This restaurant, located in Banglatown on Danforth Avenue, serves Bangaleshi / Bengali street food, snacks, and dishes such as: - Mughlai Paratha (popular Bengali street food consisting of a flatbread stuffed with eggs and vegetables) - Chotpoti (Bengali street food popular in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India, consisting of potatoes, chickpeas, onions, diced chillies, and grated boiled eggs) - Peaju (lentils fritters) - Aloo Chop (Bengali snack made of mashed potato, onion, ginger and garlic pastes, and spices) - Jhal Muri (made of puffed rice and an assortment of spices, chopped potatoes, tomatoes, chanachur (fried lentils, peanuts, chickpeas, ganthiya or chickpea flour, corn), and mustard oil) - Fuchka (also known as Pani Puri) (deep-fried breaded spheres filled with chickpeas, potato, and onions, and spiced with tamarind chutney & chaat masala) - Pulao Rice Combo with choice of protein They also have assorted Bengali sweets displayed in the glass counter. Prices are very affordable compared to most other restaurants / eating establishments in the city. The inside of the restaurant is very basic, and most people just come to get their meal and go. read more

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This is for the location at Kennedy & Eglinton. It's a new Bangladeshi place. If you're used to Indian or Sri Lankak food, Bangladeshi food will be a bit milder regarding spiciness, but still has flavour. I have to google what all the dishes are. The apps are a bit on the pricier side, but the mains are well-priced. Apps: It was my first time trying chicken momos, which are spicy dumplings. Really good. I love the tuna kebab, which is flatter than a fish cutlet. The singara, which is like a samosa, was okay, but the dough wasn't cooked through. Main: I've tried several of the meat options, they were all new for me. There's always a thick amount of oil on top, but the masalas are all nice. Mejbani beef curry was spicy and okay. There was a lot of fat left on the meat, so it was a lot less than what it appeared. The Biye Bari chicken roast (curry) was really good. The beef tehari was too mild, not spicy at all. The rice they use here is a short grain rice with a bit of bite, not the basmati I'm used to. So I prefer the rotis. The luchi was great, it's a small poori. Desserts: Looks like homemade desserts. The doi was too salty for me, but my mom loved it. It is fermented yogurt, which tastes like extra salty, concentrated yogurt. Their jalebi was okay, but nothing special. I like the option to try new things. read more

Goat briyani was huge with flavourful rice & boneless tender goat. Moglai was good: fried dough stuffed with egg & meat (it's like the Singaporean dish roti john). Peaju is a fried brown irregularly shaped snack. It was good: crispy, flavourful & rather spicy Khichuri duck had a slightly mushy coating on grains of rice (the lentils in the dish). It was decent. The duck was good - there was a lot of meat (it was meaty for duck) Chicken liver shingara was huge - much bigger than a samosa. It was decent - half potato, half liver. Laddo - an orange speckled ball dessert - was good. Patisapta - white pancake filled with a sweet, thick filling was decent. Bundia was good - sweet lumps. Communication here is inconsistent if you only speak English as not all staff are conversant in it. They only do lassi in summer. There is a cash discount, which is unusual for a non-East Asian place. read more

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Authentic Bangladeshi food with an ambience that transports you to Bangladesh. The servers are very friendly as well. That said, Bangladeshi food is not for everyone. If you have high spice tolerance and don't mind an unhealthy amount of oil in your food, you will absolutely fall in love with Ghoroa. read more

Ghoroaa Restaurant - Chicken, goat, daal, vegetable and porata - Halal Near Me - East York, Ontario

Cheap food at hot spice levels served by gracious ladies. Hole in the wall popular with locals: that's it in a nutshell!

Toronto doesn't have the largest Bengali population compared to other metropolis's (e.g New York, London and Los Angeles) but it is definitely a growing sub-culture. Even tho some of the more esteemed "Indian Food" restaurants are Bengali owned and operated (e.g Copper Chimney), they tend to have more generic Indian choices (butter chicken, tikka masala). Items that are known to most people. Gharoa is based in an area which has a high concentration of Bengali's and is one of the few places in this city where the menu is made and catered for authentic bengali food. It is a hole in the wall and the place is usually rammed (they have a giant staff) but the demand is thru the roof. I was lucky enough to get a seat and order some fuchka- which is the bengali take on pani puri. It was delicious. I tried the Haleem and it was very good as well. I must agree with a reviewer from the past. The KACHI biryani was out of this world. I couldnt stop eating, even past the point of my hunger (large portion). I am sold. Ghoroa translates to "like home" and my stomach agree's with that sentiment. read more

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Have been trying to order takeout after seeing suresh doss' review on cbc website Phone number is correct but No one ever answers; have tried 20+ times Have now given up :-( read more

Excellent place to go for appetizers/snack items but it's almost always too crowded during evening time, wish they made the store a lot more spacious! Love the food and the service. read more

Ghoroaa Restaurant - Beautiful map of Bangladesh! - Halal Near Me - East York, Ontario

5/5 for food. Authentic bangladeshi food. This is a small place in danforth so it's difficult to go there but i love the food. I also like the chaa and chotpoti read more

We found this place based on a yelp search. Consistent with the other reviews. Super tasty hole in the wall place. Found that a lot of dishes were quite similar to other Indian dishes but spicier. Constant flow of people ordering food. A lot of food for a fair price (all the food in the picture plus 2 chai tea was $25). Enough easily for 3-4 people so are happy to take home leftovers :) read more

