Toby's Good Eats

Chunky fries with cheese sauce are the defining Toby's Good Eats plate, and the cheese sauce keeps coming up the rest of the way through the menu. The kitchen on King Street West runs a downtown Hamilton diner where the same sauce arrives over chips both chunky and skinny, baked into a triple-cheese macaroni, and loaded onto fries with bacon and green onion — a single house preparation pulling a comfort-food menu into focus, plate by plate.

Toby's Club House is the clearest single dish on the board: a triple decker built with chicken breast marinated overnight and grilled in house, bacon, lettuce, tomato, and mayo. Haddock Fish and Chips comes battered and fried in house, served with coleslaw, fresh tartar, lemon, and a choice of chunky or skinny chips. Macaroni 3X bakes a triple-cheese topping over the house cheese sauce. The starter section runs through Fully Loaded Perogies and Stacked Cheese Fries for the diner-comfort end of the meal, and a Beyond The Meat burger on a vegan pretzel bun sits on the same menu without being treated as an outlier — comfort food the kitchen has updated rather than carved away from. Breakfast holds the morning down with Toby's Breakfast — eggs, meat, Texas toast, and home fries — alongside omelettes, benedicts, pancakes, French toast, Benedict Poutine, and Canadian Poutine.