Gabby’s Grill and Bar

Absolutely loved it here. It was a small space but great energy to watch a Jays game here. The food was fantastic and the service was great. Wonderful place for girls night

first time here for lunch, great service, i love the half price wings on Monday and Wednesday. will come back for sure!

If I could give this place ZERO stars I would. I just went this weekend during a visit to Toronto for the holidays and they have a serious roach infestation. We told our waitress and they deducted half of our check and gave us 3 free meal passes. The manager did not come to see us but acted so quickly — seems to me like they know they have a problem and are not taking care of it. Incredibly unsanitary conditions — if I saw 5 – 6 roaches in the dining room alone I cannot imagine how many are in the kitchen near food preparation. Absolutely disgusted. This place should be shut down.

Looked okay, until I looked harder and noted a cockroach. Read the reviews and hightailed it. Hopefully I out-​ran the roach!

Gabby is usually pretty good but I have to say their Nachos were really disappointing. First off I think they put cheese wiz and secondly I swear we had a taste of something that had gone off.

This was the worst decision I have made in Toronto thusfar. Horrible service at the bar coupled with no organization and no logical flow of food. Every table in the restaurant was waiting for 50 plus minutes for food. SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THIS EQUATION. Hire a new manager and learn how to develop a proper business model because currently this establishment is failing… HORRIBLY. Consensus from every patron suffering along with us consistent and infuriating. Close your doors until you can accommodate a crowd. People are leaving angry and all we can do is laugh because it’s better than crying. Thanks for shitting on my Toronto experience.

Excellent service from the waitress who is also very pretty might I add, first impression of the place was welcoming and good fun! Went with a group of people and there was enough room for all 8 of us and not squashed at all. The drinks menu had lots of choice and they even had an offer on that day $ 5 martini which was great and very tasty! The food menu was ear and easy to understand and had lots of chose quite similar to TGI Fridays that we have in the uk :) was well worth the money :) also very impressed that the server could remember the whole order with out writing it down. Also they could do split bills for us which was great :)

Normally I love gabbys. I love the environment and their food (especially on mondays and wednesdays when they have half proce chicken wings). I have visited the one on king west and also the one at sherbourne street dozens of times. But this one, never again. Rude waitresses, bad management.

Uh-​oh, big slide in food quality and service this visit. Been coming for years and always enjoyed the wings, but this tradition stopped today.

i got food poisoning from here a while back thanks to chicken nachos. (the chicken was cold and pink and the nachos look like they had been reheated in a microwave and sat out as they were cold and soggy wet) never set foot in here again, perhaps over time it has changed its standards and become a place where you feel as though you may live after visiting.

I went to Gabby’s with 4 friends on a Sunday afternoon for lunch. It was around 3pm, not quiet but not terribly busy. It took them 10 minutes to acknowledge us at the door. When we finally could sit down, our server didn’t come for probably another 10 minutes. She eventually did but she was AWFUL. She had a terrible attitude, and the few times she did ask us questions («how’s it going?» chit chat things like that) she would turn around and walk away without waiting for our responses or acknowledging us beyond her first question. We waited for nearly 45 minutes for our food, and when it came it was sloppily put together and cold. She rarely came to check on us, and when we asked for refills it took her forever to come back to our table. She acted like we were putting her out of her way whenever we asked for anything. Not a warm or attentive person, and the food was meh. Will not return.

Close to st George, museum and bay stations which is nice. Check out the daily deals. Monday half price wings ontop of their 25^th anniversary $ 3 coronas was a delight for midtown/​yorkville area :). It gets 3 stars because I imagine it a pretty regular joint outside of the specials, as seen in their food and service enthusiasm

Went to Gabby’s for a quick lunch after the ROM. It was awful. The server was very pleasant, but it took 55 minutes for the food to make it to the table — and when it did it was awful. It cost $ 34 for two terrible sandwiches (Mediterranean wrap that was bitter with far too much goat cheese — something I didn’t even think possible before this experience — and a mediocre club sandwich) and boring fries that had a strange after-​taste that I couldn’t place. I ate them only because I was really hungry and the sandwich was so awful.
I would never go back.
Don’t go if you’re in a hurry.

