This is a kosher restaurant in Thornhill serving dairy and fish. The service is average. The tables are too close together, making it hard to get in and out or enjoy a quiet meal. The food is fine but pricey. The décor is basic. I had the fish and chips for $26.95. It came with three pieces of cod and coleslaw. It was pretty good but the fish was on top of the french fries, making it hard to access them until the fish was eaten. A bigger plate or serving the fries on a separate plate would have been helpful. The location is near the Promenade Shopping Centre. There's plenty of parking. read more

Cafe Sheli - fish & chips, $26.95 - Kosher Near Me - Thornhill, Ontario

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A decent dairy kosher restaurant in Thornhill. Service was relatively speedy for dinner. As with most kosher places, I grade on a curve... but my veggie calzone was good, and my wife liked her Sabich bowl (a mix of salad, falafel, eggplant, etc.) read more

Cafe Sheli - Vegetable Calzone - Kosher Near Me - Thornhill, Ontario

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Meeting my Hot Yoga Date at Cafe Sheli for lunch but got stood up! Cafe Sheli is so busy during lunch rush. Packed with people and the tables here are set up so close together, I can barely squeezed through to get in and out of my seats. My waitress cannot even get near to my table, my food, cheque and everything was passed to me over my next table...?? Menu selection is good, this place would have made any vegetarians happy. Where is my Hot Yoga Date?! I ordered Portobello Sandwich with side salad ($10.99) and Mint Lemonade ($3.99). Grilled Portobello with Goat Cheese and vegetables in a ciabatta bread Mmmmm, Love the bread! Price wise is a little pricey but quite delicious! I asked the waitress if their Lemonade is house made...and she reassured me that it is fresh. But it tasted suspiciously like the one I got from supermarket... and for $3.99?? Skip! Don't expect excellent services at Cafe Sheli. You get decent food at a premium prices in a cafeteria like setting! read more

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This place is awesome. My dads brings us take out from here all the time. It's a small cafe near promenade mall. The cafe has a variety of kosher food. My favourite is the cream cheese bagel. It's just amazing. It's different from the typical cream cheese bagel you buy from any coffee store. It has sautéed eggplant, zucchini, peppers and red onions in it. The bagels are so fresh. The cream cheese in the bagel is not too heavy. The salads are also really nice. The one I tried had sweet potato's in it. I love sweet potatoes. Would also recommend trying this place for breakfast. They have amazing buttermilk pancakes. The thing I like most about this cafe is that everything is so fresh. If your in the area would definitely recommend trying this place! read more

Cafe Sheli - a salad in a styrofoam container - Kosher Near Me - Thornhill, Ontario

Hands down one of the best cafes in Vaughan. This is a kosher eatery near promenade mall and they have the freshest assortment of bagels, salads, sandwiches, stone baked pizzas, lattes, coffees - you name it! I had their veggie cream cheese bagel and their mixed greens salad. The bagel was stuffed with cooked egg plant, red/yellow and green pepper. I typically don't like egg plant but this combination tasted great! The staff is super friendly too and they keep the inside of the cafe really clean as well. I would strongly recommend checking this place out! read more

Cafe Sheli - Mixed greens salad - Kosher Near Me - Thornhill, Ontario

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My husband and I were in Thornhill, signing mortgage documents (tip: don't drive to Thornhill from downtown at 5pm. It's soul crushingly slow) and ended up having dinner at Cafe Sheli (lit: "My Cafe"). I have to admit, I was pleasantly surprised. I expected typical bakery-restaurant food like mediocre sandwiches, etc. But the food was really delicious and the menu quite large for a dairy-based cafe. We shared the Jerusalem platter, which was much larger than we expected. Six perfectly cooked falafels (super crispy and crunchy on the outside, light and melty on the inside) served with passable hummous, roasted veggies, pita and a salad. It's listed as an appetizer but could easily be a meal for one person. Mains were equally huge. My oriental salmon salad was terrific and much better than I expected. Generous, well-cooked salmon tossed with stir-fried snap peas, baby corn and other veggies on top of a green salad and served with crispy noodles. It was perfectly seasoned and almost a little smokey - as if the salmon had been BBQ'd. My husband got the penne Arrabiatta (his standby), which was also super tasty and served with generous cloves of roasted garlic and a nice amount of spice. Service was great and they even had benchers available for the birkat hamazon! Vegetarian score = 8.5/10. Hooray for kosher dairy restaurants. There was tons of choice for my husband and all generous and tasty. read more

Cafe Sheli - Oriental Salmon Salad - Kosher Near Me - Thornhill, Ontario

On the block of your favorite hotspot in the GTA area, this hidden gem is my absolute favorite! The salmon is fresh, the touch of green beans is amazing:) thank you for the great service:) highly recommended for a first date or a family get-together! read more

Horrible Service! Long waits to get an order taken, long waits to get food. Dinners arrived at different times. Some food under cooked. And when you bring it up to management, they want to turn the problem on the paying customer. Outrageous pricing! Maybe once upon a time they had a good reputation. Don't go here! You will not be happy. read more

The place is definitely very busy during a Sunday brunch! That said, they were able to accommodate our group of 9 without a problem (very open to moving tables and chairs around!). The food was okay. The home fries were quite good (nicely spiced and very hot on arrival) however, the cheese blintzes were not impressive. I am personally a big cheese fan and these felt more like cream blintzes than cheese. That said, it's possible their other dishes are better (my friends seemed to like their orders). read more

A great place to take family to for birthday parties, celebrations of any kind! The mood is uplifting with very very respectful staff members. Lovely experience every time. (The foods good too) read more

