The Fry

Went to the Fry a second time. Had a way different experience this time. The food is great but the service is really hit and miss. Server forgot to bring the beer, forgot water, forgot to bring bill when asked, forgot to get my takeout box… Forgot everything. Maybe the server was just having a bad day but it was bruutal service.
Anyway could be an anomaly but I would only go back for pickup and avoid dine-​in

Took my friends here for a little reunion since I haven’t seen them in ages. There was around 9 of us, so you can imagine the space they have available for groups. The service was amazing and they are super friendly and explain everything to us. We tried the Green Onion Fried Chicken (which is a MUST try when you get there because what is the Fry without it?!) and then we tried the other half and half spicy chickens which was also delicious. I wish some of their chickens were boneless even though most of them are, but I’m that lazy one who just wants to eat the chicken without the bone. It gets kind of messy with the bone.
Nonetheless, it’s a must try and don’t be afraid to bring your friends.

This place is definitely worth the hype! I didn’t have high hopes for it as fried chicken usually leaves me feeling gross after, but I was pleasantly surprised that it was actually really good!
Came with a group of friends and we ordered 3 large chickens:
Green onion fried chicken: Best out of the 3, perfectly crispy, not too greasy, and the green onions compliments the chicken very well.
Crispy chicken: Also very good, loved the sweet and tangy sauce that was provided
Crispy chicken with soy garlic: This came last and by then it started to taste very similar to the first two, the flavour was good but was a little dry.
Spicy rice cakes: this dish was super spicy! But loved the rice cakes !
Overall, very good place to hang out and have some awesome fried chicken!

Having tried the other ‘the fry’ on yonge and sheppard, I was expecting consistent food and taste. This restaurant offers free parking, which my credit card is definitely a fan of. The inside is dingy and cramped, just like the other one but they’re about the same size. One thing I do like about this one is that they have dividers between tables. although it takes up more room, it’s nice not to be right next to somebody else and have to listen to their korean stories about shenanigans that has happened to them.
Only one waitress on call but it seemed to be enough. She was sweet, spoke english perfectly and was efficient as ever. We got everything quite quickly and she was easy to flag down to get more stuff/​take stuff away. I think she made up both the stars in this review.
We ordered the large fried chicken. oh man. we could’ve stuck with a small, there was SO much chicken ;-; I remember that I really enjoy the chicken from the other fry, but this one definitely tasted over-​battered and some parts were also a bit dry. It was good but it definitely felt like something was missing… The other thing we ordered were the butter garlic fries and to my surprise, they had sugar all over them? It had a sweet taste for some reason and I even thought they mixed up salt and sugar. Turns out, that’s the taste they’re supposed to have. We weren’t super big fans of the garlic salt, parm, salt AND sugar together, so we just left almost the entire thing uneaten. I don’t think I’d recommend that dish, unlike you like sweet and salty in the most uncommon form. then go ahead!
This definitely wasn’t the worst place I can go to for korean fried chicken, but definitely not the best. I think I’ll be sticking to the other location for now.

3.5 stars
We ordered the fried chicken in spicy sauce. It was few ah, crispy and juicy. The sauce was flavourful and quite spicy! Sweet potato fries were good too but that’s hard to mess up. Overall, food wise it’s nothing I’m rushing back for, even though I only tried 3 dishes (those 2 plus the free corn).
The service wasn’t good. We weren’t upset about it, but it was EXTREMELY slow all the time. The waitress was polite, but inefficient and lacked understanding of English.
Overall I’m indifferent about recommending this place even though the fried chicken was pretty good, and the restaurant had a cozy ambiance about it.

If I hadn’t paid a visit to ‘The Fry’, I never would’ve believed it to be possible for anyone to take a popular and standard dish in Western cuisine and actually improve upon it.
I have no idea what the process they’re using to make the batter and to fry the chicken, but this is hands down, some of the best fried chicken I’ve ever had.
My friend and I ordered the Half-&-Half special (Spicy Sauce Chicken, Soy Garlic Chicken) and a side of Butter Garlic Fries. Although deep fried, the chicken is still juicy, tender and flavourful. The spicy sauce is at just the right level of heat; spicy enough to keep you interested, mild enough that you can still feel your taste buds.
I love the fact that it isn’t conventional whole cuts of chicken (ie. leg, thigh, rib) and instead, is literally an entire chicken that’s been chopped up into wing-​sized pieces, battered and deep fried. Every piece you choose is a surprise until you start eating it and realize what part of the chicken it is.
More expensive than your run-​of-​the-​mill KFC or Popeye’s, but totally worth it. This is now my go-​to place when I need to satisfy a craving for fried chicken.

