Commerce Gate — Restaurant in Markham

A go-to plaza to hang out with friends, grab food, and most importantly lots of options for bubble tea! It’s the best for car people to hang around in that plaza. The only thing is when it gets busy it’s hard to find parking at the lot. So you will have to go underground. But apparently you are not supposed to drink the bubble tea you got from the plaza at the underground parking lot. Because you will get kicked out by that ONE security for “loitering” where the word is defined as “stand or wait around idly or without any purpose” when you’re just enjoying the bubble tea you got from the plaza AT the plaza. If you insist on staying and finishing your bubble tea be ready to pose when you get your car photographed by...

Great plaza for food in Markham/Richmond Hill. With a seemingly endless amount of bubble tea shops, this is my preferred place to stop for a drink whenever I'm around the area. The parking situation is usually not the greatest but we've always managed to find a spot to pull into quickly to grab our drinks. Coco, Chatime, The Alley, OneZo, and Matcha Tea & Dessert are my go-to shops at Commerce Gate but they also have Tiger Sugar, TP Tea, Yomie's Yogurt, and probably a few more. In terms of food, I've heard Donburi, Hoki Poke, Korean Grill House, and Ricey Silo are solid choices. However, there are so many more food places that seem to be...

Wonderful collection of Asian restaurants and...oh...just about a BILLION bubble tea shops. As a boba lover, that is NOT meant to be a complaint at all :) If you want to try a new bubble tea place, from big chains like Chatime to smaller boutique places like Matcha and OKOE.

The restaurants who are there also reflect the audience: pan-Asian, modern fusion Asian food. Poke, donburi, dumplings, and Korean grill to name a few. Parking IS a bit of a problem though and that this is what knocks down the rating even though I love...