Borrel - Toronto

Lovely rijsttafel dinner. Great service and food. We will be back! read more Lovely rijsttafel dinner. Great service and food. We will be back!

Absolutely delicious food, great drinks and cocktails, and wonderful friendly service. Great atmosphere and can?t recommend this place nearly enough! read more Absolutely delicious food, great drinks and cocktails, and wonderful friendly service. Great atmosphere and can?t recommend this place nearly enough!

My girlfriend brought me out here for my birthday as we are both second generation Dutch. It was well worth the drive from Courtice/Oshawa! Even though no staff... read more My girlfriend brought me out here for my birthday as we are both second generation Dutch. It was well worth the drive from Courtice/Oshawa! Even though no staff were there to help them that night, Alison and Justin nailed it. We had about 4 or 5things from the menu and each was delicious and left us wanting for more until we were too full to eat anything more. Alison wascharming and attentive and we were happy to have a chance to speak with her about their backgrounds and the history of theirrestaurant. Highly recommended!!

I came here once for genever, once for rijsttafel, and finally here just for dinner. I really wish it was better. The flavours just don't cut it for Indonesian... read more I came here once for genever, once for rijsttafel, and finally here just for dinner. I really wish it was better. The flavours just don't cut it for Indonesian food. We had a lot of indo food in Amsterdam, including rijsttafel a bunch of times at variousplaces. This was as good as the worst place we tried there. I do recall (pre-COVID) the rijsttafel here being disappointing butthis city is incredibly limited for this food so I was just grateful to have it at all. This time... as nice as the staff are,they can't make up for the poorly flavoured food. The satays were edible, but not good. Tasteless. Just some overcooked chickenskewers. The nasi goreng was bitter and bland, and the plate was just ugly and brown. Not even a cucumber for colour. And wherewas the egg?! The bitterballen were actually perfect. I don't know why I ordered them though because I didn't really get thehype about them in Netherlands, so I don't know why I thought that would change. I'll say Borrel's are almost identical to theones we had in The Hague. So, they do succeed there. Very authentic. The fries were just terrible. They tasted and felt likethey had been fried, cooled, and refried about 10 times and then sat out all night under the headlamp. Rock hard and full ofgrease. And didn't even taste good. We had loads of Dutch fries in our visits and to say these are anything like the ones thereis not even reasonable. I don't really know what to make of it if they can't make good fries It's hard to find goodIndo/Malay food in Toronto, so I appreciate Borrel trying by doing not only the white Dutch food but also the Netherlands greatIndonesian cuisine culture. I just think there are other restaurants in Toronto that do Indo flavours so much better. Also, ifyou haven't had genever... do it when you're here. It is almost impossible to find in Ontario, and it's not available in anyLCBO or any other Toronto bar as far as I know. I have to give kudos to Borrel for going through al

One of my friends wanted me to taste Dutch food. We were in big group and order many different things to try as many dishes as possible. They were all delicious... read more One of my friends wanted me to taste Dutch food. We were in big group and order many different things to try as many dishes as possible. They were all delicious, specially the deep fried ones.