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Tracking Toronto's newest, independent, registered restaurants

Tracking Toronto's newest, independent, registered restaurants

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The kitchen's differentiator is chi-maek preparation, the Seoul-style chicken and beer pairing served as a deliberate format, not an afterthought, backed by house sauces ranging from soy garlic and gochujang to creamy onion and jalapeño. The operation serves the Junction neighbourhood's growing appetite for Korean comfort food at counter speed walk-in and phone reservation seating, takeout a private patio for summer service. Seven sauce options on the golden-fried chicken, plus wings, fried shrimp, cheese balls fried mandu available as sides, make the table-piling format, many small dishes shared across one order, the operational identity: you build your own chi-maek spread rather than order one entrée alone.

Try the crispy original, golden cheeseling, soy garlic, gochujang red yangnyeom, creamy onion.

Other newly registered Korean kitchens nearby

29 daysHAN KALGUKSUNorth YorkNo website — visit early
3 monthsTONGDAKDowntownNo website — visit early
3 monthsMYUNGRANG HOTDOG (FINCH)DowntownNo website — visit early
3 monthsCHUNGNEON CUPBAP SPADINADowntown

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