Tracking Toronto's newest, independent, registered restaurants
New restaurants in Etobicoke, Toronto: 22 licensed in the past year (1 in the last 30 days), tracked daily from the City of Toronto business-licence registry (chains excluded). The most recent is KILIMANJARO RESTAURANT & LOUNGE/KILIMANJARO, first seen 22 days ago.
"First seen" reflects when each restaurant first surfaced in our combined evidence — City permit, public-health inspection, social media — usually within a few weeks of opening, but a permit can lead actual opening by months. How we verify ›
A Tanzanian kitchen serving tilapia with coconut Masala, ugali a broader East African menu in a sit-down format with lounge seating. · No website yet.
A Gujarati snack kitchen specializing in gathiya, fafda Kathiyawadi flavours. · No website yet.
A Greek café serving espresso drinks alongside European-inflected comfort food.
A Trinidadian kitchen serving Roti and Caribbean street food in a counter-service format. · No website yet.
A Nigerian kitchen offering the full span of West African home cooking in a sit-down format with lounge service. · No website yet.
A Yucatecan kitchen operating from a compact North York counter, focused on the peninsula's regional dishes rather than the generic Mexican repertoire found elsewhere in the city. · No website yet.
A Mediterranean kitchen anchored in fresh fish, Layali operates as a full sit-down restaurant with a working bar and seafood-forward menu. · No website yet.
A Hakka kitchen serving Indo-Chinese takeaway with halal certification, a format combining two diaspora traditions rarely found together in the city.
Tamil and South Indian cuisine from a kitchen drawing on Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh Tamil Nadu.
A vegetarian Maharashtrian street food kitchen specializing in Misal Pav and vadapav, the spiced legume curry and fried potato cakes that define Mumbai's food culture. · No website yet.
A Pani Puri counter serving Indian street food in the format it demands: quick, assembled to order built for standing-room consumption. · No website yet.
A Mexican kitchen operating on Browns Line in the southern Etobicoke stretch where the dining strip runs closer to industrial Alderwood than to any established Taco corridor. · No website yet.
A Gujarati sweets and savoury snack counter specializing in farshan (fried nibbles) and traditional Indian mithai made fresh daily.
Italian takeout and dine-in kitchen operated by sole proprietor Rameena Ismail, licensed in November 2024. · No website yet.
A vegetarian Tamil kitchen specializing in Dosa, the fermented rice-and-lentil crepe that forms the backbone of South Indian breakfast and light meals.
Delish Kitchen brings Turkish and Mediterranean flavours to Etobicoke's Horner Ave, a neighbourhood that doesn't see much Turkish cooking despite the city's large Turkish…
Pani Puri is a street snack built around crispy, hollow spheres of fried dough filled with spiced potatoes, chickpeas tangy water, eaten by hand in single bites.
Gujarati vegetarian cooking from the Kathiyawadi region, served as fixed thalis, street snacks à la carte curries. · No website yet.
A vegetarian North Indian kitchen specializing in Punjabi street food and Parathas.
Pakistani and Indian halal cooking, formatted for takeaway and dine-in service.
Nigerian cloud kitchen and food truck operating out of Lockport Avenue in Etobicoke.
Caribbean cooking in a full-service restaurant and bar format, drawing on the foodways of the islands. · No website yet.
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