I had my first experience ever with Korean style fried chicken the other night with a few friends for our little girls night out and wow, I am hooked on it! As for someone who rarely eats fried chicken, I couldn’t help but try it after hearing some wonder reviews by friends.
We ordered the half and half special ($ 28) where you can choose two flavours: we choose soy sauce and garlic, and fried chicken in spicy sauce. Our order also came with a platter of pickled radish, coleslaw, and salad along with a small hot plate of buttered corn. Out of the side dishes, the buttered corn was the most delicious!
Anyway enough talking about the side dishes, now back to the chicken. Our order arrived and the pieces looked pretty huge (for both flavours). The spicy sauce flavour was not too too spicy as I thought… well enough to have a bit of a kick in my mouth. The soy sauce and garlic flavour, on the other hand, was a bit dry in texture but had plenty of flavour. I’ve also noticed that all of the chicken pieces we got were big and juicy, a sign that I’m getting my money’s worth!
Overall I’ve enjoyed my first visit to The Fry! I can’t wait to try the green onion fried chicken on my next visit soon!

Many Elites seem to like the chicken here. Some are describing it as the best KFC in town! I guess I’m one of the few who didn’t like it.
We ordered half & half whole chicken ($ 27.99) which came with few appetizers (pictures below). Choices of sauces for half & half were plain, mild, spicy, and garlic soy. We picked mild and garlic soy. Garlic soy tasted like plain chicken. I didn’t feel the garlic or the soy sauce. Mild sauce was way too mild. Service was OK. Place was loud and crowded for a Thursday night.
2 Stars = I’ve experienced better. At HOHT and Dakgogi. Tastier, cheaper, and more sauce varieties over there. That’s where I usually get my KFC fix from.

Who would ever say no to fried chicken and beer?
Actually — oddly enough I might since I am not a super huge fan of chicken, and usually only like it when its fried, or in a sandwich masked with a ton of toppings.
But, this place has succeeded and dissolved a little bit more of my distaste for the ugly bird!
We ordered the half&half — comes with ½ plain fried chicken and ½ spicy saucy chicken. Both were amazing and I still can’t pick the winner. The plain was super crispy, moist and tender inside, and the batter tasted amazing. The spicy was nice and saucy while the batter was still crispy. It is very spicy though so be warned!
The price point for this + a pitcher of beer (korean combo style) was about $ 26-​$ 30 and well worth it. Two of us only made it through half of the chicken (one of us being a boy with a very healthy appetite) and we had a ton of leftovers. Another perk — the chicken is cut up in many different ways so you get some wing, some bones, some nuggets, big and small pieces… a great variety.
Comes with your typical K-​side dishes such as salad and delicious corn on a hot plate.
Service was just alright which is why I gave it a 4.
Will be back! Give it a try when you are in the area, or there is another location just down the road at Yonge and Cummer which tends to be a lot less busy :)

Let me start off by saying the chicken was great! The food is a bit on the pricier side but this is a great place to enjoy a greasy-​chicken mess and then wash it down with some truly substandard beer. You may be asking yourself, «Why would he give it only two stars?». Well sit your assess back down on your saddles folks; half the battle of food is what happens after you eat it.
Without going into the gory details we weren’t exactly feeling great after our meals. I was hugging the ceramic throne the same way a hipster hugs their canvas knapsack at a flea market. It was bitter-​sweet. I was feeling awful but the thought of the juicy chicken was worth it.
All in all I would say going to the Fry is akin to getting a tetanus shot. You need it, but it sucks. Go once every 10 years. If only we could pay with out health-​card it would warrant a 3-​star rating.

