Grant van Gameren's College Street Spanish room has been the gold-standard tapas restaurant in Canada since 2013, and the whole grilled octopus is still the single most-ordered dish in Little Italy. B...
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Giulietta
Italian · Little Italy · Michelin Guide
Rob Rossi and David Minicucci's College Street neighborhood Italian — a perennial Canada's 100 Best fixture and the reason Little Italy still feels like Little Italy. Wood-fired pizzas, handmade pasta...
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Maven
Modern European-Jewish · The Annex · Toronto Life Best New Restaurants 2025 (Top 20) · Air Canada Best New Top 10 (2025)
Shauna Godfrey took over the old Harbord Room space and built Maven around her Polish-Jewish heritage — challah and chicken schnitzel, duck confit cholent, pastrami-crusted short rib, Bubby Rose's che...
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Richmond Station
New Canadian · Financial District
Carl Heinrich's downtown New Canadian restaurant — and yes, the Top Chef Canada win was a decade ago, but the Stn. Burger remains arguably the single best burger in the city. The farm-to-table program...
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Conejo Negro
Latin / Caribbean · Little Italy · Michelin Bib Gourmand 2024
A College Street Caribbean-Creole-Latin American restaurant opened in November 2023 by Alycia Wahn, Diego Diaz and Lamine Martindale, and a Michelin Bib Gourmand by 2024. The food refuses to sit in on...
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General Public
Modern British / Canadian · Dundas West · Toronto Life Best New Restaurants 2025 (Top 20)
Jen Agg's two-level Geary Avenue room in a former auto-body shop, with executive chef James Stanton running a modern British-Canadian menu that lands her in Toronto Life's Top 20 Best New for 2025. Ge...
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Stop Restaurant
Eastern European · Roncesvalles · Toronto Life Best New Restaurant #3 (2025)
Denis Ganshonkov's elevated Eastern European restaurant and wine bar — relocated to Roncesvalles in summer 2025 after a fire shut down the Dundas West original. Khinkali, cabbage rolls, Russian honey ...
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Dreyfus
French Bistro · The Annex · Canada's 100 Best Restaurants (2025) · Michelin Guide
Zach Kolomeir's intimate French-ish bistro on Harbord — former Joe Beef chef de cuisine doing a tight seasonal menu with Jewish and Québécois influences threaded throughout. Baked oysters with smoked ...
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Bernhardt's
Modern Bistro · Little Portugal · Canada's 100 Best #45 (2025)
A modern bistro on Dovercourt in Little Portugal that has quietly turned into one of the city's most-cited best-of fixtures — #45 on Canada's 100 Best for 2025 with no signage shouting about it. Criti...
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Occhiolino
Italian · Little Italy · Toronto Life Best New Restaurants 2025 (Top 20)
Nick Manzone of Pastificio Double Zero and Luke Donato turned a Bathurst-and-College auto-body shop into Toronto's most talked-about new pasta room of 2025 — handmade pastas rolled on-site, spiedini d...