Golden Gate Restaurant — Restaurant in Toronto

Appearance: 3/5 ⭐️ I ordered Egusi Sauce Stew with Beef and House Fufu. Unfortunately the packaging was not best, and some of the stew has spilled over the bag and top lid making everything extremely oily and messy. When I opened the lid first thing I noticed is how oily the egusi stew was, and it seemed like there was not much protein added. But the portion looked generous for both fufu and the stew amount.

Smell: 4/5⭐️ Even before opening the bag my house filled with the aromas of the egusi stew, it has a very distinct pleasant smell. Fufu is simple and has no smell.

Taste: 2/5⭐️ I’m not sure what happened but the egusi stew was a bit too oily. Oily to the point where it was hard to dip my fufu as everything was sliding right off. Taste wise I found it to be ok, the meat was the best part, it was great! But unfortunately there was only 4 small chunks of meat there, really wish they added more considering there was a lot of stew itself. The fufu was a little bit sour but went well with the stew.

Texture: 3/5⭐️Fufu was so nice and soft and doughy. The soup was smooth, but again a little too oily. The meat was well done and firm.

Temperature: 4/5⭐️ My food arrived hot, both the egusi stew and fufu were hot and fresh.

Flavour: 3/5⭐️I liked it, I would give it another try. I just did not enjoy how it was too oily and the flavour of oil overpowered the delicious flavour profiles of the rest of the dish. Meat was marinated well, fufu was great.

Price: 3/5⭐️ The dish cost exactly fifteen dollars , and the overall portion is generous yes, but it seems like they cut down on the amount of other ingredients such as Beef for example. I was disappointed to only find 4 pieces and they were quite small, but it was delicious so please add more!

I would give it another try if I’m ever...

ATTENTION IF YOU ARE NOT FROM GHANA OR AFRICAN THE OWNER WILL TREAT YOU BAD AND TRY TO SCAM YOU AND CHARGE YOU EXTRA MONEY TO SIT DOWN AND EAT AT HIS RESTAURANT ! DO NOT GO HEAR IF YOU ARE NOT AFRICAN THE OWNER IS RACIST ! If I can rate this place, it would be zero. I am not from Ghana and I am not black skin. I went to the restaurant to order food. I used to come here a few years ago referred by a good friend of mine who is from Ghana I think it was different owners, the man who served me was wearing all gold , dark sunglasses and a bucket hat, he was the owner him and his son were working. I ordered my food one for my wife and one for me. I told him I would like to stay and sit in the restaurant as other people were sitting and eating , he told me it will cost me five dollars to sit down in the restaurant. Then he went into the back to get my food and I asked one of the other people eating there who are from Ghana and black skin. Did you guys pay to eat here? She said no ! She was upset at the owner for doing this to me , another guy said no as well Who was also from Ghana. Now when the owner came back, I asked him why are you charging me five dollars to eat here And did not charge the other people eating in the restaurant?? he asked me how do you know ? I said I know because your customers told me. He then said to me I give you free water I don’t charge you taxes and he did charge me taxes. I asked him a free water bottle? He says yes , it cost two dollars for 24 water bottles so then he told me to get out of his store and eat outside. I said thank you very much and I left. He was very rude and racist do not eat here and the food is expensive and not tasty like it used to be years ago. He will not last in the business...

Firstly I would like to preface this review by saying I have been a loyal customer of this place and eating their food for over 10years. But today is the last day I will ever support this business!! I decided to dine in and was met with a horrible experience. When I tried to pay i was met with an extra fee just to dine in which was never mentioned before. The workers had a passive aggressive attitude and told me I should have read the menu. We went back and forth on how unfair this was to the customer but they were just dismissive till I firmly said I’m not paying that price. Why would I need to read a menu when I’ve been ordering the same food for 10 years!!?? No restaurant I ever been to has charged a different price to dine in, and if they did, I would expect them to have the courtesy of telling customers. Their restaurant atmosphere is nothing special so I don’t know why there’s even a premium price. The tables are filthy and there’s dirty napkins everywhere. Even when there was a tax break in the winter these people never took the tax off of their food like they were required to!! Also every time you visit you’re met with a $2 increase in their prices (yam and fish) and they ALWAYS fail to mention it till it’s time to pay. I’m absolutely disappointed in this business my advice is to spend your hard earned money...