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11 Best pasta Restaurants in Toronto

The best 11 restaurants for pasta in Toronto — curated by TastyPals editors.

The best pasta restaurants in Toronto are Edna + Vita, Sugo, Tre Mari Bakery, and more. Start with Edna + Vita if you want the strongest overall first pick.

By Giovanni Ricci•11 ranked picks•Published July 16, 2026•Updated July 16, 2026
Methodology•Editorial team
Edna + VitaSugoTre Mari Bakery
11 Best pasta Restaurants in Toronto
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Top picks at a glance

#1Edna + VitaItalian • Corso Italia • value#2SugoItalian • Queen West • $$#3Tre Mari BakeryItalian • Corso Italia • value

Who this guide is for

This guide covers the highest-rated restaurants for pasta in Toronto, sorted by Google rating and editorial judgment. Picks span Corso Italia, Queen West 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.
Sugo
Italian • Queen West
Sugo occupies a small storefront on Queen West and has built a reputation as one of Toronto's more dependable Italian-American rooms — the kind of place where red-sauce cooking is treated as a disc…
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.
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Published: July 16, 2026
Last updated: July 16, 2026

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  1. 1. Edna + VitaView →
  2. 2. SugoView →
  3. 3. Tre Mari BakeryView →
  4. 4. GiuliettaView →
  5. 5. Romano's RestaurantView →
  6. 6. Gusto 101View →
  7. 7. Trattoria NervosaView →
  8. 8. Cibo Wine Bar King WestView →
  9. 9. Cafe Diplomatico Restaurant & PizzeriaView →
  10. 10. TerroniView →
  11. 11. Trattoria TavernitiView →

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 Sugo
Google
Sugo
Queen West • Italian
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
$$
Best for
date night
Mood
Queen West
Editorial restaurant image stand-in for Tre Mari Bakery
Google
Tre Mari Bakery
Corso Italia • Italian
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
value
Best for
Italian dinner
Mood
Corso Italia
Editorial restaurant image stand-in for Giulietta
Google
Giulietta
Corso Italia • Italian
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
$$$
Best for
pasta
Mood
Corso Italia

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.

