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9 Best sunny Restaurants in Toronto

The best 9 restaurants for sunny in Toronto — curated by TastyPals editors.

The best sunny restaurants in Toronto are L’Avenue, Evviva Breakfast and Lunch, White Lily Diner, and more. Start with L’Avenue if you want the strongest overall first pick.

By Marcus Chen•9 ranked picks•Published July 16, 2026•Updated July 16, 2026
Methodology•Editorial team
L’AvenueEvviva Breakfast and LunchWhite Lily Diner
9 Best sunny Restaurants in Toronto
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Top picks at a glance

#1L’AvenueBrunch • Roncesvalles • $$#2Evviva Breakfast and LunchBrunch • Midtown • $#3White Lily DinerBrunch • Leslieville • $

Who this guide is for

This guide covers the highest-rated restaurants for sunny in Toronto, sorted by Google rating and editorial judgment. Picks span Roncesvalles, Midtown and Leslieville.

Quick picks

L’Avenue
Brunch • Roncesvalles
Quick correction before you set your GPS: despite the Roncesvalles billing, this L'Avenue is at 433 Wellington West inside The Well, not the west end.
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…
White Lily Diner
Brunch • Leslieville
White Lily Diner has built a serious reputation as one of Leslieville's most compelling reasons to leave the house before noon.
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Editorial details
Author: Marcus Chen
Published: July 16, 2026
Last updated: July 16, 2026

On this page

  1. 1. L’AvenueView →
  2. 2. Evviva Breakfast and LunchView →
  3. 3. White Lily DinerView →
  4. 4. Maha's BrunchView →
  5. 5. Bodega HenrietteView →
  6. 6. Lady MarmaladeView →
  7. 7. Sisters & CoView →
  8. 8. Skyline RestaurantView →
  9. 9. Lazy Daisy's CafeView →

How the restaurants compare

Editorial restaurant image stand-in for L’Avenue
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L’Avenue
Roncesvalles • Brunch
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
$$
Best for
cozy
Mood
Roncesvalles
Editorial restaurant image stand-in for Evviva Breakfast and Lunch
Google
Evviva Breakfast and Lunch
Midtown • Brunch
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
$
Best for
coffee
Mood
Midtown
Editorial restaurant image stand-in for White Lily Diner
Google
White Lily Diner
Leslieville • Brunch
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
$
Best for
sunny
Mood
Leslieville
Editorial restaurant image stand-in for Maha's Brunch
Google
Maha's Brunch
Leslieville • Brunch
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
$$
Best for
sunny
Mood
Leslieville

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.

9 ranked picks

L’Avenue — Quick correction before you set your GPS: despite the Roncesvalles billing, this L'Avenue is at 433 Wellington West inside The Well, not the west end. Worth the map fix. The Montreal brand has been feeding brunch crowds, and Chef Manolo Quilang — La Banane on his resume — brings actual technique to a room that's pure chaos: graffiti walls, disco balls, motorcycles, mannequins, and four washrooms designed like separate fever dreams. Come with a crew; this holds at a big table. Order the sticky toffee pancakes, which arrive rich enough to split, and don't skip the amber-grade maple syrup they're serious about. The Montreal smoked meat Benny is the move for anyone who wants their brunch to punch back, and Bobby Does Dallas ($29.50) piles AAA ribeye, cheddar scrambled eggs and barbecue sauce over their seasoned potatoes — genuinely a two-fork situation. Vegetarians, the red shakshuka has you. Portions run generous across the board. Book Sunday if you want a live DJ soundtracking your eggs; book any other day if you'd rather hear your friends talk. View restaurant →
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 →
White Lily Diner — White Lily Diner has built a serious reputation as one of Leslieville's most compelling reasons to leave the house before noon. The room itself is a study in diner classicism — cozy booths, an old-fashioned atmosphere near the Queen and Broadview stretch that defines this east-end neighbourhood's unhurried character. The kitchen carries Grand Electric pedigree, which tells you immediately that this is not a casual brunch operation. The philosophy here reportedly centers on from-scratch obsession at a level most weekend-brunch spots simply don't pursue: bread baked in-house, bacon smoked in-house, and eggs sourced from the owners' own farm. At a price-point that stays accessible, that kind of provenance is genuinely unusual. Because no verified dish list is on file, it would be dishonest to walk you through specific plates in detail — but the menu's reputation is well-documented. Diners consistently point to Southern-inflected comfort cooking as the kitchen's core identity, with fermented and housemade components reportedly cutting through richness in ways that distinguish the food from standard brunch fare. The doughnuts, rotating daily in flavour, are frequently cited as the sleeper obsession among regulars — the kind of detail that suggests the kitchen treats pastry as seriously as anything else on the pass. Practically speaking: White Lily does not take reservations, and the room fills quickly on weekends, so a wait is the norm rather than the exception. It is worth building that time into your morning. The combination of Grand Electric kitchen instincts, genuine farm-to-table sourcing, and a price level that keeps the room democratic makes this one of the more thoughtfully constructed brunch destinations in Toronto's east end. Go on a weekday if your schedule allows. View restaurant →

