Neighbourhoods
Scarborough
Scarborough is what happens when you venture east of Victoria Park. Spanning a wide range of micro neighbourhoods such as Malvern, Agincourt and Birch Cliff, one of Toronto's most often derided "suburbs" is home to plenty of great Chinese, Caribbean and other (often cheap!) eats. It's also where to find such landmarks as the Rouge River, Scarborough Bluffs and the Toronto Zoo.
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A1 Sweets & Restaurant / Restaurants
A1 Sweets & Restaurant makes me inevitably think of steak sauce but there's certainly none of that at this vegetarian restaurant. A1 Sweets & Restaurant on McNicoll Avenue in Scarborough...
Abbirami Catering and Take-Out / Restaurants
Abbirami is a great choice for authentic lamprais, a traditional dish that consists of rice and various curries baked inside a banana leaf. Ringing in at around $7, this dish...
ABC Bakery / Baked Goods
ABC Bakery stands out from a sea of Chinese bakeries in Scarborough because of their focused selection of sweet and savory buns (80 cents - 95 cents) that are just...
ACR Hot Roti / Restaurants
ACR Hot Roti is a doubles and roti restaurant that isn't ambiguous about the severity of its spice. Decently priced, and located on Lawrence East in Scarborough. ...
Agincourt Bakery / Baked Goods
Agincourt Bakery is the epitome of the old-school Italian bakery. In a little strip mall on Pharmacy just north of Finch, I hear nothing but Italian when I first walk...
Ahmutha Surabi / Restaurants
Ahmutha Surabi is a modest Tamil take-out and catering place in Scarborough. The place looks extremely basic (there aren't even any seats inside) but the food is plentiful and cheap,...
AHQ Bath & Spa / Design Stores
AHQ Bath & Spa is a massive store on Ellesmere Road that specializes in bathroom fixtures. Go here for stylish toilets and faucets at prices a lot cheaper than Ginger's....
Ajmir Halal Pizza, Wings and Kebab House / Restaurants
Ajmir Halal Pizza, Wings and Kebab House has had quite a bit of turnover with ownership in the past few years, but despite this, they've been fairly consistent in taste...
Al Hamd Biryani and Pizza / Restaurants
Al Hamd Biryani and Pizza serves up Pakistani-Indian food and halal pizzas. Their menu isn't extensive, but they have a large variety of curry rice dishes for only $5. Cash...
Al Madina Halal Pizza and Bakery / Restaurants
Al Madina Halal Pizza and Bakery serves reasonably priced pizza with "100% halal" toppings and wings, as well as kabuli palau and chicken biryani. They offer delivery on their wide...
Al Mumtaz Supermarket / Grocery Stores
Al Mumtaz Supermarket is easy to miss. Found just offer Lawrence Avenue East on a mostly residential side street, it's nevertheless a good spot to pick up a variety of...
Al Tanoor / Restaurants
Al Tanoor is an Iraqi restaurant and bakery in Scarborough....
Alara Restaurant (Sheppard East) / Restaurants
Alara Restaurant (Sheppard East) is a Scarborough Turkish restaurant specializing in pide....
Aldar Shawarma / Restaurants
Aldar Shawarma is a halal restaurant that offers up kebabs, shawarma, falafel and gyros at an affordable price....
Alexandria / Cafes
Now under new ownership, Alexandria serves one purpose and one purpose only. Avoid the food, grab a drink, surf on the free WiFi and fork over $10 for a shisha....
Allan's Pastry Shop / Restaurants
Allan's Pastry Shop kicks up the Jamaican patty game up a notch with its Curry Goat patty. The coco bread sandwich is also a favourite here, equally applied to its...
Amma Take-Out and Catering / Restaurants
Amma Take-out and Catering at Markham and Steeles is rather new to the list of Sri Lankan dining options in Toronto, but it's already garnered a loyal following. Try their...
Arafat Halal Pizza & Kabab House / Restaurants
Arafat Halal Pizza & Kabab House is a Halal pizza joint that also serves Lebanese dishes like shawarmas and kababs. It also offers Western favourites like pizza and subs, and...
Araliya Takeout and Catering / Restaurants
Araliya Takeout and Catering is a relatively new restaurant and one of the few ones in Toronto that specialize in Sri Lankan food. It offers pittu (a predominantly breakfast dish...
Armenian Kitchen / Restaurants
The Armenian Kitchen is a Middle Eastern restaurant on Victoria Park in Scarborough that makes some of the best hummus in the city. It's great by itself or paired with...
Arz Fine Foods / Grocery Stores
Arz Fine Foods is sort of like the Pusateri's of Lawrence Avenue East. The ambiance and selection here is slightly more refined than NASR. There's baklava fifty ways, a nice...
Asian Legend (Scarborough) / Restaurants
The Asian Legend on Sheppard Avenue East is one of many Asian Legend's in the GTA. Check out our review of their Chinatown location here....
Athena Sweets / Baked Goods
While a larger selection of pastries can be found at NASR and Arz Fine Foods, sometimes it pays to go to the source. Greek pastries available here are baked fresh...
Athens Pastries (Scarborough) / Baked Goods
Athens Pastries (Scarborough) is the Scarborough location of the popular Greektown bakery. Here you'll find traditional Greek pastries including spanakopita, tiropita, and galaktobouriko....
B & A Bakery / Baked Goods
B & A Bakery Outlet has some amazing steals in the retail section of its industrial space, not the least of which include a dozen dinner rolls for $1, six...
Barrio Fiesta / Restaurants
Barrio Fiesta is a Filipino restaurant in Scarborough....
Bashu Sichuan / Restaurants
Bashu Sichuan is located very close to the hulking Asianophile headquarters known as Pacific Mall, and offers quite a bit of non-spicy alternatives in addition to their Szechuan favourites. Most...
Big Meal Authentic Japanese Cuisine / Restaurants
Big Meal Authentic Japanese Cuisine is a Japanese all-you-can-eat place right off of McNicoll Avenue in Scarborough. It offers a stunningly diverse array of options, with numerous special house rolls...
