What is the best Chinese restaurant in Etobicoke?

New Flower Drum, at 2428 Lake Shore Blvd W in Mimico. Family-run since 1963, it cooks Cantonese, Szechuan and Hong Kong-style food, is fully licensed, and serves until 1am on Friday and Saturday. Combination dinners start around $11.50 and delivery is free over $40.

How do you score restaurants?

Every restaurant gets four scores out of ten — food, service, value and room — and an overall figure. Splitting them out matters: a 9 for food and a 5 for service is a very different night out from a flat 7, and a single star rating hides that.

Do you accept payment for reviews?

No. WhereToEatNow takes no payment, free meals, hosted visits or affiliate commission from any restaurant listed. Every review is written first-hand and published unpaid.

Where should I eat in Etobicoke?

Start with New Flower Drum in Mimico for Chinese, SanRemo Bakery on Royal York for the veal sandwich, and The Blue Goose Tavern for a patio pint. The Kingsway has the neighbourhood’s occasion restaurants; The Queensway and Lake Shore have the value.

What is open late in Etobicoke?

Very little, which is why New Flower Drum matters — its kitchen runs to 1am on Friday and Saturday nights. Downtown, Rol San in Chinatown serves dim sum until 4am and Bar Isabel’s kitchen runs to 1am.

Do you cover restaurants outside Etobicoke?

Yes — there is a full Toronto guide covering downtown, the west end, the east end, midtown, North York and Scarborough, with more than sixty restaurants scored the same way as everything else on the site.

Where can I get cevapi and burek in Toronto?

Mak Deli at 1335 Lawrence Ave E in Victoria Village. Cevapi are charcoal-grilled, $15.59 for ten pieces, and burek is baked fresh daily at $9.99 whole. It also caters — 100 cevapi for $102 and burek trays from $38. Call (416) 444-0719.

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No.1 · Editor’s Choice

New Flower Drum 新花鼓

Family-run on Lake Shore Blvd W since 1963 — Cantonese, Szechuan and Hong Kong cooking, licensed, open to 1am at weekends, free delivery over $40.

8.6 / 10

Excellent

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Service

Value

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What to order

Must order

Szechuan Chicken四川辣子鸡

The house signature, and the dish to judge the kitchen on. Dry chilli heat that builds rather than shouts.

spicy

Must order

Crispy Wings脆皮鸡翼

$11.99

The single most ordered thing in the room. Shatteringly crisp, and the reason the pool table never empties.

Must order

Yeung Chow Fried Rice扬州炒饭

The Cantonese benchmark — distinct grains, real wok smoke, char siu and shrimp through it.

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★ No.1 · Editor’s Choice

ChineseMimico$$

New Flower Drum 新花鼓

A Lake Shore institution since 1963 — Cantonese and Szechuan, still packed at midnight

8.6/ 10Excellent

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Szechuan ChickenCrispy Wings $11.99Yeung Chow Fried Rice

BalkanVictoria Village$$

Mak Deli

Charcoal cevapi and coiled burek on Lawrence East — the best Balkan grill in the city

8.7/ 10Excellent

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Cevapi $15.59Burek $9.99Combo — 5 Cevapi & 2 Sudjukice $16.59

FrenchQueen West$$$$

Alo

A third-floor tasting menu that has been the city’s benchmark for a decade

9.3/ 10Exceptional

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The Tasting MenuFoie Gras CourseBar Alo Snacks

CanadianFinancial District$$$$

Canoe

Fifty-four floors up, cooking Canada like it means it

9.0/ 10Exceptional

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Bison RibeyeArctic CharChef’s Tasting Menu

FrenchForest Hill$$$$

Scaramouche

The occasion restaurant Toronto has been booking for fifty years

9.0/ 10Exceptional

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Coconut Cream PieSeasonal FishPasta Bar Menu

FrenchYork Mills$$$$

Auberge du Pommier

Two nineteenth-century woodcutters’ cottages, and the most formal French room north of Bloor

8.9/ 10Excellent

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Tasting MenuDuckCheese Trolley

SpanishLittle Italy$$$

Bar Isabel

The College Street room that rewrote what a Toronto late dinner looks like

8.9/ 10Excellent

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Grilled OctopusWhole Grilled FishJamón & Pan con Tomate

ContemporaryYorkville$$$$

Alobar Yorkville

The Alo group’s à la carte room — the cooking without the four-hour commitment

8.8/ 10Excellent

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OystersDry-Aged BurgerWhole Roasted Fish

