Where to Eat Near Yonge and Bloor
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Yonge and Bloor is one of the busiest intersections in the country and one of the harder ones to eat well at. Two subway lines meet underneath it. Yorkville’s expensive dining rooms start one block west. Student housing and office towers press in from every other direction. The result is a lot of foot traffic, a lot of chain restaurants, and a surprisingly thin middle.
We opened at 762A Yonge St because that middle is where we live.
The three kinds of food at this intersection
Yorkville, one block west. Head toward Bay and Cumberland and you are in tasting menu and hotel dining room territory. Genuinely great restaurants, priced for the neighbourhood. Fine for an occasion, wrong for a weeknight.
The chains, right on the corner. Every national brand has a unit within two minutes of the station. Predictable, and that is the whole appeal when you are changing trains.
The independents on the Yonge strip. North and south of Bloor along Yonge there is a run of small, cheap, good, mostly counter service places. This is where people who actually live around here eat. It is also the least documented of the three.
Burgers specifically
The burger options in walking distance sort into the same shape. Holy Chuck on Yonge does big, loud, heavily stacked burgers and has gluten free buns. South Street Burger is the dependable build-your-own. Jack Astor’s at Yonge and Dundas covers the sit-down casual version if you are heading south.
And then there is us. Oklahoma Burgers at 762A Yonge St runs the downtown menu: two burgers, three sides, two drinks, nothing else. The Oklahoma is a four ounce patty smashed into a bed of thinly sliced onions on the griddle, so the onions cook into the patty rather than sitting on top of it, finished with American cheese, pickles and burger sauce. Single $10.50, double $14. The BM Burger swaps in our bone marrow sauce. Sides are fries $6.25, dirty fries $13.50, onion rings $7.50.
If you have not had an onion burger before, it is a genuinely different thing from a standard smash burger, and we explain the difference here.
Practical notes
We are a short walk north of Bloor-Yonge station on the east side of Yonge. Note the unit number: 762A, not 762. Directions, current hours, and pickup and delivery ordering all live on the Yonge location page.
This corner is also one of the better late options in the area, which we get into in Late Night Burgers in Toronto.
Our other Toronto stores are at 214 King St W and 147 Spadina Ave, and the original is at Kingsbridge Food Hall in Mississauga.