Big Moe's Burgers / Restaurants
Big Moe's Burgers is serving Scarborough residents gourmet burgers in an unorthodox location. Tucked in the plaza behind the Petro Canada on the southeast corner of Kennedy and Steeles, the...
Bluffer's Restaurant / Restaurants
Bluffer's Restaurant is a beautiful, large-windowed space that's set in 400 acres of parkland and offers views of the Scarborough Bluffs from both indoors, and their wraparound patio. Seafood figures...
Bombay Palace (Markham Road) / Restaurants
Bombay Palace is a long-standing Indian all-you-can-eat buffet that has recently undergone a complete facelift, with new management and refurbished interior. Other than the buffet table, which is always...
Buster's Pub / Restaurants
Buster's Pub is a short walk from the Scarborough Bluffs making it a good spot to refuel with some chicken wings, back ribs, burgers, steak or pizza. They also have...
Cafe Michi / Restaurants
Sushi fanatics are unlikely to be found in one of the chaotic restaurants along sushi row in the Annex but many will worship at the costly bar of Kaji. As...
Calypso / Restaurants
Calypso is a Caribbean restaurant in Scarborough....
Canbe Foods / Restaurants
Canbe Foods is a spot for Indian cuisine, though from the outside it looks more like a place that prepares boxed lunches. Aesthetics aside, you can count on typical Sri...
Caribbean Wave / Restaurants
Caribbean Wave certainly has square-footage over the other Caribbean spots on this list, occupying an expansive restaurant and lounge on Milner Avenue in Scarborough. While you should expect to wait...
Ceylon Flavor / Restaurants
Ceylon Flavor is not your typical Sri Lankan takeout-counter-style restauran, but rather features a sleek design and comfortable seating area. Enjoy their bountiful selection of vegetarian and meat dishes including...
Chako Restaurant (Scarborough) / Restaurants
Chako Restaurant is where you go if you have a huge craving for meat. Featuring all you can eat Korean barbecue, this place will make you think that you've died...
Challal Bakery / Baked Goods
Challal Bakery is a pastry shop in Scarborough specializing in Middle Eastern sweets such as zaatar....
Charley's Caribbean Cuisine / Restaurants
Charley's Caribbean Cuisine is a Caribbean restaurant and take-out spot in Scarborough offering various curries, stews, doubles, and wings....
Chef 404 / Restaurants
Chef 404 is an Asian fusion restaurant specializing in Chinese and Thai cuisine....
Chicago Sandwiches / Restaurants
CHicago Sandwiches is a little sandwich shop in a Scarborough strip mall serving, uh, "Chicago-style" chicken shawarma, souvlaki, and more....
China Cottage / Restaurants
China Cottage is more sophisticated and less well-worn then most of its Hakka counterparts in Toronto. Plus, it's hard to resist such popular dishes as the spicy chili chicken and...
Chinese Dumpling House / Restaurants
Chinese Dumpling House is a good bet for take-out. This teeny suburban Chinese resto gets high marks for efficiency, even if the customer service could use some work. The interior,...
Chinese Halal Restaurant / Restaurants
Chinese Halal Restaurant serves Northwestern China dishes that highlights flavours from the Shaanxi Province and the Uyghurs of Xinjiang. With a bit of a Indian influence, they use an interesting...
Chiu Chow Boy / Restaurants
Chiu Chow Boy is a classic Chinese restaurant in Scarborough that has been around for many years, serving up dishes from the Chiu Chow region, which is just east of...
Chris and Tina's Bridal Boutique / Fashion Stores
Chris and Tina's Bridal Boutique is a one-stop shop for all your bridal party needs. Started by a husband-and-wife team (of course), you'll find wedding gowns, bridesmaids dresses, as well...
Chris Bread Bakery / Baked Goods
Chris Bread is a bakery and catering company that specializes in an assortment of sweet & savory prepared foods. In addition to their signature bread, Chris Bread is known for...
Chuck E Cheese's / Restaurants
Chuck E Cheese's is the worst thing for a headache and the best thing for a pocket full of change and a free afternoon. This Scarborough location has all the...
Chung Moi / Restaurants
Chung Moi, at the corner of Eglinton and Kennedy, isn't easy to miss with its red and white sign. The family-owned restaurant is one room, and always busy, thanks to...
Cliffside Hearth Bread Company / Baked Goods
Cliffside Hearth Bread Company began six years ago with an outdoor wood-burning oven and a lot of neighbourhood buzz. Camelia Proulx and her husband built the oven in the yard...
Co-China Manila / Restaurants
Co-China Manila is a recently-opened Filipino-Chinese restaurant. Try the sisig, or the lechon kawali on a bed of fried rice....
Colombo Bakery (Scarborough) / Baked Goods
Colombo Bakery (Scarborough) is a Markham Road bake shop. The bakery specializes in Indian sweets and pastries....
Crown Pizza / Restaurants
Crown Pizza has somewhat shoddy decor, but the pizza on offer is tasty. Be sure to order in advance as wait times are known to be quite lengthy, or check...
Curry & Roti / Restaurants
In business since 1973, Curry & Roti cooks up what might be the healthiest roti in Toronto. They make an organic roti, a whole wheat one and even a Spelt...
D & R Wings / Restaurants
D & R Wings is a HK-style Chinese restaurant (don't be fooled by its name, it's not a chicken wing and beer place!) located in the Bamburgh Circle plaza. They...
D'Ornellas Bike Shop / Services
D'Ornellas Bike Shop might not look like much from the outside, but make no mistake, this is one of the best places in the city to buy a high end...
Da Foo Seafood Cuisine / Restaurants
Da Foo (or Da Fu) Seafood Cuisine is a relatively new Chinese restaurant that serves up Cantonese dishes. The prices are relatively low and they have some dishes that are...
Dark City Coffee / Cafes
Dark City isn't a cafe, rather it's one of the GTA's top coffee roasters. David Thompson's roastery began as a retail operation, and expanded into two storefronts before a catastrophic...
Defcon Paintball / Fitness Clubs
Defcon Paintball offers reasonable group rates with multiple complex sandy terrains and their own pro shop, or you can forego the paintball and play with airsoft guns instead....
