Udupi Palace

Udupi Palace sits on Gerrard Street East in Little India, a short walk from Lahore Tikka House. The card is vegetarian South Indian in the Udupi temple-town tradition: dosas (plain, masala, Mysore, paper, rava, and stuffed variants), uthappam, idli, vada, thalis, and North Indian vegetarian curries for mixed tables. Food-tour write-ups have long treated it as a community pillar on the strip, with vegan, gluten-free, and Jain options called out on the floor.

Toronto’s everyday South Asian shopping has largely moved to Scarborough, Mississauga, and Brampton, but Gerrard still works as a walkable grocery-and-casual-eat corridor. Udupi is the desk’s Bazaar answer when you want fermented batter and sambar without driving east for Aaha or a Scarborough tiffin room.

Use it for a quick lunch, a vegetarian half of a mixed group, or a first dosa education before you graduate to more regional South Indian cards elsewhere in the GTA. Keep expectations at no-frills dining room, not cocktail bar.

DobbernationLoves and TripAdvisor regulars converge on paper dosa, Mysore masala, onion rava masala, and the South Indian thali as the clearest orders. Groups praise portion size and price; some diners find plain paper dosa mild and prefer the chutney-smeared or onion-rava versions. Culinary tour notes mention watching dosa and bhatura come off the griddle, which matches the room’s teaching-strip role.

Public review themes also flag samosa chaat, poori bhaji, medhu vada, and gulab jamun. Service reads as fast and straightforward in a simple hall. Growth edges: weekend crowds on Gerrard, and a menu long enough that first-timers can wander into every North Indian paneer plate and miss the dosa point.

Compared with Aaha Truly South’s tighter breakfast-and-tiffin brand, Udupi is the older Bazaar generalist: still vegetarian, still dosa-forward, with more North Indian vegetarian backup for mixed tables.