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10 Best easygoing Restaurants in Toronto

The best 10 restaurants for easygoing in Toronto — curated by TastyPals editors.

The best easygoing restaurants in Toronto are Evviva Breakfast and Lunch, Pizzeria Badiali, Chiang Mai Liberty, and more. Start with Evviva Breakfast and Lunch if you want the strongest overall first pick.

By Marcus Chen•10 ranked picks•Published July 16, 2026•Updated July 16, 2026
Methodology•Editorial team
Evviva Breakfast and LunchPizzeria BadialiChiang Mai Liberty
10 Best easygoing Restaurants in Toronto
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Top picks at a glance

#1Evviva Breakfast and LunchBrunch • Midtown • $#2Pizzeria BadialiPizza • Toronto • $#3Chiang Mai LibertyThai • Liberty Village • $

Who this guide is for

This guide covers the highest-rated restaurants for easygoing in Toronto, sorted by Google rating and editorial judgment. Picks span Midtown, Toronto and Liberty Village.

Quick picks

Evviva Breakfast and Lunch
Brunch • Midtown
Evviva Breakfast and Lunch has built a quiet reputation along the Yonge-and-Eglinton corridor as the kind of dependable all-day brunch spot that a neighbourhood actually needs — a modern, cozy room…
Pizzeria Badiali
Pizza • Toronto
Pizzeria Badiali on Dovercourt Road has built a reputation that sits well outside what its square footage or its price point would suggest.
Chiang Mai Liberty
Thai • Liberty Village
Liberty Village has plenty of casual Thai contenders, but Chiang Mai Liberty at 171 E Liberty St appears to be operating with more intention than the neighbourhood average suggests.
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Editorial details
Author: Marcus Chen
Published: July 16, 2026
Last updated: July 16, 2026

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  1. 1. Evviva Breakfast and LunchView →
  2. 2. Pizzeria BadialiView →
  3. 3. Chiang Mai LibertyView →
  4. 4. Pizzeria Via MercantiView →
  5. 5. The Fourth Man in the Fire PizzeriaView →
  6. 6. Sisters & CoView →
  7. 7. Pizzeria Libretto - UniversityView →
  8. 8. Mildred's Temple KitchenView →
  9. 9. General Assembly PizzaView →
  10. 10. Fat PashaView →

How the restaurants compare

Editorial restaurant image stand-in for Evviva Breakfast and Lunch
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Evviva Breakfast and Lunch
Midtown • Brunch
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
$
Best for
coffee
Mood
Midtown
Editorial restaurant image stand-in for Pizzeria Badiali
Google
Pizzeria Badiali
Toronto • Pizza
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
$
Best for
italian
Mood
Casual
Editorial restaurant image stand-in for Chiang Mai Liberty
Google
Chiang Mai Liberty
Liberty Village • Thai
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
$
Best for
group dinner
Mood
Liberty Village
Editorial restaurant image stand-in for Pizzeria Via Mercanti
Google
Pizzeria Via Mercanti
Toronto • Pizza
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
$
Best for
italian
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.

