Best Live Music Restaurants in Chinatown

What a wonderful experience at Joe Fortes—no wonder it’s an institution! We unfortunately kept experiencing delays beyond our control and had to move our booking no less than 3 times within the hour and they were so, so gracious about it. Our server, Norm, was fantastic, and gave us excellent recommendations! The food was perfection-favorites were the calamari, lobster bisque, sablefish, arctic char, and mussels (basically everything we ordered; and the pavlova (my own baking specialty) and carrot cake were perfectly delectable! I will need to come by every time I visit (I’m from California). Make sure you make reservations as they get busy!

Highly recommend this restaurant. It’s a small quaint room with amazing service and the food is outstanding. The dishes are made to share and the menu is unique to the night. Bravo to the chefs. Best meal I’ve had in a long time.

Thisis a beautiful dining experience for a date night or anniversary or just a night out. The room is decorated with beautiful done nude photographs so be aware if your coming with children. The service was impeccable! We had the meatballs and they happily added a side of spaghetti to make it an entree . This dish was incredibly tasty. We also ordered by recommendation, the seafood spaghetti dish which I would order again. Two really delish dishes!!! We will be back!

The food was delicious and fast, and the service was outstanding and very friendly. the atmosphere was very nice and they were playing the canucks game on the big screens had lots of TVs everywhere and also had a cool contest going on. overall was an enjoyable evening, will be going back to watch another hockey game there.

My friends and I had such a great time at Calabash! The food was delicious - we shared the veggie curry (which comes with fragrant rice, a beautiful salad and plantains), a side of roti and the coconut dumplings with mango butter (to die for!). The spicy plantain margaritas were amazing - our server added a special touch for us, so that made us feel pretty special. The staff were all so kind. After we left, we went back for dancing later. They played great music and it was a wholesome, fun vibe. The place is highly secure. We felt very safe inside despite it being in the DTES area.