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Maha's Brunch — There are brunch spots in Toronto that perform multiculturalism — a shakshuka wedged onto a menu otherwise full of avocado toast, a nod toward diversity without any real commitment to it. Maha's is the opposite. When Maha Barsoom opened on Greenwood Avenue in Leslieville in 2014, cooking from homesickness for Egypt, she built something the city's brunch scene genuinely lacked: a room designed to feel like a Cairo morning rather than a simulation of one. Chef Monika Wahba, who competed on the tenth season of Top Chef Canada, has deepened that conviction since. The space leans fully into the feeling — colourful pillows on cozy benches, shelves crowded with trinkets, a fridge layered in photos and magnets. This was never designed to read as a restaurant, and that is precisely the point. Leslieville has plenty of neighbourhood brunch spots; Maha's is widely regarded as a neighbourhood institution with actual stakes. The Lentil Soup is where regulars apparently tell you to start, unconventional brunch timing and all — local lore holds that this bowl was part of what compelled Barsoom to open in the first place. It arrives built around vinegar-soaked Vidalia onions, garlic tomatoes, and charred mini pita, and diners consistently describe it as a deeply considered, almost complete meal on its own. Then comes the Cairo Classic, which the MICHELIN Guide has described as dining like a pharaoh: a plate centred on fava bean stew, falafel, hard-boiled egg, and balady bread, reportedly drawn from Wahba's own childhood breakfast table. It is the dish that defines what this kitchen is actually arguing for. The Honey Cardamom Latte, made at the coffee bar, has developed a reputation strong enough that regulars recommend ordering it before you sit down. Weekend waits on Greenwood stretch reliably, so arrive early and plan to stay — tables turn slowly because people reportedly don't want to leave. Come without a hard out. View restaurant →
Bodega Henriette — Leslieville doesn't need another brunch room that hedges its bets, and Bodega Henriette appears to have made peace with that fact entirely. At a genuinely accessible price point — a single dollar sign, not the performative kind — the kitchen has built a menu with actual conviction: specific enough to signal that someone made real decisions here, approachable enough that the neighbourhood keeps coming back. This is reportedly the kind of place where the menu does the work for you, where the range runs from quietly indulgent to properly bold, and where budget and ambition are not treated as opposites. The BBQ Peameal Sandwich is the clearest signal of what this kitchen is interested in: peameal bacon is Toronto shorthand, and the barbecue treatment is consistently cited as the move that gives a local classic some genuine edge. The Hot Fried Chicken Sammy is known for its crunch-to-heat balance — diners describe eating it faster than intended, which is its own kind of endorsement. On the more composed end of the menu, the Smoked Salmon Scramble centers cured fish alongside eggs in a combination that reads as notably luxurious for the price; the Savoury French Toast reframes a brunch staple without sweetness or apology; and the Pico & Egg Toast is reportedly the order for people who are skeptical of brunch food, the acidity of fresh pico cutting through egg richness in a way that diners describe as genuinely refreshing rather than just clever. Practical notes worth knowing: portions at this price point are reported to hold their own, so resist the impulse to over-order. Weekend lineups are real — arrive early or factor in the wait. A window seat facing Queen East is worth requesting; the Leslieville foot traffic, by all accounts, is part of the experience. View restaurant →
Lady Marmalade — Lady Marmalade has been a Leslieville brunch institution long enough that its reputation no longer depends on reinvention. The room on Queen Street East draws a committed neighbourhood crowd — the kind that returns on consecutive weekends not out of habit but out of confidence that what they came for last time will be there again, executed to the same standard. That consistency, in a category where kitchens often drift or coast, is the thing most frequently cited by the people who queue for it. No verified dish list is on file for this review, so specific plates won't be named here — but the menu's character is well-documented: a brunch program built around classical preparations done with care rather than concept-driven flourishes designed to photograph well. Diners consistently report generous portions and cooking that prioritises execution over novelty. The coffee program is, by multiple accounts, functional and well-matched to the food — present without dominating, which is the correct ambition for a brunch room at this price level. The broader reputation is for a kitchen that understands what the occasion asks of it: weekend morning, neighbourhood crowd, food that should feel like a reward without requiring explanation. The practical reality of Lady Marmalade is the queue. Weekend mornings reliably produce a wait, and that wait is itself a form of social proof — people who have been before return and bring others. Arriving at or before opening is the standard advice for minimising it; a 20-minute wait mid-morning on a Saturday should be treated as the baseline expectation rather than a surprise. For a Leslieville brunch that operates without pretension and apparently without needing to, the friction is considered proportionate by those who accept it regularly. 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 →

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