The Hearth

I go through Toronto airport frequently and this by far is the best food you’ll find in an airport. Their steak frites are excellent and always satisfy. Be prepared to pay for it though as the prices are not cheap.

I stopped to eat while on a very short layover at the Toronto Airport and had a great experience. The waitress Jackie was great help as I ordered a steak dish that needed to be prepared ASAP since I only had 20 minutes to eat. The end result was a delicious dish which I enjoyed, while still making my connection on time.
The beer selection was also nice served in their original beer glasses. I asked the manager to purchase a beer glass and Jackie and him were gracious enough to allow me to keep it. Overall a great experience, I wish I had more than 20 minutes to eat.

Stopped in for breakfast, it was awful. Coffee undrinkable, scrambled eggs were rubbery and overcooked. The «cheddar biscuit» turned into toast on the plate.
Lynn needs to fix this place, she can’t afford to have a restaurant like this associated to her name.

We had the unfortunate pleasure of basically having no other choice but to dine at The Hearth during our layover from Amsterdam to Milwaukee. Their drinks were nothing special, and their fries were basically shards of batter soaked in oil. Gross. I’d say we won’t be back, but if we’re flying to the US from Europe and our layover in Toronto… Then we won’t have a choice. :/

I have rate here a couple of times and the service is AWFUL
It took me 10 minutes to get waitress and then another 5 to get coffee then 20 minutes to get a bagel with lox– which wasn’t very good
Eat here at your own risk and only if you have an hour and a half time before you flight

Blah.
Soggy fries. If you can’t get the fries right Lynne, why would you ever be surprised the chicken tasted burnt
I know it’s an airport but I also know that dead fries shoukd never go out and that correct cooking is not location sensitive.
Service was a 5 out of 5.

Good airport restaurant. Flatbreads (aka pizzas) are really nice with an interesting combination of ingredients. Salads are nice as well, had the beet salad this time, with a breast if chicken on top. Beer selection is the typical selection, but the addition of a microbrew or two on tap usually.
A good choice to go to, especially considering there are almost no other choices in Terminal 1 US departures section.

I’m not sure why this place has such a mediocre rating! My flatbread («foraged mushroom» and goat cheese) was excellent, they have a reasonable (all local) wine selection and the wait staff were phenomenal. (My server made suggestions and went out of her way to get chili flakes from the kitchen… More than I can ask for from many chains). Granted the pricing was slightly above average, but honestly at an airport location, that was to be expected.
If you’re at Pearson Airport in the F gates… Eat here.

It was okay. The place is pretty big. It is a Lynn Crawford airport restaurant. I ordered a peameal on a bun sandwich. Peameal reminds me of canadian ham. I guess that is where canadian ham originated? It wasn’t too filling, but it wasn’t that greasy. The fries were crispy. The service was friendly. Overall, I enjoyed my meal here as I was waiting for my flight.

Ugh… Go to Tim hortons instead. I am a fan of Lynn Crawford but this place was awful. I got the eggs Benedict and the yolk was solid, the peameal bacon was thinly sliced giving it a «lunch meat» feeling. The cheese biscuit sounds like a good idea but it was too dry for the whole eggs Benedict thing. For the price, it’s better just to go to Timmy’s where it is like fast food but at least it is reliable and consistent.

The Hearth is Chef Lynn Crawford’s brainchild located conveniently at Terminal 1 of Pearson Airport.
Of all the restaurants at Pearson, this is probably your best bet for decent food, good view and relaxed ambience. If your layover is long, the restaurant is worth it. The restaurant serves canonical Italian food, without a lot of surprises. The wine selection is fair, but not extremely expansive.
For appetizers, I ordered a dish of sizzling lemon garlic shrimp with hearth flatbread. The quality was decent, but portion was extremely meagre given that the bill came to almost $ 20 for just an appetizer.
The servers were a little passive aggressive. I did not stay in the restaurant for more than an hour and even though it was half empty, I felt pressured to either order more or pay the cheque.
All in all, a satisfactory meal given that all the restaurants in the airport are sub-​par. However, if this was in downtown Toronto I would probably not return.

This place was popping at 8am. The space was nice and bright, it was modern, looked clean, the tables were filled, I didn’t need much more to convince me to grab some breakfast here. Well, that and because there weren’t many other options for sit down dining at the airport.
We selected the frittata and the eggs Benedict. Meh. Frittata I did not like at all. It was not visually appealing, there were asparagus chunks just poking out of it. Looked like green fingers. There was no flavor, very bland, just completely boring.
The eggs Benedict wasn’t entirely terrible, but the hollandaise was certainly not freshly made, tasted like it came from a packet. My egg was overcooked. The English muffin was fine, I was thankful they didn’t f that up somehow.
For the price they charge I was expecting an average breakfast, like a 3, at the very least. Next time I’ll go to the bagel stand down the terminal.

