The Entertainment Kitchen in Toronto

Absolutely love this place. Food is always delish, hot and fresh. Make sure to call in advance if you re looking to get the oxtail as it s out of this world and is only made on certain days of the week. Cash only. Do not hesitate to try!!

Always amazing

Best jerk, bbq, and fried chicken in this city! I call if life changing chicken! And its a great price

Typical Jamaican food, but done to perfection. The price is excellent. More servers during busy periods would reduce wait times.

The food taste disgusting

We drove all the way from Blue Mountain to this amazing establishment. Prices were good and the food was God sent... And the portions were huge. Very satisfied will be returning. Highly recommended 10 Stars

Best Spot In Eglinton Friendly workers Good Food (Highly recommend) Food is always top notch and consistently good Food : 5/5 |

Jerk chicken on point

CASH ONLY, atm on site. 3 portion sizes. Fair prices. If you choose rice and peas, instead of food, expect half the container. Service is monotone as expected. The line is long and SLOW moving. Be patient. Vegetarian options: Fish, steamed cabbage, food : yam, dumpling, boiled banana

Absolutely love the food, the staff are always friendly and their customer base are awesome too. A must try for anyone who hasn t yet. I m hooked.

I went there and asked for my regular, order The Morning cashier was working. She over charged me 5.00 on a 4.00 order. I ended up paying the overages. COMPLETE rippoff. She did not take ownership of her mistake. Cant stand these places. BOO! Customer Service. They have NONE!

Best value in the GTA

Authentic jerk chicken in the heart of little Jamaica. You cant beat the taste or price!

Can complain with the price

My favourite jerk chicken + rice dish on the whole strip. The prices are absolutely incredible too

Food is always consistent, staff is always friendly and the weekly specials keep me and my family coming back.

Love this place, and forever will. It hits home for me. Anytime Im in the area I always make sure to grab extra. Anytime my partner is around!!! Lol He knows the drill. Hands down they in my top 5. Shout out to all the cooks that bring that real back home cooking.

There food is good

Great taste reminded me of home. The staff are nice!

The food serve in this restaurant is of LOW quality. Especially the fry chicken which is absolutely tasteless white as if it s barely cooked Today I bought 3 food. 2 fry chicken and 1 bbq. The chicken had a funny smell. Like when spoiled chicken is seasoned and cooked. This was the case for all 3 food. Honestly this is not the first or second time. I usually don t leave reviews anywhere. But this is totally unacceptable behaviour for food, they ran out of steam vegetables and no one said anything until I got home and open the food, should have called the city s health department. For those who think it s a joke. I don t believe in writing bloated reviews. A review should be honest and real BETTER TO BUY QUALITY FOR YOUR MONEY AND ENJOY IT Vegetarian options: NONE WAS IN THE FOOD. ALL 3

No more lunch specials Got the small jerk chicken meal $5.99 Portion n temperature good but flavor no No oxtail gravy Pon di rice Staff nice like back in the day

The lunch special is great value for the money - a large portion of delicious food (I got BBQ chicken, vegetables, rice & peas, but they have several other meat options)... One of the best meals you can get in Toronto. The staff is also really friendly and nice. I highly recommend this restaurant!

The food is authentic Jamaican cuisine....Really consistent and delicious.....

Bombaclat

Best spot Ive come across in the GTA

Best food on the go $5 plates cannot go wrong specials are a delight

Great food great staff

The best box food in Toronto, and the price is great

Good Carribean food

Best jamaican food in the city for price hands down take my word for it. Its not your moms home cooking but for the price and quality theres no competition close. Value is on 1000 and we need more restaurants following in this example .

The food portions are great and delicious. You really can t go wrong with their items and bonus they have everyday specials best bang for your buck. Every time I m working in this area I make sure I stop off for lunch here, never been disappointed

Good food and toonie Tuesday chicken special is bomb!

Was there friday evening the girl with the red hair was very rude and gave me alot of attitude , the rice was stale rice should of gone to the one in weston road way better amd fresh!!!!

Did take out for the family. Prices are great, food is amazing. Service is also very nice. Portions are huge and last two meals. Everything is so tasty.

Food was decent for the price. However, I found a short strand of hair in my food!!

This place is great Ive been coming here for years. The food is excellent and the prices are very reasonable. I dont think youll find a lot of other places that give you such a bang for your buck.

Delicious chicken at affordable prices.

Its a staple of toronto

BIG UP DI CHEF DEM DI FOOD EVER BLESSED!!!!!! Great prices!!

Great deals . Wensday is the best 5 dollars deals for a great variety of food... beef soup in my favorite

Best Fish in red sauce. Best stewed chicken and curry goat.

Authentic flavor everything was fresh, the hard working lady behind the counter serve you with a smile, the portion was huge and it was so good fresh rice fresh everything coming back here all the time now.

