Every location of this Toronto sandwich chain has now closed

After a series of successive closures, the last remaining location of a Toronto Cuban food chain beloved for its sandwiches has officially shut down. Is this the end of La Cubana as we know it?

When La Cubana founder and chef Corinna Mozo announced that she'd be closing down the Roncesvalles flagship of her small-but-mighty Cuban food empire in September 2025, no one could have possibly guessed that it would be the beginning of the end for the restaurant altogether.

Founded on Roncy in 2012, La Cubana was a local institution, specializing in the hefty sandwiches popular late at night outside Havana bars as well as more substantial mains, like barbecue platters and succulent seafood.

It was such a success that it went on to spawn spin-offs: a sister location on the bustling Ossington strip and a stall at The Well's Wellington Market Food Hall.

In a city whose food scene is as diverse as its population, Cuban cuisine is conspicuously rare, but La Cubana took on its representative role with tact.

Until, that is, Mozo announced that the Roncesvalles location would close permanently so the team could focus its efforts on "other endeavours."

Less than a year later, Mozo and her brother and co-owner, Pablo, announced that the Ossington brick-and-mortar would also close, citing "the pandemic, subsequent inflation, high food costs, tax, insurance and energy increases, many weather events, and other factors" that made operating the restaurant "unsustainable."

After La Cubana's Ossington location closed down, fans could, at least, find solace in the fact that the restaurant was still operating its outpost at The Well. Just months after the Ossington location closed, however, so too did the restaurant's last permanent location at The Well.

Similarly, La Cubana's seasonal outpost at Picton's Base 31 also seems to have disappeared, no longer appearing on the venue's food lineup.

After 13 years of being one of the city's sole Cuban restaurants, the hole that La Cubana leaves behind is a sizeable one, to say the least, but to say that the restaurant had a good run would be an understatement, despite the way the dominoes toppled in its final months.

Only time will tell whether La Cubana manages to make a comeback in Toronto or elsewhere, but for now, those high-piled medianoche sandwiches will be sorely missed.