Japanese8 months ago
Boru
A Japanese hamburger steak kitchen grinding beef to order and cooking it over open flame.
King West · Downtown495 Adelaide St W, Toronto, ON M5V 1T4
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Boru takes the hambagu tradition, ground beef patty served with demi-glace, rice egg centers it as the sole focus meat ground fresh daily in-house rather than prepped. The format is counter and table seating designed for speed and volume, pitched as a casual, high-energy space rather than refined fine dining. The signature move is the beef patty itself, seared hard on the griddle and plated tableside with its sauce, the kind of single-dish obsession that defines Japanese specialist kitchens in this city.
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