📍 Little Italy, Toronto

Kate Chomyshyn and Julio Guajardo's Michelin-starred Mexican on College Street, where every dish that leaves the kitchen has touched the 24-foot wood-fire that anchors the open kit...

Toronto Life's #1 Best New Restaurant of 2025 — an 18-seat horseshoe chef's counter in Bloorcourt from Xolo founders Aldo Camarena and Ashley McKay, doing modern Latin American coo...

Liberty Entertainment Group's Italian fine-dining flagship in a historic landmark bank building on College, with Nick Di Donato bankrolling and executive chef Daniele Corona behind...

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 dis...

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 pi...

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 ...

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...

Toronto's first dedicated listening bar — custom hi-fi sound system, curated vinyl collection paired with natural wines, vermouth, amaro, and seasonal shareable plates. The speaker...

A College Street fried chicken sandwich shop that built its name on one perfect sandwich — buttermilk-brined, hot-honey-glazed, on a brioche bun that holds together until the last ...

Clinton Street pub with a split personality: a cafe and cocktail bar downstairs, a cozy craft-beer room upstairs with 20 taps rotating through local and indie brews. Catch a folk o...