‘There’s been one winner – this restaurant’: Toronto eatery is victor in Kendrick-Drake beef

The New Ho King restaurant is seeing a surge in business due to the hip-hop battle between Kendrick Lamar and Drake. Photograph: Cole Burston/The Guardian

When he arrived for dinner with his mother at the New Ho King, Averie Taylor Francois, 14, didn’t need to read the menu.

Neither did the dozens of others waiting patiently for a table at the bustling Toronto restaurant. The dish everyone had come to enjoy – and to post about on social media – wasn’t on the menu.