A favourite, very delicious- highly recommended

Lunch menu is def worth it the only issue is the line up is too long

First time at this little hole in the wall. Three of us shared the jerk chicken, curry goat, and oxtail with peas and rice. We were all amazed by the flavourful meats and the rice!

Went around 6pm today. No line up. Got a Lg curry goat with rice n peas and steamed veg for $8 flat. The rice was actually sooo good and curry goat was perfect, but the steamed veg was the highlight for me. Perfect spice level for those who can t handle too much spice but def had a kick. 10/10. Cash only. HIGHLY RECOMMEND.

Their food is very good, but sometimes the lines are long...theres only one person at front to service... Vegetarian options: They steam vegetables and other vegetables dishes..

Woke up craving an ackee & saltfish breakfast so my husband decided we should touch TEK because not only is the food tasty but its also priced very well for the times we are going through globally. Although the wait time could have been a bit shorter (30mins), the meal still satisfied us and included dumpling, banana and potatoes paired with a Cran Wata ! Will always come back:)

Food is amazing

Got jerk chicken with rice for lunch twice, both times it was delicious, great portion sizes, cant beat the price. Food was excellent.

Best jamo food in Canada

I got to know this restaurant by my brother and my sister-in-law who is also a Jamaican, I have to tell you that they serve the best Jamaican food in Toronto Ive ever tasted! Taste is amazing, prices are awesome, and service is fast!

Best fried chicken in T.O. PERIOD!

5***** very good

Always a go to place to enjoy delicious,healthy and affordable meal on Eglinton west.

This place is very dirty and the food is absolutely disgusting. The chicken is very tough like its been sitting for more than a day and the rice taste like sugar It was my first time and definitely my last

Kid-friendliness: Kids meals and meals specials Food

Great lunch special on Tuesdays. $3 lunch special. Cant go wrong there. The bbq and fried chicken were both very tasty! I was so hungry I forgot to take a pic of the meal. Sorry.

Tasty food

My family has been ordering takeout here for years and it is our favourite spot for jerk chicken and oxtail. The portions are very generous and tasty! Plus the owners are lovely! Would definitely recommend.

Thanks to my friend Derek, this place is now my favourite!

One of my fave restaurant. I always order their Bbq Chicken with gravy on rice and peas and red sauce on the chicken. Its a bang for your buck meal especially when youre on a budget. All the staff are nice too! Always a great experience whenever Im here.

I had the jerk chicken and rice with coleslaw today, and OH MY!! It was super delicious!!!! The jerk chicken was super tender and flavorful, the coleslaw was soo good; totally love that sweetness to it and the rice and peas was just that perfect completion to the meal.

Feels and smells like home.

Fire

One of the best caribbean restaurants in Toronto by far! Everything from here is good. Would 100% recommend.

Delicious chicken and generous portion. Get your jerk before it sells out for the day! Also the best deal in town.

My all year round place to eat while on the run and too busy to cook at home.

I love this place. Curry kitchen is great

It was a long wait but I always love going there The girls are friendly especially Cindy

Great food. The curry goat was wonderful.

Fast and friendly service. Amazing, authentic Jamaican dishes. Prices are reasonable.

Love this place!!!! The lunch special is 3$ where in toronto can you get crunchy fried chicken, vegetable and rice and peas for that price. I think they are a very nice place helping the community out. I live far away but wish to have a place like this close to my house.

One of the best jamaican restaurants i have tried.

Love going to this place!! They provide generous portions and the curry chicken is excellent. The lady behind the counter is extremely hard-working and always pleasant. Hope she gets a good wage :)

Believe it or not, you can still get a full and satisfying meal for under $5 every day. Portions are more than sufficient at the inexpensive prices they are charging while there is no compromise in taste. Hence why they tend to be quite busy at times. Enjoy

Hidden Gem Caribbean takeout place in Toronto. I visited so many places for lovely jerk chicken dishes. This place is it. Jerk Chicken was so delicious with good quantity.This place has great dishes with very cheap price. It s a must visit place .

Got a LG split Jerk and Stewed chicken with rice and peas, and it was BLESS!!!! I highly recommend and suggest everyone to eat from there.

I think a lot of these reviews below are about the wrong place. I have been there several times and each time I had a horrible experience. Although the food is cheap in price so is the quality. The service is always horrible and the food is cold and tasteless. I always encounter attitude from the girls serving the food. The place is so run down that I dont even want to know what lives in that kitchen. I have not been back since my last time nor will I ever return.

The food here is actually very good with great prices but the service is completely horrible and non existent. They need to seriously work on customer service training. I had to call once to ask what time they were closing, and the front lady answered and told me i don t know and said nothing else. -_-

No complain on food its really tasty, we ordered the BBQ and fried chicken, cos they dont serve jerk chicken by the time.but I enjoyed the BBQ one, delicious! The customer service needs improved for sure.

