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GuideUpdated July 16, 2026

3 Best Italian dinner Restaurants in Toronto

The best 3 restaurants for italian dinner in Toronto — curated by TastyPals editors.

The best italian dinner restaurants in Toronto are Edna + Vita, Tre Mari Bakery, Romano's Restaurant. Start with Edna + Vita if you want the strongest overall first pick.

By Giovanni Ricci•3 ranked picks•Published July 16, 2026•Updated July 16, 2026
Methodology•Editorial team
Edna + VitaTre Mari BakeryRomano's Restaurant
3 Best Italian dinner Restaurants in Toronto
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Top picks at a glance

#1Edna + VitaItalian • Corso Italia • value#2Tre Mari BakeryItalian • Corso Italia • value#3Romano's RestaurantItalian • Woodbridge • splurge

Who this guide is for

This guide covers the highest-rated restaurants for italian dinner in Toronto, sorted by Google rating and editorial judgment. Picks span Corso Italia and Woodbridge.

Quick picks

Edna + Vita
Italian • Corso Italia
Edna + Vita occupies the former Reds Wine Tavern space on Corso Italia — a large, two-floor room that the ownership has split into distinct personalities.
Tre Mari Bakery
Italian • Corso Italia
Sixty-five years in, Tre Mari isn't trying to impress anyone — which is probably why it still commands the kind of loyalty that newer spots spend fortunes trying to manufacture.
Romano's Restaurant
Italian • Woodbridge
Romano's Restaurant is the kind of italian room in Woodbridge you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Editorial details
Published: July 16, 2026
Last updated: July 16, 2026

On this page

  1. 1. Edna + VitaView →
  2. 2. Tre Mari BakeryView →
  3. 3. Romano's RestaurantView →

How the restaurants compare

Editorial restaurant image stand-in for Edna + Vita
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Edna + Vita
Corso Italia • Italian
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
value
Best for
Italian dinner
Mood
Corso Italia
Editorial restaurant image stand-in for Tre Mari Bakery
Google
Tre Mari Bakery
Corso Italia • Italian
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
value
Best for
Italian dinner
Mood
Corso Italia
Romano's Restaurant
Woodbridge • Italian
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
splurge
Best for
Italian dinner
Mood
Woodbridge

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.

3 ranked picks

Edna + Vita — Edna + Vita occupies the former Reds Wine Tavern space on Corso Italia — a large, two-floor room that the ownership has split into distinct personalities. Upstairs, Edna operates as the more composed dining room: multiple courses, a serious Italian wine and prosecco list, conversation that can hold its own against the room. Downstairs, Vita runs louder and more bar-forward. What unifies both floors is one of the more considered Italian wine programs available downtown, which diners and critics alike have flagged as a genuine differentiator rather than a perfunctory list. The menu balances the expected and the interesting in roughly equal proportion. Cacio e pepe represents the classicist anchor — a dish whose reputation lives or dies on restraint and technique, and one the kitchen has apparently taken seriously. Tagliatelle ai funghi sits on the curious side of the ledger, where house-made pasta is reportedly central to the kitchen's identity. The agnello alla scottadito — lamb chops prepared alla scottadito, meaning finger-burning-quick over high heat, a Roman preparation — is consistently cited as the dish to orient a dinner around. The mortadella and pistachio pizza draws on Roman-style tradition and has developed a following among regulars, while the octopus puttanesca rounds out a menu that takes its Italian regional references more seriously than a financial-district address might lead you to expect. Edna + Vita is positioned for business dinners, dates, and group occasions, and the two-floor format gives it genuine range across those use cases. Weeknight evenings upstairs fill quickly with an after-work crowd, so advance booking for Edna is the practical move — and arriving with some intention about the wine list is time well spent. View restaurant →
Tre Mari Bakery — Sixty-five years in, Tre Mari isn't trying to impress anyone — which is probably why it still commands the kind of loyalty that newer spots spend fortunes trying to manufacture. This is the bakery Corso Italia built its identity around, still run by the Deleo family, still importing Parmigiano Reggiano DOP and Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale di Modena DOP that the original owners would have recognized. The room reportedly tells you everything before you order: a massive display case splitting the space in two, pastries on one side, a miniature grocery and continuously baked bread on the other, and a hot table running dinner specials to the left like it's operating on a frequency nobody bothered to change. That's a feature, not a bug — this place functions daily for people who actually live in the neighbourhood, which makes it more grounded than most of the Italian concepts that have opened and closed around it. The cannoli are what Tre Mari is most consistently praised for — shells known for a proper, clean shatter giving way to ricotta filling in rotations that cover pistachio, hazelnut, and a monthly specialty that has reportedly ranged from blueberry crumble with peach liqueur to espresso and sambuca. The hot table centers on lasagna (meat or vegetarian) with a reputation for the kind of straightforward execution the dish deserves, and Veal & Mushrooms with Pasta described by regulars as hearty and unadorned — braised meat, no performance. The Olive Ciabatta and Vienna loaf are said to leave with most customers whether they planned on bread or not. The practical move, according to people who shop here regularly, is arriving before noon on a weekday — bread is freshest, the hot table hasn't been picked over, and the place is still moving at a pace that lets you think. Pick up a loaf on your way out. You'll carry it home. View restaurant →

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