After going to NYC and having Korean fried chicken there only last weekend and loving it I had to find a local place that could give me that experience or hopefully even surpass it.
I had found the Fry on Unilocal of course as one of the places that serves Korean fried chicken and considering it basically makes up a majority of the menu I thought I would give this place a go.
I had ordered garlic fries, cheese corn and a half and half order of chicken which is a choice of 2 styles. I ended up asking for garlic soy and spicy sauced.
IN NYC: We had garlic soy and hot and spicy in NYC but the hot wasn’t sauced… hard to explain really the chicken was sort of coated with light batter but the batter was so sublime it was almost as if it was part of the skin and so crispy. I had ordered only wings as they had the option for ordering wings, boneless breast, drumsticks etc.
The Fry: The chicken is basically what equates to 2 chickens cut up in pieces that are about evenly sized. The only two recognizable pieces are your wings (flat and drumlets) and drumsticks. The rest are basically cut up pieces of what seems to be the rest whether side, center breasts or thighs etc.
The Fry’s batter is thick, so much that you can’t really tell what the non wing/​drum pieces are. The chicken itself is tasty but the saucy version was really wet. The sauce is not really hot but more of a sweet chili sauce but it seems sort of runny, not very thick yet the pieces stayed pretty crispy.
I preferred the garlic soy pieces because generally I like dry vs sauced. The reason I ordered the sauced is because they didn’t seem to have a hot — dry version but it was still ok.
The fries were ok, nothing amazing but just average. The garlic flavor on them tasted strange almost sweet when I’m expecting savory. The chicken overall was good but I’m afraid to say not nearly as good as the version I had in NYC — not even close…
Now it may not be fair that I’m comparing this place to what I had in NYC but I’m going in without the expectation that it’s going to be not as good. I’m hoping I can find better than what we had in NYC because I can’t go there as often as I can go to a place in the GTA obviously. So… I think it’s fair because I’m going in with an open mind and trying it here but for me every Korean chicken place I try will forever be benchmarked by my experience in NYC because that is why I’m trying to find the same if not better now at home. Can I do it? I hope so but not this time around unfortunately.
Overall the experience here was ok. The server seemed really busy as it seemed she was essentially alone to tend to the entire restaurant with about 10 or so tables and the place was full. The food was good but not great. Was it good enough to return? I’d like to try other things they have but the sides were nothing to write home about and the chicken was about par.

First time going there last weekend and I am impressed with the level of spicy and sweet of their fried chicken! I love the vibe of the restaurant in general so I will be definitely be back again for sure!

Went here on A wednesday night with my friend. Very easy to get a table for 2. This is a smaller restaurant than the one at Sheppard location .
We were served corn on the sizzling plate as a complimentary dish. It was really sweet and delicious. We were also given some salad/​radish side dish.
We ordered Crispy wings and spicy sauce on the side. I was hoping the wings would be super crispy since it was not going to be drenched with sauce like the last time I ordered.
I liked the fact that I got to dip the spicy sauce to keep the wings crispy. If we just order crispy wings on its own, it has no flavor.
The spicy sauce was more sweet with a sudden burst of spice. It came with fries in the same basket.
We also ordered a small plate of green onion with boneless chicken. It was a huge plate for 2 people! it was lacking on the sauce but I think the boneless chicken was fried really nicely. I like the sauce for this dish at Home of hot taste more because they had more sweet and onion flavor with their chicken. But The Fry does the chicken batter nicely and big pieces for this dish .
I would come again to order this boneless chicken dish… but my friend didn’t feel well because it was much too greasy for her preference.

3.5÷5 stars.
We ordered the special half & half where you get to pick two different types of chicken off their list. We tried the spicy fried chicken and the crispy chicken. The spicy chicken was pretty spicy, so make sure you can handle the heat. Their crispy chicken is not tossed in any sauce, but you can ask for sauce on the side and they will give your their house special sauce. It comes with some salt and pepper on the side as well, but be careful not to sprinkle too much.
Overall, chicken was very tender and crispy. The crispy chicken was a little too battered for my liking (like Popeyes crispy). But the meat was very moist and soft. The half & half also comes in pretty big portions. I think it can feed about 3 people (average eaters).
The sauce flavours (spicy & house special side sauce) in my opinion tasted very similar except one was spicy. They both have a sweet kick to it.
This place also offers complimentary side dishes. They give you buttered corn on a sizzling plate which is pretty unique. And their coleslaw was surprisingly really good!
The only thing about this place is that it’s quite small, not really good for groups. The whole place prolly seats around 20 – 25 people. As well, I wish our side dishes was brought out to us earlier and not almost at the same time as our chicken.