JapaneseHarbord Village$$$$

Yasu

Toronto’s first omakase-only counter, and still one of its calmest rooms

8.8/ 10Excellent

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Omakase CounterAged TunaUni

CanadianDowntown Yonge$$$

Richmond Station

The city’s most reliable good dinner, in a basement off Yonge

8.7/ 10Excellent

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Stn. BurgerBeet TortelliniWhole Animal Special

SpanishLittle Italy$$

Bar Raval

A standing-room pintxos bar with the most beautiful interior in the city

8.7/ 10Excellent

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GildaTortillaConservas

BakeryMimico$

SanRemo Bakery

The Royal York institution people queue outside before 8am

8.7/ 10Excellent

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Veal SandwichCornettoFocaccia al Trancio

ItalianLittle Italy$$$

Giulietta

Rob Rossi’s College Street Italian — the grown-up option on a young street

8.7/ 10Excellent

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TagliatelleRicotta GnudiWhole Branzino

EgyptianRiverdale$$

Maha’s

Egyptian breakfast in Riverdale, with a queue that forms in the rain

8.6/ 10Excellent

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Maha’s TraditionalHalawa French ToastShakshuka

ItalianKing West$$$

Buca

King West Italian in a boiler room, still serving the best nose-to-tail salumi in town

8.6/ 10Excellent

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NodiniBigoliSalumi Board

ChineseLittle Italy$$$

DaiLo 大佬

New Chinese cooking on College that never once plays it safe

8.6/ 10Excellent

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Big Mac BaoFried Watermelon & Pork BellyTruffle Chow Mein

JapaneseDundas West$$

Hanmoto

A hidden Dundas West izakaya with a fried chicken sandwich people plan evenings around

8.6/ 10Excellent

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Dynamite SandoYakitori SkewersChef’s Sashimi

MexicanKensington Market$

Seven Lives

Baja tacos out of a Kensington doorway, eaten standing up

8.5/ 10Excellent

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Gobernador TacoBaja Fish TacoCamarón Taco

Middle EasternEntertainment District$$$

Byblos

Eastern Mediterranean sharing plates in a room built for a good night

8.5/ 10Excellent

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Lamb ShoulderTurkish Fried ChickenZa’atar Flatbread

IndianHillcrest$$$

Pukka

Indian cooking on St Clair West with none of the buffet-era baggage

8.5/ 10Excellent

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Butter ChickenGoan Fish CurryKale Pakora

ChineseWillowdale$$

Ba Shu Ren Jia 巴蜀人家

Sichuan cooking on Yonge that does not adjust itself for anybody

8.5/ 10Excellent

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Boiled Fish in Chilli OilMapo TofuDan Dan Noodles

ChineseDundas West$$

Sunny’s Chinese 陽光小館

Punk-rock Chinese-Canadian cooking that treats the classics as a starting point

8.5/ 10Excellent

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Crispy Chilli BeefMapo TofuSalt & Pepper Squid

BakeryParkdale$

The Tempered Room

French pastry in Parkdale, made by someone who counts the laminations

8.5/ 10Excellent

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Kouign-AmannPlain CroissantSeasonal Tart

AfghanGolden Mile$

Bamiyan Kabob

Afghan kebab and Kabuli pulao, and a queue that has never once been short

8.4/ 10Excellent

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Chapli KabobKabuli PulaoMantu

ThaiEntertainment District$$

Pai Northern Thai Kitchen

Khao soi in a basement that has had a queue since the day it opened

8.4/ 10Excellent

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Khao SoiGai ZaapPad Kee Mao

ChineseWexford$$

Federick Restaurant 客家菜

Hakka-Chinese-Indian cooking, and the chilli chicken every Scarborough kid grew up on

8.4/ 10Excellent

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Chilli ChickenManchurian CauliflowerHakka Noodles

PizzaLeslieville$$

Descendant Detroit Style Pizza

Deep-pan, crisp-edged Detroit pizza in a Leslieville shoebox

8.4/ 10Excellent

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The Motor CityBacon & JalapeñoGarlic Knots

GreekOssington$$$

Mamakas Taverna

Greek cooking on Ossington that finally stopped being about the flaming cheese

8.4/ 10Excellent

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Whole Grilled FishHtipitiLamb Chops

