Restaurants in North York, Toronto — sorted by rating and curated by TastyPals.
Dining in North York, Toronto.
Gimbap Shop on Spring Garden Avenue has been a North York institution for twenty-eight years — operating long before the neighbourhood's dining scene attracted any serious outside attention.
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North York's Yonge Street corridor has no shortage of Korean restaurants, but JJAJANG1980 stakes out a specific and deliberate lane: Korean-Chinese comfort food, the category of cooking that anchors lazy Saturday afternoons and late week…
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Pine Tree Sonamoo takes its name from the Korean word for pine tree — a symbol of endurance, of colour held through winter.
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Kaiseki Yu-zen Hashimoto operates inside the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre on Sakura Way in North York, and the setting matters as much as the address.
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What Kibo Sushi House Centre Park does reliably well, according to the regulars who keep coming back, is show up for its neighbourhood.
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North York rarely gets the restaurant coverage it deserves, and Haru Shabu Shabu seems almost comfortable with that reality.
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Grill Gate opened on Sheppard Avenue West in February 2018 with a premise North York was genuinely missing: the comfort-food logic of a diner filtered through a Canadian-Iranian lens.
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Old Avenue Restaurant is doing something North York — and honestly, most of Toronto — hasn't seen before: anchoring an entire menu around the Southern Caucasus, specifically Azerbaijan, with the kind of conviction that signals a genuine…
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Woojoo Bunsik operates on Yonge Street in North York with the quiet confidence of a place that has decided exactly what it is and declined to apologize for it.
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At Leslie and Finch, where North York does most of its living quietly and without fanfare, Takumi Japanese BBQ has built a reputation that runs counter to the usual all-you-can-eat calculus.
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Dolsoe on Alness Street in North York is a family-owned Korean room that operates entirely without pretense — no recent renovation, no trending ferment on the menu card, no interest in being discovered by anyone who wasn't already looking.
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North York has a Persian dining problem — not a shortage, but a sameness.
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North York's Yonge Street corridor is not short on Korean restaurants, which makes Kim's Table's refusal to compete on spectacle worth paying attention to.
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What Shinta Japanese BBQ is doing at the North York Centre subway concourse is worth paying attention to: it treats all-you-can-eat as a format for serious eating rather than a license for mediocrity.
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Han Ba Tang occupies a brick-and-wood bar space near Yonge and Sheppard in North York, positioning itself as a Korean-fusion izakaya that runs late and draws a reliably young, loud crowd.
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Jokbal Night Market is one of the more deliberately specific Korean restaurants to land in North York, and that specificity is the whole point.
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Jangteo Gukbap is making a quiet, unambiguous argument on Yonge Street in North York: that the most honest meal in this city costs under fifteen dollars, arrives in a clay pot, and asks nothing of you except a spoon and an appetite.
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Ichiban Asian All You Can Eat on Yonge Street in North York is playing a specific and largely honest game for the AYCE corridor it occupies.
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Michi Sushi occupies a quiet stretch of Willowdale Avenue in North York — not a restaurant row, not a destination strip — which says something about the kind of place it is and the kind of diner it serves.
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TOKYO GRILL at North York is a sensible japanese call in North York in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well.
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Ju-Raku Japanese Restaurant is the kind of japanese room in North York you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more. Premium Nigiri Set and Premium Sashimi Set also give you a decent sense of the menu.
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Kajiken is a Japanese mazesoba specialist operating out of North York — one of a handful of spots in Toronto dedicated to this specific category of brothless ramen that originates in Nagoya.
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Nomé Izakaya North York suits a night out in North York when you want japanese that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Kayagum Korean Restaurant is an easy korean option in North York in Toronto to suggest without needing a long explanation. Deep-Fried Cast-Iron Skillet and Bibimbap & Rice-Bowl also give you a decent sense of the menu.
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What separates MeNami from the broader Japanese restaurant sprawl along North York's Yonge corridor is a foundation most udon shops don't bother building.
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Thairoomgrand York Mills is a thai restaurant in North York in Toronto that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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BÒN ITALIA TRATTORIA & CAFFÈ is a sensible italian call in North York in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well.
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Paisano is a italian restaurant in North York in Toronto that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Hay Sushi - Spring Garden is the kind of asian room in North York you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Som Tum Jinda - Fairview Mall is a thai restaurant in North York in Toronto that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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The top restaurants in North York include Gimbap Shop, JJAJANG1980, Pine tree Sonamoo. TastyPals curates these picks based on Google ratings and editorial judgment.
Gimbap Shop is among the highest-rated restaurants in North York with a 9.8 Google rating across 913 reviews.
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