Ideal Catering

Found this food truck through a Unilocal search for poutine — good choice, y’all. Massive, massive portions with rich beefy gravy (as other folks have pointed out) and very squeaky curds. The small order is a good size for one person, but note that the medium order probably offers the most bang for your buck — it’s probably 2x as much as the small (it pretty much looks like the large and there was no way I could finish it). There’s a line of 4+ students, but it moves fast!

No. Just no. I have bought their stuff ONCE and it was so bad that I did not risk another attempt, fearing for my health. I got their veggie dog with fries, something I always get at the blue food truck just down the road. I dressed everything, tucked in, and the veggie dog stank. Yeah. It smelled like feet and was probably 2 months past the expiration date. I threw that out right away, a little bothered that I didn’t throw UP. I figured that I will have some fries, and initially I didn’t taste anything wrong with them, because they were being dipped in ketchup, but I had one fry straight up and it was stale like it’s been sitting there for days. I avoid this food truck even if I’m coming out of sid Smith and it’s right there staring like a bad scent you can’t shake. I walk down to the blue truck, get my food, and come back up to eat.
Overall a disgusting experience, never coming back because I value my health and want to live a fulfilling life.

After sampling quite a few other poutine places in Toronto, I’ve definitely figured out what’s so different about Idea Catering’s — their gravy. It’s so ridiculously beefy; gravy in other places tends to be more mild and thicker. Ideal Catering’s gravy hits you right in the face with its strong beef flavor.
Also, try the fries without the gravy! They are deliciously crispy and salty, perfect for a post studying midnight meal/​snack.
Love this place. The lady who runs it is Turkish and just soooo nice.

russet potatoes
cheese curds
dark gravy
that is one incredible poutine.
so cheap. even the small is much too large for one person. such a good deal.
pretty much everything you want in a dirty greasy meal.

I really like this food truck. Especially when I get the overly Canadian craving for traditional style poutine.
The normal hotdogs here don’t taste as good as hotdog stands, but they have good deals on the hotdogs and fries combos.
I mainly just go here for the Supreme Canadian fries, which I can only stomach once every few months (delicious, but VERY oily. You can feel it clogging your arteries in ways, most fastfood restaurants can’t.) And I also come here for the poutine. Always a pleasure.

Everything from my first review stands but I’d like to add Ideal Catering has, what is in my opinion, better tasting gravy than the Blue Chip truck for the same price and with the same squeaky cheese curds and skin-​on cripsy fries.

Matt’s Pick: Large Poutine, $ 5.25
You can’t go wrong with any business whose motto is «Gravy Always Free». This chip truck on the U of T campus in front of the Sidney Smith building dishes out some seriously amazing poutine (S $ 3.75, M $ 4.50, L $ 5.25).
Order a large poutine and you’ll get a dirty-​big mound of fresh fries topped with a pile of cheese curds and slathered in gravy. Ideal Catering does things right by mixing the curds and gravy throughout the fries. This way you don’t end up with dry fries at the bottom.
Sure, the fries could be a little crispier, the curds could be a little squeakier, and there’s nothing gourmet about this poutine. It’s just good old fashioned, simple deliciousness. Possibly the best poutine I’ve had in Toronto. There’s no better fuel to get you through 3 hours of painfully boring evening lectures.

I can’t wait until we start getting a lil’ more variety in food trucks, because reviewing chip truck after chip truck is getting a tad tiring.
But this one? It kicks those Nathan Phillips Square trucks to the gutter. The fries were fresh and the gravy was nice, salty, and heart-​attack inducing — as it should be. And I normally don’t get excited about hot dogs, but this one hit the spot. And all this delivered by a calm, efficient, and smiley vendor.
Talk about happy junk food times.
A bit alarmed they still use polystyrene containers, especially on a politically charged campus, but the food was so good and comforting, I was willing to destroy the world just this one time.