Joe Boo's Cookoo's Kosher Restaurant

Toronto with its huge and diverse ethnic diversity probably boasts the greatest number of international restaurants in the world, so when one is looking for a specific cultural based restaurant here in the city, it shouldn’t be that difficult to find.  We were in search for a koshered restaurant as one of my colleagues was Jewish, however looking for one was not the hard part as there were numerous restaurants of such.  The hardest part was choosing a good take-out koshered restaurant as this city had so much to offer.  After doing a bit of research and reading some of the reviews online, we decided to take a shot at Joe Boo’s Cookoo’s Kosher Restaurant located in the city of Vaughan.  

Joe Boo’s Cookoo’s focuses on making good salads, sandwiches, burgers, chicken and noodles in accordance to their Jewish traditions.  When one walks into their restaurant, one can see the oven in the back where all the meats are being roasted and a rather large display of all the toppings and salads at the front.  Based on the reviews, although the restaurant serves many different types of chicken, the Rotisserie Chicken was one of the can’t misses at this place so naturally I decided to go with their Quarter Rotisserie Chicken ($13.99) mixed with Vegetables and Shanghai Noodles.  One gets to choose two sides to go with their chicken so I decided to go with these although one could also choose rice or potato wedges if they so wished.  

The food did take a while to prepare even though I was ordering it as a take-out although this was no fault of the restaurant.  Although the chicken was already prepared, the Shanghai noodles required a bit of time to make.  There were also a couple of other orders that I was waiting on so it didn’t really matter too much.  As we were standing there, we could see that even late in the afternoon, there was a steady flow of people coming into the restaurant to order their lunch.  

Quarter Rotisserie Chicken

When we got back, the aroma of the chicken and the noodles were making me salivate as the empty stomach was screaming for food at this point.  I dove right into the chicken first and it was moist, well marinated and absolutely tasty.  The meat was very soft unlike any meat that I have ever had before.  It was almost like sinking one’s teeth into a large fluffy, soft marshmallow.  My biggest fear was that the meat was going to be dry and would require some type of sauce, but the chicken alone was delicious in itself.  The noodles were very, very good, and this is coming from a Chinese Canadian who has eaten a lot of Shanghai noodles in his lifetime.  The noodles were not oily at all yet each noodle was deep in taste, perfectly immersed with soya sauce and had that soft marshmallow texture to them as well.  The combo also came with a large number of vegetables including peppers, onions and carrots.  

This might have been my first true shot at koshered food and it was absolutely satisfying.  Of importance this restaurant had also appeared on Canadian’s version of Restaurant Makeover about 5-6 years ago to enhance the quality of their food and they certainly did not disappoint.  Please note that the restaurant is somewhat tucked and hidden even though it is located on a major street in Vaughan.  Although it was a bit of a drive to get to the restaurant, it was all however worth the gas.  You should give it a try and see.  I don’t think you will be too disappointed.  Overall, I give it a 4.0 out of 5.0.

 


Joe Boo's Cookoo's Kosher Restaurant
7241 Bathurst Street
Vaughan, Ontario

905-866-8686