Jean’s Vegetarian Kitchen

Have been going here for a while now. Went a few weeks ago and the pumpkin soup was… a tad watered down, wasnt as enjoyable as usual. However this place is AMAZING! Strongly recommend.

Wow, nice restaurant, nice people good food, and adjusted menu to suit my need, even with a full house, and reasonably priced

I want to give this place an excellent review… I really, really do. The food is fantastic, the people are friendly and welcoming and the prices are incredibly reasonable. If it weren’t for the very long wait times for the food, I would gladly rate this spot five stars.
Unfortunately it’s not uncommon for my partner and I to wait almost 40 minutes before we finally get our meals, which is especially strange considering the restaurant is often almost entirely empty. We once brought an extra person with us and it took almost an hour before we got the three dishes we ordered… with each of them brought out about 20 minutes apart.
If you do check this place out, call ahead and get takeout. You get the full experience of the yummy, yummy food, and you know it will be ready for you by the time you pick it up. The Green Curry is excellent. (Also, head’s up: If you order a dish with the vegan shrimp, you’ll only get one, maybe two pieces! Which is a shame, because they are super yummy.)

Jean’s has excellent food, good portions and lots of options. My partner and I have eaten here 5 times so far and have really enjoyed all our meals, the green curry with rice, the sweet & sour tofu and mix veg, and deep fried tofu with peanut sauce are all very tasty. The staff are very friendly and provide quick service. I’m don’t usually order mock meat, but the couple times I had it at Jean’s it’s had a nice texture and flavour. I’ll be back soon!

I always feel so welcomed when I visit this restaurant. I never thought I could enjoy mock duck but I love their mock duck red curry. Everything on the menu is delicious.

Delicious! So wonderfully flavoured. The atmosphere is very casual, the prices are fantastic and the service was warm, friendly and speedy. The vegetables were all perfectly cooked. Can’t wait to return over and over again.

An Allison Krauss song comes to mind, with the phrase «you’ve got a new… favourite…» Malaysian mild but rich sauce over snapping-​fresh veggies and coconut rice and a big bowl of tiny clear tapioca pearls with a thick coconut milk sauce for dessert.
Well priced, tons of fake meat menu items I want to try, bland décor, good service. And the food!
At one point a fellow customer called out for chopsticks for his table, in a loud and grandiose way. The young man who was serving them graciously obliged and apologized, but I wondered — are chopsticks traditional for Thai & Malaysian food? Or did his effort at sophistication just make him look silly?

Jean’s is a gem! So nice to have a solid vegetarian option like this along the Danforth. My favorite dish is probably the noodle dish with tomato sauce, though I haven’t disliked a single thing I’ve tried there, and I’ve tried most of the things on the menu. Portions aren’t huge, but I think they’re reasonably priced. The staff is always pleasant.
My one gripe is that a few of the fake meats contain animal products, and they’re not clearly labeled on the menu. It seems like it would be so simple for them to just switch the meats to vegan versions and make the whole restaurant vegan (like Vegetarian Haven, which offers many of the same types of meats, or Green Earth, which went from vegetarian to vegan in the last few years).

Reasonably priced, clean, friendly, no meat Thai restaurant on The Danforth.
I found this gem in my neighbourhood through Unilocal,and I am definitely happy that it’s in the neighbourhood. If you are looking for Thai food (and don’t mind the mock meats) than this is the place for you.
I’m not particular fond of mock meats. Not because I need meat in my food, but I prefer tofu and beans over mock meats. With that said the food was quite good. I sampled from some other dishes and I’d have to say the radnah was my favourite. I had the laksa and while good, it needed to be more spicy. The coconut sticky rice was excellent and came with a good portion of mango.
All and all the meals were sizeable for the price. Also you can totally order family style and share dishes. I think I will definitely be back.

Extremely happy with my visit to Jean’s and beyond impressed! I gave this restaurant a try based on the wonderful Unilocal reviews and I will definitely be back!
Cute and cozy décor, very friendly staff, good service and incredible food! The menu is fully vegetarian with various soy mock meat items and has quite a bit of variety to it. I shared the crispy curry rolls and had a pumpkin soup. Both were extremely delicious, but the soup really made it for me. I shared the sweet potato pudding with coconut cream for dessert which was out of this world! The prices were less than I expected for the great, healthy food and large portion size. My bill came to $ 29 for an appetizer, two mains and a dessert.
I’m so glad I discovered Jean’s. I will definitely be back and highly recommend this vegetarian restaurant!

Decent service and AMAZING food with generous portions, this is a great spot for a quick bite. Very casual décor and service, a no frills attitude that matches its great prices.
We ordered the taro rolls to start, then the red curry with faux shrimp and the pad thai. Taro rolls were quite well done, very flavourful and cooked perfectly so that the pastry did not fall apart throughout consumption. The red curry was the BEST red curry I have ever tasted. For former shrimp-​lovers come veg, you will pleasantly surprised by the closeness of the texture, appearance and even flavour of the «shrimp.» The pad thai was absolutely delicious as well, with a very unique flavour profile. Slightly sweeter than expected and could have used a little more heat, but overall, a delicious meal. I had to stifle some «Mmmmmms» to avoid annoying my companion.

LAKSA! LAKSA! LAKSA!
I can not seem to find a reason to dislike this place. The food is always delicious, the service is always spot and and the menu offers good value. In the winter, don’t sit too close to the door though, because it can be very chilly when the door gets opened.
My partner and I have eaten here ~15 times and have never had a negative experience of any type and would likely eat here more often if it were closer to us.