10 ranked picks

Evviva Breakfast and Lunch — Evviva Breakfast and Lunch has built a quiet reputation along the Yonge-and-Eglinton corridor as the kind of dependable all-day brunch spot that a neighbourhood actually needs — a modern, cozy room that treats the slow-morning ritual seriously without inflating the bill. It operates as a mini-chain, which tends to mean consistency over inspiration, and by most accounts that trade-off works in its favour here. The format is familiar; the execution is reportedly what keeps regulars coming back week after week. The menu is built around brunch staples handled with care. The blueberry pancakes are what diners consistently single out — known for being fluffy and evenly cooked, they appear to be the anchor order. The eggs Benedict rounds out the classics end of the menu, while the filet américain signals a slightly more European sensibility, the kind of dish that signals the kitchen is not strictly playing to a North American comfort-food script. Egg waffles round out the shareable options, and the broader menu extends to vegan and gluten-free choices that are reportedly offered without fuss or compromise. The drinks list — mimosas, an Irish coffee, a strawberry mojito, fresh juices, and espresso — gives the meal room to stretch into something genuinely leisurely rather than just efficient. A weekday breakfast special that includes free coffee is a practical reason to go on a Tuesday. Evviva is framed as a breakfast and lunch destination, full stop — this is not a dinner room, and it does not try to be. For a weekday morning, the special makes the decision easy. For a weekend, the move is the blueberry pancakes and a Benedict, brought to a table of two or twelve — the room reportedly handles both without complaint. View restaurant →
Pizzeria Badiali — Pizzeria Badiali on Dovercourt Road has built a reputation that sits well outside what its square footage or its price point would suggest. A 51st-place finish on a global pizza ranking — placing this Toronto slice shop ahead of institutions in Naples and New York — is the kind of result that invites skepticism, and yet the consensus from diners and critics who have made the trip is consistent: Ryan Baddeley's approach to the New York slice is disciplined, ingredient-led, and deliberately unshowy. The menu is short by design, and that brevity is treated as a statement of confidence rather than a limitation. The cheese slice is, by most accounts, the thing to order first — the purest expression of what the kitchen is doing. Diners consistently describe it as the benchmark against which the rest of the menu should be read: a thin, foldable New York-style base with tomato sauce that is reportedly clean rather than sweet, and cheese that browns without excess grease. The pepperoni slice follows the same restrained logic. The 16-inch pies scale those principles up for groups without altering the formula, and the rotating specials are where Baddeley is said to demonstrate range while keeping the underlying approach intact. The menu gives you very little to overthink, which appears to be the entire point. Badiali runs as a counter-service neighbourhood spot — no reservations, no ceremony, no sit-down evening pacing. Peak-hour queues are reported to run 45 minutes to an hour, which makes the online pre-order option less a convenience than a genuine strategy. Place the order ahead, pick it up, and skip the line entirely. That is the practical difference between a good experience and a frustrating one. View restaurant →
Chiang Mai Liberty — Liberty Village has plenty of casual Thai contenders, but Chiang Mai Liberty at 171 E Liberty St appears to be operating with more intention than the neighbourhood average suggests. The room is described by regulars as genuinely warm, anchored by bold portrait art that makes the space feel considered rather than assembled. It draws a Liberty Village crowd that treats a Tuesday dinner with the same seriousness as a weekend outing, and the price point — firmly in budget-friendly territory — reportedly makes ordering multiple mains feel less like a splurge than a reasonable plan. The cocktail program is the kind of specific, unexpected signal that something deliberate is happening here: the Chrysanthemum Gin is part of a tea-infused lineup that diners consistently single out, suggesting someone is paying attention well beyond the kitchen. The menu centres on wok-driven Thai cooking, and the dishes regulars name most often are telling. The Pad See Ew is reportedly executed with the heat discipline that separates credible wok cooking from the approximation — noodles properly separated, eggs cooked through, a deep colour that diners associate with real char rather than convenience. The Famous Pad Thai holds up its self-assured name according to repeat visitors, known for balance rather than the cloying sweetness that sinks lesser versions. The Khao Soi, though, is the dish that comes up most in conversation about what makes this kitchen worth the trip — a northern Thai coconut curry noodle soup described as layered and carefully plated, the kind of bowl diners apparently slow down for rather than finish on autopilot. If you go, the Khao Soi is the recommended starting point, particularly through the colder months when the broth-forward dish gets the most attention. Open the meal with the Chrysanthemum Gin — it's reported to be genuinely good beyond its novelty. Staff members Kevin, Timothy, and manager Macky are called out by name in guest feedback often enough to be worth mentioning. Book ahead for weekend dinners; weeknights before 6:30 are your best shot at a quieter table. View restaurant →

