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Thai•Toronto•$$$$
Chiang Mai Mississauga
Chiang Mai Mississauga is a thai pick in Toronto when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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9.6
976 Google reviews
GuideUpdated July 16, 2026
7 Best Places for Green Curry in Toronto
Where to find the best green curry in Toronto — each restaurant rated 4.0★ or higher. Top-rated at 9.6★. Spanning thai kitchens. Curated by TastyPals.
The best places for green curry in Toronto are Chiang Mai Mississauga, PAI, Som Tum Jinda Gerrard St., and more. Start with Chiang Mai Mississauga if you want the strongest overall first pick.
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Who this guide is for
This guide covers the highest-rated spots for green curry in Toronto. Whether you're a local hunting your next regular or visiting and want to eat well, these picks are sorted by quality and review depth.
Quick picks
Chiang Mai Mississauga
Thai • Toronto
Chiang Mai Mississauga is a thai pick in Toronto when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
PAI
Thai • Toronto
Nuit Regular's PAI on Duncan Street has built a reputation as the most rigorous Thai kitchen in Toronto — a room that approaches regional Thai cooking with the same seriousness the city's better It…
Som Tum Jinda Gerrard St.
Thai • Toronto
Som Tum Jinda Gerrard St. is a thai restaurant in Toronto that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Chiang Mai Mississauga
Toronto • Thai
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
$$$$
Best for
date night
Mood
Special occasion
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PAI
Toronto • Thai
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
$
Best for
spicy
Mood
Casual
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Som Tum Jinda Gerrard St.
Toronto • Thai
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
$
Best for
spicy
Mood
Casual
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Khao San Road
Toronto • Thai
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
$
Best for
spicy
Mood
Casual
How we chose
We looked for restaurants that feel like a strong fit for the guide topic, not just the most obvious names in the city. The shortlist favors rooms with clear mood, dependable pacing, and enough distinction to help someone decide faster. Read our full methodology →
Room tone
Lighting, pace, and general energy all need to support the reason someone clicked this guide.
Food fit
We favored restaurants that feel best suited for the moment, not just restaurants with broad reputation.
Useful range
The final list tries to give readers enough variation in neighborhood, price, and style to compare real options.
7 ranked picks
PAI — Nuit Regular's PAI on Duncan Street has built a reputation as the most rigorous Thai kitchen in Toronto — a room that approaches regional Thai cooking with the same seriousness the city's better Italian and Japanese restaurants bring to their respective traditions. That positioning matters, because the baseline for Thai food in Toronto has historically been calibrated to a diluted, crowd-pleasing register. PAI's consistent reputation, sustained across years of coverage and diner accounts, is that it works deliberately against that standard.
With no verified dishes currently on file for this listing, what can be said with confidence is that the restaurant's standing rests on a kitchen reportedly committed to technique and sourcing rather than approximation — the difference being whether the ingredients that make a dish what it is are actually present, or substituted for convenience. Diners and food writers have consistently described a menu grounded in preparations that require genuine commitment from the kitchen: broths built over time, spice profiles that reflect the actual regional cuisines they're drawn from, and accompaniments served as the dishes require rather than simplified for unfamiliar palates. A weekend brunch program is also well-documented, with accounts suggesting it offers Thai breakfast formats not commonly found elsewhere in the city.
The room on Duncan Street is known to be busy — a reflection of demand rather than capacity. Walk-ins at opening are reported to be the more reliable route for lunch; dinner bookings are advisable. The price point is accessible for the level of cooking the restaurant is associated with, which is part of what makes the conversation around PAI useful: it reframes what regional Thai cooking can look like in this city without requiring the occasion-dinner budget that comparable rigour commands elsewhere. Book ahead for dinner; arrive early if you're going off the cuff. View restaurant →
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PAI
Nuit Regular's PAI on Duncan Street has built a reputation as the most rigorous Thai kitchen in Toronto — a room that approaches regional Thai cooking with the same seriousness the city's better Italian and Japanese restaurants bring to…
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9.9/10
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9.2 Google
9.2
14,718 Google reviews
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Mengrai Thai — Mengrai Thai occupies a King West address that, by most accounts, takes Thai cooking more seriously than the softened, sweetened versions the city has grown accustomed to accepting. The room is described as comfortable and a touch upscale for what the menu costs — a rarer combination on that stretch of King than it should be — and the kitchen has built a reputation for cooking that preserves the layered heat, sourness, and aromatic complexity the cuisine actually demands rather than approximating it for a broad audience.
The menu centers on dishes that show that ambition clearly. The green curry is consistently cited for genuine aromatic depth, and the massaman curry is regarded as a richer, more nuanced preparation — built on a paste with enough complexity to hold attention across the bowl. Both are reportedly pitched to heat levels diners actually request rather than a house default. The pad see ew is known for being handled with proper wok discipline, which matters; the noodle has a way of exposing shortcuts. The som tum lands in the sour-spicy register that the dish requires — fish sauce, lime, and chili in proportion — rather than the blunted version that too often passes for it elsewhere. These four dishes, taken together, sketch a kitchen that understands what balance means in Thai cooking and is working toward it with some consistency.
Practically: this is one of the more affordable dinners available in an expensive part of the city, casual enough for a weeknight but comfortable enough for an easy date. Reservations are reported to be worth booking on weekends. Anyone who wants Thai food with its characteristic edges intact rather than smoothed out for the room has reason to pay attention here. View restaurant →
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Mengrai Thai
Mengrai Thai occupies a King West address that, by most accounts, takes Thai cooking more seriously than the softened, sweetened versions the city has grown accustomed to accepting.
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8.4/10
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4.5
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