Porta Via

Fresh ingredients. Great soups. Mango dressing is amazing!
Customer Service is top notch. Highly Recommend!

I liked it.
I’m not usually looking for soup or salad when I go out for lunch. More of a burger guy. But this place is alright. Everything fresh, and a lot of options on the salad to choose from so you get pretty much what you want. Salad was huge, I was not expecting that. they also have a couple of different soup offering each day. Which are interesting sounding, they had the Thai Curried carrot so I had that, very tasty.
Next time through I’ll give one of their panini a try, they all sound tasty.

This place makes the best salads ever! Homemade pear dressing is to die for! Great customer service. Highly recommend!

The location is a little awkward to get to but the décor inside is quite nice.
There is quite a lot of food choice and a few options for vegetarian but the price is a little high for the serving size. I found the sandwiches left a lot to be desired even with the somewhat exotic and healthy ingredients.

This place definitely has room for improvement. The items on the menu looked great so i was looking forward to use my groupon. i asked the staff if i can use my groupon on two duo items and she looked at my groupon and confirmed ok. so i ordered the chicken with carmelizes onions on whole wheat. she said they dont have any carmelized onion so i have to choose another vegetable available on the counter. fine, and so i did, but she didnt offer to make new ones nor did she apologize. for my second sandwich I ordered another item on whole wheat bread, and they told me they don’t have anymore (the last one was used on the first sandwich). so again I had to settled for whatever they have available.
then comes paying. the second staff looked at my groupon and said its expired so I have to pay for te other meal. ok my bad I thought it was expiring 3 days later (it was actually 3 days earlier!). also, the staff did check my groupon before I ordered and confirmed its ok. the girl who confirmed it was ok then said she only read te first line and didn’t read the expiry date. but again she wasn’t apologetic at all. so I argued I only ordered the 2^nd sandwich because she said I can. anyway, so they ran to their boss (who was sitting at the table wth his laptop not caring what was going on). they spoke in another language and she came back and said sorry I have to pay for the 2^nd sandwich and she already made the sandwich. I said no, I’m not paying for their mistakes. so again they ran to their boss speaking another language and then came back and just said ok, I’ll just take one duo (sandwich plus soup). so the value of this meal is only 8.75. I paid 10 dollars to groupon for 20 dollars value. anyway, they said I have to pay the tax because even though I paid groupon 10, it does not include the tax. what does that mean? I overpaid on this meal. I paid a total of 11.14 on this meal. omg now that I think about it.1.14 is too much tax on 8.75. I admit its my fault for not double checking the groupon, but they also verified it and i assume you can trust the company??? I wanted to go to their website and write a complaint but there isn’t anywhere where I can write a complaint to their head office. the manager just didn’t care enough. oh sorry, and to top it off, they said I must dine in because that’s what the groupon said. give me a break. you can’t even fulfill your company requirements (no supply for the sandwiches I ordered) and you expect me to follow te rules?!!
Yes this place lacks customer service and food supply. I can’t say anything about quaility of food .it was meh (I’d give it a 5, max 6.5). I would never come back again. I came in on a weekday afternoon. 2pm and it was pretty quiet. I gave it 1 star for being clean. this place was empty though

Just went here for an early dinner, they’re open til 7. I did not expect the interior to be so nice, and the food was also presented really well! I had the bistro beef & brie panini, roasted red pepper & sweet potato soup, and a salad that came in the set. I would highly recommend it to anyone who loves sandwiches! I’ll just go ahead and say it, I think it’s better than Panera bread, who’s known for their sandwiches; just putting it out there, cause there’s such a huge variety. I also got the Groupon deal for this, so it was an awesome deal, it was basically buy one set get one free. The service was also really great, our server who I assume is the manager, was really polite and just gave us really great service. I’ll definitely be coming back here!

The service was very pleasant and the food was fresh and delicious!

I used to work in the neighborhood and came here quite often. even though there are many lunch establishments available in the area
This place proves that healthy eating can taste amazing! Simple menu, fresh ingredients, great variety and focus on customer service kept me returning for some great meals. Plus — they focus on people with dietary requirements. Something that’s lacking in many restaurants today…
Granted the meal could get a little costly i.e. (the $ 10 mark) for a sandwich with soup/​salad, I found it more worthwhile than visiting a typical cookie cutter Subway franchise.
Totally encourage you to visit… They do have odd store hours though so check first.

This is the newest location of Porta Via.
I am happy that they opens up in Markham, as now I have another options if I want to have a healthy lunch option.
Soup and Sandwich at $ 8.75 and with an extra soup $ 10.75.
There are usually 2 soups to choose from one Vegan and the other is usually vegetarian. great if you has special dietary requirement.
There are quite a good selections of panini and you can get the kind of bread you would like…
Salad/​Beet Soup/​Beef with Brie on Francese Bread
— Salad is smallish… the vinaigrette dressing is quite nice and tangy
— Soup is beet purée seasoned with a hint of black pepper, really simple
— I love my Francese Bread, so crusty… the in house roasted beef is quite moist and lean…
— It will be more perfect if the sandwich has left in the grill a little longer
The deco is clean and simple. The disposable metal look alike plastic utensils would be nice if they are real utensils for eat in patrons.
A little pricey than my usual lunch but I guess that’s the price one pay for good and healthy ingredients!
Luckily they accepts all credit cards. at least I still can pay for my lunch!