11 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 →
Sugo — Sugo occupies a small storefront on Queen West and has built a reputation as one of Toronto's more dependable Italian-American rooms — the kind of place where red-sauce cooking is treated as a discipline rather than a shortcut. It operates as the older sibling to Bar Sugo next door, with a clear division of labour: Bar Sugo handles pizza, while Sugo is where the pasta and the parm are taken seriously. That focus appears to be working. The no-reservations policy produces a regular lineup out front, which is either an inconvenience or a signal, depending on your patience. The menu centers on a short list of Italian-American classics executed with reported conviction. The spaghetti pesto is consistently the dish regulars name first — described as bright and generous, and widely cited as the reason the line forms at all. The chicken parmigiana and rigatoni rosé are close behind in the rotation, with the rigatoni functioning as the crowd-pleaser the menu seems designed around. The potato gnocchi, served with whipped ricotta in a proper sugo, is reportedly the plate that reveals a softer register from the kitchen — less about boldness, more about precision. Finish with the tiramisu, which diners consistently flag as the right way to close here. The cooking is unpretentious by design, but the distinction between this and the genre's lazier entries appears to be genuine care rather than atmosphere. This is a casual neighbourhood dinner rather than a special-occasion room, and the price point reflects that. No reservations are taken, so the practical move is arriving before the rush or after the early wave clears. Bar Sugo next door offers a reasonable holding pattern if the wait runs long. Come knowing what you are there for: the pasta, the parm, and the pesto. 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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Giulietta — Rob Rossi's giulietta sits on Corso Italia, a stretch of Toronto that has its own Italian-American history, though the restaurant operates at a register well above the neighbourhood's red-sauce legacy. The room is consistently described as warm and considered — contemporary without veering into the kind of spare minimalism that drains occasion from a meal, and refined without the stiffness that makes guests conscious of their elbows. It reads, by most accounts, as a serious Italian restaurant that has decided not to cosplay as a trattoria, and that distinction matters in a city where the category can blur quickly. Giulietta has built its reputation squarely on pasta, which in Toronto's current moment means something more demanding than house-made dough and Italian nomenclature. The restaurant operates in a city that has grown genuinely exacting about the form, and giulietta is routinely placed near the top of that conversation. The menu centres on housemade pasta, and the kitchen's approach is reported to reflect the kind of discipline — proper hydration, correct resting, sauces that coat rather than pool — that separates technically accomplished pasta from merely decent pasta. Beyond pasta, the menu draws on market-driven sourcing, with preparations that reportedly favour restraint over elaboration, trusting the ingredient rather than redirecting attention from it. The wine list runs Italian and runs deep; staff are noted for navigating it with guests who lack regional fluency without the interaction becoming pedagogical, which is rarer than it should be at this price point. giulietta lands at price level three, and the case for that spend rests almost entirely on the pasta — if that is what you are coming for, the restaurant's reputation suggests the cheque is justified. Book ahead; the room is not large and the consistency of its following reflects accordingly. View restaurant →
Gusto 101 — Gusto 101 has been a fixture on the Queen West stretch for over a decade, and its longevity says something worth noting: the room does not appear to survive on novelty. A converted auto-body shop on Portland Street, the space trades industrial bones for a modern southern-Italian sensibility — rooftop patio included — and consistently draws the kind of crowd that keeps tables full without requiring a publicist. At a mid-range price point, the kitchen's reputation rests on restraint and repetition done well, rather than seasonal reinvention. The Mafalde ai Funghi is the dish most cited by regular visitors and the clear anchor of the pasta program — crimped ribbons reportedly sauced in truffle cream with a combination of porcini, portobello, and oyster mushrooms, finished with Parmigiano. It is described consistently as rich without crossing into excess, which is a harder balance to maintain than menus tend to admit. The Shrimp ai Funghi extends the mushroom framework into seafood, offering a complementary angle if you are ordering across the table. The House Pasta rounds out a menu that, by all accounts, is built around sharing two or three plates rather than solitary mains. The Tiramisu is the documented closer — classical in composition, and well-regarded as such. Practically speaking, the room is lively and the tables run close; this is not the address for a quiet conversation on a Friday. The rooftop patio adds a seasonal draw that accelerates reservations through warmer months. Weekend bookings should be secured in advance. The occasion it suits best is a group or a dinner where the room's momentum works in your favour rather than against it — come prepared for that, and the cheque will make sense. View restaurant →
Trattoria Nervosa — Trattoria Nervosa has occupied the same Yorkville corner, and in a neighbourhood that has cycled through enough concepts to fill a graveyard, that kind of continuity means something. The two-floor room with its coveted upstairs patio has built its reputation not on reinvention but on the stubborn consistency of southern-Italian cooking done without apology or embellishment. Three decades in, the longevity is the argument. The menu centres on the kind of Italian that rewards familiarity rather than novelty. The Fungi pizza is the dish regulars point to without hesitation — the one that anchors the room's reputation and, by most accounts, the reason first-timers become repeat visitors. The Mafalde ai Funghi, a creamy mushroom pasta, is reportedly the plate that has kept tables full across seasons and decades, the sort of dish that accrues loyalty quietly. The Risotto Nervosa is the kitchen's signature and is consistently described as rich and properly executed — a dish the room has presumably had thirty years to calibrate. Beyond the headliners, the burrata and the kale salad are the starters diners cite as evidence that the kitchen applies the same attention to the supporting act as it does to the main event. Nothing on the menu is chasing a trend, which is precisely the point. Nervosa works best as a relaxed weeknight dinner or a long patio lunch in warmer months — the upstairs terrace is one of the neighbourhood's more sought-after outdoor seats and books up accordingly. Reservations are advisable for weekend evenings year-round, and essential for the patio once summer arrives. Come with straightforward expectations and the room will meet them reliably. View restaurant →
Cafe Diplomatico Restaurant & Pizzeria — Café Diplomatico — known to regulars simply as 'The Dip' — occupies a specific and largely uncontested place in Toronto's dining culture. Founded by Rocco Mastrangelo on College Street, it is widely credited as one of Little Italy's first Italian cafés and a pioneer of the Toronto patio at a time when outdoor dining in this city was far from standard practice. More than fifty years on, its reputation rests less on culinary ambition than on continuity: a neighbourhood anchor where soccer matches are watched in collective, and where the occasion is as much the street as the plate. The menu centres on wood-fired pizza and customizable pasta — two straightforward pillars that diners consistently describe as honest Italian-Canadian cooking rather than anything revisionist. These are reportedly old-school renditions, the kind built around familiarity and portion fairness rather than technique for its own sake. Alongside these, the espresso and draft beer are the drinks the place is known for, and by most accounts they are the right companions for a long afternoon on the patio rather than punctuation to a serious dinner. Anyone arriving with tasting-menu expectations will have misread the room entirely; the value here is experiential, not gastronomic. The practical reality is that Café Diplomatico functions best as an afternoon-into-evening patio sitting — ideally when the weather cooperates and a match is on the large screen. It is a walk-in operation, and the heated patio reportedly extends the season beyond what most comparable spots manage. Go in that spirit: a classic pie, a draft, an espresso to close, and the particular pleasure of watching College Street from a table that has been doing exactly this since before most of its current patrons were born. View restaurant →
Terroni — Terroni has anchored Toronto's Italian dining conversation, which is a long time to hold a position without softening it. The name itself — a reclaimed slur for southern Italians — signals the restaurant's stance: this is Puglia cooked on its own terms, not adapted for comfort or convenience. The no-modifications policy is famous and non-negotiable, a kitchen philosophy rather than a hospitality quirk, and it has defined how the city understands what a serious regional Italian room is supposed to look like. Few places in Toronto carry that kind of long-term institutional weight. The menu centers on Neapolitan-style pizza as its defining statement — reportedly blistered and restrained in the southern tradition, built without the embellishments that drift into pseudo-Italian territory elsewhere. Regulars return consistently for the butternut squash ravioli and the gnocchi alla Simi among the pasta options, both of which appear repeatedly in the shorthand people use when recommending the kitchen to others. The grilled calamari is the conventional starting point, and the affogato — vanilla gelato with espresso and dark chocolate — is how the meal reportedly closes when diners let the menu lead. The cooking across these dishes is described as confident and unfussy, which is precisely the register southern Italian food is supposed to occupy. This is a reliable destination for a group dinner or a weekend evening with occasion attached, though not an intimate or quiet one — the rooms are lively and, when slammed, service can run inconsistent. The original Adelaide location and the Queen West room are both worth booking in advance on weekends. Go in knowing the kitchen will not adjust a dish; order accordingly, and the experience tends to justify itself on those terms. View restaurant →

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