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Restaurants In Toronto
The following is a list of notable restaurants in Canada. As of 2021, there were over 97,000 restaurants, bars, and caterers in Canada, with this sector contributing towards 1.5% of the country's GDP. By location (province/territory, city) This section excludes large chain restaurants based outside of the listed location. See list of Canadian restaurant chains instead. Alberta British Columbia * Rocko's Diner * Sooke Harbour House * Mr. Mike's Vancouver Manitoba * Salisbury House New Brunswick * Greco Pizza Restaurant * Pizza Delight Newfoundland and Labrador Northwest Territories * Surly Bob's * The Wildcat Cafe Nova Scotia * Bud the Spud * The Chickenburger * Halifax Alehouse * King of Donair * The Red Shoe Ontario * Chez Piggy * Oasis Drive-In * Restaurant Pearl Morissette * Webers Ottawa * Alice * Atelier * Colonnade Pizza * House of Targ * Kettleman's Bagel Co. * Newport Restaurant * North & Navy * Perch * Rideau Street ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Economy Of Canada
The economy of Canada is a Developed country, highly developed mixed economy. It is the world's List of countries by GDP (nominal), ninth-largest with a nominal GDP of approximately . Canada is one of the world's largest trading nations, with a highly globalized economy. In 2021, Canadian trade in goods and services reached $2.016 trillion. Canada's exports totalled over $637 billion, while its imported goods were worth over $631 billion, of which approximately $391 billion originated from the United States. In 2018, Canada had a trade deficit in goods of $22 billion and a trade deficit in services of $25 billion. The Toronto Stock Exchange is the List of stock exchanges, tenth-largest stock exchange in the world by market capitalization, listing over 1,500 companies with a combined market capitalization of over . Canada has a strong cooperative banking sector, with the world's highest per-capita membership in credit unions. It ranks low in the Cor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Webers
Webers (also known as Webers Hamburgers) is a hamburger restaurant on Ontario Highway 11, located 15 kilometres north of Orillia, Ontario that opened in July 1963. Webers grills their burgers over charcoal, with a grill man said to be able to flip up to 800 patties an hour. Long line ups are a common sight at the restaurant, which made the restaurant build a footbridge over the highway to provide access for guests from the southbound side. The restaurant's hamburger patties are also sold at Loblaws outlets. As of 2009, Webers is reported to sell approximately 8,000 hamburgers on a typically busy Friday. The restaurant is open weekends from Thanksgiving until Christmas, but closed from January to March break. History Webers was opened on July 11, 1963, by Paul Weber Sr., to cater to cottage goers. By the 1970s, it became so popular that patrons on the opposite side of the highway would often risk injury running across the street to the restaurant. In 1981, the province built a tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tucker's Marketplace
Tucker's Marketplace is a buffet restaurant in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It opened in 2023. Previously it was a chain of restaurants, with locations in Burlington, Mississauga, Pickering, and Toronto. It was founded decades earlier as Mother Tucker's Food Experience, an à la carte restaurant. The company ceased operations in June 2020, a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on the buffet format. On January 24, 2023, the company announced the Ottawa location would re-open on January 25, 2023. The restaurant's name is a reference to a colloquial expression in British English; "tuck in" meaning to commence the consumption of a large meal. Mother Tucker's Food Experience Winnipeg entrepreneur Oscar Grubert opened the first location in February 1976, in downtown Edmonton, at 10184 104 Street. Its location was a brick warehouse built in 1927. According to ''The Globe and Mail'', "The interior is a dimly lit rabbit warren (lined with barn siding, criss-crossed with huge wooden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SuzyQ Doughnuts
SuzyQ Doughnuts is a small chain of doughnut shops located in Ottawa, Ontario. History The original location of the doughnut shop was opened in Ottawa's Hintonburg neighbourhood by Canada Post mailwoman Susan Hamer in spring 2012. In the years prior to opening the shop, Hamer made doughnuts in her home kitchen and sold them at the Lansdowne Park Farmer's Market and other craft fairs in the area. The initial Hintonburg location was a small, repurposed three-room wooden shack off a parking lot on Wellington Street West. With no dining area and offering takeout service only, the bakery drew long lines each morning, with demand far outpacing the amount of doughnuts which could be produced. Hamer described her doughnuts as "something egalitarian" that "didn’t seem too exclusive or appeal to ust onecrowd." SuzyQ's signature doughnut, the Sugar Munkki, was inspired by a recipe for twisted sugar and cardamom-spiced pastries (called munkii) from Hamer's Finnish-Canadian mother. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shawarma Palace
Shawarma Palace is a small chain of Lebanese-style shawarma restaurants located in Ottawa, Ontario. History The restaurant opened its original location in 1996. It quickly became established as one of the more notable shawarma restaurants in Ottawa, a city where the dish has become an unexpectedly dominant fast-food staple. Ottawa is home to one of the highest concentrations of shawarma shops in North America, with more locations than major fast-food burger chains combined. The city's shawarma boom traces back to the 1980s, when Lebanese immigrants popularized the late-night shawarma scene among the city's bar crowd, cementing its status as Ottawa’s quintessential street food. The flagship location of Shawarma Palace on Rideau Street operates until 2 a.m. on weekends and is within walking distance of the ByWard Market, a neighbourhood renowned for its vibrant nightlife and bar scene. The business has expanded to multiple locations over its years of operation. In 2017, there were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riviera (restaurant)
