Kintaro - Toronto, Ontario

Such a great surprise! Great food, all we ordered was really good, tasty, right! The place also invites to eat and drink! Deserves to go back many more times!! Congrats!!

We ordered the set A and set B since we wanted to get a variety of skewers. Highly recommend the pork, mushroom, and the rice cake one! However, the chicken ones were quite dry and I probably won’t be ordering again. The stir fried kimchi yaki soba however, exceeded all expectations and ... tasted amazing!! Quite spicy as well, highly recommend for spice lovers out there! Will be ordering this again. The atmosphere was great. Perfect meet out spot with friends as the music wasn’t blasting in your ear like some other Izakaya out there. Overall, would recommend! Read more

Really loved the ambiance of this restaurant. Large variety of sakes was great to see. Although it's very pricey, the food was quite good. The portions are small. $14 for two very small skewers of beef is ridiculous, IMO. There is a dine-in limit of 1.5 hrs that's ... made known as soon as you're seated. Service is fast. House sake, spicy Salmon roll, potato croquettes, ramen and mochi icecream were all very good. Read more

Been here many times. This is a great restaurant. The food is always pretty much on point and has great flavours. It’s busy, if you don’t book, you get a bar seat if you lucky, but if it’s 2 people, that’s not an issue. Sometimes takes a bit of time ... to get your first drink order in, but the food service is pretty quick. We had issues several years ago, but we have been frequenting a lot more of late, this restaurant is one of our staples. Read more

We were looking for an experience and we got it! It made me put Japan at the top of my bucket list- I am now curious how authentic the restaurant is. It is warm and cozy and inviting. We dined there very late (past 10 pm) and we enjoyed every ... single moment. The food was perfect: size, taste, and quality. We tried almost everything from the grill menu, and after 10 different items, we still felt perfect. After the mochi ice cream, oddly enough, while feeling satisfied, we could have started from scratch 😄 The service was friendly and warm, at an incredible pace, through a very busy time (the place was packed for the entire time we were there). The atmosphere was fun, light. They definitely had me at the music - for some reason, every 4-5 songs, they repeated different covers of Dessert Rose (Sting's song), which I adore. For such an experience, I fully expected to pay double what we paid. We will definitely return - I need to try all those sake kinds! P.S. On a normal outing, we would eat way less - we simply wanted to check as much as possible. Food prices are not high for the quality offered. Drinks are, indeed, on the expensive side. But we are looking at these outings as experiences, "traveling to far places." Read more