Here is a shortlist of some of our favorite places we tried while there for just a weekend trip. Overall, Toronto is a super livable city with delicious food, and I can’t wait to go back! It’s a super short flight from NYC (under 1 hour).

You might also be wondering how we managed to fit in all of these places in just 2 days. Between myself and Dave, we share everything!

St. Lawrence Market: Carousel Bakery, Buster’s Sea Cove, Mike’s Fish Market
Dainties
Honest Weight
Grey Gardens
Score on King
Stackt Market: Donut Monster, Chen Chen’s Hot Chicken
Nadege Patisserie
Bang Bang Ice Cream Sandwich & Bakery
Bellwoods Brewery

St. Lawrence Market was named the world’s best food market by National Geographic in 2012, and it’s not hard to see why. There’s a farmer’s market on Saturdays, and so many mouthwatering food choices. It was very difficult to choose what to eat.

St. Lawrence Market
92 – 95 FRONT ST EAST – TORONTO

Carousel Bakery
We had the iconic peameal bacon sandwich, stuffed full of bacon (Canadian/English style) in freshly baked bread. Perfect for breakfast, lunch, dinner…

Buster’s Sea Cove
It was a difficult choice here: so many seafood sandwiches and fish fry platters. But we had just shared a huge bacon sandwich, so we shared a fresh, Boston Blue on a Bun.

Mike’s Fish Market
This was the third and last stop at the St. Lawrence Market. I couldn’t resist a dozen freshly shucked Canadian oysters.

Dainties
235 Spadina Ave #2, Toronto, ON

How can you make the down to earth ice cream sandwich more bougie? Use macarons! These macarons are gorgeous, full of height, and so delicious. Since we didn’t want to ruin our lunch appetite, Dave and I only shared one Earl Grey Tea.

Honest Weight
2766 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON

Toronto is a seafood lover’s dream come true. Honest Weight is a small, cozy fish market / neighborhood restaurant. Great customer service, with fantastic food to boot. Another added plus is that they use cute old fashioned china to plate up – Love it! We were here for a late weekend lunch (3-ish). The standout dishes were the cod collar (hard to find tasty ones in NY) and the buckwheat crepe with smoked trout, crispy potato, trout roe (topped with maple beurre blanc & creme fraiche) – such a delectable combination!

Grey Gardens
199 Augusta Ave, Toronto, ON

Whatever you do, do NOT hesitate in making a reservation at Grey Gardens if you are going to Toronto. I think I had one of my favorite meals this year at this restaurant. They pair interesting ingredients with comforting dishes, and the result is just something to be savoured. Every bite I took felt like I was living life to the fullest. Furthermore, Dave & I were seated at the counter where we could see the skilled chefs hard at work. While I think everything tasted lovely, the standout in my opinion was the Veal & Matsutake cavatelli. They used ground veal, and the cavatelli was perfectly al dente. There was parmesan cooked into the pasta, and raw, shaved matsutake over the top. I have never had raw Matsutake over pasta and it was just divine.

Score on King
107 King Street East, Toronto, ON

We were not about to leave Toronto without trying the national cocktail: the mighty Caesar. Replace the tomato juice in the typical Bloody Mary with Clamato juice, and you now have a seafood kick! Score on King does some sick artistic food art on top of their drinks (aka burgers and wings and desserts, etc layered on top of a Caesar) but apparently they don’t make them on the weekend (they need time to prepare them). Plan accordingly if you want to try it! Dave and I shared one with fixins’ and one other plain one – this was our pre breakfast wake up call on Sunday.

Stackt Market
28 Bathurst Street, Toronto ON

Donut Monster
Carefully crafted, made from scratch, constantly changing flavors… I hardly have anything bad to say about Donut Monster. We shared the Brown Butter Walnut Donut and it was soo good.

Chen Chen’s Hot Chicken
If you thought the hot chicken crazy hadn’t hit Toronto, you thought wrong. There’s a bit of Nashville in Canada too! Personally thought the sauce was a bit sweet for my liking but this sandwich had the right amount of heat.

Nadege Patisserie
780 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON

We didnt have enough macarons from Dainties so much we had to have them again. Lots of carefully crafted flavors at Nadege Patisserie – the Peruvian Chocolate (red one) and Fleur de Sel (brown one) were the favorites.

Bang Bang Ice Cream & Bakery
93A Ossington Ave

We were recommended to try an ice cream sandwich here. So despite the light rain and fairly cool weather, we decided to make a stop here. Typically it seems like there are long lines but with the weather and the summer season over, there wasn’t any wait at all. Since Dave’s allergic to peanuts, we had to be careful of the cookies with nuts in them. We ended up trying 1 scoop of Dulce de Leche, 1 scoop of WTF (dark chocolate) in between the B’Day Cookie (sugar cookie with colored sprinkles). The ice cream was so good- it had a gooey, creamy texture and not too sweet. The cookie itself was a bit harder than I would have liked, but still worked well to hold the sandwich together.

Bellwoods Brewery
124 Ossington Ave., Toronto, ON

Bellwoods Brewery was our final stop before having to hop on our flight back to NYC, and what a great way to say good bye to this awesome foodie city. I’ve really been into sour beers recently, and the Jelly King was so refreshingly satisfying.

Did you try these places too? Let us know what you think, and let us know where we need to eat next time in Toronto!