Hot Beans

After three years of eating veggie burritos around Toronto, I can conclude that Hot Beans is the best available. The food here isn’t light fare, by any means so don’t go too big unless you can deal with the food coma afterwards.
Flavours are big and robust, nothing like of sad burritos at the rest of the Toronto burrito shops. The tacos are legit too. My favourite thing to order are the jack fruit tacos with a side of slaw. Or, if I’m ask the right person, a jack fruit burrito bowl. Delicious!
Service has always been fine for me, friendly enough and sometimes very plain. Don’t forget that the general rule is if you’re getting shitty service, you might be a shitty customer.
Go eat here while you can!

THIS PLACE SUCKS! This is an over hyped, cult following place. I don’t know what the hell y’all are thinking giving this place such high reviews. I have tried to eat here 3 times & I have not twice because of such rude service. The third time however I just wanted to try the damn food everyone was going on about.
To start off the service was this young guy, who I would say was rather miserable. I asked him about the food, which ones I could have because I could not eat gluten. He informed me on a couple dishes. I ordered one with nacho chips. Thankfully my lovely wife had caught the fact they were cooked in the same fryer as gluten so infact they were not gluten free at all. We changed our order immediately. We ended up ordered two tacos; one dragon fruit, one lentil and a side of coleslaw. The food was bland at best, nothing to ride home about and to add on top of it I find it very over priced.
The atmosphere was gross and dirty with limited seating.
I’ll probably get lynched for this review but to be honest I really dislike this place and don’t plan on coming back. They screwed up on everything; food, service and atmosphere.

I cannot believe I have only just recently tried this place out. Last week, actually back up… a few additional weeks prior to that when my sister and I were in the area, I had seen Hot Beans but wasn’t feeling like it was a burrito-​or-​Mexican-​inspired-​food kinda day, you know it has to be that kind of day where you feel like eating what you are about to.
So last week I went in and bought myself a black bean burrito with guacamole… no. 1: 10 bucks for a burrito… what an incredible price, for the size you get! I haven’t been to Chipotle on Yonge since they’ve opened, to recall what their price point was like, to have somewhat of a comparison. But Hot Beans is incomparable to Chipotle because Hot Beans is vegan and therefore rules and to a large extent may induce drooling! (remember the old saying, when something rules, the other thing drools? Well, this place happily contains both ruling and drooling!)
Also, no. 2: I am part South American and avocados are, try to have them be, a staple in my diet. And a solidly ripe avocado is extremely important to me. Thus following, this place delivered on a satisfying lunch because their guacamole is made of fresh, RIPE avocados. No. 3: The service was exceptionally fast, could’ve been a little friendlier, but I wasn’t in that mood that day so not a lot of chit-​chat was exactly what I needed! Thank you to the young man on the other side of the counter for that!
I will most likely be returning to try more of their delicious menu items and I am in absolute anticipation until then.
Oh lastly, as if it could ever be last, it should be at the top of the list; perhaps no. 0: the HOT SAUCE… amaZing!!! I would definitely go back just to pick up some of that. I’ve seen in some photos. It is apparently available for purchase?