I work up the street from this place and apart from Roti and a few fast food places there is not much selection at King & Dufferin.
I had the green curry rice dish and some spring rolls that were better than average... so why the garbage rating?
In addition to the annoying fact that they only take cash, when I returned the following week they were closed pending revision for a failed review by the Toronto Health Dine Safe program (in December 2009)
When I went on the Dine safe website: http://app.toronto.ca/food2/index.jsp
I found out exactly why they were closed:
Food handler fail to wear headgear
Operator fail to provide adequate pest control
Operator fail to prevent an insect infestation
Operator fail to protect food from contamination or adulteration
Operator fail to maintain hazardous foods at 60C (140F) or hotter
The list goes on...
I get it... the idea of the program is to maintain public health by notify businesses and patrons when practices are not up to code and provide them an opportunity to rectify the situation. But come on... these are some pretty disgusting citations!
I also found out that this was their second offence is 6 months for the exact same violations! It's nice to see they passed their last inspection in Feb 2010, but my co-workers have warned me that these guys have the dreaded yellow conditional pass is up all the time.
Do yourselves a favour and skip this place... there are plenty of yummy places that take better care of their establishment.