NowServingTOThis Week in Toronto · May 29, 2026
THIS WEEK IN TORONTO

Toronto's Tamil kitchens, Scarborough's everyday wave

6 licensed in the past year. From the City of Toronto’s nightly registry.

Pictured: AATHAVAN UNAVAKAM
2
Past 3 months
6
Past 12 months

Scarborough holds one of the densest concentrations of Tamil-owned food businesses anywhere outside South Asia. The 6 Tamil kitchens below sit on Markham Rd, Brimley, McNicoll, Eglinton East — kothu roti stalls, idiyappam-and-curry counters, Jaffna-style mutton specialists, dosa kitchens. 0 licensed in just the past 30 days.

The 6 most recently licensed

Click any card to open the restaurant's Google Maps profile. Cards link out to live listings.
AATHAVAN UNAVAKAM
3MO AGO

AATHAVAN UNAVAKAM

501 Passmore Ave unit 28, Scarborough, ON M1V 5G4 Scarborough
TASTE OF EELAM
3MO AGO

TASTE OF EELAM

210 Markham Rd, Scarborough, ON M1J 3C2 Scarborough
EELAM FUSION
4MO AGO

EELAM FUSION

3331 Markham Rd Unit 120, Scarborough, ON M1X 1S8 Scarborough
DOSA BOYZ
7MO AGO

DOSA BOYZ

6210 Finch Ave W B108, Etobicoke, ON M9V 0A1 Etobicoke

Where they're opening

All 6 kitchens, by Toronto district. Concentration tells you where the Tamil community's commercial footprint is densest right now.
Scarborough
5
Etobicoke
1