I’ve been here once for lunch and once for late night snacks. Both times, the service was not particularly fast but some prompting got the attention of the staff. Their mixed appetizer plates are quite large in serving size and make for a great sharing dish, especially if it’s not a full meal and just an extended snack. The lunch portions are quite reasonable and are usually just enough for one person. It does get pretty crowded at lunch, so make sure to call ahead of time to get a table. By contrast, it’s not that difficult to get a table in the evening, even when most other places around there are closed and it’s one of the few places still serving food.
There’s nothing particularly remarkable about Gabby’s, but it gives off a pub/​bar atmosphere, just as one would expect. It’s comfortable, there are no surprises, and it seems like the sort of place that you could rely on over time.

WORST SERVER I HAVE EVER HAD IN TORONTO.
Yesterday I went out with my mother and my sister just for some wings.
We entered this place at 9:30 pm. Almost empty no rush at all for the servers or us.
Just not to make it long let me put it this way.
The server, (hazelnut hair, short with a nose piercing) brought us our wings with the wrong sauce not one time, TWO times. Yes sir, TWO times.
To make matters worse she blamed it on us. I ordered wings with HOT sauce and she brings to the table BBQ sauce wings. I even said buffalo to make it CLEARER.
She replies these are buffalo. Really wow, since when BBQ is called buffalo, I must be a complete ignorant all my life.
The second time she brings honey garlic wings which I never ordered and she says: you pointed them.
By the way the wings were disgusting, poorly sauced and dry.
WOW, you have issues miss.
Anyways I put the wings away and get the bill and she charges me an iced tea which my sister ordered but that never came to the table and she says: sorry.
I AM VERY GLAD I SAID OUT LOUD IN FRONT OF YOUR MANAGER HOW UNPROFESSIONAL AND PATHETIC YOUR SERVICE WAS AND I HOPE YOU GET FIRED.
Sorry to put the caps on but I can not tolerate a bad service anymore in this city. I am restaurant owner myself and this to me is beyond disrespectful.
Cheers guys never go to this gabbys…

Went to Gabby’s to grab a quick lunch before heading to the Rom. Had my baby girl with me at the time with her stroller. There was a soccer match on that day, so the resto was a bit busier than usually I guess, but I never expected to receive such poor service at the door. We saw seating in the front of the restaurant, with lots of space, was told I would not be able to bring my stroller in, add it is a fire hazard. So I proceeded to remove the car seat attached to the stroller, as my daughter was asleep, and also to small to sit alone. The waitress then proceeded to tell us the kitchen was backed up and put meals would take between 30 – 40 minutes and asked if we wanted to stay, at that point, it seemed like she was trying to get us to leave. I was already a but peeved about the stroller situation, but this was starting to anger me a bit more. We proceeded to the table at which point the waitress told us we were not allowed to add an extra seat at the end of the table for my car seat as it is again a fire hazard and her manager would not allow out. At this point we decided to leave. This was ridiculous. I have never been mistreated so horribly at a restaurant for having brought my baby with me. Hindsight, it was a bar, however I just looked at it like a Kelsey restaurant, as they served food as well. Didn’t know families weren’t allowed to eat at a Gabby’s. Really upsetting as I felt discriminated against for having a child. The waitress was rude and ultimately lost our business because of out. We ended up at Mark McEwans restaurant, the One, which I highly recommend, as they were very accommodating and did not make me feel horrible for having a baby. Definitely do not go to this Gabby’s, utterly horrible service.

