I don’t even write reviews. Every time I’m on queens st west I visit this place. Their fried chicken bao is the best thing in existence. Super crispy chicken, fluffy bao bun, and perfect crunch with carrots and cucumber inside. Please do yourself a favour and try it.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Tom Faler
Amazing place to grab a quick and hot bite. Always satisfied with everything, music, atmosphere, food. MUST TRY!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
JF Maurice
Hands down the best Banh Mi in the GTA. The size is perfect, packed full of fresh, flavourful ingredients, and every bite is bursting with taste. Generous portions, amazing texture, and absolutely delicious. On top of that, the prices are more than fair for the quality you get. If you love Banh Mi, this is the spot. Simply unbeatable.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Morgan Martin
Absolutely addicted to their kimchi fries.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Sabrina C
The kimchi fries USED to be really good here. Ordered it recently and it was lacking. The fries tasted old and stale and there wasn’t much mayo or kimchi on it. Disappointed. The fried chicken steamed bao was good.
Food: 3
Reggie Kaur
I used to come here back in 2015 while visiting Toronto every week but I came here after 10 years and they gave the same consistency of food. Same great flavors, and few more added items. I got my usual pork belly bao and lemongrass tofu Banh mi and had a great time eating. A must!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Banh MI Sandwiches, Steamed Bao, Sauce, Five Spice Pork Belly
Jenny Le
Me and my dad walked in not knowing what to expect, I ordered the grilled chicken banh mi why dad ordered the original. The serving size is definitely worth it for the price, $7 for the original and $10 for the chicken (actually a better deal then some places in Vietnam), the serving size for one was huuge I couldn’t even finish it 😭 I brang it home to my mom and even half of it made her full. The banh mi is delicious, tastes authentic, and you get a lot for a cheap price!! I recommend 10/10, approved by my viet parents👍
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
alphaDIY
Customers got their food first and I been waiting for 20 mins. Not worth the wait. Others ordered behind me and they had food that took longer to cook like the fried chicken but managed to get it first.
Lenneah Maugeri
Food is always good, but prices have gone up and portion sizes have gotten smaller.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
The Wyck
The Wyck Recommendation: Banh Mi Boys Queen Rating: 3.6/5 Your Poutine Could Never: Kimchi Fries and Filthy Glory
Intro Scene Midnight on Queen West. You’re six gin and tonics and a couple of Negronis in, crouched on a sticky curb debating the Earth’s protective bubble with a ramen stray. Two more wander over from McDonald’s, someone flicks sauce on your shoe, and you’re balancing a chewy baguette that actually hits the spot way better than it has any right to. This isn’t just drunk food. It’s the bomb banh mi that keeps you coming back, grime and all.
What Was Ordered Kimchi Fries. The stoner crown jewel, artery glue with extra mayo Kalbi Beef Banh Mi. Sweet, chewy, always the move Fried Chicken Bao. Bread pillow of shame and pride, every time Spring Rolls. Crunchy oil bombs to pad your stomach for another bar
Service Commentary There is no service. They’d watch you wipe your table with your own shirt before they’d lift a rag. They’re stone faced, dead eyed, and they like it that way. So do you.
Vibe Check A sauce-splattered hallway jammed with punks, drunk poets, and conspiracy nuts. Napkins run out by midnight so you use receipts and sleeves. If you’re lucky you might leave with your shoes not glued to the floor. Horseshoe Tavern up the street keeps the post show spillover rowdy and sauced.
The Space Itself Narrow, bright, and wearing ten years of sauce ghosts on the walls. Floors that feel like flypaper. Tables that have never met disinfectant. If they cleaned you’d probably hate it.
About the Neighborhood Queen West is a bar crawl vortex that spits you out greasy and confused every time. Horseshoe Tavern is around the corner for sweaty rock crowds. Ramen shops and sketchy clubs keep the sidewalks sloppy. McDonald’s refugees drift in half-eaten nuggets and conspiracy rants. And Chinatown is just up the street, reminding you that if you really cared, you could find cleaner tables and way better late night eats. But you’re here sauce splattered, half drunk, and loyal anyway.
Hits & Misses ✓ Kimchi fries worth every clogged artery underrated, controversial, and honestly might be better than a poutine ✓ Kalbi beef banh mi stays the bomb ✓ Fried chicken bao hits just right every time ✓ Bread always chewy — exactly what you expect after midnight ✓ Cheap enough you won’t question your life choices until tomorrow ✗ Zero chance you’ll sit at a clean table ✗ Staff indifference hits spiritual levels
Final Verdict It’s dirty. It’s sloppy. It’s barely polite. But the banh mi hits every single time, and the kimchi fries might just outshine your go-to poutine. That’s why you’ll wipe your own table and come back again. If these guys ever cleaned up and gave half a damn about service, they could do so much better. They’d rule the latenight kingdom instead of just scraping by on sauce and attitude. 3.6 feels about right.
Perfect For Bar crawls with conspiracy rants and greasy fingers Forgetting tomorrow ever exists
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 3
Service: 1
Recommended dishes: Kimchi Fries, Fried Chicken Bao, Banh MI Sandwiches
Very bad staff not a sense for talking customer shame on this restaurant
Catherine Ramkhalawan
Whenever I'm in the area, I get at least two fried chicken steamed bao and sweet potato fries. Never disappoints.
They now offer a combo option! When you get two baos, you get a side (fries) and a drink.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Fried Chicken, Fried Chicken Bao
Iris Y
Had the five spice pork belly banh mi and was glad I made that choice out of the many flavours you could choose from. Great flavours, but I found their portion to be slightly lacking (?). Could be that I’m a tourist and am not familiar with the prices in Toronto but I was expecting it to be more filling (both for the stomach and what’s inside the baguette).
