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Limaq Peruvian Cuisine
Limaq sits on the western stretch of St.
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GuideUpdated July 16, 2026
4 Best Places for Ceviche in Toronto
Where to find the best ceviche in Toronto — each restaurant rated 4.0★ or higher. Top-rated at 10.0★. Spanning peruvian and mexican kitchens. Curated by TastyPals.
The best places for ceviche in Toronto are Limaq Peruvian Cuisine, La Nayarita, Molkagtez Mexican Cuisine, and more. Start with Limaq Peruvian Cuisine if you want the strongest overall first pick.
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This guide covers the highest-rated spots for ceviche in Toronto. Whether you're a local hunting your next regular or visiting and want to eat well, these picks are sorted by quality and review depth.
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Limaq Peruvian Cuisine
Peruvian • St. Clair West
Limaq sits on the western stretch of St.
La Nayarita
Mexican • Toronto
La Nayarita plants a flag for the coastal cooking of Nayarit — western Mexico's Pacific shoreline — on Queen West, and by most accounts it is doing something the city doesn't have much of: a Mexica…
Molkagtez Mexican Cuisine
Mexican • Toronto
Molkagtez Mexican Cuisine in Parkdale has built its entire identity around the object in its name: the molcajete, a volcanic-rock mortar that reportedly arrives at the table still sizzling, loaded…
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Limaq Peruvian Cuisine
St. Clair West • Peruvian
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
value
Best for
Latin American
Mood
St. Clair West
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La Nayarita
Toronto • Mexican
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
$
Best for
tacos
Mood
Casual
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Molkagtez Mexican Cuisine
Toronto • Mexican
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
$
Best for
tacos
Mood
Casual
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¡Qué Rico! Tapas Bar
Toronto • Spanish
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
$$
Best for
small plates
Mood
Easygoing
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Limaq Peruvian Cuisine — Limaq sits on the western stretch of St. Clair, past where the crowds thin out, near Old Weston Road — the kind of block where a good Peruvian room doesn't have to shout to survive. It's Miguel's place, and it reads like it: locally owned, no gimmicks, built for generous plates rather than Instagram bait. The cooking leans home-style, which in Peruvian terms means it doesn't cut corners on the fundamentals. Ceviche is the anchor here — seafood cured in leche de tigre with the lime and chili turned up sharp enough to wake you. From there it stretches into chifa territory with lomo saltado, that Chinese-Peruvian marriage of wok fire and soy-slicked beef, plus jalea, causa, rice dishes, and rotisserie meats carrying smoke and garlic. It's the range that tells you someone actually cares. Hours run Tuesday through Sunday, 11 to 8, closed Mondays — so this is lunch or early-dinner territory, not a late-night raid. Come hungry, come with people, and let the ceviche set the pace before the wok stuff arrives. View restaurant →
La Nayarita — La Nayarita plants a flag for the coastal cooking of Nayarit — western Mexico's Pacific shoreline — on Queen West, and by most accounts it is doing something the city doesn't have much of: a Mexican kitchen with a genuine regional point of view that reaches well past the taco-and-burrito default. Regulars and food writers alike have called it the best Mexican in Toronto, and that reputation doesn't seem to get much pushback.
The quesabirria tacos are the entry point, and they're what most people come in knowing about — properly stewed birria with the slow-cooked richness the dish is known for. But the menu's real argument is made further down the order. The mole is consistently described as one of the best you'll find outside Mexico, which is a claim that gets thrown around too often to be meaningful, except that here it keeps showing up from people who know what they're talking about. The ceviche skews bright and coastal, grounded in the same Pacific-Mexico logic the kitchen organizes around. The Bonito — a fresh fish preparation — is reportedly where the kitchen's seafood instincts are clearest, and it's the kind of dish that signals a chef thinking about place and not just crowd-pleasing. Portions run generous and the pricing stays at a level that makes ordering broadly feel like a reasonable idea rather than a commitment.
