This was my first time trying burmese cuisine. We had the eggplant bao, dragon chicken, village fish curry, vegetable curry, semolina cake, and pistachio cheesecake, and rooibos tea. The village fish curry was really flavourful and the eggplant bao was so unique and creative - I loved it! Overall the food was great and it really displayed the flavours and taste of burmese cuisine. I would definitely recommend this place!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
Iman Hosseini
Great food and atmosphere!!! Love the spicy curry… the aroma is delightful
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
V S
DO NOT GO DURING SUMMERLICIOUS / WINTERLICIOUS. WE WON'T BE BACK AGAIN!
Summerlicious was a huge disappointment at Popa. The serving size was much smaller than normal, and it was simply a few bite size pieces of fish, lamb OR eggplant in a bit of curry sauce depending on what main dish you ordered. There was absolutely nothing else inside the curry. Even the rice portion was small.
The desserts were really small (about 1.5in by 1in). The Burmese semolina cake was incredibly dense and only taste of coconut. The chai tea cheesecake had no taste of the tea. They ran out of the egg tart.
It wasn't enough food and we had to order extra food from the regular menu which took a long time to prepare.
There was a 18% post tax mandatory tip even for small groups. Rip off since we couldn't get the waiter's attention during busy Summerlicious season. So ironically, we spent more during Summerlicious than during a regular visit at Popa.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 1
cheryl boi
What a great place! The food ambience and service is stellar!! Had lunch with a friend today that I had not seen in a long while and we both enjoyed the atmosphere, the attention of our servers and how professional they were. The music playing was also great🎶 Highly recommend
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Sabeeha Rahim
Came here for our anniversary dinner. Lovely service and atmosphere. We had the 3 course meal, I enjoyed the starters - chicken momos and dragon chicken - very delicious. We had coconut chicken curry with rice and steak dish with rice for the main course which quiet honestly I did not enjoy. The coconut chicken curry was too bland and for the steak, I did not enjoy the flavors. We had chai tea cheesecake and semolina cake for dessert. I could not taste any flavor in the chai tea cake, and the semolina cake was too hard (I’ve had better) but the icecream on top was delicious.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 3
Service: 5
Samin Saberi
disappointed. didn't live up to the previous times I had Burmese food elsewhere.
Lam Kathy
The curry is good. I like beef momos.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
C Li
Food was slow, took 40 mins for us to get our food. Portion was small, curry shrimp was only 6-7 pieces. Most importantly it didn’t taste good.
I had high hopes for this restaurant as there are not many places in the city that offer Burmese cuisine.
While the location is convenient (located inside Bayview Village Shopping Mall just across from Bayview Station) and ambience was clean and modern, the food was sadly disappointing. My friend ordered two different vegetarian momo options while I went with their lunch menu special that you can choose from. I went with their samusa, chicken curry and a chai cheesecake for dessert. The chicken curry lacked flavour and depth. My friend was also not pleased with her momo, which is quite surprising to me as Popa has received positive reviews for their dishes.
Unfortunately, this won't make it on my list. Sorry Popa.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 3
Service: 4
Nikki Ernst
My family and I went here last night and had the three course special and everything was soo delicious. The eggplant bao, vegetable curry and tea rice were the favourites.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Kathy C
Disappointing experience during summerlicious lunch with my friend. We had a reservation at 2pm and when we arrived, they seemed confused when we said we had a 2pm reservation but we were seated promptly (it was 2pm so it wasn’t completely packed). When we wanted to order, it was hard to get someone to take our order. The worst part was that they forgot to give us our food. We received one appetizer and after 30 minutes, we asked about the rest of our food and there was some confusion. They seemed to have forgotten about the rest of it. We ordered at the same time as the table next to us, but the table next to us already finished their meal and was paying for their bill when we only received one appetizer. We chatted with the table next to us and they thought it was odd that we didn’t receive the rest of our meal yet even though we ordered at the same time. Very disappointing service that soured our experience. Food portions were small and the pistachio cheesecake was disappointing. It was small, basically just two bites, and didn’t taste like pistachio nor cheesecake. The only thing I enjoyed was the chicken curry with the rice. I would not be returning.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 1
Drew W
First off, this is not real Burmese food whatsoever. It's more like burmese-inspired Indian food. It saddens me that this is many people's first exposure to 'Burmese' food...because real Burmese food is truly amazing.
Starting w the iconic tea leaf salad. This is bad. Yes, they use (what I believe to be) fermented tea leaves as the base. But the flavour, and *texture* is just not there. There was no fried garlic and it included tomatoes and green peppers. This is not in traditional tea leaf salad. Nor is turmeric!. Again, butmese-inspired Indian.
Same w the Rangoon curry. It was chicken korma made w coconut milk instead of a nut sauce. Burmese curries also employ vegetables to accompany the meat...because meat in Burmese culture is a major extravagance!
Service was slow as well (Friday lunch). We won't be returning.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 2
Chef Shilpa Khandelwal
To one and only Burmese restaurant in GTA. Amazing food can never go wrong I have been here so many times for all my celebrations. From khao suey to papaya salad you cannot go wrong. Staff is very humble and service is great. This is my honest review for my favourite restaurant in GTA.
