FV Foods

Worst place ever! Had a party of 75 people and ordered a cake 2 weeks in advance. With only 2 days notice they called us and said they are unable to make this order! All they did was say sorry and give us a small cake that was old! Never coming back to this place EVER!

The young lady behind the counter has so much attitude. Otherwise the food is good. Service is superbly horrendous!

Everytime I step into FV Foods, I really do feel happy.
I really do like the grocery section they got going on at the back of the store. Tons of snacks and bakery goods to choose from! The environment here is always roaring with people as I have never been to FV Foods when it wasn’t jam packed with hungry Filipinos.
Going over to the dine in or take out food, which are on steamed trays. The food is really nothing to rave about. Which is why I bumped it down to 3 stars. When I dine out for Filipino food, it’s always one of two things. I need to feel at home, and I get disappointed when I spent money on food that I could’ve just made myself at home. A majority of Filipino food is that homey, comfort food, and I just don’t get it from FV.
But then again, their food is only half the reason they are up and running. Like I said, they’ve got a great grocery going on as well!
I’ve been to quite a few Filipino take out places like this one, but FV will always have the upper hand because of a vast selection they have.

I had the ginataang bilo bilo, I think, in a small size, for $ 2.99. It’s a dessert made of coconut milk, glutinous rice balls, sago, and some kind of starchy fruit or veggie. It was also purple colored (ube/​purple yam?) Whatever it was, it was delightful, when mixed with a bit of milk. Undiluted, it was super thick and fairly sweet. The chewier glutinous rice balls provided a nice contrast to the slippery sago, and the coconut milk and ube mix was lovely in a sweet and savory sort of way. The small size, mixed with some milk, is enough for four decent sized servings, so price-​wise, it’s not bad.
Why the three star review? For those like myself who are unaccustomed to Filipino food, one has to ask what everything is, because while they have an ordering menu above their hot table, none of those items has descriptions, and none of the hot table foods has a name plate. I wouldn’t gripe so much about this if my server would have cheerfully let me know what everything was, but she didn’t seem to keen on doing that. I have come at times where the server is cheerful, so I have only deducted one star for that.
The other star’s deduction is because some of their menu items are really not cheap. Chicharrons were $ 7.99/half lb. That’s almost $ 16/​lb. For that price, I could get some really nice steaks. Is pork skin really that expensive? I think not.
I will be back for more desserts though. They have some very interestingly colored, and flavored, cakes in the display window.

Visiting Toronto for a wedding and checked this place out to get our Filipino food fix. The place was nice and clean and the area to eat is up to date though could feel that you are surrounded by merchandise. This is typical order your food from the counter and they are all displayed out. The service was good and the folks over the counter was very polite.
Now to the food. We ordered fried Tilapia, pork adobo, dinguan and bopis. With the exception of the Tilapia the rest were VERY salty. I spent a good amount of my childhood in the Philippines and adult life around the SF Bay Area so I had my share of variety of Filipino food and this place by far is the saltiest.

Went here on a Sunday afternoon, the place was a little busy. Picked up some 3-​in-​1 coffee and some snacks and frozen food, then decided to get some hot food as well. The line-​up for the cash was soooo long and service is really really slow. I wish that they had a separate counter for people who would only buy groceries, as I can imagine they would have to wait in the same line as the people buying hot food. My husband got the siopao asado, and I must say, there was not a lot of filling in it. It was mostly bread and I am not impressed.
My husband also got 2 pork bbq sticks and 2 beef bbq sticks. They were not as meaty as the ones we get at Jolly’s Grill In. They are tasty, yes, but the ones at Jolly’s Grill In are much better because of the serving size and the flavour.
I was craving for some hopia ube, and was disappointed as the hopia ube was hard, and just like the siopao asado, there was not much ube inside the hopia. It was mostly bread, and was hard to bite. Yikes!
Over-​all, I think I could give this place one more try, maybe try other hot foods, but so far the ones I got were disappointing, but since I was born Filipino, I knew I could never resist the taste of home!

