Restaurants in The Annex, Toronto — sorted by rating and curated by TastyPals.
Dining in The Annex, Toronto.
There's a particular comfort in a room that knows exactly what it's doing, and Brown Donkatsu on Bloor—the Annex outpost of a Korean-style katsu operation that traces back to 1986—settles into that groove immediately.
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Here's what the all-you-can-eat format usually gets wrong: it bets you won't notice the quality because you're too busy managing the grill and timing the next order.
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Woojoo Bunsik on Bloor is the kind of Korean street food snack bar The Annex has been quietly deserving — a navy-blue, space-themed room planted a block from the U of T sprawl that, by all accounts, refuses to act stressed about it.
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Bar Eugenie is the room Toronto keeps failing to build: thirty seats, a back patio that actually earns the word intimate, and a name hung from the ceiling like a dare — Eugénie Brazier, the first chef to earn six Michelin stars, a woman…
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Eisenbergs - Dairy Restaurant & Caterer @ The Prosserman JCC earns a weekend detour in The Annex when you want brunch that beats the usual default.
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Bloor West between Spadina and Bathurst is one of the most contested stretches of dining real estate in Toronto — every cuisine on earth competing for the same student wallet and the same 7 p.m.
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RASA has held its ground in Harbord Village long enough that the Bib Gourmand recognition feels less like a surprise and more like confirmation of what the neighbourhood already knew: this is a kitchen doing genuinely globe-spanning shar…
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Milk 'N Honey earns a particular kind of loyalty that most Toronto restaurants can't manufacture: it is the city's longest-serving certified Kosher restaurant, a dairy-and-vegetarian institution that has held its ground on Bathurst throu…
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Brasserie Côte is an easy french restaurant option in The Annex in Toronto to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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United Bakers Dairy Restaurant has been feeding Toronto since 1912, making it one of the last kosher dairy restaurants of its kind in North America — a genuine living institution rather than a nostalgia project.
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Blanco Cantina walked into Toronto's most opinionated dining corridor — Bloor West through the Annex — as a western Canadian franchise with something to prove, and by most accounts it delivers.
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Fresh Kitchen + Juice Bar is a global restaurant in The Annex in Toronto that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Forty-plus years into its run on Prince Arthur Avenue, Trattoria Fieramosca is one of the few Toronto Italian restaurants that can credibly claim to have shaped the neighbourhood around it rather than chased it.
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Bar Mercurio is a italian pick in The Annex in Toronto when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Zelden's Deli and Desserts is a family inheritance made physical — the direct culinary descendant of Zely's Deli in Thornhill, carried forward by sisters Irene and Shelley Zelden, who learned the craft from their mother, known simply as…
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Insomnia Restaurant and Lounge is a sensible global call in The Annex in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well.
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Joni Restaurant is a casual restaurant in The Annex in Toronto that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Annex Social is a sensible casual call in The Annex in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well.
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Fat Pasha is an easy middle eastern option in The Annex in Toronto to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Parquet is an easy restaurant option in The Annex in Toronto to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Pantry is a strong brunch move in The Annex in Toronto when you want the meal to feel worth leaving the house for.
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South Indian Dosa Mahal operates in The Annex as a focused dosa shop rather than a sprawling Indian menu, and that restraint is, by most accounts, the point.
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The Fortunate Fox is an easy global option in The Annex in Toronto to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Future Bistro is a sensible bistro call in The Annex in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well.
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Cafe Sheli is a strong brunch move in The Annex in Toronto when you want the meal to feel worth leaving the house for.
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The top restaurants in The Annex include Brown Donkatsu - Bloor, Gyubee Japanese Grill (Bloor), Woojoo Bunsik - Bloor. TastyPals curates these picks based on Google ratings and editorial judgment.
Brown Donkatsu - Bloor is among the highest-rated restaurants in The Annex with a 9.8 Google rating across 533 reviews.
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