Yummy vegetarian food and great service. Who can ask for more? I was expecting a pleasant time and this restaurant beat those expectations by a long shot. The sour soups are amazing. They should bottle the base, I’d drink it! :)

It used to be one of the best vegetarian around. Somehow without notice it seems that staff changed and now it is just blend or worth any Chinese mall food.

Soooo disappointing. Jean has left! The restaurant is under new management. Dishes simply do not taste the same. It’s missing that special anise 5 spice which was jeans signature. You could usually smell it as soon as you walk in. It now just taste like simple Chinese food. Dishes are small. Pad Thai was way too wet. Service is still top notch though. But the fooood :(

Like some other vegetarian reviewers here, I had high hopes, and was a little disappointed. The food was good, but not great, and with so many better options in Toronto, I won’t likely return.
And then there’s this:
*CELIAC ALERT*
Most disconcerting is the fact that the staff believe that their entire menu is gluten free. Shockingly (because they work in the food industry), they think that ‘gluten’ only refers to Asian mock meat gluten, and have no clue that gluten is in wheat. They actually have wheat noodles on the menu, and many of their dishes contain soy sauce made from fermented soy and wheat. Also, as I’m familiar with the products they use (like the soy drumsticks), I’m fairly certain that all of their soy based mock meat has gluten in it, too.
The staff at Jean’s seem very sweet, but I’m sure they have inadvertently made a lot of very trusting people very sick.
Disappointing, since I really like to support all-​veg places.
*sad face*

We have been trying to go to Jean’s kitchen for some time, as on spring we were trying to go on Monday, but they are closed on Monday’s until successfully this winter. We had been checking their web page with amazing mouth watering photos for few times and we more or less knew what we would have there.
We arrived there for a late dinner on Thursday around 8 PM, though they are said to be opened until 10 PM, but they tend to close earlier, so please keep that in mind, when planning on going there for late dinner. The place is tidy and has room for 30 people. Quiet and pleasant atmosphere, but felt a bit too sterile. Knowing what we will be having, we didn’t stop too long at looking their wonderful menu, though it had really nice design and clarity to it, which you do not see often. I must say that this is one of the few places which menu I remember and think highly of. Good job, and we even’t hadn’t ordered our food yet!
So we had Pad See Yew and Shangai Noodles (photos included). I loved my u-​don, as it had the texture of meat, for a vegetarian this felt interesting, I mean in a good way. I loved it. So good and filling. Nice flavoring and all. Vermicelli was as good, so we were just happy couple there as the only visitors. The server was very kind and asked to our questions of the various dishes. She filled our water glasses when these were getting emptier. When we paid, we got the candies to make the mouth sweet. We were happy and satisfied as we rolled out from there. Read: we were full! :) as we squeezed in all what was put to our plates.
Next time we will try their pumpkin soup, which seems to be their best-​selling and most famous item on the menu and the soupy kind of dish called laksa.

Finally tried Jean’s Vegetarian Kitchen having heard rave reviews for years. Service was quick, food was great, prices were fair.
I tried the mock chicken and thought it was relatively convincing although my non-​vegetarian friends weren’t really keen to try the mock meats and just ordered meals with tofu. I guess the variety of mock meats offered here aren’t as thrilling to people who are happy to eat the real thing.

I came with high expectations, both as someone who loves vegetarian food and loves mock meats. I came away liking the experience but being somewhat disappointed.
There were four of us, so we tried several of the appetizers. Of them, the mock fish was the best but all the options were heavily fried and quite heavy. The pumpkin soup was excellent but served cold.
The main dishes are quite flavorful and accompany the meal well. Unlike the appetizers, the main dishes are light and the vegetables extremely fresh. The mock chicken was disappointing in the stir fry option; in texture, appearance and in taste.
The ambiance is not particularly warm. I don’t mind a relaxed décor but this felt fairly cold.
In all, I think I was expecting a lot so am focusing on things that downgraded the experience. Overall however, it is a solid vegetarian option.
As a side note, the main options are small in size relative to other restaurants. I don’t mind this but it is good to know if you are hungry.

4.5÷5
Thai and vegetarian all at one stop? I’m in heaven.
To be honest, the food here deserves a rating of 5 stars but I’m also taking the location and ambiance into account. What I ordered:
Jean’s Pumpkin Soup 4.00
Honey Lemonade 2.50
Organic Soy Milk 2.50
2 Steamed Rice 3.00
Pad See Yew 9.00
Green Curry with Mock Duck 9.50
Spicy Sambal Eggplant with Mock King Fish 11.50
The green curry with mock duck, pumpkin soup, spicy sambal eggplants with mock king fish (you can also choose okra and any other mock options) and honey lemonade were all divine!
My date never eats eggplants but to please me, he did this time, and to my surprise, he kept raving about the eggplants. He loved the mock king fish too. I must say the green curry here has to be one of the best curries I’ve tried and goes quite well on steamed rice. Thanks to all the previous reviews, I had to try the pumpkin soup, and oh my, it was delicious. There was a nice subtle hint of curry and the texture of the soup was very rich and smooth. You’ll have to try the soup. Just a note, their organic soy milk is homemade, which is nice.
I’ll definitely try their Malaysian Curry, Pad Thai, Coconut Rice, Mango Sticky Rice and their Assam (Tamarind) Okra (waitress recommended this) on my next visit. This isn’t just good vegetarian food, it’s simply delicious food.
Parking — street parking
Seatings — probably 20 seats max
Business Hours — Tuesday — Sunday, 5:00 pm — 10:00 pm