Gyu Hito Japanese BBQ is located in the plaza at 633 Silver Star Blvd. in north Scarborough, Toronto's eastern borough, near Midland and Steeles, accessible via the Midland bus route. I liked the interior which has high ceilings and latticework between tables. Amazingly, ordering was still old-school from a paper menu, and disposable chopsticks are used, so happily we brought our own. We went for weekend lunch. AYCD pop is available for $3. Unfortunately tea is $2.50... remember when it used to be included? At least it was refillable. Unfortunately when it arrived I realized it had a plastic tea bag, which I will never use if I have the choice because they are proven to put microplastic particles into the tea.. I have no idea why they are still legal. I can't fault this in the rating because of course it's not a food issue itself. Soy based sauce at table was sweet but had a lovely flavour.
Miso soup was fantastic, savoury, rich and not watery and we loved it especially on a -10 Celsius day. Mishy said the seaweed salad was excellent as it had more sesame oil than other places use. We both loved the green salad as it was very fresh, with green leaf lettuce, and had an excellent mild sweet dressing vinaigrette.
We both agreed that the bibimbap was among the best ever, if not the best, as it had many ingredients some of which were smoky and they all worked together very well, so was fantastic. Kimchi was quite good and also was not excessively hot, which is a welcome change from other places we’ve been to recently.
From the grill, shrimps were excellent with a wonderful buttery flavour. The corn bowl shared some of that nice buttery flavour as well. Chicken wings were quite good and I was surprised to find them available. Pork belly was good, although it was very fatty. Sweet soy beef belly was delicious, as were spicy shoyu beef strips. Short ribs were large pieces, quite thick and appealing, and were of course delicious.
For dessert there were Melona bars on the menu, but they were unavailable so the only dessert was Chapman's ice cream cups, which is at least better than nothing. Service was amazingly fast and everything was delivered almost as soon as we placed the order. It was $30.99 for weekend lunch which is pretty much average for this area nowadays. Gyu Hito was very good to excellent, and we had an very enjoyable lunch.
Rating: 9-9.5 / 10 + 0 value adjustment (standard pricing) = 9-9.5 / 10