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If you want to try authentic Bangladeshi food, well then this is the place. A friend who himself is from Bangladesh and owns a restaurant in downtown recommended this place. You do feel like a homely feelings. Food is simple, clean, and very delicious. The only thing I will warn you though are the occasional customers on the phone. On my last visit I overheard a dude's self boasting detailed advise on how to keep ladies happy. I have strong doubts that he was talking to his imaginary friend. ;-) Back to food, this is worth the visit, try one or two pieces of everything- spread your choice range and you will find at least a few winners. read more

This is the first time trying Bangladeshi food. Similar to Indian food in a way but different. I ordered goat and rice combo for take out. When I opened it, I gasped because of the generous amount of rice. There were enough rice for two people for sure. The goat curry was seriously delicious. Though it was spicy and hot, I could not stop eating. The soup included in the combo was potato soup and was really good. I'll definitely go back and try other dishes. read more

One of the most unhygienic place to try food here. We had nightmare after having food from this place. They really don't maintain any food safety. Stay away from this place. read more

I've always... ALWAYS bought food from here despite their horrible reviews. I loved their food !!!! Totally reminded me of home but sadly last week was my last purchase from them. I was so disgusted to find a foreign object in my biriyani!!!!!! It was a rubber piece. More specifically the back of an earring. And I WAS CHEWING ON IT WHEN I SPIT IT OUT TO DISCOVER IT TO BE THE RUBBERY PIECE THAT GOES ON THE BACK OF AN EARRING. I literally threw up everything. I still had pulao and roast from them. My ultimate favourite by them but I was so traumatized from that incident I kept thinking I'd find something. Eventually I ate it only cause of how good it was and the fact that I ALWAYS DRIVE AN HOUR AND HALF JUST TO GO TO THEM ONLY TO HAVE THE LADIES BE RUDE AND ROLLING THEIR EYES. I STILL OVERLOOKED THEIR SUBPAR CUSTOMER SERVICE BECAUSE OF THE AMAZING FOOD. Yet sad to say you guys lost a customer! . I'll truly miss you guys. I just can't get over it. Please train your staff better. To be polite and hygienic ! Thank you! read more

Ghoroaa Restaurant - Halal Near Me - East York, Ontario

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OMG!!! A taste of my childhood in Calcutta. This is real Muslim style Indian food. The meethai and puchka are fresh and amazing!!! My cousin born in the Bangladesh area took my family here and it was an incredible experience!!! read more

This place has really good Bangladeshi food. Amazing fuchka, tastes like the standard fare they sell in Dhaka. Tried the aloo puri and the chop as well. Really good. Best fuchka I've had so far in Toronto. Beats Lahore Tikka's fuchkas by miles and then some. read more

My favourite spot to get authentic Bangladeshi food. This restaurant feels like home. It's decorated to mimic a bamboo hut. The food is delicious and reasonably priced. I always go for the kichuri with mangsho (beef curry) and it's always delicious! I would also recommend the singaras. They're the perfect mix between spicy and savoury. Their mango lassi in the summer is the perfect thing to cool you down from the heat! Definitely my favorite spot when I'm in the mood for a home cooked meal. read more

This is authentic Bengali taste (except for the hilsa - don't care for it here). The food is amazing - especially the goat curry - I haven't had better in this city! It's always very crowded but it's amazing take home food! The Rui is also very tasty! read more

worst service ever they ask coustmer to clean the table after coustmer eat, what kind of restaurant is that ?? food even not good at all!!! As of im bengali requesting all of you do not go there!!! The worst place in the CANADA!!! read more

This does not deserve even a single star...ordered biriyani....it was like spicy curry chicken mixed with rice which was over cooked....I belongvto the geography of the same cuisine....and my home food is better than this any day read more

Best authentic Bangladeshi food in the GTA. I was craving home cooked Bangladeshi food and this place did not disappoint.

We first had a taste of Gharoa fish curry at a friend's house and it tasted good. I am from Dhaka and I like the Bangladeshi cooking. So we drove to Toronto from Rochester NY to have some carry our fish curry and also have lunch. We had rui and ilish curry with a fish chop. It was very tasty and fresh. The place is very small and was crowded, however we enjoyed our food very much. We brought Rui, Ilish and rupchand(pomphret) curry and some snacks and we are enjoying it here. Very good banglaseshi cooking. The place is run by all women and they were very friendly and courteous. Will visit again. read more

Worst place ever in Canada! We went there as we were missing deshi food and thought they are like the ghoroa back in Dhaka. Foods quality are below average. Doesn't taste any better. Good for snacks and those who likes to have snacks with tea and have evening hangout like back in Bangladesh. But to me this place is a disaster. No proper order taking. You have ask again and again for your order. For us, the lady took the meal order in a scrap paper. Foods are unhygienic. Barely find any chair to seat!! Over crowded. read more

The taste of food reminds of home cooked food of Bangladesh. The name of the restaurant justifies the food. Food was not overly spicy and the quantity was very decent. The service however is not good . They are very disorganized . read more

nice food , almost like home cooked . try going around 7 Pm and have the various deep fried items . must try "muri makha" and "sandesh" ..