Riviera is a contemporary restaurant in the Downtown neighbourhood of Ottawa, Ontario. History The restaurant opened in the summer of 2016, occupying a former Art Deco building built in 1869 that previously served as the Ottawa headquarters of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. It was opened by chef-owners Matthew Carmichael and Jordan Holley, as part of the York Street Entertainment restaurant group. The owners kept much of the building's original design features, including its 50-foot white plaster tray ceiling and marble floors and panel walls. Other design features for the restaurant, such as the chandeliers and brass bar area, were created by local interior design company Linebox Studio. The former bank's two vaults were also re-purposed, with one serving as the restaurant's wine cellar and kitchen, and other converted into communal washrooms. The owners cited the vision of the restaurant was to be "casual fine dining", where individuals would be comfortable showing up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rideau Street McDonald's
The Rideau Street McDonald's was an infamous McDonald's restaurant franchise located at 99 Rideau Street in the ByWard Market neighbourhood of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was once dubbed the "'World's Worst McDonald's" by the ''Toronto Star''. 99 Rideau St. The restaurant's location at 99 Rideau Street was part of a building called "The Atwood", built in 1908 as an apartment building. It was given a heritage property designation in 1983 under the ''Ontario Heritage Act'', following the demolition of properties across the street to make way for the construction of the Rideau Centre. That year, the city approved construction of a shopping centre on the site which would incorporate the building's façade. McDonald's opened its location at 99 Rideau in 1985. The restaurant once spread across three floors, with seating on the main floor, a mezzanine above and the food service counter and kitchen below. The location downsized in the early 2000s with everything condensed to the main ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perch (restaurant)
Perch is a restaurant located in the Centretown West neighbourhood of Ottawa, Ontario. History The business was opened in 2021 by chef-owner Justin Champagne-Lagarde. Before founding Perch, Champagne-Lagarde was the sous-chef at Atelier, a restaurant renowned for its use of molecular gastronomy and frequently ranked among the best in Canada. The restaurant's name, Perch, is both a nod to the local fish and a symbolic reference to the business's origins — taking over a property where another restaurant once stood, now offering a place for its culinary successor to take flight. Since its opening, Champagne-Lagarde has introduced several iterations of Perch's dining format. Initially, the restaurant offered a five-course tasting menu during an early seating and a nine-course menu later in the evening. It also split the restaurant between a main 'dining area' and a 'lounge area', with the former offering the tasting menu and the latter offering a la carte dining and cocktails. As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North & Navy
North & Navy is an Italian restaurant located in the Centretown neighbourhood of Ottawa, Ontario. History The restaurant was opened in February 2015 by business partners Christopher Schlesak and Adam Vettorel, seeking to replicate the ambiance and design of a bacaro, a traditional Venetian wine bar, and specializes in Venetian cuisine, emphasizing small plates and regional flavours. Vettorel also serves as the restaurant's head chef. Most Italian restaurants in the Ottawa area primarily feature cuisine from southern Italy. The owners of North & Navy sought a name that would intentionally distinguish their establishment from these restaurants while emphasizing its focus on northern Italian cuisine, ultimately selecting ''North & Navy''. From its conception until early 2025, North & Navy foregoed a tasting menu, instead serving its cuisine a la carte. In May 2025, the restaurant began offering the option of a tasting menu to guests. In January 2022, Ottawa was subject to a thre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newport Restaurant
Moe's Newport Restaurant is a Lebanese cuisine, Lebanese restaurant and pizzeria located at the intersection of Churchill and Scott in the Westboro, Ottawa, Westboro neighborhood of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It had previously been located at Richmond and Churchill in Westboro. Moe's also operates a kiosk and patio at Westboro Beach. History Moe's was founded by Moe Atallah, a Lebanese restaurateur who was forced to leave his family's restaurant and flee Lebanon in 1976 following the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War. He worked at various restaurants, including a Greek restaurant on Rideau Street and the Colonnade Pizzeria on Metcalfe Street (Ottawa), Metcalfe Street, before purchasing the Newport Restaurant, then a diner, in 1988. Atallah now owns several other restaurants in the National Capital Region (Canada), National Capital Region. Heather Crowe (activist), Heather Crowe, a Canadian anti-smoking activist, was diagnosed with lung cancer after being exposed to secondhand s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Targ
House of Targ is a live music venue, arcade and pierogi restaurant in Ottawa, Canada. The venue opened April 17, 2014, with a live performance from Toronto band PUP. Most of the bands booked belong to the rock, indie, alternative, punk, hardcore, metal, ska, synth categories. Some bands and artists that have performed at House of TARG include Pup, The Nils, Rational Youth, The Real McKenzies, UK Subs, Neil Hamburger, Angry Samoans, Agathocles, Extreme Noise Terror, Dead Brain Cells, David Liebe Hart, B.A. Johnston, Rich Aucoin, Chixdiggit, Anciients, Hibria, Dayglo Abortions, Screaming Females, The Courtneys, C. J. Ramone, Ian Blurton Ian Blurton (born 1965) is a Canadian musician and record producer. Early life He was born in Champaign, Illinois in 1965, and moved to Toronto in 1973. Musical career He has been a part of Toronto's indie music scene since the early 1980s. He ..., Truckfighters, Bob Log III, Re-Animator (band), Re-Animator, Gorod (band), Gorod, Mike ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