Discovered this multiple-​personality Filipino eatery/​bakery/​grocery store in Scarborough during the Taste of Lawrence street festival (it’s located along that strip).
Quick, clean, and convenient. I was impressed with the quantity and fresh quality of hot foods available — including empanadas — as I arrived at opening time. A Tagalog romance played out its heartbreak on a flatscreen TV while I made my selections. :) I gravitated toward my favourites — palabok, pork BBQ skewers (heavy, sweet, salty like it was meant to be — ma sarap!), calamansi juice, and Filipino-​style spaghetti sauce (reminds me of visits to Manila as a kid) for home. Many Filipino desserts to choose from too — I got ube hopia. Everything hit the spot for me. Enjoyed my visit, and will be back.
There is a neat seating space by FV’s large windows, overlooking Lawrence Ave and the parking lot — ultimate suburban experience. :)

FV Foods is a Filipino grocery store that has a bakery and they also serve hot food (fast food style). My parents and I had lunch here recently. This location has a nice eating area and there’s free coffee (serve yourself).
None of the food is labelled, so I had to point and ask what everything was. I’m sorry that I don’t know the names of any of the dishes, so I’ll just describe them. We got 2 combos that came with 2 meat choices and rice or noodles ($ 7.99 each) and then we got 6 spring rolls and a beef empanada. This was enough food for 3 people.
For one of the combos we got a beef stew that had five-​spice seasoning in it and another beef stew that was tomato based with white rice. For the other combo we got a dish that was shredded banana blossoms with ground pork and a dish that was squid with white rice.
Overall I found the food flavourful and tasty, but way too oily. So for the rice, they rub oil into a bowl, then they scoop the rice into the bowl and press it in, then the flip they bowl upside down onto your plate and you have a perfect smooth mound of rice. Looks pretty, but now the rice is so oily!
The tomato-​based beef stew was really oily too. It had carrots, potatoes, peas and green peppers in it along with big chunks of beef. This would have been tastier if it was less oily.
The five-​spices beef stew was less oily and had no vegetables in it other than onion. The beef was tender. This was my favourite of all the dishes we had.
The shredded banana blossoms with ground pork had a sour taste to it. It was unusual, not in a bad way, but not a taste I am used to. Worth trying if you are adventurous.
I did not try the squid because it did not look that appetizing. My parents liked it though. They said it was soft and not chewy at all.
The spring rolls (2 for $ 1) are tiny. They are called lumpia. Maybe the size of my index finger (little girl hands here, my glove size is 6.5). They were crispy and filled with ground pork.
The beef empanada ($ 1.50) was filled with ground beef, potatoes and raisins (!). The pastry tasted like it had a lot of lard in it. Too greasy for my liking. And the pastry to filling ratio was way too high.
They also had Dalandan (Philippine Orange) and Calamansi (Philippine Lime) Sodas ($ 1.50 each). I had a can of the Dalandan soda. It tasted like an orange crush, but less artificial tasting.
We also got 2 steamed buns to go (they are called siopao). We got one chicken and one pork ($ 1.50 each). The meat inside is shredded and too salty for my taste. Shredded meat is the only filling, no vegetables or anything else. The steamed bun itself was good, soft and fresh.
We also got a leche cassava cake ($ 2.50) to go. The leche part on top was similar to flan and the cassava cake on the bottom was nice and chewy. I really liked this. I would buy it again.
The food was good, albeit oily. The staff were nice. The place was cleaner than most Filipino grocery stores I’ve been to in the GTA.
They have free parking in their lot, but the parking lot is not that big and with all the snow it was not that easy to get in and out of.

nice filipino store /​food… BUT the line up is always long and slow… poor service. They sometimes ignore you if they cannot handle the crowd anymore.

Super slows service!!! The take-​out counter lineup is always crawling. I don’t understand why it takes so long to scoop food into a container! Prices are fair, but don’t go and expect fast food, you’ll be standing in line for a while before you actually get your combo!

Their ensaymada with ube (I have no idea what you call this bread in English but «ube» is taro in English) is amazing. Some other breads and Filipino baked goodies and desserts are good enough and some subpar, this place however do not check what they have in their shelves, Some of the shit they sell already has mold in it. Gross. Their takeout food is gross by the way, so don’t even bother. Just go for their desserts.

This is the nicest FV Foods location I have been to and matter of fact might be the best Filipino’s bakeries, hot table, grocery all in one place I have been to in Toronto!
Eating the Buko Pandan Salad ($ 2.50) as a takeout while writing this review is definitely enjoyable! I don’t know why it is call a salad, but it is really a traditional Filipino dessert and is really tasty!
Here at this FV Foods you can pick up everything really authentic freshly prepared Filipino treats and they even have a hot table if you want to get some hot food to eat in the small eating area or order a party tray for dinner.
Just be warn, this place can be quite busy… as I feel like half of the Filipinos in the here were here. I even ran into a few of my friends!
They accepts cash, debit and credit!
Back to eating my SALAD!