Sinjeon Topokki & Bar (Pocha) - Bloor 신전떡볶이

Gimbap Shop on Spring Garden Avenue has been a North York institution for twenty-eight years — operating long before the neighbourhood's dining scene attracted any serious outside attention.

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Mapo Korean BBQ takes its name from Mapo-gu, the Seoul district where open-flame barbecue is less a dining concept than a civic institution, and that context shapes everything about the Bloor Street room.