ChineseChinatown$

Mother’s Dumplings 妈妈家的饺子

Hand-folded northern dumplings in Chinatown, still the benchmark

8.4/ 10Excellent

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Pork & Chive DumplingsPan-Fried Pork BunsCumin Lamb

ItalianYonge & Eglinton$$$

Zucca Trattoria

Regional Italian on Yonge, cooked by someone who has stopped chasing anything

8.4/ 10Excellent

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Handmade Pasta of the DayWhole Roasted FishFritto Misto

FrenchLeslieville$$$

Eulalie’s Corner Store

French bistro cooking in Leslieville, done without a single flourish

8.4/ 10Excellent

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Steak FritesDuck ConfitEscargots

CoffeeBloor West Village$

Baka Gallery Cafe

Bloor West Village’s coffee bar, and the best cup between High Park and the Humber

8.4/ 10Excellent

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EspressoFlat WhiteHoney Cake

PakistaniLittle India$$

Lahore Tikka House

Charcoal, chaos and the best value table on Gerrard Street

8.3/ 10Excellent

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Seekh KebabChicken KarahiGarlic Naan

ChineseAgincourt$$$

Fishman Lobster Clubhouse 魚樂軒

Towers of lobster, ordered by the pound, photographed by everyone

8.3/ 10Excellent

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Fried Lobster TowerTyphoon Shelter CrabSteamed Fish

ItalianBloordale$$

Sugo

Italian-American comfort food and a chicken parm the size of a hubcap

8.3/ 10Excellent

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Chicken ParmVodka RigatoniGarlic Bread

ItalianYorkville$$$$

Sotto Sotto

The Yorkville basement where the pasta arrives after the movie stars do

8.3/ 10Excellent

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Lobster LinguineVeal ChopBurrata

Sri LankanMalvern$

Hopper Hut

Sri Lankan hoppers and kottu, cooked to a rhythm you can hear from the car park

8.3/ 10Excellent

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Egg HopperChicken Kottu RotiDevilled Chicken

MalaysianAgincourt$$

Kim Kim Restaurant

Malaysian-Chinese cooking in a Scarborough plaza, and the best hokkien mee in the city

8.3/ 10Excellent

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Hokkien MeeSambal Green BeansRoti Canai

PolishRoncesvalles$$

Café Polonez

Roncesvalles’ Polish institution — pierogi, schnitzel, and no interest in trends

8.3/ 10Excellent

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Pierogi PlatterWiener SchnitzelBigos

PersianWillowdale$$

Sheherzade

Persian kebab and saffron rice in Willowdale, with tea poured all evening

8.3/ 10Excellent

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KoobidehGhormeh SabziTahdig

PizzaThe Junction$$

Vesuvio Pizzeria & Spaghetti House

The Junction’s pizzeria since 1957, and the reason the strip has a centre of gravity

8.3/ 10Excellent

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Pepperoni & MushroomVesuvio SpecialSpaghetti & Meatballs

CanadianLeslieville$$

Avling

A Leslieville brewery with a rooftop farm and a kitchen that takes it seriously

8.3/ 10Excellent

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House Bread & Cultured ButterRooftop SaladGrain Bowl with Pickles

CaribbeanDundas West$$

Patois

Caribbean-Chinese mash-up cooking that has no business working this well

8.3/ 10Excellent

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Jerk Chicken Chow MeinDirty Fried RiceRum Punch

PizzaIslington Village$$

Amico’s Pizza

Thin-crust, blistered, cut in squares — the west end’s quiet standard

8.3/ 10Excellent

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MargheritaHot SopressataGarlic Bread

CaribbeanRiverside$$

The Real Jerk

Forty years of Jamaican cooking on Queen East, still the standard

8.2/ 10Excellent

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Jerk ChickenOxtailFestival

ChineseChinatown$

Swatow 汕頭小食家

Spadina’s late-night Chiu Chow kitchen, unchanged and unbothered

8.2/ 10Excellent

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Beef Ho FunCongee with FishSalt & Pepper Squid

Middle EasternRiverside$$

Tabülè Riverside

Middle Eastern mezze on Queen East that has quietly never had an off night

8.2/ 10Excellent

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MuhammaraLamb Shawarma PlateFalafel

KoreanWillowdale$$

Han Ba Tang

Korean bar food at Yonge & Finch that runs until the small hours

8.2/ 10Excellent

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Korean Fried ChickenSeafood PajeonRosé Tteokbokki

FilipinoWexford$$

Casa Manila

Filipino cooking on Victoria Park, in a proper dining room rather than a turo-turo