Destiny Tea Cafe & Lounge / Cafes
Last night, finding myself along the outer limits of Toronto (literally hovering around the "Welcome to Toronto" sign) I was, frankly, quite out of my element. In the land...
Diana's Seafood Delight / Grocery Stores
It may not be as well known as some other fish mongers in the city, but Diana's Seafood Delight is definitely one of the best. In business since 1979, Diana's...
Diana's Seafood Oyster Bar / Restaurants
Diana's Seafood Oyster Bar is right next door to Diana's Seafood, arguably the best seafood store in the GTA. Go here for incredibly fresh oysters, grilled fish, mussels, crab cakes...
Dragon Dynasty / Restaurants
Dragon Dynasty offers a well rounded dim sum menu. Compared to some other places, the atmosphere here is almost calm. And the service is courteous. The restaurant can be found...
Drupati's Roti (Scarborough) / Restaurants
Drupati's is just north of Ellesmere on Bellamy, one of three Drupati's restaurants in the GTA. The obvious choices here are the roti and doubles, though Drupati's menu also includes...
Dumpling King / Restaurants
Dumpling King satisfies my love for dumplings. These precious little flour pockets cater to all different tastes and offer wonderful variety -- there are veggie-filled dumplings, meat-filled dumplings, seafood-filled dumplings,...
Dumpling Village / Restaurants
Dumpling Village is a hidden heaven for dumpling fanatics in Scarborough. Tucked in a tiny plaza amongst a plethora of strip malls on Sheppard Avenue, the place is easy to...
El-Sabil Restaurant / Restaurants
El-Sabil Restaurant is a Halal restaurant that specializes in Middle-Eastern dishes. While it also offers excellent Western favourites such as thick and juicy burgers, their specialty is definitely the shawarmas....
Elite Bakery / Baked Goods
Elite Bakery Pastry & Delicatessen in Scarborough offers an eclectic variety of sweet and savory baked treats including baklava and halva....
ERAA Supermarket / Grocery Stores
ERAA Supermarket is a new modern-looking supermarket in the vicinity of Midland and Eglinton Avenue East. The second in the company's chain, this location provides a large selection of dry...
Fabian's Cafe / Baked Goods
Fabian's Café offers European-styles pastries and food, such as cakes, strudels, tarts, homemade truffles, sandwiches, salads, schnitzel, and quiche....
Fahmee Bakery / Restaurants
Fahmee Bakery in Scarborough doesn't have much room for loitering, but most customers just want to take their patties (fresh or frozen) home to eat anyway. Fahmee's patties come in...
Farhat / Restaurants
After picking up some of my favourite Iranian pastries from NASR Foods, all I need is a little protein to complete my Middle Eastern meal. Luckily, right at the end...
Federick Restaurant / Restaurants
Federick has set the bar amongst hakka-lovers over the past 20 years. The hard-to-find place is tiny and carefully disguised amidst brick office buildings, but still always packed with a...
Fight Scholar / Fitness Clubs
Fight Scholar makes you feel like a fighter from the moment you walk in the door. (I wonder what that means for the little girls learning Highland dance in the...
Five Guys Burgers and Fries (Scarborough) / Restaurants
Five Guys Burgers has recently opened an outpost on Warden Avenue in Scarborough. Here's our review of the Weston Road location....
Fok Yuan Seafood Restaurant / Restaurants
Fok Yuan Seafood Restaurant (stop sniggering, the name actually means lucky garden in Chinese) is a Chinese restaurant serving Cantonese food in Scarborough. The food is fresh and the portions...
Foody Mart / Grocery Stores
Foody Mart is a Chinese supermarket in Scarborough. They offer a wide selection of produce, meat, dairy and baked goods. Foody Mart also has a large selection of ethnic foods,...
Formosa / Restaurants
Formosa is guaranteed to be jammed packed with diners at lunch and dinner looking for affordable Chinese eats near Warden and Eglinton Avenue East....
Fortune House / Restaurants
Fortune House is a Chinese restaurant that's open for lunch and dinner and also serves Hong Kong-style milk tea....
Fortune Restaurant / Restaurants
Fortune Restaurant is a family-run Chinese restaurant located on Midland Avenue in Scarborough. It is usually extremely busy with families on weekends and mealtimes, making your dining experience a bit...
Fragrant Bakery / Baked Goods
Fragrant Bakery specializes in egg tarts, lao po bing--a melon custard-filled pancake with a flaky crust on top which translates to wife cake--and the lao gong bing, which translates to...
Francesca Italian Bakery / Baked Goods
Francesca Italian Bakery is one of those places that could probably thrive off its cannoli alone. Legends of the sweet Sicilian-style treat are carried far beyond its Invergordon and McCowan...
Gasa Restaurant (Scarborough) / Restaurants
Gasa is known for its spicy kothu roti, although it's considered a Toronto mainstay for many other forms of Sri Lankan cuisine. Particularly popular is their nandu (crab) curry dish...
Gerhard's Cafe / Cafes
Gerhard's Cafe and Bakery is a quaint little spot on Bellamy Road just north of Ellesmere in Scarborough. Go here for coffee, high tea, cakes, pasties and other sustenance....
Gerhard's Cafe & Bakery / Baked Goods
Gerhard's Cafe & Bakery makes cake in the German tradition. There are around 30 different kinds ranging from Apple Crumble Torte to White Chocolate Mousse Bombe. Prices start at...
Ghareeb Nawaz / Restaurants
Ghareeb Nawaz is known for its Biryani. Located on Danforth East, the Halal spot also offers kabobs, boti rolls, and more, at prices that certainly won't break the bank....
Go For Tea / Cafes
Go For Tea is located just south of Steeles on Midland. This teahouse definitely makes bubble tea a classier, sit-down-restaurant affair. Want a main dish of lamb with cumin to...
Gourmet Malaysia / Restaurants
Gourmet Malaysia is run by a Chinese Indonesian and Malaysian couple, and has been a long-time crowd favourite when it operated as a food court stall in an old Chinese...
