Tsampa Cafe

First time trying Tibetan food. Had the beef alu pingshu with fried bread. Beef curry stew, with glass noodles, potatoes, and sliced black mushrooms. Awesome! You get a choice of bread or rice — get the bread! You’ll get two large frisbee sized ovals of fried bread to dip in to the curry. It’s a big serving; eat half in, and buy extra bread and take home for a second meal. A great meal for under $ 10

Great food at cheap prices, but they could use an A/​C in there.

My favourite of the Tibetan restaurants in this area. The menu is not as extensive as the others around here, but everything on it is soooooo good.
I always get the beef momos.
Try the aloo pingsha– like a beef stew with noodles, potato and black mushrooms.
Beef patties are all sorts of tasty.
The place is easy to pass by because it doesn’t look like much but it is so worth it. Very good food and a very reasonable price. Super friendly staff. Room for strollers. They have high chairs.
If you haven’t tried Tibetan food before, start here.
I just wish they had regular dishes instead of take out, but it might have something to do with the size of the kitchen or something.

Best Tibetan in Toronto and best sha-​balay this old mouth head has ever munched!

Randomly decided to pick up some take-​out from Tsampa. I pass it almost every day and have never tried it. This day I chose, was THE day.
Tsampa is a small resto, mostly for take out. They have a few tables. but it’s nothing fancy. I could tell the food was going to be good. There are no menus, just the chalkboard on the wall. They have food cooked and ready for take out — like chicken, potatoes and rice. I didn’t know what I really felt like, so I ordered the ready curry chicken, spicy potatoes and rice.
OMG delicious. When I say, ‘spicy’ potatoes, I am not joking. I actually couldn’t eat them. and I adore spicy. I usually get the hiccups when I eat something that’s too hot. and the taters were it. They were so tasty though, I had a hard time NOT eating them.
I also ordered the fresh fried bread, and ate the chicken with the bread, sopping up the curry sauce. It was lovely, flavorful and everything I had expected. I will absolutely order take out again — order something different. It’s absolutely worth a try. I think my whole meal was $ 7.

I consider myself a bit of an expert on Tibetan food, having grown up on it, and in my expert (humble) opinion Tsampa is THE place for Tibetan food in Toronto. Set up more like a fast food joint– no printed menu’s (just a white board), you seat yourself, lots of patrons take it to go & cheap prices — the décor is minimal and functional, but once you’re eating, it’s hard to care.
Their menu is not extensive, but genearlly Tibetan food is limited in choices. What they do have though, is a good selection of well prepared Tibetan food. My favorite dishes here have to be their pork chowmein, shabhaley (beef patty), aloo dum (spicy potatoes served with puri), and their momos (dumplings).
If I had to mention a con — they have ceiling to floor windows on two sides, and while it’s great for people watching, it’s not so great for people watching you as they walk by when you’re stuffing your face :) so maybe they could put up some sheer curtains?