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Pizzeria Via Mercanti — Pizzeria Via Mercanti carries a specific credential worth noting before you book: the Kensington Market location beat both Libretto and North of Brooklyn on Chow's Pizza Wars, and the man behind the oven — Romolo, a pizzaiolo with roughly four decades of practice — is consistently billed as a grand master of the Neapolitan form. That is an unusual concentration of pedigree for a room at this price point, and it shapes what the place is actually offering: wood-fired, Naples-style pizza made by someone whose institutional knowledge of dough is, by most accounts, the real draw. The Margherita is the dish regulars and critics alike point to as the diagnostic order — the one that reveals whether the kitchen is operating at its standard. It is known for the balance Naples demands: tomato and fior di latte in restraint, the cornicione doing the structural and flavour work a properly fermented rim should. The Via Mercanti two-layer pizza is the signature showpiece, reportedly richer in construction while still built on the same base dough, and it is what long-term regulars tend to direct first-timers toward. The menu also includes a Napoletana and a Calzone, rounding out a focused list that resists the temptation to overreach. One caveat diners raise consistently: quality can shift between locations and across service, and the Augusta Avenue original is the address that receives the steadier reviews. This is a casual neighbourhood dinner rather than a special-occasion room — the Kensington space is small and lively, which accounts for much of its appeal. Walk-ins are reportedly viable on weeknights; for weekend visits, arriving early or checking ahead is the practical move. View restaurant →
The Fourth Man in the Fire Pizzeria — The Fourth Man in the Fire is the New York-style pizzeria from Shant Mardirosian — the same operator behind Burger's Priest — and the project carries over what made that earlier venture work: a deliberately narrow menu built around a single idea executed with genuine conviction. The Biblical name signals a certain seriousness of purpose, and by most accounts the kitchen delivers on that promise. The approach is rooted in New York tradition rather than local improvisation, and the menu is tight enough that every item on it is there for a reason. The NYC round pie is the anchor of what the restaurant is known for — thin, foldable, and reportedly built to hold up under toppings rather than surrender to them. Diners consistently point to the Brooklyn Squares as the order that rewards a second look: a thicker, pan-style cut that offers a different register from the round pies and tends to draw strong repeat loyalty. The mozzarella sticks round out the supporting menu in the way that format demands. The apple fritter donut, however, is the item that stands out in accumulated diner accounts — a California-style dessert that is treated not as an afterthought but as a deliberate reason to return. At a price point that reportedly lands around $35 for a pie that comfortably feeds two, the proposition is straightforward. This is a Dundas West casual — better suited to a generous weeknight dinner or a takeout order than to any occasion requiring ceremony. The half-and-half round pie is the reported move for a two-person table; the Brooklyn Squares are worth adding if the group can manage it. Do not skip the apple fritter donut — by most accounts, it is half the point of the trip. View restaurant →
Sisters & Co — Sisters & Co has built a distinct identity in Toronto's Midtown brunch scene by threading Korean and Asian-influenced flavours directly into the genre's most familiar formats — not as a novelty act, but as a coherent kitchen point of view. The menu reads like a genuine negotiation between the comforts of North American brunch and the bolder pantry of East Asian cooking, which makes it feel both approachable and genuinely specific. It draws the kind of crowd that wants something more from a Saturday morning than eggs any style: people who value a kitchen that has an actual opinion. The Bulgogi Beef Benedict is the anchor dish — a Korean-inflected riff on a brunch classic that puts marinated beef in place of the standard protein, reframing the Hollandaise-draped egg as a delivery system for something with considerably more depth. The Gochujang Chicken & Waffles does similar work, pairing the sweet-starchy logic of chicken and waffles with the fermented heat of gochujang, which diners consistently flag as one of the kitchen's most confident moves. The Earl Grey Pancakes and Citrus Mascarpone Waffle anchor the sweeter end of the menu and are known for leaning into fragrant, layered flavours rather than straight-ahead sweetness. The Spicy Oxtail Stew is the dish that signals the kitchen's ambitions most clearly — oxtail at brunch is a commitment, and the menu's willingness to go there distinguishes Sisters & Co from the bulk of Midtown competition. The Itty Bitty Wontons and Spicy Chicken Katsu Club round out a menu that holds together at both ends of the hunger spectrum. At a price point that sits at the accessible end of Toronto brunch, Sisters & Co rewards the diner who orders into the Korean-inflected column rather than defaulting to the familiar. The Bulgogi Benedict and Gochujang Chicken & Waffles together give the clearest read on what the kitchen is actually doing. Weekend waits are real — arrive early or come mid-week if the line is a dealbreaker. View restaurant →