Govardhan Thal / Restaurants
Govardhan Thal is a vegetarian restaurant that serves home-cooked Gujarati Indian food. A far cry from the creamy curries on meat that many associate with mainstream Indian cuisine, this place...
Great Eastern Hakka Cuisine / Restaurants
Great Eastern Hakka Cuisine offers a mix of Hakka Chinese and Thai cuisine. The noodle dishes here are generally large enough for two, and the service is typically quick and...
Great Shanghai Szechuan Restaurant / Restaurants
Great Shanghai Szechuan Restaurant cooks up a delicious feast of authentic regional comfort food. For more than 14 years, this Scarborough eatery has been serving up specialties from two very...
Gu-Mi Restaurant / Restaurants
Gu-Mi is a Korean/Japanese restaurant that features a menu combining the best standard fare from both cuisines. Decorated more like a Japanese restaurant with wooden booths and room separators, this...
Hakka Masala / Restaurants
Hakka Masala is a Halal Hakka Chinese restaurant that is popular with the locals. Although the interior is sparse and a bit dated, the quality of the food more than...
Halal Pizza & Chicken / Restaurants
Halal Pizza and Chicken is a very small and unassuming takeout joint serving halal pizza and wings. While the place feels a little run-down, you can always pick up a...
Halal Pizza Time / Restaurants
Halal Pizza Time has good combo specials and are willing to customize it a bit. They're also known for their kebab and naan which is freshly made in a tandoor....
Hamish's Kitchen Restaurant / Restaurants
Hamish's Kitchen Restaurant makes a mean fish 'n' chips, with tender fish and light, crispy batter, although you shouldn't overlook their fried shrimps and scallops. The casual ambiance of the...
Harry's Drive-In / Restaurants
Harry's Drive-In is a Scarborough staple that's been in business since 1954. Located at the northwest corner of Kennedy and Lawrence, the burger and souvlaki shack is a small retro...
Hi Shanghai / Restaurants
Hi Shanghai is a rather large traditional Chinese restaurant that rolls back the years and evokes old-school Chinese dining memories, with minimal décor, no fancy fusion-like interior accoutrements, and just...
Ho Ho BBQ / Restaurants
Ho Ho BBQ is a small, old-fashioned Chinese roast/bbq pork and duck restaurant, serving fantastic, no-frills Chinese food. You can get the delectably tender roast pork with rice for around...
Hong Tai Supermarket / Grocery Stores
Hong Tai Supermarket is sort of a scaled down version of T&T. They stock a lot of similar fruit, vegetables and Asian groceries but don't match their competition in the...
Hopper Hut / Restaurants
The Hopper Hut, a joint serving fantastic Sri Lankan out in Scarborough, inspired me to hop on the next RT. Located at Ellesmere and Kennedy and hidden at the back of...
Hot Wok (Kennedy Road) / Restaurants
Hot Wok is a simple Indian Chinese restaurant on Progress Avenue in Scarborough offering your usual array of Hakka Chinese dishes such as manchurian chicken and chili fish. Of particular...
Hung Fook Tong / Restaurants
Hung Fook Tong may be a recognizable brand to some as a producer of bottled beverages and packaged desserts, widely available at grocery stores such as T&T. Additionally though,...
Indian Grocerries and Spices / Grocery Stores
While they may not have been able to master the spelling in their name, Indian Groceries is definitely somewhat masterful when it comes to their selection of Indian groceries and...
Island Boyz / Restaurants
Island Boyz is a Caribbean restaurant serving cheap authentic eats in a strip mall off Eglinton East in Scarborough....
Jade BBQ House / Restaurants
Jade BBQ House is a Chinese-style BBQ take-out joint located on Birchmount and Finch. They have everything from honey roasted BBQ pork to suckling roast pig (you can even order...
Jatujak / Restaurants
Jatujak specializes in street style Thai food, setting up shop in Scarborough's lakeside area at the end of March. Chef Aon provides locals with fresh, traditional Thai flavors she acquired...
Jeon Ju Hyang / Restaurants
Jeon Hu Hyang is an authentic Korean restaurant located in the Bamburgh Circle plaza. Run by a group of lovely "ah-ju-mahs" (Korean aunties), they serve up delicious comfort food dishes,...
Jesse Jr. (Scarborough) / Restaurants
Jesse Jr. (Scarborough) is a Filipino restaurant offering traditional dishes such as Pancit Sotanghon, Pork Sisig, and Chicken Adobo. The Scarborough restaurant also has plenty of dessert options including Maja...
Jin Cheng Bakery / Baked Goods
Jin Cheng Bakery is a Taiwanese-style bakery which offers a wide variety of fresh and aromatic Chinese buns and pasteries. They offer $2 "Gua Baos" which is more commonly known...
Jiupinxiang Chinese Restaurant / Restaurants
Jiupinxiang Chinese restaurant is a restaurant that specializes in Szechuan Chinese food. That means most of the dishes are going to burn your tastebuds if you're not careful. Try their...
Jive Burger / Restaurants
Jive Burger is a burger joint in Scarborough offering wraps, burgers, and more....
Joe Maggiano's / Restaurants
Joe Maggiano's is an Italian restaurant and steakhouse with a menu of antipasti, pizza, pasta, and mains....
Johnny's Charbroiled Hamburgers / Restaurants
Johnny's Charbroiled Hamburgers is a Scarborough institution. Check out our full review here. Photo by Jerrold Litwinenko...
Jung Sushi / Restaurants
Jung Sushi, a little oasis for Korean and Japanese eats, sits amid a sea of Persian, North African and Indian shops and restaurants on Lawrence Avenue East. The rather extensive...
JV's Taste Buds / Restaurants
JV's Taste Buds is a relatively new Caribbean restaurant located in the heart of Scarborough. With regular favourites such as jerk chicken, ackee, and rice and peas, this place is...
Karaikudi / Restaurants
Karaikudi is an Indian restaurant with plenty of seating--5,500-square-feet-worth, to be more precise. The restaurant offers a weekday lunch buffet for $9.99, as well as a regulr menu of dosa,...
Keung Kee / Restaurants
Keung Kee is a popular Hong Kong restaurant chain that is part of one of three locations. Known for its big portions and speedy service, people love to come here...
