Downsview Restaurant - Toronto

Not sure where the image shown came from but it is NOT the Downsview Restaurant. The owners are an older couple who are both charming as is the retro-appeal of the banquets and the jukeboxes at the tables ! ... a trip down memory lane and an early breakfast ! ... open at 6am.

This resto was built in 1952 and I don't think it has changed since. Turkey on high bread with graveyard. Hot hamburger and the fish and chips on Friday. Reminds me of small town ontario dinner.

We go to Downsview restaurant pretty regularly and we take out fries and gravy. The fries are beefeater fries (chunky) and the gravy is delicious. A large order is about $4 or so. We top them with fresh cut onions, ketchup and black pepper. Very tasty and filling. Their toasted Western sandwich is good, too. Owners are friendly and accept phone orders, once they know you. Good wholesome food! Conveniently located right on Keele Street, just north of Wilson, on the east side. Worth a visit.

Few of these places exist anymore, a classic, actual greasy spoon restaurant, rather than some vaguely hipster recreation of one.

Quite *literally* the *best* spaghetti and meatballs I've *ever* had.