My experience with service and product at the 7700 Bathurst location: I went in asked for a medium regular coffee. She asked me how many sugars and milk. I advised her anyway, and mentioned cream instead. She explained we have milk only. LOL your name has cafe in it... never mind sure. She asked a waitress in an other language to make me a coffee. I noticed she was turning the craft completely upside down to fill the cup. I said, forget it don't want coffee anymore, She said why all angry fore some reason I let them know I will not be drinking bottom of the craft I don't know how many hours old. She said okay you want a fresh coffee? I said, really? I think I still ended up with old coffee, because the "fresh coffee" was ready too fast and it was warm and tasted like dirty water. I had left by then, and I didn't bother going back in, it wouldn't end well. I Just threw the coffee in garbage lost about 3 dollars for a medium cup of swill. In the end the owner was angry that I wanted fresh coffee and she was speaking hebrew I believe, to the other person to make my coffee. Taking the tone of her voice into consideration, and I don't think it takes a minute long sentence to say make a medium 1 sugar 1 milk. Even if she also used the word fresh in the sentence lol. (which I doubt) Really the place is a zero stars read more

After a 2nd cousin from Israel contacted me to let me know he was gonna be in town and wanted a quasi family reunion at a kosher spot, I frantically searched for kosher restaurants in the GTA for 20+ people coming from all corners. Even though Cafe Sheli doesn't take reservations, owner Shlomo assured me that we'd be fine if we showed up early on Sunday morning for breakfast. Thanks SO much to the team at Cafe Sheli--my extended family of more than 25 came, shmoozed, ate, drank and played Jewish geography with each other and other patrons at the restaurant. Food was great and the service was outstanding. What a pleasant, professional staff! You all really helped to make this family event a success. read more

Their bagels are delicious and they have a great variety of food on their menu, although it seems to be best for breakfast/brunch. Their omelets were great, their pancakes & french toast were average, and their wraps looked delicious but I didn't get to taste any so will have to rate that next time. Decent service, little bit on the expensive side but nothing out of the ordinary for kosher food. read more

Heathl food done well. And with flavour. I was very impressed today. The food (their version of an Israeli Salad) was full of colour and just the right amount of chic peas. Yes, chic peas; its their version after all. My daughter ordered from the kid's menu (grilled cheese). For $6.99, I was very impressed with size of her kid's meal. Everything, including our milk shake, all tasted fresh. Nothing reheated or frozen and thawed. I was impressed. I will return. read more

If you're looking for average Aroma-isque food but want to pay a premium ... Go to Aroma and leave a big tip. This cafe outside promenade has a big menu of Israeli food, baked pastries... And sushi? What? The eclectic assortment of food aside, I had the salmon burger and my gf the tuna wrap. Was it okay? Yup. Was it something that I could have been confused with Aroma? Definitely. The food quality aside, I was most dissatisfied with the service. People who came after us were served first, we felt rushed, and we were the only table that they didn't leave a water jug for. Sounds petty/silly I know. But if I'm paying to eat at a restaurant I expect to be treated on par with the other patrons. Definitely wouldn't go back. read more

Foods OK Basic food. What you would expect to see on any dairy restaurants menu. The 3 star rating is for poor service. Service never seems to get my order right, even when the restaurant is close to empty. Also no one smiles or says thank you. I little bit pricey for what you receive. read more

Nasty woman on the phone. She was so beyond rude, and kept arguing with me. I asked her about a certain platter, and made the mistake of telling her how many people I was hosting, and she told me that I need 5 platters. I kept asking her how much the platter was and she kept insisting that i wasn't large enough. Her rudeness got to a point where I ended up just hanging up the phone. The food in there is also vile. I just called them because I needed a kosher platter. Never will I call again, or visit. All the times I have visited, the food was awful. read more

I don't like it here. the line ups are long, the service is slow, the prices are high and I am not impressed with the menu. The wraps are kind of nice. I usually just stop in to buy bread from occasion, but you can't use debit for less than 10 dollars. the employees are nice though. read more

This is a new restaurant our friends and I tried for the first time. The food. Nothing special. The place just sucked. Small portions with an attitude to boot. I wouldn't come back here again. read more

Ordered the Israeli platter. First, while there are variations on Israeli salad, true Israeli salad (referred to in Israel as arab salad "Salat Aravi") is composed of cucumber, tomato, onion (all diced) parsley, lemon juice, olive oil and salt. Nothing else. Cafe Sheli uses peppers and lettuce which is more akin to a diced garden salad than an Israeli salad. Next, the eggs. Scrambled eggs seem to be a huge challenge for many restaurants to accomplish. Their's were typical, but not done right. Typically, restaurants serve what amounts to chopped up plain omelette. This is not scrambled eggs. Cafe Sheli, if you're reading, send your chef back to school or watch Gordon Ramsay do it right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUP7U5vTMM0 Next, the hash brown. Rather than make one, they buy those toaster sized ones at the grocery store and deep fry them. The cream cheese was also store bought, or so it tasted. All in the meal was clean and service was great, but at $10, even for kosher, it wasn't anything more than a breakfast anyone could make at home, shopped for at the grocery store with zero creativity. I give it 2 stars. Meh, boring. read more

This restaurant serves amazing food and desserts. It is a little expensive but I recommend going.

Rude staff, when I asked for a replacement of my burnt breakfast the waitress walked away and prior to leaving the restaurant I waited for a replacement, but to my surprise our waitress was hiding in the kitchen waiting for us to leave. read more

Service was fast, friendly, and efficient. Exactly what I want for a fast breakfast stop. Thanks Maris