Restaurants that opened in August 2025 in Toronto
Published August 29, 2025 at 1:07 pm
Restaurants that opened in August in Toronto brought us all kinds of new flavours from old and new faces. Pop-ups have turned into full-fledged restaurants, businesses from other places have opened their first Toronto restaurants, and fun ideas that are entirely new have come to fruition.
Here are restaurants that opened in August in Toronto.
Restaurateur Hemant Bhagwani of Goa and Indian Street Food Co. is at it again with this new luxury restaurant serving up global flavours in “seasons” and “episodes.”
This restaurant for Portuguese chicken from Montreal just opened their first Toronto location at Waterworks Food Hall this past month.
Once a lockdown project, this concept has now blossomed into a modern Indonesian bistro on the Danforth.
The brothers behind Michelin-recognized Taline are taking things in a more casual direction with this new stall at Wellington Market serving kebab sandwiches.
Find this sophisticated restaurant serving a $39 prix fixe lunch along with its sibling hidden speakeasy Bar Cart on The Esplanade.
This sandwich spot specializing in focaccia just opened its doors in Kensington Market.
This swanky new taphouse with two happy hours every day and tons of shareable eats like pizza just opened in the Financial District.
This Italian sandwich spot that makes their own schiacciatta bread has now opened its doors on Queen West.
High Park is now home to this new Ukrainian gastropub from the person behind a pierogi project.