We were there on a Friday night. Got seated right away. Waitress was very friendly and helpful. She gave us a few suggestions as we told her it’s our first time there. We ended up ordering the half and half.
The free apps was a really nice touch — salads and corn on a mini hot pan. The wings were super crunchy and very good size. We couldn’t finish everything. Waitress gave us different sauces and a big container of green onion to take home.
Definitely will be back!!!

This is, in my opinion, the best fried chicken I’ve had in Toronto.
Forget the fact that the restaurant is dingy and dark. Forget the fact that the washrooms are super ghetto (it seriously looks like someone ripped out the urinal in the men’s toilet). Forget the fact that the server, nice as she was, barely spoke English and I had to almost resort to sign language to tell her we wanted water. Hell, forget the fact that I just paid $ 35 overall for JUST CHICKEN.
Because it was THAT good.
We got the half and half chicken. Half was soy garlic and half was spicy sauce. While I loved the spicy sauce one more (spicier, saucier, tastier, yummier) than the other, both were delicious in their own right.
The most impressive thing? Usually, when I’m eating a whole piece of chicken, there are pieces or cuts that I don’t like because they’re naturally drier than the others (i.e. chicken breast). But at this place, all the pieces were juicy, tasty, and had a solid amount of flavour. Really, the only thing I think is missing would be a small ranch dip to dip some of the thicker cuts of meat in to.
The cheese corn starter that was given to everyone for the start of the meal was a cute touch (tasted pretty good too!).
We definitely plan to return, and to try out more varieties.

Pretty good! :) Came here a few times for fried chicken & beer.
It comes with two side dishes — including butter corn on a hot plate too (Love this!).
Tried two flavours so far:
GREEN ONION FRIED CHICKEN 3.5÷5
I liked this one! I’d rate this higher if they added more sauce. The overall flavour was delicious! It’s just that we ordered way too much (got a large size for 2 people). as always. hahaha
SOY GARLIC FRIED CHICKEN 2.5÷5
I had high hopes for this but there just wasn’t enough sauce (even less than the fried chicken with green onions on top). We had to ask the waitress for sauce on the side! It was a little dry overall.

Since trying Bön Chon in the States, I’ve been on the lookout for a great KFC restaurant. I’ve tried Home of Hot Taste and Ajuker, but they were simply OK and did not live up to my experience at Bön Chon. When one of my colleagues told me about The Fry, I had to give it a shot.
My fiancé and I went to the Fry on a Friday night. We ordered a half and half with soy garlic and crispy chicken, and we also ordered chicken wings with their spicy sauce (which comes with fries). The chicken was absolutely delicious! Super crispy and fried perfectly. The sauces were pretty good as well. Fries tasted like the ones we get from Costco though.
Service was OK. Like most Korean restaurants in Toronto, there’s one server for the entire restaurant. We had to call our server 3 times to get her to take our order, and then we had to ask for water 3 times because she was always too busy to bring it to us.
Overall, I’d recommend the Fry is you’re looking for good Korean fried chicken. I’d say Bön Chon is still my favorite, but this place comes close. The only thing they really need to improve on is their service.

I like the food, best korean fried chicken i have in town. But then the place is little bit small so you have to get there early to get seat. One more thing is the music is too loud, even it’s a bar but most people go there just for food. Little pricy but it’s still good.

Can you say deelishus?
The resto is really small and right across the LCBO near Finch Station. We got the half half chicken with two baskets, one with fried chicken + sauce & extra salt/​pepper, and one spicy friend chicken. I thought the plain fried chicken was good with the sauce, too salty with the extra salt/​pepper — but a bit on the dry side. The spicy chicken though. mhmmmmmmmmm! Tender and flavoured en pointe. The apps for this resto was also unique, we got buttered corn on a sizzling plate in addition to the standard salad and Korean side dishes.
Overall, definitely recommended for a casual dinner with yummy fried chicken!