The boys were not impressed unfortunately :(
This was my first time trying burmese cuisine. We had the eggplant bao, dragon chicken, village fish curry, vegetable curry, semolina cake, and pistachio cheesecake, and rooibos tea. The village fish curry was really flavourful and the eggplant bao was so unique and creative - I loved it! Overall the food was great and it really displayed the flavours and taste of burmese cuisine. I would definitely recommend this place!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
Great food and atmosphere!!! Love the spicy curry… the aroma is delightful
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
DO NOT GO DURING SUMMERLICIOUS / WINTERLICIOUS. WE WON'T BE BACK AGAIN!
Summerlicious was a huge disappointment at Popa. The serving size was much smaller than normal, and it was simply a few bite size pieces of fish, lamb OR eggplant in a bit of curry sauce depending on what main dish you ordered. There was absolutely nothing else inside the curry. Even the rice portion was small.
The desserts were really small (about 1.5in by 1in). The Burmese semolina cake was incredibly dense and only taste of coconut. The chai tea cheesecake had no taste of the tea. They ran out of the egg tart.
It wasn't enough food and we had to order extra food from the regular menu which took a long time to prepare.
There was a 18% post tax mandatory tip even for small groups. Rip off since we couldn't get the waiter's attention during busy Summerlicious season. So ironically, we spent more during Summerlicious than during a regular visit at Popa.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 1
What a great place! The food ambience and service is stellar!! Had lunch with a friend today that I had not seen in a long while and we both enjoyed the atmosphere, the attention of our servers and how professional they were. The music playing was also great🎶
Highly recommend
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Came here for our anniversary dinner. Lovely service and atmosphere. We had the 3 course meal, I enjoyed the starters - chicken momos and dragon chicken - very delicious. We had coconut chicken curry with rice and steak dish with rice for the main course which quiet honestly I did not enjoy. The coconut chicken curry was too bland and for the steak, I did not enjoy the flavors. We had chai tea cheesecake and semolina cake for dessert. I could not taste any flavor in the chai tea cake, and the semolina cake was too hard (I’ve had better) but the icecream on top was delicious.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 3
Service: 5
disappointed. didn't live up to the previous times I had Burmese food elsewhere.
The curry is good. I like beef momos.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Food was slow, took 40 mins for us to get our food. Portion was small, curry shrimp was only 6-7 pieces.
Most importantly it didn’t taste good.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 5
Great food choices.
Restaurantji Recommends
I had high hopes for this restaurant as there are not many places in the city that offer Burmese cuisine.
While the location is convenient (located inside Bayview Village Shopping Mall just across from Bayview Station) and ambience was clean and modern, the food was sadly disappointing. My friend ordered two different vegetarian momo options while I went with their lunch menu special that you can choose from. I went with their samusa, chicken curry and a chai cheesecake for dessert. The chicken curry lacked flavour and depth. My friend was also not pleased with her momo, which is quite surprising to me as Popa has received positive reviews for their dishes.
Unfortunately, this won't make it on my list. Sorry Popa.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 3
Service: 4
My family and I went here last night and had the three course special and everything was soo delicious. The eggplant bao, vegetable curry and tea rice were the favourites.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Disappointing experience during summerlicious lunch with my friend. We had a reservation at 2pm and when we arrived, they seemed confused when we said we had a 2pm reservation but we were seated promptly (it was 2pm so it wasn’t completely packed). When we wanted to order, it was hard to get someone to take our order. The worst part was that they forgot to give us our food. We received one appetizer and after 30 minutes, we asked about the rest of our food and there was some confusion. They seemed to have forgotten about the rest of it. We ordered at the same time as the table next to us, but the table next to us already finished their meal and was paying for their bill when we only received one appetizer. We chatted with the table next to us and they thought it was odd that we didn’t receive the rest of our meal yet even though we ordered at the same time. Very disappointing service that soured our experience. Food portions were small and the pistachio cheesecake was disappointing. It was small, basically just two bites, and didn’t taste like pistachio nor cheesecake. The only thing I enjoyed was the chicken curry with the rice. I would not be returning.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 1
First off, this is not real Burmese food whatsoever. It's more like burmese-inspired Indian food. It saddens me that this is many people's first exposure to 'Burmese' food...because real Burmese food is truly amazing.
Starting w the iconic tea leaf salad. This is bad. Yes, they use (what I believe to be) fermented tea leaves as the base. But the flavour, and *texture* is just not there. There was no fried garlic and it included tomatoes and green peppers. This is not in traditional tea leaf salad. Nor is turmeric!. Again, butmese-inspired Indian.
Same w the Rangoon curry. It was chicken korma made w coconut milk instead of a nut sauce. Burmese curries also employ vegetables to accompany the meat...because meat in Burmese culture is a major extravagance!
Service was slow as well (Friday lunch). We won't be returning.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 2
To one and only Burmese restaurant in GTA. Amazing food can never go wrong I have been here so many times for all my celebrations. From khao suey to papaya salad you cannot go wrong. Staff is very humble and service is great.
This is my honest review for my favourite restaurant in GTA.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
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