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Avenue Diner / Yorkville
Avenue Diner is a classic, old-school lunch and breakfast destination near Avenue and Davenport. Typical diner booths, stools and ambiance ooze character and the food isn't bad either. Expect typical...
Avenue Open Kitchen / Queen West
Avenue Open Kitchen is a tiny place on a garment district side street and has been left to wave the flag for diners since the Stem closed its doors. The...
Bloor Jane Restaurant / Bloor West Village
Bloor Jane Restaurant is a shrine to all things Leafs. It's also a relic of Bloor West's long dry spell, when the strongest thing you could get on this side...
Bloordale Pantry / Bloordale Village
The Bloordale Pantry, on the corner of Bloor and Landsdowne, was a diner for 60 years (most recently Dale's, a Bloordale Village staple in terms of questionable hangouts) before new...
Bus Terminal Diner / Danforth
The Bus Terminal Diner has been an East Toronto landmark since 1948. The chrome details and colourful walls have hosted a slew of major motion pictures, but in between...
Chew Chew's Diner / Cabbagetown
It might take you a second to see the connection between the mural on the side of the Chew Chew's Diner and the Cabbagetown restaurant's name. But hold your groans......
Davisville Diner / Yonge & Eglinton
Davisville Diner offers classic comfort food including grilled cheese, pancakes, and eggs, though some might consider the prices to be a little too steep to be "comfy."...
Donlands Restaurant / East York
Donlands Restaurant is an old-school diner with plenty of charm on Donlands Avenue just south of O'Connor....
Dundas Street Grille / Etobicoke
Dundas Street Grille is a large diner steps away from Kipling station. Grab a hot meal before or after you set off on that long subway ride downtown. The old...
Fran's Diner (Front St.) / Financial District
Fran's Diner is a chain of 24 hour diners in Toronto serving standard diner fair. Their Yonge and Front street location is their newest restaurant in Toronto....
Frans Restaurant (Victoria St.) / Yonge & Dundas
Frans Restaurant has three locations in Toronto including this one a mere steps from Massey Hall at the corner of Victoria Street....
Gale's Snack Bar / Leslieville
Now that the economy's sputtered and stalled worse than your over-heated vintage 1969 PX150, places like Gale's Snack Bar appear less a quaint anachronism or dusty relic than a sanctuary...
George Street Diner / King East
The newly crimsoned exterior of the George Street Diner is a welcome and arresting sight for anyone who finds themselves around the King East area in a famished state. The recent...
Good Bite / Yonge & Eglinton
Good Bite is a homely relic in an upscale strip. It's to nearby Mars Uptown what Chuck Berry is to Sha Na Na. The staff couldn't be friendlier and breakfast...
Hadley's / Little Italy
Hadley's, nestled between Little Portugal and Dufferin Grove on College Street, is a restaurant with a simple vision: providing "honest, homemade food." For the past six months, owners Eric Hadley...
Johnny G's / Cabbagetown
Johnny G's is a classic greasy spoon style diner located in Cabbagetown, on Parliament just North of Carlton. With fast and very friendly service, weekend brunch will be a pleasant...
King's Diner / Upper Beaches
Once home to Corvina, an old-style Hungarian restaurant, King's Diner has moved into 906 Kingston Road in the Upper Beaches and is already winning over locals with its old-fashion diner...
L'Express / Yonge & Bloor
L'Express is the accelerated subset of the Bloor Street Diner. Think specialty coffees, pastries, and wraps to go....
Lakeview Restaurant / Dundas West
When the iconic Lakeview Lunch closed earlier this year, I wasn't the only one who was disappointed. Sure, the service was lousy and the food was worse but there was...
Leslieville Diner / Leslieville
The Leslieville Diner is a cozy breakfast and lunch spot on Queen East. The menu includes standard diner fare like burgers, soup and sandwiches....
Magic Spot / Etobicoke
Magic Spot is a veteran mom & pop grill serving burgers, salads, and other casual fare....
