Toronto · 1110 restaurants
Find your next table by cuisine, neighbourhood or review depth.
Fast answers for diners searching where to eat in Toronto, pulled from the TastyPals Best Restaurants guide before the broader directory kicks in.
The Junction · Neighborhood · $
What Momo Mojo is doing in Chinatown is worth paying attention to: putting Nepali cooking in front of a Toronto crowd that mostly still thinks dumplings stop at soup dumplings and potstickers, and doing it at prices that feel almost defi…
St. Clair West · Peruvian · value
Limaq sits on the western stretch of St.
King West · Gastropub · $
Everyside Social Eatery Taphouse is the kind of room King West — or really any high-density after-work corridor — tends to need more of: a place that's genuinely built for lingering rather than turning tables.
Toronto · Japanese · $$$
Sushi Masaki Saito makes a quiet but pointed argument: that omakase at its most disciplined belongs in Toronto as fully as it belongs in Tokyo or New York.
King West · Greek · splurge
Myth is not a Greek restaurant that apologizes for wanting to be an event.
Chinatown · French · moderate
Patrick Kriss's tasting room above Aloette has topped Canada's 100 Best Restaurants list multiple times — a consensus that has held across years when fine dining reputations typically peak and recede.
Little Italy · Mexican · moderate
Kate Chomyshyn and Julio Guajardo built something Toronto didn't fully know it was missing: a wood-fire Mexican kitchen in Little Italy that refuses to sand down its edges for a room that hasn't always encountered Mexican cooking at this…
St. Lawrence Market · Burgers · $
Duke's Refresher occupies a specific and deliberately chosen lane: a 450-seat, 70s-inflected room inside St.
Financial District · Italian · $$$
Don Alfonso 1890 occupies a position in Toronto's dining landscape that few rooms can credibly claim: it is the only North American outpost of the Iaccarino family's Michelin-starred original from the Amalfi Coast, and it carries that li…
Toronto · Italian · moderate
Osteria Giulia has built a focused case for Ligurian cooking in a city where Italian restaurants tend toward the comprehensive.
Rosedale · French · $$$
Sorrel has been operating in Rosedale, and fourteen years of continuous service in a neighbourhood that cycles through concepts with some regularity says something substantive about the room's positioning.
Toronto · Fine Dining · moderate
Michael Caballo and Tobey Nemeth's tasting menu room on Niagara Street has built a reputation as one of Canada's most considered fine dining propositions — not through the usual apparatus of luxury signalling, but through a foraged-ingre…
Toronto · French · moderate
Enigma Yorkville occupies a position in Toronto's tasting-menu landscape that most comparable rooms avoid: it reportedly asks nothing of the diner except attention.
Midtown · Japanese · $$$
Shoushin operates out of a twelve-seat counter on Yonge Street in Bedford Park, a neighbourhood that offers no particular culinary theatre — which, by all accounts, suits Chef Jackie Lin's intentions precisely.
Toronto · Japanese · moderate
Kappo Sato occupies one of Toronto's most credentialed Japanese counters: eight seats in Mount Pleasant East, where chef Takeshi Sato — reportedly trained across two decades in Tokyo's Michelin-recognized kitchens before a tenure cooking…
Little Portugal · Sandwiches · $$
Ariete e Toro is built around a single, confident premise: schiacciata, the flat Tuscan bread that splits the difference between focaccia and a proper sandwich loaf, is good enough to anchor an entire restaurant concept.
Chinatown · American · moderate
Chica's Chicken has built a serious reputation in Toronto's fried chicken conversation without ever asking you to sit down.
Toronto · Ethiopian · $$
Lalibela Cuisine has held its corner on Bloor West for more than thirty years, which in Toronto's restless restaurant landscape amounts to a kind of institutional status.
Leslieville · Brunch · $
White Lily Diner has built a serious reputation as one of Leslieville's most compelling reasons to leave the house before noon.
King West · Mexican · moderate
Campechano opened on Adelaide Street in November 2015 with a conviction that Toronto's taco culture had consistently undervalued its own foundation: the tortilla.