The room is colourful and deliberately low-key, with a back patio that doesn't get advertised much — worth asking about if the weather cooperates. This is a good call for a casual dinner where you want the table to share a lot of plates. The move, based on everything diners report back: start with the birria, then get the mole and the ceviche on the table before anyone talks themselves out of it. View restaurant →
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La Nayarita
La Nayarita plants a flag for the coastal cooking of Nayarit — western Mexico's Pacific shoreline — on Queen West, and by most accounts it is doing something the city doesn't have much of: a Mexican kitchen with a genuine regional point…
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9.9/10
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9.6 Google
9.6
2,093 Google reviews
Molkagtez Mexican Cuisine — Molkagtez Mexican Cuisine in Parkdale has built its entire identity around the object in its name: the molcajete, a volcanic-rock mortar that reportedly arrives at the table still sizzling, loaded with meat, cheese and salsa in a presentation that's equal parts ancient technique and deliberate theatre. The room leans hard into atmosphere — colourful decor, live DJs, themed nights through the week — and by most accounts, the kitchen keeps up rather than coasting on the vibe. For a price-level-one spot, that combination is not something you see every day in Toronto.
The molcajete is the anchor order, the kind of centrepiece dish you build a group dinner around, and the taco menu is where the kitchen apparently shows real range. The hibiscus taco and cactus taco are the ones worth flagging specifically — both are vegetarian options that diners consistently point to as more than token inclusions, reflecting a menu that goes deeper than the party atmosphere might suggest. The ceviche rounds out the picture as a lighter counterpoint to all that sizzling volcanic rock, and the margaritas are reported to be a genuine programme rather than an afterthought — a long list that matches the cocktail-bar energy the room is clearly going for.
Molkagtez is calibrated for groups and celebratory occasions rather than quiet dinners; the energy in the room is very much the point. The practical move is to come with four or more people, anchor the table with a molcajete to share, order a spread that includes the hibiscus and cactus tacos alongside the ceviche, and give yourself enough time to work through the margarita list properly. Reservations are worth making ahead of themed nights. View restaurant →
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Mexican•Toronto•$
Molkagtez Mexican Cuisine
Molkagtez Mexican Cuisine in Parkdale has built its entire identity around the object in its name: the molcajete, a volcanic-rock mortar that reportedly arrives at the table still sizzling, loaded with meat, cheese and salsa in a present…
tacoscocktailsmexican
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9.9/10
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9.6 Google
9.6
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¡Qué Rico! Tapas Bar — Qué Rico sits on College Street in Little Italy and earns its loyal following by refusing to be precious about geography. The kitchen takes a broad, unapologetic view of the Spanish table — one that stretches well beyond the Iberian Peninsula into Cuba, Peru, Ecuador, and El Salvador. Whether you read that as cultural generosity or menu sprawl probably depends on your mood, but the room's reputation suggests most people land on the former. A bright patio, an approachable price point, and a cocktail program built for warm-weather sharing have made this a neighbourhood fixture rather than a destination in the stricter sense.
The paella for two is consistently cited as the centrepiece — reportedly saffron-scented and built to anchor a table of sharers. Around it, the menu's pan-Latin instincts do the more interesting work: Spanish croquetas arrive with a chipotle riff that signals where the kitchen's allegiances really lie, and a ceviche is said to be lifted with habanero and citrus in a style closer to Lima than Barcelona. Pupusas extend the reach toward El Salvador, and coconut flan closes things in a register that is more Latin American than Castilian. The throughline is casual abundance rather than technical precision, which is precisely what the room seems designed to deliver.
This is a place that reads better as a patio dinner with a group than as a serious date with a reservation. Come in warm weather, claim a table outside, order the paella as a shared anchor, and let the tapas selection — croquetas, ceviche, pupusas — spread across the table. The coconut flan is reportedly the right way to end. Book ahead if you want the patio on a Friday. View restaurant →
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¡Qué Rico! Tapas Bar
Qué Rico sits on College Street in Little Italy and earns its loyal following by refusing to be precious about geography.
small plateswinedate night
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9.4
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