Top 5 butcher shops in Toronto
Published November 14, 2025 at 2:45 pm
Butcher shops in Toronto are the best places to get the freshest, highest quality meat to cook at home for your meals, whether it’s just for yourself, for your immediate family, or for a crowd. They typically have knowledgeable staff on hand to explain all kinds of cuts and ways to cook them.
The best part is, many butcher shops also sell products that make cooking easy, with lots of ready made meals and prepared products. Some butcher shops even sell to-go items like sandwiches made with products they sell in store.
Here are some of the top butcher shops in Toronto.
5 – Cote de Boeuf
This French restaurant on Ossington doubles as a butcher shop that hangs their aging cuts of meat right in the window for passersby to see. While it’s confined to a teensy room at the front of the space and doesn’t have the widest selection of products, every single thing in the window is definitively high quality and any meats from here are guaranteed to be restaurant worthy.
They do things old school, bringing in fresh local beef and pork over the shoulder and butchering it by hand at the back of the shop. In addition to New York strips and burgers, you’ll also find a few other fine accoutrements like beef tallow, butter, cheese and pickles.
Find everything you need for a gorgeous home cooked meal, simple or elaborate, at this Roncesvalles butcher shop and deli. Helpful recipe cards around the store take the guesswork out of figuring out what to do with certain products, and a selection of prepared sides like salads makes bringing a meal together extra convenient. They’re also well known for their sandwiches made using their impressive selection of cured meats.
3 – Vince Gasparro’s Meat Market
There are decades of history behind this Bloor meat market that was originally opened by a butcher who moved from Italy to Toronto all the way back in 1957 and is still run by the same family to this day.
The narrow and friendly shop is a true neighbourhood gem selling an impressive number of products including fresh Ontario pork and the juiciest Mennonite-raised, free-range, hormone-free chicken. They also make their own delicious sausages, burgers and kabobs in store based on old family recipes.
In business for over 15 years, this shop has locations in Kensington Market, on Gerrard and on Annette. They source their meats exclusively from Ontario family farms with only the best practices, and sell everything from dry aged beef, heritage pork, air chilled chicken, Dorset lamb and game meats to terrines, pâté and sausages.
They also sell an impressive selection of take home meals and prepared foods like Cornish pasties, quiche, English pork pies, Scotch eggs and sausage rolls.
1 – Cumbrae’s
You can find almost anything at this shrine to meat that looks as elegant as their products, with locations on Queen West and in East York. They have their very own farms, and source their meats by developing relationships exclusively with small family-run farms, connecting and supporting them in order to sell the best quality products possible.
They carry Angus and Wagyu beef, Dorset and Texel lamb, Ross chickens, Big White turkeys, and Yorkshire Duroc and Heritage Berkshire pigs. Animals are raised in Ontario and Quebec and processed at small abbatoirs.
There’s a dazzling array of meats, prepared foods, charcuterie, frozen products and deli products to choose from at Cumbrae’s. They also serve a range of sandwiches and wraps made with their products, as well as a wide selection of quick grab and go items.