Kim Bo Vietnamese and Thai Restaurant / Restaurants
Kim Bo (otherwise spelt Kim Po on their website) is a relatively new Vietnamese restaurant specializing in noodle soups/pho. The restaurant is bright and feels spacious, while the pho is...
Kim Kim / Restaurants
At Kim Kim, Chinese stir fry and cooking techniques are blended impeccably with Indian spices and masalas. Kim Kim's menu is peppered with heavily flavoured choices, from aromatic hakka noodles...
Krispy Roll / Restaurants
Krispy Roll is a popular Scarborough eatery that doesn't serve maki (as the name might suggest) but is instead a Vietnamese and Thai restaurant to get pho, fried rice and...
La Sani Grill / Restaurants
La Sani Grill offers Pakistani cuisine such as butter chicken, naan, and kabobs. A glass wall to the kitchen lets you watch your food as it's being prepared....
La Zeez (Scarborough) / Restaurants
La Zeez (Scarborough) offers all the delicious shawarma, falafel, and other Middle Eastern plates and wraps as its downtown counterpart, without all the hoards of Ryerson students. Chicken shawarma is...
Ladan Pastry & Nuts / Grocery Stores
Ladan Pastry & Nuts distinguishes itself from the also-ran pistachio purveyors on Lawrence Avenue East. This tiny shop reminds me of my travels through Morocco. A wide variety of roasted...
Lahore Taste / Restaurants
Lahore Taste operates out of a small strip mall in Scarborough, and serves up halal cuisine. Also available for take-out and catering....
Lai Doh Restaurant / Restaurants
Lai Doh Restaurant is a Hong Kong-style coffee house (cha chaan teng) in the Splendid China Mall. More than just a HK café, this restaurant provides a rather notable selection...
Landmark Seafood Cuisine / Restaurants
Landmark Seafood Cuisine is a newly opened Cantonese Chinese restaurant that specializes in inexpensive dim sum options. Offering favourites like shrimp har gow dumplings for as little as around $2...
Lin Garden / Restaurants
Lin Garden, according to the consensus online, is one of the better, if not best, hakka-style spots out there. The tasty, colourful menu, with specialties like oh-so-doughy shrimp pakoras and...
Little Sheep / Restaurants
Little Sheep has restaurant locations around the world in places such as China, United States, and Canada, and is one of the leading hot pot connoisseurs. Serving the highest quality...
Lone Tai Supermarket / Grocery Stores
Lone Tai Supermarket is a bustling Asian supermarket located at Kennedy and Lawrence. Part of a chain of supermarkets that includes Tone Tai supermarket, this location is a little older...
Lucky Chinese Restaurant / Restaurants
Lucky's is a Hakka style restaurant on Lawrence Avenue East. Do not leave here without trying the chili chicken. Blending delicious Indian spices with deep fried diced chicken, the dish...
Lychee Bay / Restaurants
Lychee Bay is a Cantonese-style cuisine restaurant that offers family style dishes that come in sizable portions. They mainly specialize in stir fry dishes, including stir fried beef noodles and...
Made in China Hot Pot / Restaurants
Made in China Hot Pot is the place to go when it is cold outside and you are hungry and craving something warm and toasty in your belly. For...
Madras Palace / Restaurants
Madras Palace is an Indian restaurant owned by Santha and Chiral Purushotham. Specializing in south Indian cuisine, the restaurant's menu includes a variety of dosa, six types of biriyani,...
Mainsha (Birchmount) / Restaurants
Mainsha is an affordable West Indian restaurant with several other locations throughout the GTA. You can expect flavourful preparations of chicken, as well as specials....
Makkalchon / Restaurants
Makkalchon is a Korean restaurant in Scarborough that only uses organic ingredients in its bulgogi, pork bone soup, and bibimbap. The restaurant is particularly known for its vegetable wraps. ...
Manpasand Indian Cuisine / Restaurants
Manpasand is a simple Indian restaurant right off of McNicoll Avenue that is essentially a 3-in-1: a dine-in restaurant, buffet place, and takeout joint all rolled into one. The star...
Marathon Donuts and Coffee Shop / Cafes
Marathon Donuts and Coffee Shop has garnered a fair bit of fame for its award-winning milk tea, but you'll also find a selection of HK cafe-style baked goods and snacks. Photo...
Matsuda Japanese Cuisine / Restaurants
Matsuda Japanese Cuisine is quickly becoming a new favourite for Scarborough residents for its welcoming and modern decor, extremely spacious interior, and attentive service. Try their Sunshine Roll, an interesting...
Mei Chuen Cafe & Fast Food / Restaurants
Mei Chuen Cafe & Fast Food is a simple, no-frills Cantonese restaurant that is, in effect, a cha chaan teng (HK-style teahouses serving Canto-Western food). It is located, perhaps a...
Mikasa Japanese Restaurant / Restaurants
Mikasa is a long-standing Japanese restaurant located in a small plaza on the corner of Pharmacy and McNicoll Avenue. Its location within the complex is so awkward that if you...
Ming's Noodle Cafe / Restaurants
Ming's Noodle Café is a typical Hong Kong tea café ("cha chan tang") close to Pacific Mall that is popular for its daily selection of set lunches and dinners. For...
Momiji Sushi (Sheppard East) / Restaurants
Momiji Sushi (Sheppard East) is one of four Momiji Sushi locations in the GTA. The family-owned restaurant has a pretty extensive menu of soups, salads, teriyakis, sushi, maki, and more....
Mona's Roti / Restaurants
Mona's Roti is the epitome of family Caribbean cooking. There really is a Mona, and she has been preparing her famous roti for over 25 years. Mona's menu also includes...
Montmartre Bakery / Baked Goods
Montmartre Bakery has been selling preservative-free, homestyle European bread and other delectable baked goods directly out of their mid-size bakery since 1970. Tucked away in an industrial area, it's worth...
Mr. Jerk (Scarborough) / Restaurants
Mr. Jerk (Scarborough) is a Caribbean restaurant offering dishes such as jerk pork and chicken, roti, and ox tail....