Drawn in by chef Lynn Crawfords name on the sign, plus the only available place with TVs to watch the baseball playoffs, I grabbed a table at the Toronto airport while I waited for my next flight.
Above average pricey menu, even for an airport, but what was more surprising was the food. Hopefully chef Lynn wasn’t working because the food was definitely sub par. Had a steak frites, which was medium well at best (had ordered medium rare) and the fries were overdone. Would have said something to the waitress, but finished my meal, and my drink, and watched some baseball before anybody came around to see if everything was ok.
They are definitely fortunate to have a captive airport clientele because out on the street, this place would not survive.
I would have been better off grabbing an overpriced Subway sandwich before clearing security.

OK, I should start by pointing out that this is in the airport, and so the prices are a little high. I would rate this closer to 3.5 stars for that sole reason.
The second thing I should point out is that this review comes after I stood in line for over 2.5 hours waiting to see a ticketing agent for Air Canada because my flight was cancelled… Oh, except the flight wasnt really cancelled and Air Canada just wanted to bump me off that flight for my seat… And they had the audacity to send me an email to say the flight has been cancelled while I was getting in line to go through security… Like people don’t know to check and see they’re being lied to… That is neither here nor there, but it left me super hungry because I had skipped breakfast. Say what I’m about to say could be heavily influenced by the morning I had just had…
But whoa, get the maple and mustard salmon. That is some serious good food. Salmon was well cooked. Mushroom was great (I love mushroom). The salad it was served with (soaked in a tangy mustard dressing) definitely contributed to the dish as well. It worked. Definitely worth the wait. I will have to try other dishes to see if they’re as good, but this one has convinced me to come back again for sure.

Lynn Crawford should erase her name of this place. It’s a disservice to her.
But at the same time, this is the closest to decent food you’ll get at Pearson — so relatively speaking this store is doing well. Place this in the city and it wouldn’t be nearly as good.
Overall experience — food severely burnt, service disorganized, order wrong…

The menu here was design by Chef Lynn Crawford.
Travelling quite a bit for work I make sure that if I have an afternoon flight from Terminal 1 to hit up this place for their bomb Peamel on a Bun. This is located at he bottom of security and definitely has better food than most other food options at Pearson.

Even in the context of airport food, this place is pretty bad and probably best avoided. To be fair, I only experienced breakfast but that was quite enough for me.
I ordered their benedict which promised me «poached eggs and peameal bacon served on a cheddar biscuit with homemade hollandaise». Sounds delightful, no?
No. No, it was not delightful in any way. Let’s break it down:
Poached eggs: served completely cooked, as in «hard boiled yolks». FAIL
Peameal bacon: code for «deli ham». FAIL
Cheddar biscuit: Tough and hard. FAIL
«Homemade» hollandaise: Oh Lord, this was the worst part. My hard boiled «poached» eggs were smothered with a thick, gloppy substance that honestly looked like cake frosting. I scraped that crap off with a quickness because it was certain «tummyache on a plane» action.
For $ 18, I don’t expect every element of a simple benedict to suck. There you have it, folks.

I’ve had two meals at Hearth now, and both were quite good. Of course, the Molson Pub was the best restaurant here previously, but still. Service is good and fast, you can easily have a meal in 30 min. On tap selection for beer is poor. I had the chicken BLT which was pretty good, served with some very tasty fries. The mushroom and onion flatbread I had today was 5 stars — great toppings, delicious pesto, and crunchy delicious crust. Portion sizes were perfect. Only complaint, it can be very loud.

As a frequent business traveller, I’d been to the Molson Pub a fair bit for both breakfast and dinner. The Hearth has replaced the pub and with respect to appearance and food, this new restaurant is far more upscale and delicious but the service is still disappointing.
I waited far too long at the podium before someone even addressed me, had to ask for a menu, had to ask for water, had to wait a long time for the bill and worst of all, when I asked for cream for my tea the waitress took the pitcher of cream from the adjacent table where a patron had just eaten and left! The cream was an small, uncovered pitcher! Very gross!
The stars in this review are for the food that came out fast, perfect sunny side up eggs, crispy potatoes and perfectly grilled tomato.
I would suggest Chef Lynn Crawford think twice about associating her name to this place until they retrain or rehire the staff!

Wow. Good food at the airport, finally. I can say that this is one of the better places to eat when you are travelling from terminal 1. I had the pork chop and it was so tender it was pretty effortless to cut, even without using a steak knife. Portion size is pretty good but I would say the price is high, but it is to be expected for airport food.
Staff are very accommodating and seems like they know their menu well (at least the one serving us) when the table beside asked for vegetarian options, he steered then away from the salads as the dressings contain Worcester sauce which was made from meat.