8.2/ 10Excellent

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Crispy PataKare-KareSinigang na Baboy

ItalianDavisville$$

Five Doors North

Family-style Italian on Yonge that still refuses to explain itself

8.2/ 10Excellent

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Rapini & SausageVeal ParmigianaGrilled Calamari

PizzaOssington$$

Pizzeria Libretto

The Neapolitan pizza that set Toronto’s standard, still holding it

8.2/ 10Excellent

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MargheritaDuck Confit PizzaArancini

CaribbeanMalvern$

Chris Jerk

Drum-smoked jerk in Scarborough, cooked over pimento wood in a car park

8.2/ 10Excellent

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Jerk ChickenJerk PorkRice & Peas

BrunchDundas West$$

The Federal

A tiny Dundas West room doing the best breakfast sandwich in the west end

8.2/ 10Excellent

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The Federal Breakfast SandwichFull BreakfastButtermilk Pancakes

CoffeeMimico$

Birds and Beans Coffee

Mimico’s roaster, and the reason Lake Shore mornings work

8.2/ 10Excellent

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Filter CoffeeCortadoPastry Counter

BakeryBloor West Village$

Mabel’s Bakery

Sourdough, butter tarts and a queue that says everything

8.2/ 10Excellent

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Sourdough LoafButter TartAlmond Croissant

GreekGreektown$

Messini Authentic Gyros

The Danforth gyro that ruined every other gyro for you

8.1/ 10Excellent

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Pork GyroChicken Souvlaki PlatterLoukoumades

JapaneseChurch-Wellesley$$

Kinka Izakaya

The izakaya that taught Toronto to shout its order across a room

8.1/ 10Excellent

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Kinoko BaconEbi MayoBeef Sashimi

ChineseWillowdale$$

Congee Queen 皇后名粥

A two-hundred-item menu, and the congee is still the reason to go

8.1/ 10Excellent

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Sliced Fish CongeeClay Pot RiceSalt & Pepper Pork Chop

IndianBayview Village$$

Amaya

Bayview’s Indian room, cooking well above what the plaza suggests

8.1/ 10Excellent

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Black DalLamb ChopsButter Chicken

BakeryRiverside$$

Bonjour Brioche

A Queen East bakery-café that has been doing the same thing perfectly since 1996

8.1/ 10Excellent

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Quiche of the DayBriocheCroque Monsieur

ChineseAgincourt$$

Hakka Legend 客家傳奇

The other side of the Hakka argument, and the one with the better chilli paneer

8.1/ 10Excellent

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Chilli PaneerLollipop ChickenHot Garlic Vegetables

GastropubThe Junction$$

Indie Alehouse

The brewery that made the Junction a destination, with a kitchen that keeps up

8.1/ 10Excellent

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Fried ChickenSmoked BrisketBeer-Cheese & Pretzel

BarbecueSummerhill$$

Big Crow

A back-alley barbecue patio in Summerhill that only really works outdoors

8.1/ 10Excellent

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Smoked BrisketGrilled CornWhole Grilled Trout

ItalianThe Kingsway$$$

Eden Trattoria

The Kingsway’s book-a-table Italian, and it earns the booking

8.1/ 10Excellent

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Cacio e PepeVeal MilaneseBurrata

ItalianYonge & Eglinton$$

Grazie Ristorante

The Yonge & Eglinton Italian that has never taken a reservation and never needed to

8.0/ 10Excellent

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Pizza SardegnaPenne Alla VodkaCalamari Fritti

ItalianEntertainment District$$

Terroni Adelaide

Southern Italian in an old courthouse, and no, they will not change the pizza

8.0/ 10Excellent

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Pizza SofiaSpaghettini VodkaMelanzane

VeganYorkville$$$

Planta Yorkville

Plant-based cooking that convinced Yorkville, which is not an easy room

8.0/ 10Excellent

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Ahi Watermelon NigiriCauliflower TotsQueso Fundido

BrunchLeslieville$$

Lady Marmalade

Leslieville brunch that survived the neighbourhood becoming brunch

8.0/ 10Excellent

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Huevos RancherosEggs BenedictVegan Chorizo Hash

BakeryBathurst Manor$

Bagel World

Montreal-style bagels out of a wood oven on Wilson, since before it was a trend

8.0/ 10Excellent

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Sesame BagelLox & Cream Cheese BagelSmoked Meat Sandwich