Leslieville · Mediterranean · moderate
Restaurant Tiflisi holds what is, by most accounts, a singular position in Toronto's dining landscape: the only proper Georgian restaurant downtown, run by the Pkhakadze family with the kind of ownership investment that tends to make its…
The Annex · Global · $$
RASA has held its ground in Harbord Village long enough that the Bib Gourmand recognition feels less like a surprise and more like confirmation of what the neighbourhood already knew: this is a kitchen doing genuinely globe-spanning shar…
Chinatown · Chinese · moderate
R&D on Spadina operates on a specific premise that the existing Toronto dining conversation has been slow to take seriously: that Chinese cooking, executed by a MasterChef Canada winner who trained under a Michelin-starred Hong Kong oper…
Roncesvalles · Brunch · $$
The Ace on Roncesvalles is a slim vintage diner that has occupied the same physical space since the 1950s, its Chinese-motif wallpaper surviving intact from the era when the Lee family ran Cantonese-Canadian food out of the same room.
Chinatown · Italian · moderate
Enoteca Sociale occupies a narrow, candlelit room on Roncesvalles — an address that feels more like a Roman trattoria transplanted to a Toronto side street than anything approaching a generic Italian-Canadian dining room.
Toronto · Barbecue · $$
Cherry Street Bar-B-Que occupies a former 1920s Dominion Bank building in Toronto's Port Lands — a deliberately unglamorous address, surrounded by waterfront construction, with a red neon sign that reportedly cuts through the industrial…
Toronto · Spanish · $$
Bar Raval has been one of Toronto's most argued-about rooms since Grant van Gameren opened it on College Street in 2015, and the argument almost always starts with the architecture before it reaches the food.
Scarborough · Steakhouse · moderate
SumiLicious has settled a debate Torontonians used to lose to Montreal every time: yes, genuinely great smoked meat exists in this city — you just have to commit to Scarborough to find it.
Dundas West · Bar · $$
Hoof Cocktail Bar on Dundas West occupies a position in Toronto's bar landscape that few rooms manage: it no longer needs to explain itself.
Toronto · Seafood · $$$
Joso's has anchored the edge of Yorkville, which in Toronto restaurant years amounts to something close to mythology.
Kensington Market · Wine Bar · $$
Grey Gardens occupies a particular kind of room that Kensington Market seems to produce better than anywhere else in the city — narrow, loud in the right registers, bottles moving between tables at a pace that signals the wine program is…
Ossington · Thai · moderate
Favorites Thai has held a Michelin Bib Gourmand for four consecutive years — an unusual run for a room on Ossington that, by most accounts, seats only a handful of tables.
Leslieville · Mexican · moderate
Puerto Bravo has done something quietly impressive on Gerrard East: it has pulled back-to-back Michelin Bib Gourmands for regional Mexican cooking that most of Toronto wasn't even looking for.
Toronto · Caribbean · $
Conejo Negro named itself after the Chinese Zodiac rabbit of 2023, the year it opened, and that gesture of deliberate precision appears to run through everything the restaurant does.
Kensington Market · Chinese · moderate
Sunny's Chinese occupies a particular position in Toronto's Kensington Market — not Queen West, as some listings conflate — where it has built a reputation as one of the neighbourhood's more purposeful Chinese restaurants.
Toronto · Indian · moderate
What Hemant Bhagwani built on Bayview Avenue in 2015 is a deliberate argument that the food of railway stations and roadside stalls deserves white tablecloths and reclaimed wood.
Toronto · Filipino · moderate
BB's — short for Bahay ni Bella, Bella's House — is not positioning itself as a gateway to Filipino cuisine, and that restraint is precisely what gives it standing.
Scarborough · Chinese · $$
Nian Yi Kuai Zi occupies a strip-mall unit on the Finch Avenue corridor in Scarborough, and it has quietly built one of the more compelling reputations in that stretch of the city.
Thorncliffe Park · Middle Eastern · value
KS2 The Halal Steak Grill addresses a gap in Toronto's steak landscape that most of the city's dining establishment hasn't bothered to close: a room built specifically around halal cooking, treating that premise as the point rather than…
Toronto · Patio · $
Public Gardens Toronto isn't angling for your anniversary dinner, and GM Asher Jones has been upfront about that.