Pizzeria Libretto - University — Pizzeria Libretto arrived in Toronto in 2008 with a mandate that was, at the time, genuinely unusual: Vera Pizza Napoletana certification from the Naples government body that sets the standard for what the designation actually means. Co-founders Rocco Agostino and Max Rimaldi had an oven built in Naples and imported the attendant discipline alongside it. That origin story is not mere marketing. A significant portion of Toronto's current pizza culture traces a line back to what Libretto established — that the city could hold itself to a serious, codified tradition. The University Avenue location carries that pedigree into the financial district, serving a lunch crowd that might not make it to the Ossington original. The Margherita is, by design and by the logic of the VPN standard, the dish that reveals what the kitchen is doing. Diners and observers consistently point to it as the order that honours the certification — a short, high-heat bake producing the puffed, flame-touched cornicione and yielding centre that define the Neapolitan style. Beyond orthodoxy, the menu includes a duck confit pizza that reflects the kitchen's willingness to range outside Naples' strict canon, and a rotating seasonal special that reportedly demonstrates similar ambition. Gluten-free pizza is available and is regarded as receiving more considered treatment than is typical at comparable pizzerias. The midday prezzo fisso is frequently cited as one of the more reasonable sit-down lunches in the area. This location takes reservations and moves tables efficiently at lunch, which makes it the practical choice when the Ossington original's well-documented waits are not an option. Come expecting a proper sit-down meal rather than a quick counter transaction — the room is built for an occasion that, at this price level, asks very little of you in return. View restaurant →
Mildred's Temple Kitchen — Mildred's Temple Kitchen occupies a large, bright room in Liberty Village — a neighbourhood that has grown considerably since the restaurant established itself there, though Mildred's arrival predates much of that development. The scale of the space is deliberate: the kitchen is built to handle serious weekend volume, and the reservation system reportedly manages the flow with more discipline than most casual brunch rooms in the city. That combination of capacity and consistency is what has given the restaurant its institutional reputation in Toronto's west end. Mrs. Biederhof's Wild Blueberry Buttermilk Pancakes are the signature — the plate the room is arguably built around, and the one most first-timers are steered toward. The Manhandler is the move for a bigger appetite, a loaded breakfast built for people who arrived hungry, while Chix + Waffles delivers the sweet-savoury contrast that has kept it on the menu through years of shifting brunch fashion. Lighter tables lean toward Veda's Choice and the Eats, Shoots + Leaves salad, where the kitchen's seasonal thinking shows more than its indulgent side. That mix — a few unwavering signatures alongside a rotating cast — is what lets Mildred's read as an institution without feeling frozen, and it is why diners consistently return across years of high-traffic weekend service. For practical purposes: weekend reservations are advisable and widely recommended — the room fills, and walk-in waits can be significant. The surrounding Liberty Village area has expanded its dining options over the years, but Mildred's retains a clear reputational advantage over most of its neighbours in this category. If you are anchoring a west-end brunch plan, the restaurant's track record makes it the logical starting point — book ahead, confirm the current menu online, and arrive with the expectation that the room will be busy by design rather than by accident. View restaurant →
General Assembly Pizza — General Assembly arrived on the Toronto pizza scene in 2017 with a deliberate argument: that the city warranted a more considered slice, built not on Neapolitan convention but on a naturally fermented sourdough base cut from Canadian and Italian flour with a measure of olive oil that would raise eyebrows in Naples. That departure from orthodoxy is, by all accounts, the point. The dough is reportedly what defines the operation — a crust known for genuine browning, structural crunch, and a tangy complexity that straight Neapolitan dough does not typically carry. The sourcing throughout is described as careful and intentional, which places General Assembly in a bracket above the average downtown slice shop regardless of format. The menu centers on individually sized pies, and the Certified Lover Boy is consistently identified as the signature — the build to start with, an upscale arrangement on that light, fermented base. The Margherita and Pepperoni represent the more classical end of the range and draw their own following among regulars who prefer to let the dough do the talking, while a Seasonal special rotates the lineup and reflects whatever sourcing commitment the kitchen is making at a given moment. The honest caveat that surfaces repeatedly among diners is the price relative to the format: a personal pie here commands more than the category usually demands, and the question of whether it represents the best pizza in Toronto remains actively debated. What is less contested is that it is executing a distinct and coherent vision with consistency. Practically, General Assembly suits a solo lunch on Adelaide Street or a paired dinner for two rather than any kind of group occasion — the individual format is a design choice, not a limitation. Order one each; the size is calibrated for exactly that. View restaurant →

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