackadaisically. On the bland side with no soy or hot sauce in sight to switch things up a bit. Dinner was definitely affected negatively by screaming & running children from a nearby table who kept hitting our chairs. I found the TV on in the corner a distracting element.
Good bland food. I look forward to trying it again & seeing if maybe I can up the quality of my chosen dish. -
Review from Downtown D.
Toronto, ON
2/6/2011
Only 2 other tables were occupied when we arrived. One was waiting for takeout which may have been the reason why we waited a while for our food.
I wasn't sure what was going to arrive with my egg noodle dish with mock duck. The mock duck was big chunks of what looks and tastes like bean curd. My friend ordered the noodles with mock chicken. Smaller pieces of bean curd that tasted the same to me. Both of our dishes had the same vegetables - bok choy, carrots, mushrooms, broccoli.
The people at the table beside us ordered a tofu dish - which was huge and they were taking it home as leftovers and another dish which was vegetables on top of a crispy taro nest that looked interesting.
The prices are decent - in fact the paper menu even had some prices crossed out with new lower prices, place wasn't very busy on a Saturday night and clean updated decor - not your typical noisy ambiance from Chinese restaurants.
This place is a good alternative if you're in the neighbourhood for vegetarian cuisine. -
Review from Nicole H.
Toronto, ON
12/20/2010 2 Check-ins Here
Pros:
* Reasonably priced
* Huge servings
* Loads of variety on the menu (noodle dishes, rice dishes, all sorts of stuff)
* Very clean, nice decor
* Generally decent service
Cons:
* Quality of the meals varies wildly - I was disappointed with my kung pow 'chicken' (the soymeat was bland-o-riffic), but other people I was with had interesting meals with great flavour all-round.
* The menu is pretty non-descriptive, so beyond basic obvious stuff like pad thai or fried rice, you have to wing it to decide
* Even though there's double-doors it gets pretty chilly by the front of the restaurant
Overall I think if the meals were of a more consistent quality I could bump this up to an average three stars (cheap large meals and convenient location can't trump this). When about a 1/3 of the people i'm dining with are looking wistfully at other people's meals because they're disappointed, there's not much that can be done. I would probably go back and order something i'd seen people enjoy, but not to pick blindly again. -
Review from Laura M.
Toronto, ON
7/27/2011
I absolutely love Greens. I usually get take out as I live really close by. I always just come in and place my order and wait (never takes more than 10 minutes to come out) and their very friendly staff give me a free pot of green tea while I'm waiting. I took two friends visiting from out of town for a dine in experience (one a vegetarian, the other not) and we has an amazing meal - we got the lemon "chicken", noodles with mock beef, and a spring roll platter - we had enough food to fully feed the three of us, plus enough leftovers for 2 lunches for me! The food was enjoyed by all, vegetarians and meat eaters alike.
Great prices, great food, lovely staff - eat here!! -
Review from R.J. G.
Toronto, ON
12/4/2011
Last night we decided to try a new vegetarian restaurant on Dundas Street, Greens Vegetarian Restaurant. We had eaten there before when it was Full Moon but the place had changed names and decor and we decided to see what it was like. The restaurant sits on the corner of Dundas and Denison with floor to ceiling glass windows that look on to both streets. The decor is minimal and stylish in a simple, straight-forward way. It had that slick Restaurant Makeover feel, a wall of faux 70s-styled faux bricks flanked by a long banquette with New York-style seating and some really funky square pinspot lights. Then there were a selection of simple tables for four lined along the glass windows looking out on Dundas Street. We opted for one of the tables for four along the wall of windows to enjoy the view of the street. The menu is all vegetarian, meaning we could order anything without any worries, with lots of faux-meat type dishes. We decided on a mixed appetizer plate of assorted tofu and gluten, a tofu and seaweed soup, some kung pao chicken and cashews, an eggplant and tofu dish and some mushroom fried rice. The portions are large and served on beautiful square white dishes that mirrored the rest of the style of the place. The food is basically simple Chinese fare (including sweet and sour chicken and lemon chicken) reinterpreted in a Buddhist vegetarian way like that found at Simon's Wok on Gerard Street or our long missed favourite Bo Dy Duyen. Everything was good even though we ordered more than we needed and it was a pleasure to enjoy the pleasant atmosphere, pleasant service and yummy food.
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Review from angela m.
Hamilton, ON
10/9/2010
It was amazing, definitely coming back in the near future! Friendly staff, large sized portions, and great flavour! What more can I ask for?