I don’t even write reviews. Every time I’m on queens st west I visit this place. Their fried chicken bao is the best thing in existence. Super crispy chicken, fluffy bao bun, and perfect crunch with carrots and cucumber inside. Please do yourself a favour and try it.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Amazing place to grab a quick and hot bite. Always satisfied with everything, music, atmosphere, food. MUST TRY!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Hands down the best Banh Mi in the GTA. The size is perfect, packed full of fresh, flavourful ingredients, and every bite is bursting with taste. Generous portions, amazing texture, and absolutely delicious. On top of that, the prices are more than fair for the quality you get. If you love Banh Mi, this is the spot. Simply unbeatable.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Absolutely addicted to their kimchi fries.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
The kimchi fries USED to be really good here. Ordered it recently and it was lacking. The fries tasted old and stale and there wasn’t much mayo or kimchi on it. Disappointed. The fried chicken steamed bao was good.
Food: 3
I used to come here back in 2015 while visiting Toronto every week but I came here after 10 years and they gave the same consistency of food. Same great flavors, and few more added items. I got my usual pork belly bao and lemongrass tofu Banh mi and had a great time eating. A must!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Banh MI Sandwiches, Steamed Bao, Sauce, Five Spice Pork Belly
Me and my dad walked in not knowing what to expect, I ordered the grilled chicken banh mi why dad ordered the original. The serving size is definitely worth it for the price, $7 for the original and $10 for the chicken (actually a better deal then some places in Vietnam), the serving size for one was huuge I couldn’t even finish it 😭 I brang it home to my mom and even half of it made her full. The banh mi is delicious, tastes authentic, and you get a lot for a cheap price!! I recommend 10/10, approved by my viet parents👍
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Customers got their food first and I been waiting for 20 mins. Not worth the wait. Others ordered behind me and they had food that took longer to cook like the fried chicken but managed to get it first.
Food is always good, but prices have gone up and portion sizes have gotten smaller.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
The Wyck Recommendation: Banh Mi Boys Queen
Rating: 3.6/5
Your Poutine Could Never: Kimchi Fries and Filthy Glory
Intro Scene
Midnight on Queen West. You’re six gin and tonics and a couple of Negronis in, crouched on a sticky curb debating the Earth’s protective bubble with a ramen stray. Two more wander over from McDonald’s, someone flicks sauce on your shoe, and you’re balancing a chewy baguette that actually hits the spot way better than it has any right to. This isn’t just drunk food. It’s the bomb banh mi that keeps you coming back, grime and all.
What Was Ordered
Kimchi Fries. The stoner crown jewel, artery glue with extra mayo
Kalbi Beef Banh Mi. Sweet, chewy, always the move
Fried Chicken Bao. Bread pillow of shame and pride, every time
Spring Rolls. Crunchy oil bombs to pad your stomach for another bar
Service Commentary
There is no service. They’d watch you wipe your table with your own shirt before they’d lift a rag. They’re stone faced, dead eyed, and they like it that way. So do you.
Vibe Check
A sauce-splattered hallway jammed with punks, drunk poets, and conspiracy nuts. Napkins run out by midnight so you use receipts and sleeves. If you’re lucky you might leave with your shoes not glued to the floor. Horseshoe Tavern up the street keeps the post show spillover rowdy and sauced.
The Space Itself
Narrow, bright, and wearing ten years of sauce ghosts on the walls. Floors that feel like flypaper. Tables that have never met disinfectant. If they cleaned you’d probably hate it.
About the Neighborhood
Queen West is a bar crawl vortex that spits you out greasy and confused every time. Horseshoe Tavern is around the corner for sweaty rock crowds. Ramen shops and sketchy clubs keep the sidewalks sloppy. McDonald’s refugees drift in half-eaten nuggets and conspiracy rants. And Chinatown is just up the street, reminding you that if you really cared, you could find cleaner tables and way better late night eats. But you’re here sauce splattered, half drunk, and loyal anyway.
Hits & Misses
✓ Kimchi fries worth every clogged artery underrated, controversial, and honestly might be better than a poutine
✓ Kalbi beef banh mi stays the bomb
✓ Fried chicken bao hits just right every time
✓ Bread always chewy — exactly what you expect after midnight
✓ Cheap enough you won’t question your life choices until tomorrow
✗ Zero chance you’ll sit at a clean table
✗ Staff indifference hits spiritual levels
Final Verdict
It’s dirty. It’s sloppy. It’s barely polite. But the banh mi hits every single time, and the kimchi fries might just outshine your go-to poutine. That’s why you’ll wipe your own table and come back again. If these guys ever cleaned up and gave half a damn about service, they could do so much better. They’d rule the latenight kingdom instead of just scraping by on sauce and attitude. 3.6 feels about right.
Perfect For
Bar crawls with conspiracy rants and greasy fingers
Forgetting tomorrow ever exists
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 3
Service: 1
Recommended dishes: Kimchi Fries, Fried Chicken Bao, Banh MI Sandwiches
Restaurantji Recommends
Rude staff
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
just ok sandwich. Fries are good.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 4
Very bad staff not a sense for talking customer shame on this restaurant
Whenever I'm in the area, I get at least two fried chicken steamed bao and sweet potato fries. Never disappoints.
They now offer a combo option! When you get two baos, you get a side (fries) and a drink.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Fried Chicken, Fried Chicken Bao
Had the five spice pork belly banh mi and was glad I made that choice out of the many flavours you could choose from. Great flavours, but I found their portion to be slightly lacking (?). Could be that I’m a tourist and am not familiar with the prices in Toronto but I was expecting it to be more filling (both for the stomach and what’s inside the baguette).
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
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