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| - Loga's corner is part of a cluster of Tibetan restaurants over at the western half of West Queen Street, Parkdale. And probably the most casual of them all. There's no posted hours of business that I could find to begin with. I have seen the place open in the afternoon and early evening, if that helps.
It is generally a takeout place, with an area for eating in inside and out, generally composed of a literal scrapping of tables and chairs. To best describe the setting, it's like stepping into a college friend's new apartment and said friend got a few furniture off of garage sales and Craigslist to stock the place. Simple to say the least.
Maybe the 'college friend' analogy does not cut it. Loga's feels less like a restaurant in the conventional sense of the word, and more like a hippie stoner guy's apartment down the hall who leaves his door open, allows people to walk in whenever and he'll cook something for them. That seems more like the vibe, maybe without the dope. It is so casual, the guy steps out at times to hang out with his friends--and you wonder if he is the only one manning the place.
The food is dope though. Loga's Corner has a brief menu, primarily focusing on the Tibetan momo: a kind of Chinese style dumpling with flavour influences that are more Indian, like cumin. There are beef momos, fried beef, potato and lamb momos, among others. When we inquire about what a particular item was, the answer we got was the proprietor (I'd assume he is) running to the kitchen and returning quickly with a sample to try. That's the best way to describe a food, hands down.
As much as the super-relaxed humourously-casual atmosphere goes, the guy is super-friendly to boot, and genuinely wants you to be happy here. Food-wise, delicious when fresh--and imma sucker for dumplings. There's great flavours of onions and cumin, and a bit of spicy heat, with the hot sauce served with it adding a hellofalot more. $6-8 gets you a plateful of about 10 momos--10 to 15 is sufficient to fill a single stomach with a meal's worth. I suppose as per other reviewers, you can call in an order beforehand, 'cuz it takes a while for them to be ready.
{TTC: the 501 to Lansdowne (W) or Jameson (E), or the 47 bus to Queen Street}
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