ChineseChinatown$

Rol San 龙笙

Dim sum until 4am, ordered off a paper slip, exactly as it should be

8.0/ 10Excellent

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Har GowSiu MaiBeef Rice Noodle Roll

BarbecueRoncesvalles$$$

Barque Smokehouse

Roncesvalles barbecue that treats smoke as cooking rather than costume

8.0/ 10Excellent

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Beef BrisketBaby Back RibsSmoked Cauliflower

Fish & ChipsThe Kingsway$$

Kingsway Fish & Chips

Battered haddock, vinegar, newsprint energy — unchanged and unbothered

8.0/ 10Excellent

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Haddock & ChipsHalibut & ChipsHomemade Coleslaw

ThaiDowntown Yonge$

Salad King

Student-priced Thai with a heat scale that goes further than you will

7.9/ 10Very good

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Chicken Green CurryPad ThaiCrispy Basil Chicken

ChineseAgincourt$

Congee Wong 王記粥

Late-night Cantonese in Scarborough, and the congee is still the right call

7.9/ 10Very good

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Preserved Egg & Pork CongeeBeef Brisket Noodle SoupBaked Pork Chop Rice

KoreanWillowdale$

Sunrise House

The 24-hour Korean kitchen that has fed North York at every hour there is

7.9/ 10Very good

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Sundubu JjigaeHaejanggukBibimbap

PubMimico$$

The Blue Goose Tavern

A genuine 19th-century Mimico pub that never got renovated into blandness

7.9/ 10Very good

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Fish & ChipsWingsBurger

ContemporaryRoncesvalles$$$

The Westerly

Roncesvalles’ dining room and bar in one, and it manages both

7.9/ 10Very good

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OystersSteak FritesSeasonal Vegetable Plate

ItalianThe Junction$$

Nodo

The Junction’s neighbourhood Italian — pasta, a patio, and no ceremony

7.9/ 10Very good

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Cacio e PepeGnocchiProsciutto & Arugula Pizza

MexicanThe Junction$$

Playa Cabana Cantina

Mezcal, margaritas and tacos in a room that has never once been quiet

7.8/ 10Very good

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Al Pastor TacosGuacamole & ChipsMargarita

PizzaRoncesvalles$$

Pizzeria Defina

Roncesvalles’ everyday pizza — thin, blistered, and never a production

7.8/ 10Very good

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MargheritaFennel SausageArugula & Prosciutto

PubBloor West Village$$

Bryden’s

The Village local — dark wood, real pints, and a kitchen better than it needs to be

7.7/ 10Very good

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Fish & ChipsBryden’s BurgerWings

Frequently asked

What is the best Chinese restaurant in Etobicoke?: New Flower Drum, at 2428 Lake Shore Blvd W in Mimico. Family-run since 1963, it cooks Cantonese, Szechuan and Hong Kong-style food, is fully licensed, and serves until 1am on Friday and Saturday. Combination dinners start around $11.50 and delivery is free over $40.
How do you score restaurants?: Every restaurant gets four scores out of ten — food, service, value and room — and an overall figure. Splitting them out matters: a 9 for food and a 5 for service is a very different night out from a flat 7, and a single star rating hides that.
Do you accept payment for reviews?: No. WhereToEatNow takes no payment, free meals, hosted visits or affiliate commission from any restaurant listed. Every review is written first-hand and published unpaid.
Where should I eat in Etobicoke?: Start with New Flower Drum in Mimico for Chinese, SanRemo Bakery on Royal York for the veal sandwich, and The Blue Goose Tavern for a patio pint. The Kingsway has the neighbourhood’s occasion restaurants; The Queensway and Lake Shore have the value.
What is open late in Etobicoke?: Very little, which is why New Flower Drum matters — its kitchen runs to 1am on Friday and Saturday nights. Downtown, Rol San in Chinatown serves dim sum until 4am and Bar Isabel’s kitchen runs to 1am.
Do you cover restaurants outside Etobicoke?: Yes — there is a full Toronto guide covering downtown, the west end, the east end, midtown, North York and Scarborough, with more than sixty restaurants scored the same way as everything else on the site.
Where can I get cevapi and burek in Toronto?: Mak Deli at 1335 Lawrence Ave E in Victoria Village. Cevapi are charcoal-grilled, $15.59 for ten pieces, and burek is baked fresh daily at $9.99 whole. It also caters — 100 cevapi for $102 and burek trays from $38. Call (416) 444-0719.