⭐ Fine Dining
Toronto’s Michelin Restaurants
Toronto became the first Canadian city to get its own MICHELIN Guide in 2022, and the list has grown every year since. The current selection — MICHELIN Guide Toronto & Region, announced 18 September 2025 — covers 106 restaurants across 31 cuisine types, with 17 holding stars.
This isn’t usually our beat. Toronto Foodiee lives in strip malls and charcoal grills. But if you want to know where the GTA’s fine dining actually stands, here it is — and stick around for the Bib Gourmand list at the bottom, because that’s the part most of us can actually afford.
⭐⭐ Two Michelin Stars
Two stars means excellent cooking, worth a detour. Exactly one restaurant in the region holds two, and there are no three-star restaurants here — not yet.
Restaurant Pearl Morissette — Jordan Station
Promoted to two stars in the 2025 guide, and now the only two-star restaurant in the region. Chef Daniel Hadida’s hyper-seasonal menu sits on a 42-acre property in Niagara wine country that is also a farm, orchard, bakery and winery — the wine on your table is theirs, though the juice pairing is worth a look too. It also holds a Green Star for sustainability. It’s a drive from the GTA, and by every account worth it.
⭐ One Michelin Star
High-quality cooking, worth a stop. These are the names that come up most often:
- Sushi Masaki Saito — Yorkville. Canada’s most decorated sushi counter: eight seats, 20-plus courses of edomae sushi, fish flown in from Tokyo’s Toyosu Market. It held two stars for years and was dropped to one in the 2025 guide — the biggest upset of that ceremony. Still expect $500+ per person.
- Alo — Spadina Ave, Chinatown. Chef Patrick Kriss’s 12-course French-contemporary tasting menu on a third floor above Spadina, and Toronto’s most decorated one-star room. Reopened with a redesigned interior in March 2026. Roughly $300–$400 per person. Downstairs, Aloette does a far more accessible version at $80–$120.
- Edulis — Niagara Street. Tobey Nemeth and Michael Caballo’s intimate room with an ever-changing menu — Mediterranean technique, Canadian ingredients. Truffles in winter, foraged mushrooms in autumn. Often recommended as the most approachable starred kitchen in the city.
- Don Alfonso 1890 — Southern Italian, downtown.
- Restaurant 20 Victoria — St. Lawrence. Small room, produce-led, seasonal.
- aKin — awarded its first star in the 2025 guide, and chef Eric Chong took that year’s Young Chef Award. A tasting menu drawing on his own Chinese heritage and influences from across Asia, with ingredients sourced from Nova Scotia to British Columbia.
- Aburi Hana — Yorkville. Kaiseki served on handmade Arita pottery. Note: reported as temporarily closed — check before booking.
Seventeen restaurants across Toronto & Region hold stars in the current guide. The names above are the most prominent; for the complete official list, see the MICHELIN Guide directly.
🌿 Green Star
Michelin’s sustainability award. Ontario has three: Restaurant Pearl Morissette, White Lily Diner (Queen East — a diner and bakery with zero-waste practices), and Sundays in Uxbridge, which earned its first Green Star in 2025. The Sundays team farms nearby and harvests each morning, bringing in only what they need that day.
🍽️ Bib Gourmand — the list that actually matters
Bib Gourmand is Michelin’s award for great food at moderate prices — typically a full meal under $60–$80. It gets a fraction of the attention the stars get, and it’s the category most people should actually be reading. Toronto’s Bib list is broad and multicultural, and it includes places that look a lot more like the spots we cover.
One example: Indian Street Food Company in Leaside has held a Bib Gourmand since 2022. Michelin recognition and a South Asian kitchen aren’t separate worlds.
What the stars don’t cover
A fair observation: the starred list is heavily downtown, heavily tasting-menu, and heavily European and Japanese. There is no starred Pakistani kitchen in the GTA. No starred shawarma counter. Nothing starred in Brampton.
Mississauga is the clearest case. A city of 750,000 people with one of the deepest South Asian and Middle Eastern food scenes in the country has no star at all — its entire showing is a single Bib Gourmand (Guru Lukshmi, the first ever awarded in the city) plus a couple of recommendations. You can see the whole thing on the guide’s Mississauga page, and our own take on Best Food in Mississauga.
That isn’t a knock on Michelin — it rates a particular kind of restaurant, and rates it well. But it does mean a guide to the GTA’s best eating that stops at the star list is missing most of the region. A $22 charcoal-grilled half chicken in a Mississauga plaza and a $500 omakase counter are both worth knowing about. We just spend more of our time on the first one.
Star ratings, Green Stars and Bib Gourmand designations are awarded by the MICHELIN Guide, not by Toronto Foodiee. Details reflect the MICHELIN Guide Toronto & Region selection announced 18 September 2025, compiled from the MICHELIN Guide, Destination Ontario and Toronto dining guides. The guide is updated annually each autumn, and restaurants open, close and change hands — always confirm directly before booking. MICHELIN is a trademark of Michelin; this page is independent editorial coverage.