Garden Gate Restaurant

Ordered the chicken balls and rice with egg roll combo. The egg roll was noticeably burned and the rice tasted burnt as well, almost like it was old oil, which was unfortunate because if it weren't for that I feel like recipe would be just right. I gave a 3 star instead of 2 because despite this, the chicken balls were unbelievably good. Not too much batter, tons of red sauce and very tasty.

Please please please fix your oil situation 🙏

We come here after our appointment. It wasn’t busy when we went, we were accommodated straight away. We knew what we want and everything was delicious most specially our go to fried rice and chicken wings it’s my daughter’s go to meal. It’s a very affordable pricing.

Have been going to The Goof for over 25 years, whenever I’m in the Beaches neighbourhood I try to make a point of stopping in for lunch or dinner. Excellent Chinese food. Raymond was an awesome waiter going back a few years, do miss the original setup of the restaurant which was a nice atmosphere all those years ago but food and the people working there are still great.

We have heard such good things about this restaurant and have ordered the orange chicken a few times. First two times it was good but the last time it was tough and dried out even with the sticky sauce. But the worst was tonight. I ordered Wanton Soup with bbq pork. The soup stock tasted like coloured water. It had been watered down so bad it literally had NO flavour. Plus there were only 2 little pieces of pork and 4 wontons in a small container. That’s it. Not even a piece of green onion. Also the lotus rice seemed like it was frozen and then microwaved!!! The rice was burnt onto the lotus leaf with it being hard and dried out. I had to try and scrape it off but couldn’t so half of it went into the garbage. It was the same for both. I love sticky rice and have it at places all the time or buy it in bulk and steam at home. I’ve never had this experience with any rice before. When I called about the soup, the restaurant didn’t take any accountability and told me “ tastes fine to us” even though all my family tasted the soup and agreed it tasted like warm water. What a waste of $25. Two tiny dried up lotus rice and a watered down so called wonton. That’s it. And half went into the garbage. Now I’m going to Wendy’s drive through because I’m starving. Very disappointed with the food and customer service. I will not be recommending unfortunately.

We went there specifically for nostalgia reasons cuz they are known for their homemade Western style egg rolls in comparison to most restaurants who serve spring rolls!
They didn’t disappoint; was very good as was the service!!
The restaurant has history and is affectionately known as the Goof as one of the lights burnt out and was always just known as that:))))
A real throwback

Have walked by a few times and last night the GF and I felt like eating Chinese food for dinner and walked over to Garden Gate. We just moved to the Beaches and checked google this place had good reviews. The restaurant had a patio which I have not seen in other Chinese food restaurants. The Service was excellent. The food was fantastic and came quickly. We had a great experience here. We will definitely come back and try some different dishes. Was very impressed when I notice they had breakfast on the menu and my favorite Eggs Benedict was only $14.00. You will not be disappointed.

Enjoyed weekend brunch here. Vegetable Mapo Tofu was great. The price was friendly for the size of the dish.