Wow, I had to review after my first bites. Amazing food, support em for sure.

Omg THE BEST oxtail and passn rice Ive had! I love it so much that I just finished eating and I am already craving it again! Definitely will go there again and if this was available on Uber Eats Id definitely buy it over and over again... Probably every other day!

Great food, great service,

The food is delicious. They have a Tuesday special well worth the price.

Taste like home really great Jamaican food

I love this place, I drive from Scarborough atleast once a week to get food, its so fresh & worth the money. The fried chicken is crispy & juicy well seasoned like Im eating southern fried chicken the staff is always courteous & professional

The price is good but the food is even better.

The best Jamaican food you can get for $3 on a Tuesday & $5 during the week in all of Canada!

Excellent

Pretty ok service is uhh..... And chicken aint cooked through all the time depends on cooks... But the chicks got attitudes as usual which is expected at yardi restaurants.. and you gotta repeat your order and if the mess up well your just gonna have to eat that literally Im over fried chicken and mainsha only go here when intoxicated

Cheap price and good food

One of my favorite places to get Jamaican food super great service food is always fresh grape temperature Greek flavors staff is amazing portions are amazing prices is ridiculously reasonable even on Tuesdays they have a special where you can get fried jerk or barbecue chicken for $3 which is out of this world and its actually good that they dont cook the food any different or put less those case that it goes in his a little bit smaller they have a lot of Island drinks available cultural drinks as well if you like to dine in their seeding a TV good lighting. Overall a wonderful restaurant very organized very well-managed usually always clean up kept there is a public washroom in case you need. Ive never had any problems with this place and I really enjoy their food I tried the jerk the fried and the barbecue chicken Ive had the stew beef oxtail curry chicken all are amazing I definitely recommend this a thousand times.

The price cant be beat. A large amount of food for $5 and they are active in the community going to different fairs and fundraising functions and other good stuff. It appears to be a family business too with the mother father and two kids all contribute. I love businesses like this and I recommend it.

Good service

Just try the food! You will be pleasantly surprised and will be back for more!

Love $3 Tuesdays

Delicious home cooked food, amazing prices and good service. I highly recommend this place to anyone in the area. The curry goat is the best goat Ive ever tried. The soup is amazing and the jerk chicken is always good.

Good food

Horribly service, the girl should not be working at the front, and the cook... the food way to salty they refused to exchange it or give a refund... Id give 0 stars if possible!!

Great food, the staff are friendly and professional. If you like Caribbean food and music this is the place.

I ordered 3 portions of plantain and got only 2. Very disappointed that my order was shortchanged. The delivery took about 30 minutes so its not like I can order again and have it right away. Hate when that happens.

Great food, especially for the price

Tasty jamaican style cuisine, I enjoy the porridge and a good variety of lunch options.

Great place to get some authentic Jamaican fast food plus he also owns a little bar 2 Doors Down definitely

Price and food is great. Staff is friendly and helpful.

This place runs out of food often and if your not carefull the staff will have something negative to say to you Been here twice and both times it was s disaster and the food is mediocre.

Very economical pricing, yet fresh food, and flavours are authentic Jamaican/Caribbean. Must try their cow foot on Thursdays, curry goat, chicken soup, jerk chicken, oxtail, and beef stew. Make sure you go with cash on hand. They have an atm in the restaurant to withdraw cash with a service fee.

BBQ Chicken with Rice & Peas was GREAT!

$3 quarter chicken Tuesdays are crazy deals, these guys feed the neighbourhood. Great food, best prices in TO.

Loved it

Very good

Amazing

Extremely fair price for great food and decent portions.

Its cash only but there is an atm machine inside of the restaurant. Rice & bean is oddly bit too sweet but they still serve a decent food for decent price. Not worth traveling for but worth stop by for quick decent dinner if you are around the neighborhood. Its a local takeout restaurant so sometimes there are interesting ppl chilling in the restaurant. Will highly recommend to do takeout than eating in the restaurant.

No quirks with this place. Excellent service and food. Might be a little congested but didn t bother me.

Amazing jerk and bbq chicken.

