Garden Gate

What Reddit says

Long-running Beaches institution nicknamed The Goof, known for old-school Canadian Chinese food and a retained vintage diner charm. Redditors treat it as a local heritage spot and recommend it for dinner.

Paraphrased from the comments below.

What to order

• Brunch1 Redditor
• Fried Rice1 Redditor

In their words

Short excerpts, each linked to the full comment on Reddit.

• “the famous Garden Gate (aka the Goof) if you want Canadian Chinese food”

• “these are all diners that have largely retained their old school charm: Garden Gate (aka The Goof)”

• “The Garden Gate is a legendary Beaches restaurant, you’ve got to go there for dinner”

• “The GOOF, for proximity and heritage.”

• “They recreated a village with this restaurant”

• “especially including the Goof across street”

• “if you wanted a meal at the Garden Gate Restaurant in the Beach, you might have had to elbow past someone”

• “Orange chicken and garden gate fried rice at the Garden Gate (the Goof)”

• “Solid Chinese Canadian food, and it was very affordable”

• “Super casual. Chinese and Canadian. They do breakfast too.”

• “Yes.”

• “After their modernize out of the mid 1900s reno, they seemed incredibly bland”