Mr. Shawarma / Restaurants
Mr. Shawarma offers typical Middle Eastern offerings such as its eponymous dish, falafels, kebabs and what it deems "healthy foods." They also offer catering....
My Place Fish and Chips / Restaurants
My Place Fish and Chips is a classic, casual fish 'n chips joint in a strip mall in Scarborough. Count on pretty good bang for your buck....
N. Ichiban Sushi / Restaurants
N. Inchiban Sushi is a tiny Japanese restaurant located by the Petro Canada gas station on the corner of Kennedy and Steeles. This is definitely not the place to go...
Naan & Kabob / Restaurants
Naan & Kabob offers a Halal menu of wraps and Kabobs including Chaplee, Tikka, and Choppan. All kabobs come with fresh naan (hence the name), a side salad, and dessert...
Naniwa-Taro / Restaurants
Take a look at this quick little movie I shot a few weeks ago at a food court in T&T Supermarket. Anyone care to guess what the hell this spread...
Nasib's / Restaurants
Nasib's, located in Scarborough, has a reasonably priced menu consisting of shawarmas, falafels and other Middle Eastern cuisine. ...
Nawzar Halal Meat / Restaurants
Nawzar Halal Meat approximates the experience of stepping into a butcher shop in the Middle East, with its array of halal meats, kabobs and rice dishes--the aroma alone will have...
New SpiceLand Supermarket / Grocery Stores
New SpiceLand Supermarket is a rather large South Asian supermarket located in the new colourful plaza on Markham Road and Steeles Avenue East. It stocks vast amounts and varieties of...
New Sun BBQ / Restaurants
New Sun BBQ is a very modest Chinese barbeque takeout join on Midland Avenue in Scarborough. They offer the usual assortment of roast duck and barbeque pork dishes, all of...
Nguyen Huong (Steeles Ave.) / Restaurants
Nguyen Huong is a Vietnamese restaurant chain with multiple locations around the GTA, which grew out of a couple's Vietnamese sandwich (banh mi) business. This location on Steeles Avenue is...
Ni-Ji Sushi / Restaurants
Ni-Ji Sushi looks like one of those monster sushi joints from the outside, but the dining room is actually quite small and intimate. You'll definitely get the most bang for...
Ninja Sushi / Restaurants
Ninja Sushi is a small Japanese restaurant on the corner of the Bamburgh Circle plaza. They specialize mainly in take-out orders and party trays. The sushi and sashimi here is...
Noodle Delight (Scarborough) / Restaurants
Noodle Delight (Scarborough) is a Chinese restaurant on Victoria Park that has been around (in concept) since 1984. The restaurant's signature dishes include Hong Kong noodles and beef brisket on...
North Beach Bar & Grill / Restaurants
North Beach Bar & Grill isn't easy to find unless you know exactly where to look. Located on Railside Road in Scarborough it's part of the North Beach volleyball complex....
Nun Such Jerk / Restaurants
Nun Such Jerk is a Jamaican restaurant with arguably the best name in Scarborough. The restaurant offers a variety of freshly made soups including beef pumpkin, red pea, and gung...
Pagel French Pastries / Baked Goods
Pagel French Pastries bakes up sweet and savoury treats such as cakes, cookies, puff pastires, strudels, and more. Some of their special cakes on offer include Truffle Cream Dark Chocolate...
Painted Post Fish & Chips / Restaurants
Painted Post Fish & Chips is a long-standing fish and chips restaurant in Scarborough. The place isn't fancy, but the fish certainly is. With batter that is just thick enough...
Pak Restaurant / Restaurants
Pak Restaurant is a Halal restaurant in Scarborough offering Indian and Pakistani cuisine. Pak has a daily (weekday) lunch buffet and a regular menu of kebabs, biryani, masala and more....
Park Lane Beauty and Wellness / Fashion Stores
Park Lane Beauty and Wellness offers a plethora of beauty and salon services, but the highlight is their comprehensive 90-minute facial special for approximately $30. The staff speaks somewhat broken...
Patisserie Royale / Baked Goods
Patisserie Royale may sit humbly in an unremarkable strip mall in Scarborough, but the family-run bakery has a boisterous reputation among the Middle Eastern community and beyond. Its most popular offering...
Patna Kabab House / Restaurants
Patna Kabab House offers more than just kababs. Specialty dishes on its menu include biryani, ribs, curry, and more, plus plenty of authentic dessert items....
Patty King (Scarborough) / Restaurants
This is where all the magic happens. This Scarborough location is where all of those delicious Patty King patties are made, with room for seating for hungry passersby. The shop...
Paul Kee Open Kitchen / Restaurants
Paul Kee Open Kitchen offers Asian cuisine and serves congee, stir fry, rice and noodle dishes. You can watch your meal being prepared through the semi-open kitchen....
Perfect Chinese Restaurant / Restaurants
Perfect Chinese Restaurant is where to go for braised duck with pork or deep fried stuffed bean curd 24 hours a day. This Scarborough destination near Brimley and Sheppard seems...
Pho 88 / Restaurants
Pho 88 (Scarborough) is a popular Vietnamese restaurant located in the Bamburgh Circle Plaza. Famed for its fast service, cheap prices and delicious beef broth noodles served in generous portions,...
Pho Metro / Restaurants
Pho Metro offers something new in Wexford. The thing that initially attracted me to this Vietnamese spot is that it doesn't serve falafel. Around Lawrence and Warden, it's hard to...
Pho Saigon / Restaurants
Pho Saigon is a bright uptown eatery that features the requisite aesthetic of a classic Toronto Vietnamese restaurant. Tile floors, large windows, a single room and as many tables as...
Pho Vietnam / Restaurants
The tired-looking sign in the parking lot warns of "BEEF N ODLE S" inside, but the crowded tables inside make it clear that the diners value food over exterior decor...
Pizza Depot (Ellesmere) / Restaurants
Pizza Depot (Ellesmere) is a casual pizza joint offering pizza and wings. The shop has all the favourite pies, and some specialties including butter chicken, paneer, and tandoori chicken. ...