Mars Beach Diner / Beaches
The Mars Beach Diner needs an update. Most diners that have been around this long has some sort of charm that make them endearing, but not this one. Time for...
Mars Food / Little Italy
Mars Food on College is a neighbourhood institution. Open 24 hours on weekends it's famous for its greasy breakfasts, muffins and class diner vibe. Photo by RWNess on Flickr...
Mars Uptown / Yonge & Eglinton
Mars Uptown is the third of the Mars locations following in the footsteps of the College St. diner and March Beach Diner on Queen East....
Olympos/Crowbar / King East
Olympos/Crowbar is a small diner that's open for breakfast and lunch. An assortment of tables, chairs and padded stools compliment the kitchen's offerings of steak on a bun, corned beef...
Patrician Grill / King East
Patrician Grill is a classic diner on King East that seems to be open more for film shoots than it is for serving hungry patrons. Nevertheless, they server good and...
People's Foods / Annex
People's Foods claims Peter Mansbridge and Margaret Atwood among their loyal clientele, and while the signed photo of Peter on the wall claims that People's has the best eggs in...
Rosedale Diner / Rosedale
The Rosedale Diner has been winning over Rosedale locals since 1978. The National Post thinks their burger is the best in Toronto. They also have free WiFi....
Sammy's Eatery / Pape Village
Sammy Eatery is a local option in Pape Village for a prime rib dinner or all day breakfast. ...
Sizzling Jaks / Etobicoke
Sizzling Jaks, like any good diner, has a massive menu, breakfast all day and the coffee is bottomless (but if you get there when the place is full, you might...
Steve's Restaurant / North York
Steve's Restaurant, just north of Wilson on Lawrence, is one of those inexplicably popular greasy spoon-ish restaurants that's packed with families on Sunday nights. Perhaps its esteem is due to...
The Bloor Street Diner / Yonge & Bloor
Don't let Bloor Street Diner's swank more-wine-bar-than-diner ambiance fool you; it can run with the big boys when it comes to good homestyle cookin'. Diner staples like apple grilled cheese...
The Church Street Diner / Church Wellesley Village
As the weather gets warmer, I find myself drawn back to Church Street for afternoon walks amidst the village crowd (and their puppies). This is definitely a part of...
The Markham Station / Markham
The Markham Station has a $4.99 all day breakfast that might get you in the door but this restaurant is popular with night crawlers and the hungover alike. It's...
The Senator / Yonge & Dundas
The Senator has always struck me as downtown Toronto's open secret. Tucked just off of Yonge-Dundas Square on Victoria street, this gorgeous diner is the perfect antidote to the chain-gang...
The Village Restaurant / Forest Hill Village
The Village Restaurant is a family run diner in the heart of Forest Hill Village serving up milk shakes, corned beef sandwiches, burgers and other diner favourities....
Thompson Diner / King West
The Thompson Diner (formerly, The Counter), the Thompson Hotel's new 24-hour diner, is a swankier take on the classic diner theme. Just south of King on Bathurst, this restaurant is...
Three Coins Open Kitchen / Richmond Hill
Three Coins Open Kitchen is a classic diner in Richmond Hill. Tables and chairs are at a premium but it's worth waiting for the BLT, not to mention the table...
Uncle Betty's / Yonge & Eglinton
Uncle Betty's wants your kids. I know that sounds like a public service announcement about a neighbourhood deviant, but it's more an observation I make as I sit waiting for...
Vesta Lunch / Annex
This classic diner on Dupont serves of tasty hamburgers and other greasy fare....
Vienna Gourmet / Yorkville
Maybe it's the rural girl in me, or maybe I long for a past I never lived (poodle skirts, ponytails and roller rinks), but something about grungy diners makes me...
Zet's Restaurant / Mississauga
Zet's Restaurant might be pushing the city limits but it's worth it if you find yourself starving and out by the airport. Huge, and I mean huge portions (could...
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