One of my co-workers recommended this place to me. Aside from the now very over priced Ritz Caribbean at Yonge & Eglinton, there arent any options to satisfy my jerk/oxtail craving in my neighborhood. I wasnt expecting anything upscale, but I think the basics is not too much to ask when Im shelling out $40 to feed 3 people. Things started out badly right away when we walked in & the place had an odd scent. Not stinky or anything, but you could tell it hadnt been thoroughly cleaned in awhile. And like so many of my peoples restaurants the customer service was non existent. No greeting. They looked at me like an alien when I started asking questions about the red sauce, and half & half options. I still went ahead & ordered though, my group was getting hangry. The food looked good as they were dishing it out, but then I noticed the coleslaw sitting outside ( not in a refrigerated holder or anything) and the girl using the same utensil used for my chicken to serve coleslaw. I was turned off completely & tempted to just walk out. But Im too nice for that, so I said thank you, and left a $4 tip. In terms of flavor there was something about the oxtail that made us all nauseated. The jerk chicken was decent but not spicy at all & a little burnt. My favorite part of the meal was the fried chicken. I was told to get red sauce on everything by my friend, but I only put it on my coleslaw. I regret doing that. By the time we got home & opened the coleslaw it looked nasty. I drained a lot of the liquid before serving it. There are lots of similar restaurants in the Eglinton West area, so I wont be going back to Mainshas. If you insist on trying it for yourself, get fried chicken & coleslaw, no red sauce.

I go here after I get my hair done and I order way too much food but I enjoy every bit of it. The price is decent for the amount of food you get and I think the food is better than other W.I takeout places Ive tried.

One of the best Jamaican restaurants.

If you want to get quick inexpensive, tasty Jamaican food, Mainsha is the place to go to. They do not have a wide selection to choose from and more or less offer the same options everyday. They have some seating accommodation but I will not eat there. You can order your food in advance and pick it up when you get there. Sometimes the line to order is quite long, and there is always one persone cashing and serving.

Fried Chicken, Mac & Cheese, Coleslaw, and Rice and peas.... On point! It was so good, I didnt have time to take a picture! Loved it! Signed country gal from the States!

Food is really delicious looking forward to coming again

Super good n cheap

I get the $3 Tuesday special all the time for me & co workers. Whether you get the jerk, bbq or fried chicken theyre all good

Went there for lunch and had the large (10) jerk chicken. Great portion for the price, friendly staff and quick service. The rice was delicious and the jerk chicken wasnt too overwhelming, it was just right. Good overall experience.

Great prices, friendly staff and good food.

Good Jamaican Cuisine

Great $3 jerk chicken deal on Tuesday

Great food, cheap prices. Quality and quantity. However, staff are not always in a good mood.

Tasty and unpretentious.

Good food.

The food here is amazing. Its not fully authentic as some flavors a slightly different and being from the home country i would know. Nonetheless, the staff are the absolute worst. They destroy what could be a great franchise. I rarely eat inside as the treatment i receive when ordering makes me feel almost guilty for being there and i do not like any feeling other than happiness when i am eating food in general

Great food. The macaroni and cheese is delicious. Very affordable.

Delicious ox tail for $12. Meat was tender and flavourful. Taxes are included in price so you dont have to worry about small change. Add $2 for pineapple juice and its a complete meal. Very filling and satisfied. :D

Affordable and delicious.

Love it

Great tasting food! Very affordable

Delicious meals

one of the kebabs in town

Great value

the food is so good

Food was very good, staff was friendly. This Mainsha location is really good have yet to be disappointed.

Did not like it at all.

Mainsha used to be the go to place but its really taken a turn for the worse. The goat had literally two pieces of tiny meat and the rest was bone. The red sauce seems to taste different then I recall, but at least the fried chicken tasted good. Not sure if I will ever go back.

Best chicken and rice around.

One of my favorite places to eat. The price is right, even if a bit underpriced. The atmosphere is friendly and the food is authentic, homely and delicious. One of the last few great places around.

High quality food for less than half price compared to other places. The staff is also very welcoming. The food is soooo good!

They have Tuesday specials but the food is usually cold and the rice is dry. Its so-so.

In my experience with little Jamaican restaurants, you always have to expect some regular to unsatisfactory service, but the food... is excellent. The BBQ chicken in particular is wonderful. They are a little stingy with the gravy on the rice and it could be thicker, but the juicy, tender goodness of the chicken makes up for it. Ive tried their jerk and fried chicken, which are also very good, but the best, by far, is the BBQ CHICKEN. Bless up.

This place is so good. Prices, flavours, and great service!

Delicious food many options

Supreme quality, great tasting food at good prices.

Great jerk chicken

Excellent Jerk chicken - Richard Trus review

Its back open and good as ever.

This place is definitely worth the buck if youre on a budget. I always suggest getting the kids meal x 2 because its better than any other deal there. Service is absolutely terrible because they literally have one person doing everything. Their food is delicious so definitely if youre in the area check it out. ALL places are different though so not everywhere is consistent with food but regardless its still relatively good. It looks run down and grimey as heck but thats generally what all the best places look like.

This location has been closed for months. Try Hot Pot next door or Randys at oakwood.

Seriously not the best Mainsha location. Try the one at Orfus Rd and Dufferin St. Chicken at this location is often dry and overcooked. The other location just north of Lawrence Ave and Dufferin St at Orfus Rd is much better. Service is better and faster too.