To give a short version, Food is decent, Interior is decent, Hygiene is questionable (where it doesn’t show), Service is TERRIBLE.
Food was okay. We ordered the standard burger, and the 3 Sliders. Taste-​wise, they weren’t amazing, but were of decent bar food quality. The burger patty, while a little dry and tough, tasted okay. The bun was a little chewy too, but not enough to complain about. Out of all the burgers and sliders, the pulled pork slider was the best out of all.
The interior was nice — everything that are exposed are clean and tidy. The bathrooms, and the stairs/​halls leading up to it were smelly, slippery, and greasy, making the Hygiene part questionable.
Service was terrible on two dimensions. Firstly, the overall service was terribly slow. It took them nearly 15 minutes to even check-​up and take our order, and another 30 to bring the food and beverages — it took us around 45 minutes to get our food from the point of sit-​down. However, this was the less offensive part of our experience.
The server lady who helped our table (blonde lady with glasses and tattooed sleeves) seemed to be in a constant agitated state, which was not a pleasant experience for us. Aside from her less than pleasant attitude and slow service, however, what really shocked me was her comments to an Asian couple sitting next to our table. The man, judging from the commotion the server lady was making, must have waved his hand a little to get her attention. The server lady came up to their table, and with a loud voice which everyone in the restaurant could hear, yelled out «HI!!! YES, I SEE YOU!!! HI, NICE TO SEE YOU TOO! Is that a cultural thing? Do you wave at your servers in your culture?», all while waving her hand in their faces. The couple, who seemed to be very fluent in English, looked dumbfounded at the treatment they received, as were all others around their table. While I do realize that waving at servers is rude, that kind of racist, public humiliation was not called for.
All in all, not a pleasant experience, will go back only for the lack of a better choice.

My family ended up at Gabbys before a trip to the ROM.
I’ve got to say, that without question this was the worst meal we have bought for years.
For starters, before we ordered our food, my wife took our 3 kids to the washroom and they were disgusting. It looked like they hadn’t been cleaned for days. She had to pop her head into the kitchen afterwards to just make sure it was a little more hygienic. Thankfully it was.
Sadly all the burgers were off the menu because their burger supplier apparently recalled all the burgers. That left the menu a little more limited, but still plenty to choose from.
We ordered our food, and it took about 45 minutes to get to us. A very poor showing. Yes, they were busy, but isn’t that why they are in business?
My kids ordered wings, and got these little boneless chicken balls! Maybe this was clear on the menu, but when you order wings, you hope to get wings, instead of chicken balls.
I had the club sandwich. It was pretty tasteless and generally very dry. So much so, that in the end I started to dip it into some ketchup just so it had some kind of taste! Fries were OK, but no better than that.
My wife had the sliders, and 2 sisters in law had a salad and bison burger between them. They all fed back that their meals were cold. Not even luke warm.
I can only assume that the meals were all cooked and ready in the kitchen for 10 – 15 mins before they finally brought them out to us. Really shocking.
Anyway, safe to assume that I’ll never step foot into there again. Food terrible, but washroom cleanliness even worse, which is a very big no no.
Sadly, there’s not a lot of alternative choices in the area. But, frankly, I’d rather starve!

Me and my dining companion of the day winded up here by chance simply because it was a cold day and we did not want to travel far. I was drawn in by the colourful signage and I had never noticed this place back when I had classes right down the street. The seating area here is incredibly narrow and it was actually quite busy for a weekday afternoon. We were ushered into the back of the restaurant and plopped down to read over a very extensive menu. When my eyes glanced over the words «poutine burger» my eyes glazed over and I was absolutely set on ordering that and nothing else. My friend ordered the regular burger and when we received our plates, I was super disappointed to see that save for a few pieces of fries and cheese curds, both burgers were identical in toppings and appearance. Now that I look back on it, I’m pretty sure the poutine burger was created as a touristy gimmick to lure hungry travelers from the ROM into thinking they were getting the quintessential Canadian experience because poutine eh?
Service was pretty slow and the tables and cups were definitely dirty. Not good at all.

The food is ok! The atmosphere is very old school. The prices are reasonable.
Just ok. Nothing else to say really…