Crosstown Craft BBQ Found Room for Its Smokers on Comstock Road. Its Short Weekend Hours Set the Clock.

Most Golden Mile restaurants want to be on Eglinton or Warden, in front of traffic. Crosstown Craft BBQ went around the corner instead. It chose 51 Comstock Road, a short street between Warden Avenue and Birchmount Road, and opened on November 7, 2026. Its Google listing now shows posted hours and customer reviews.

Pitmaster Rueben Silva went looking for a building that could hold his smokers, and that search explains the address. The listing explains how a visit works: three days a week, closing in the afternoon, and serving "until sold out."

What a smoker needs from a building

In February, Silva told blogTO why the search took so long. "Barbecue is a different beast," he said. He listed what a spot like his needs:

• serious ventilation
• room for wood-fired smokers
• proper fire safety
• enough power and gas for long cooks and heavy equipment
• storage for wood, meat and equipment
• a layout that allows lengthy overnight cooks
• easy customer access and parking

Silva called meeting every item while staying accessible and having parking "definitely one of the hardest parts" of getting to a permanent home. The Comstock Road building is where the search ended.

He also had reasons beyond the building. "We chose this neighbourhood because it reflects who we are: a hardworking, diverse, food-loving community with a lot of character," he told blogTO. "It's an area that's growing fast, but still feels local and real." Toronto Life described the Golden Mile as "already a bastion of culinary delights" when it reported the Comstock Road address.

It's also a homecoming of sorts. The pop-up started in East York in April 2025, and Silva has said more than once that the new home "isn't far from where we held our very first pop-up."

The timeline moved too. When the lease news broke in February, blogTO expected a summer 2026 opening. The opening date that eventually came, in an October blogTO piece, was November 7.

Sixteen posted hours a week

These are the hours the Google listing for 51 Comstock Road shows:

That adds up to 16 posted hours spread over three days. Sunday's window is the shortest at four hours, so it's the easiest day to miss.

The weekday features in the right-hand column come from blogTO's October report. It said each open day would bring new dishes and that "weekends are where things really get exciting." These are announced plans, so expect the rotation to change as the kitchen settles in.

The regular menu, as Toronto Life reported it, sticks to Texas basics:

• brisket
• pork ribs and beef ribs
• cheddar-jalapeño sausages
• pork belly burnt ends

Silva also told the magazine he planned rotating specials, with smoked beef cheeks and smoked lamb shanks named as examples.

The closing time on the sign is a ceiling

On November 1, 2026, the owner posted an update to the restaurant's Google listing: "Open until sold out! Once the BBQ is gone, it's gone. Come early to get your favourites."

The posted closing times of 5 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and 3 p.m. on Sunday are the latest the counter stays open. Food can run out before then, so plan to arrive close to 11 a.m.

Supply has grown, but so has demand. Toronto Life reported that during the pop-up era Crosstown held more than a dozen events, served over 1,000 people, and grew from 400 online followers to nearly 30,000 across its platforms. Silva said they "outgrew our 500-gallon smoker, upgrading to 750-gallon Bog Line." He also planned a rotisserie smoker that can cook up to 1,700 pounds of meat at a time, which he said "will allow us to finally feed Toronto's growing appetite for real Texas barbecue."

blogTO described the pop-up drops as selling "out in hours." A fixed address with bigger smokers changes the math. It doesn't remove the sold-out rule, which the owner chose to post on the listing before opening day.

So the habits from the pop-up days still apply:

• Arrive near 11 a.m. if you want a particular cut.
• Check Crosstown's Instagram before you leave home, since hours on a Google listing can be edited by the public.
• Go on Saturday if you want the dino ribs and on Sunday for picanha. Those are the dishes blogTO tied to those days.

If you're reading this on Thursday, November 19, the listing shows Thursday as closed. The next posted window is Friday, November 20, starting at 11 a.m.

Getting to Comstock Road without circling Warden

The street sits between two Line 5 stations, and a TTC bus stops at each end. That makes it easier to reach by transit than the industrial address suggests. Line 5 Eglinton began passenger service on February 8, 2026, as CBC reported from the first day.

Four ways to get there, starting from the west end of Comstock:

1. Line 5 to Golden Mile station. The TTC lists Golden Mile at Warden Avenue and Eglinton Avenue East, which is at the Warden end of the street.
2. The 68 Warden bus. Route 68 stops at Warden Avenue at Comstock Road, and the TTC route page says it runs all day, every day, until 1 a.m.
3. Line 5 to Birchmount station. Birchmount station is at Birchmount Road and Eglinton Avenue East, the street's other end.
4. The 17 Birchmount bus. Route 17 stops at Birchmount Road at Comstock Road. The TTC also lists it as running all day, every day, until 1 a.m.

Coming from East York, where the pop-up began, the 68 and the 17 both connect with Line 5, and that line now crosses the Golden Mile from end to end. The restaurant's posted hours end by mid-afternoon or early evening, well before any late-night service changes, so a weekend lunch trip doesn't depend on them.

If you drive, parking was on Silva's site-selection list, according to blogTO. The full listing address is 51 Comstock Rd Front Building, Scarborough, ON M1L 2G6. Use the "Front Building" part so you pull up to the right door.

Where Crosstown fits on the Golden Mile

This has been a year of construction and new transit along the Golden Mile. Crosstown adds a business that found its home by working through a checklist of ventilation, fire safety, gas, storage and room for overnight cooks, and the building it landed in is on a side street. Its posted schedule runs three days a week, and every service ends when the barbecue sells out.

In practical terms, that means a Saturday that starts close to 11 a.m., a quick check of Instagram before leaving, and a plan for which end of Comstock you'll arrive from. Pick the day by the meat: Saturday for dino ribs, Sunday for picanha.

At Blue Door Realty Group, we keep track of what opens near the Golden Mile's Line 5 stations. If you own a home near Warden, Birchmount or Eglinton and wonder how this stretch is changing what it's worth, request your free home valuation. We'll walk you through the numbers, ideally before the brisket runs out.