Pizza Land Halal / Restaurants
Pizza Land Halal might be the BEST halal pizza joint in the city. People who travel to Toronto will most likely venture into Pizza Land at some point during their...
Remely's / Restaurants
Remely's serves up popular Filipino cuisine in a busy plaza in Scarborough's east end. I've always been interested in the degree to which Filipino cuisine has been influenced by Spanish...
Rocket Submarine / Restaurants
Rocket Submarine is where many Scarborough residents go for custom-made subs. This place is a breath of fresh air for those craving a good old-fashioned sub but wish to try...
Royal Chinese Seafood Restaurant / Restaurants
Royal Chinese Seafood Restaurant offers Hakka Chinese/Indian Chinese favourites, and while their prices are a bit higher than many similar establishments, they make up for it with generous portions (rice...
Ruby Chinese Restaurant / Restaurants
Ruby is a large, old school (really, you will find a lot of seniors dining here) restaurant that has a large variety a la carte dim sum, but with some...
Safa Tikka and Kabab House / Restaurants
Safa Tikka and Kabab House dishes up spicy, flavourful food at deliciously cheap prices. Despite the abundance of restaurants serving Pakistani/Indian cuisine in the area, this restaurant allows for a...
Sagano Restaurant / Restaurants
Sagano Restaurant dubs itself Toronto's best kept secret, and in a way it is. Not clearly visible from the roads due to its location on the top floor of the...
Saigon King / Restaurants
Saigon King is a relatively new Vietnamese restaurant that opened close to Birchmount and Finch. Their medium special pho looks huge in size (so imagine what it would be in...
Sam Woo BBQ / Restaurants
Sam Woo BBQ has been around for almost 25 years and still remains to be a local favourite for delicious and savoury Chinese barbecued meat (you'll smell it from the...
Sam Woo Seafood / Restaurants
Sam Woo Seafood Restaurant is a fine dining Chinese restaurant that opened a few years after Sam Woo BBQ Restaurant was established on the opposite end of the same plaza....
Samara Roasted Nuts / Grocery Stores
Samara Roasted Nuts is a good source on Lawrence Avenue East for pistachios and other roasted and dry nuts....
Samosa King / Restaurants
Samosa King has probably the best-priced samosas around, offering its crispy vegetarian samosas for five for $1.00. And despite what you would think, they're pretty decently sized. The Finch and...
Sashimi House (Sheppard East) / Restaurants
Sashimi House (Sheppard East) is a Japanese restaurant with much more than sashimi. The restaurant offers pretty good bang for your buck and a decent selection of sushi, sashimi, teriyaki,...
Scarborough Grand Seafood Restaurant / Restaurants
For locals who often yum cha (go for tea), Scarborough Grand Seafood Restaurant is one of the timeless spots in Scarborough for an easy brunch with a large variety of...
Shalimar Sweets & Samosa / Restaurants
Shalimar Sweets & Samosa is a modest-looking Halal Pakistani snacks and sweets place in Scarborough. They also offer kebabs, tandoori chicken, and other rice dishes, but by far their most...
Shawarma Empire / Restaurants
Shawarma Empire serves what is possibly Scarborough's best option for falafel and shawarma. They are located in a Middle Eastern stretch of Lawrence Avenue's east end, on the Scarberian...
Silver Food Mart / Grocery Stores
Silver Food Mart is an ethnic grocery store specializing in Indian, Caribbean, and Filipino foods. They also offer a dollar shop. ...
Sinopino / Restaurants
Sinopino is a Scarborough Chinese restaurant known for its chili chicken and spicy shrimp. While there is a small sit-in area, Sinopino is known by its faithful customers as a...
Skyland Food Mart / Grocery Stores
Skyland Food Mart is a relatively new supermarket mostly catering to the Eastern and Southern Asian clientele in Scarborough. While the overall store aesthetics are quite simple and not too...
Sooriyan Restaurant / Restaurants
Sooriyan Restaurant is a Tamil take-out and catering joint in the heart of Scarborough. The place looks extremely basic, but they have a wide assortment of traditional favourites, such...
Spice Corner Taste of India / Restaurants
Spice Corner Taste of India is a relatively new Indian restaurant that, unlike many of its neighbouring counterparts, offers a large dining area. Try their daily rice combo specials, starting...
Spicy Dragon / Restaurants
Spicy Dragon, with lunch specials at $4.75 a pop, is regularly packed with deal-hungry foodies. Although not much on the eyes, the sparsely decorated restaurant offers yummy Hakka, Cantonese...
Station Asia / Restaurants
Station Asia serves up a combination of modern Asian fusion cuisine with more traditional Chinese dishes. This is actually one of two locations (the other one being in Market Village),...
Super Buffet / Restaurants
Super Buffet in Scarborough offers one of the cheapest Asian buffet deals in town. With prices starting as low as $7.99 for a Tuesday lunch ($13.99 for dinner) and...
Suvaiyakam Restaurant / Restaurants
Suvaiyakam is a Sri Lankan takeout joint that offers the usual fare. Like many of its rivals, Suvaiyakam offers a great variety of roti, string hoppers, curries, noodles, and short...
Szechuan Legend (Scarborough) / Restaurants
Szechuan Legend may not have a storied history, as its name suggests, but my experience there was fit for the books. The introduction was marked by a roundabout search for...
T&T Supermarket (Steeles Avenue East) / Grocery Stores
T&T Supermarket is an extremely well-known Asian supermarket chain with over 20 stores across Canada, making it undoubtedly the largest in its category. This particular store was opened in 2005...
T-Bones Restaurant / Restaurants
T-Bones Restaurant is an old-fashioned burger and steak restaurant in Scarborough. They serve up large 16-oz steaks in large portions but just don't expect Harbour 60 quality or any fancy...
Taj Mahal Sweets and Restaurant / Restaurants
Taj Mahal Sweets and Restaurant is probably one of the only small restaurants that has its own TV commercial (seriously). Apart from being a Middle Eastern restaurant, they also provide...
Takara Bune / Restaurants
Takara Bune is a Japanese restaurant in Scarborough with daily lunch specials and all the typical sushi, sashimi, and noodle dishes....
