Johns Chinese B B Q Restaurant

Our family have been eating here for many years and we have never had a poor experience. Huge selection of fantastic dishes. The King of BBQ Pork (order in advance) is something special, even highly rated by reviewers in Hong Kong. Service is very prompt and the food is fresh and beautifully presented for a mid priced restaurant.

This restaurant has been around for a long time. Down to earth and inexpensive. It is by far the best Chinese BBQ restaurant in greater Toronto area - best Chinese BBQ pork hands down. The regular BBQ pork is great. If you have time, try the special honey BBQ pork to order, it is super delicious.

We are regulars at John's, and find their food and their service to be very good!!BBQ pork and roast duck are especially good, and so is the Hot and Sour soup and the Ma Po Tofu!!One caution .... they do not take credit cards. Cash only!

Negative 10 stars. Reasons - Horrible service obnoxious attitude. No Integrity. I had a debate whether I should give this place a try given the negative comments out there. I understand for Chinese restaurants, even if you made reservations, if there are many people waiting, 10 to 30 minutes wait is reasonable depending on how many people are in line. Totally understandable. But how this place handles the reservation and the obnoxious attitude toward their customers, it completely unbearable. Story: I called well in advance at noon to reserve a dinner table for 6:30pm. The manager/owner (an old lady) told me the reservation at 6:30pm is no problem, but maybe better to come at 6pm. It should mean that the if you come at 6:30pm you will have a table, but if you can come earlier, that will be great. I arrived at 6:10pm and she told us we need to wait for a bit. Another table is almost done and ready to pay the bill. That's fine. We were early and were willing to wait for a bit. At that time, there is one big table already empty (fit 10 ppl). It is probably for another reservation so we won't blame them on that. By the time it is 6:30pm, there is still no table. In fact, I don't see any table that is ready to leave. Everyone seems to just order their food and well in the way eating. I don't see a table that she referred "will leave soon." So i asked again. She told "yes, you will have a table soon." I called to reserve a table but no table is reserved. what kind of reservation system is this?Then we finally saw another table paying off their bill and thinking this is the table she referred to so many times that they are waiting for them to pay the bill. The customers left and the table was clear. She still didn't ask us to sit in. She said that table is not for us. There is no one waiting at the restaurants except us. I don't understand why she didn't give us that table. So I try to calm down and be reasonable thinking we only have 4 people and the table can probably fit 6 to 8, that's probably why they didn't want to give it to us, although the group who just sitting at that table had 5 people, including 1 kid. 10 minutes after, another table left and she told us again we will have out seat soon and pointing at that table that this is ours. I was thinking, finally we have a table. People are leaving and cleaning up. When it is done, she told us that this table is not for us AGAIN. No one is waiting for any table in this place except for us the whole time. She kept telling us we will have a table numerous time and even pointing at the last table that it will be ours, but lied when the table is ready. We ended up waiting for 50 minutes and although there are THREE EMPTY tables the whole time, they did not ask us to sit in the place and kept telling us the next table is ours. I do not understand this logic at all. Their attitude is terrible. The owner/manager even yelled at me saying those tables are not for us when there are clearly empty tables. Their service is terrible. They don't treat customers with respect at all. I don't understand why people would go to this place to pay them to let them yell at you and treated with no respect. I normally let bad service restaurants go and typically a patient and reasonable person, but this owner's way of doing business is extremely horrible that I have to leave a comment. Thanks for reading this story and I hope you get something out of this.

If you research Best Chinese Restaurant in Toronto, this place is listed. Many people rave about how great their Chinese BBQ tastes and how the line ups are a testament to their food. I was a little sceptical given that the restaurant name is not so Chinese in nature. In a strip mall that is large, we could easily miss it travelling from Highway 7. You have to be looking for it in order to not miss it. Since reading other reviewers talk about how busy and waiting times are, I decided to schedule a lunch at 2pm so the place is quieter after the lunch crowd. This place has a special item called “King of Kings BBQ Pork Belly” This needs a 50 minute advance notice order and you must call it in right when they opened. They only make a limited amount of this dish and once that day’s supplies are sold out, you will have to wait the next day. This dish’s reputation is all over GTA that some customers would order this in advance a huge amout, drive up to 1.5 hours in traffic just to pick it up and bring home. It’s a pork belly dish that is cooked in a method similar to their Char Siu (bbq pork) and sweeten more with extra honey. The cut of meat is of course softer and sinfully delicious. Then we order their char siu and roast pork too. The skin on the roast pork was crispy, not salty at all which is fantastic. The subtle flavour was just perfect. Then to supplement, we ordered sweet and sour pork and the black bean steak rice noodles, and steam rice to go with the meal. Complimentary Soup Of the Day offered always and if you want more, just request for it. Its delicious. Goes well with your barbeque meats to balance the flavours. When I first called, John the owner picked up and took my order. He asked the amount of people coming so he can get the appropriate portion size for the “King of Kings Pork” When I came into the restaurant, I informed the wait staff and right away he called me by name and said he will get the final prep work started to serve it. He was friendly and chatted with us. The wait staff has mostly good ones, but I predict the language barrier could be an issue otherwise. Pricing is slightly higher than other barbeque restaurants but I come for the special pork dish. One reviewer even went as far as to say that once you tasted it, it will forever change your expectations. Indeed, this King of Kings Pork has.