Malado Restaurant — Restaurant in Toronto

Ate here on a Saturday evening. Was sat right away. The staff were very thorough with the checking of the vaccine certificates. Korean run.

Atmosphere: Small, old establishment, not much space for large groups. Everything seemed old and well used. Booth setting. Very nice instrumental music playing in the background.

Food: This is where Malado loses points. First the good: The portion sizes are large for the most part. There is a large menu so lots of variety to choose from (could also be a negative depending on how you look at it). Most things we got (Donkatsu, Chicken Tempura, Yaku Udon, tofu chigae) were fine and came fairly fast. Now the bad: I don't know if it was just when I went, but don't get the sushi, unless you want to eat expensive cardboard. Almost threw up a couple times because it tasted so bad. The rest: Salad came with almost no dressing, some of the vegetable tempura were not cooked all the way and going back to the sushi, we ordered a maki/sushi party platter.... compared to other establishments, they cheap out on the variety, half of the maki we got were straight cucumber or crab meat rolls. The other half were california rolls and what I think was supposed to be a spicy salmon roll that just disintegrated into mush in your mouth.

Service: This is also where it loses points but also why it is not 1 star. The single server was very nice and cheerful, however attention to detail was not there. Other than bringing food over we were left alone, our water remained empty on several occasions.

Final Verdict: Don't get the Sushi. Other than that, everything else was average. I don't think I will be returning as there are better options just north near Vaughn Mills, but if transportation is an issue, Malado is the only Japanese/Korean...

Edit from 5 stars to 4 stars: I find that the soups have become inconsistent in content recently. Other than the broth and noodles in both the udon soup and ddukbaeki bulgogi stew, I noticed that the vegetables included in these soups differ each time I order takeout from here. Sometimes there would be bok choy or julienned carrots, or other times none of these and a completely different assortment of vegetables. While I love to eat vegetables, I would prefer if I were to receive the same vegetables every time instead of being surprised, as they do make up a big portion of the soups. ORIGINAL REVIEW: Before the shutdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I loved going to this restaurant for a dine-in meal. Lovely staff and high quality, delicious, and authentic Korean and Japanese food. Even during lockdown I often find myself ordering from them on DoorDash because their food remains consistently delicious. They don’t skimp on the quality of the little side dishes either. This is a small, maybe irrelevant detail but I also appreciate that they have various types of packaging that perfectly hold their different menu items. It is very satisfying to see on top of how tasty the food is!!! I will continue to be a loyal customer to this amazing local restaurant. I highly recommend the Chicken Katsu, Ddukbaeki Bulgogi Stew, and...

I don’t understand why people rate high value on this place. I ordered assorted sashimi, rainbow maki and cold noodle w/ raw fish(a.k.a hwe nang myeon) by UberEats. When I received my order, and unpacked the dishes I was so surprised because all food is bad. Literally BAD. The nang myeon is already gone and even I couldn’t mix the noodle. The sashimi... wow.. I couldn’t take this quality of sashimi ever. I clearly saw too much white layers and they didn’t slice the fish well. I ate one piece of octopuses among them, too much salted water from it and couldn’t swallow. All the sashimis are combined together and it looks disgusting to eat. Also, I asked them without white tuna and tilapia, but I got tilapias. They probably don’t know what tilapia is even they’re running a restaurant. Further, the roll I clearly saw the not greeny avocado and the fish quality also bad. Me and my bf, we couldn’t eat and just throw to a garbage can. I wasted around $70 and got a bad experience. Overall, Don’t take any food contained raw fish...