Tamil Arasu / Restaurants
Tamil Arasu is a Tamil snack and dessert shop that recently opened its doors in May 2012. Rather modest in decor and with no designated seating area, the place is...
Tangerine Asian Cuisine / Restaurants
Tangerine Asian Cuisine has a new, bigger location that recently opened up on Ellesmere Road. The food is tasty and the prices are decent, considering the gigantic portion sizes. Try...
Tara Inn / Restaurants
Tara Inn has remained a secret long enough. The humble Irish Pub in the South Eastern end of Scarborough has for years been plating bar food and traditional Irish breakfast...
Tara Inn (Eglinton) / Restaurants
Tara Inn is a humble and simple Irish pub in Scarborough. A vastly underrated joint that is mostly popular only with locals and a few regulars, this is a place...
Taste of Beirut (Lawrence East) / Restaurants
Taste of Beirut (Lawrence East) is a Middle Eastern restaurant in Scarborough offering Halal dishes including chicken shawarma, falafel, and shish tawook. The restaurant is open until 11 p.m. most...
Taste of Newfoundland / Restaurants
Taste of Newfoundland Fish & Chips is a newly opened fish and chips place. Located, a little unexpectedly, in the midst of various Middle Eastern joints serving halal pizzas...
Taste Tea Station / Restaurants
Taste Tea Station is a small bubble tea shop located on McNicoll Avenue. Selling various flavoured bubble tea drinks starting at $2.49, the place also offers snack food such as...
Tasty & Tasty / Restaurants
Tasty & Tasty is a Chinese restaurant located on McNicoll Avenue, just west of Kennedy Road. The place is best-known for its focus on (really) late night dining, with operating...
Ten-Ichi Japanese / Restaurants
Ten-Ichi Japanese is a huge Japanese restaurant in Scarborough offering both all-you-can-eat and a-la-carte menus. The space also features several teppanyaki tables where you can watch a chef prepare your...
Thai Angels / Restaurants
Thai Angels offers "heavenly" curry duck, pad thai, various soups and satays. The little Scarborough restaurant also offers free WiFi, which means you can type away as you tackle a...
Thai Breeze / Restaurants
Thai Breeze serves up noodle soups, curry, rice and noodle dishes as well as their signature dishes like the monsoon steak and grilled rack of lamb....
The Oriental Gourmet / Restaurants
The Oriental Gourmet serves really good duck, seriously. For years, my only exposure to Chinese duck dishes were only in the form of bbq duck legs or Peking ducks. I've...
The Queenshead Pub (Scarborough) / Restaurants
The Queenshead Pub (Scarborough) is a typical Scarborough pub with the odd Thai dish thrown into its menu. While opinion is divided on the food, most will vouch for The...
The Real McCoy / Restaurants
The Real McCoy is one of those total comfort food pizza and burger places. Diets begone--the pizza is deliciously greasy, the onion rings are huge, and the prices are reasonable...
The Rice Kitchen / Restaurants
The Rice Kitchen provides Chinese take-out and delivery from a vast menu, that ranges from an array of rolls, to traditional Chinese soups, to chop suey and rice and noodle...
The Roti Hut / Restaurants
The Roti Hut offers goat, chicken, veggie roti and more, offered in portions that are probably too big to tackle in one sitting. Doubles here are a huge hit as...
Tung Tak BBQ House / Restaurants
Tung Tak BBQ House is a traditional Chinese barbeque place serving all your traditional and expected dishes, such as roast duck with rice or bbq pork with rice. As the...
Uncle Seth African Caribbean Foods / Grocery Stores
Uncle Seth African Caribbean Foods on Lawrence Avenue East sell just what you'd expect - a large selection of Caribbean produce, bulk foods, canned good and other imported items....
Wanlee Xin Chinese Cuisine / Restaurants
Wanlee Xin Chinese Restaurant is a relatively new Indian/Pakistani-style Hakka Chinese restaurant. Proudly touting a Chinese chef that once worked at a restaurant at the Holiday Inn in Karachi (I...
Wei's Taiwanese / Restaurants
Wei's Taiwanese serves traditional Taiwanese dishes out of a small space. You'll find dishes such as stinky tofu, red sausage, and spicy noodles, as well as frozen dinners for take-out....
Wexford Restaurant / Restaurants
The Wexford Restaurant has been a Scarborough institution for over 50 years. Located near Warden and Lawrence, this family-operated eatery claims to have cracked over 720 million eggs and juiced...
Willie Stouts / Restaurants
Willie Stouts is a Sheppard East pub with wings, burgers, and classic comfort food....
Wok With Yu / Restaurants
Wok With Yu owners Peter and Sandra, born and raised in Karachi, speak fluent Hindi and Urdu and have a sense of humour that makes eating here a treat. The...
Xin Jiang Barbeque Restaurant / Restaurants
Xin Jiang Barbeque Restaurant is a restaurant that specializes in Xin Jiang Chinese food, originating from a region in China which is predominantly Muslim. As such, you will find no...
Yau Kee Noodle House / Restaurants
Yau Kee Noodle House is a Chinese restaurant that serves up a variety of meatballs and wonton with noodles. The overall concept reminds me a lot of Jim Chai Kee...
Yogi Noodle / Restaurants
Yogi Noodle is a Hong Kong-style Chinese restaurant located in the Bamburgh Circle plaza. They have a wide selection of dishes and set meals to choose from on their menus,...
Yunan Kitchen Delights / Restaurants
Yunan Kitchen Delights is an extremely simple Chinese restaurant in the Keele and Finch area specializing in Yunnan dishes. With signage that literally looks like it's been put together with...
Zen Japanese Restaurant / Restaurants
Zen Japanese Restaurant is probably not paying a lot for rent. Located between a bowling alley and a convenience store in the Eastern recesses of Scarborough, this cozy kitchen is...
Zena's Diner / Restaurants
Zena's Diner is a classic old-school diner in Scarborough, with classic staples such as roast beef, chicken wings, burgers, and chicken fingers. They also have daily lunch specials and, somewhat...
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