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Food in Toronto - Must Eats in Toronto
Mar 24, 2025
Traditional food from Toronto, from peameal bacon sandwich to incredible international foods around the city. So eating in Toronto is a great part of your visit from Koreatown to Chinatown and so much more! And a visit to the St. Lawrence Market is a must as well for any epicurian heading to Toronto. #toronto #visittoronto #eatingtoronto Advice on eating in Toronto, Canada Filmed in Toronto, Canada Copyright Mark Wolters 2022 Learn how to plan your travels like we do with our Travel Planning 101 Course: https://www.brighttrip.com/woltersworld Visit Our Amazon Store for Drinkware, cookingware, travel gear, and other necessities of life. http://www.amazon.com/shop/woltersworld Follow Jocelyn on Instagram - http://www.instagram.com/jocelynwoltersworld Follow Simply Jocelyn on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Simply-Jocelyn-A-Globally-Inspired-Life-100312851709273/ Follow Our Shorts Channel for quick travel tips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmSIWRrLCcqamLlTEEBLFLA
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Hey there fellow hungry travelers, Mark here with Walter's World and today we're here in Toronto
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And today what I do is give you advice for eating here in Toronto because I don't really have a
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necessary list of here's the five things you have to eat when you're here because Toronto is such an
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international city. It's such a diverse city. There's just too much food to bring up. So I'm
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going to give you more advice for eating when you do come to Toronto as opposed to traditional
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Toronto foods, okay? But I will start with one very, very, very traditional Toronto specialty
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and that is a pea meal bacon sandwich. Look, if you're going to go to the St. Lawrence Market
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you're going to go around town, you'll see people that are selling it. It's basically, think of like pork rolled in cornmeal
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and they slice it thin, cook it on a flat top, put on this fantastic bread, a little mustard
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it melts in your mouth. And if you're wondering how the taste is
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the taste is kind of like somewhere between ham, like if ham and a bratwurst had a baby
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that's what it would taste like. And it's actually really, really good. It's nice, cheapy to get
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St. Lawrence Market's a fun place to go get one if you want to. Plenty of places to sell it around town though, but that's one
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definite Toronto specialty you have to have. And the thing is the St. Lawrence Market in general
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is a food advice I want to give you. If you're looking for a market to go to, St. Lawrence
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Market gets ranked as one of the best food markets in the world. So you can go there
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you'll see the cheeses, you'll see the meats, but what's nice is yes, you can get the peanut
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bacon sandwich but also there bakeries there There all kinds of stuff for you to try And when you go there I recommend going and trying some butter tarts a canadian specialty and what cool is there you can get both types because there the people that
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like butter tarts with raisins in them and there's people like butter tarts with nuts in them but the
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pecans and you can get both and you can try your own when you're there and see which one you like
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better also if you're there there's also other stuff like if you want to get a pastel de nata
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a portuguese tart it's a little custard tart oh my god they have those they're too fresh so you
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So you can go there and snack and eat. It's really a fun place to go because it's a tourist destination
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It's a place to grab food. It's also a place to have a nice time. And if you're going to be doing kind of an apartment stay when you're here
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you can go grab your meat and your stuff to grab from there, the bakery stuff there, to take back to your hotel
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or sorry, your apartment or wherever you're staying, instead of having to go into like a boring grocery store
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So that's really fun. So that's another food thing you have to do when you're here. Now, the most important part, I think, about the food culture here in Toronto
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is the international nature of this city. I mean, this city has people from everywhere
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And so everybody brought their food with them. And so you have incredible everything when you're here
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It's not just French food or Chinese food or Korean food. It's from everywhere
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You want great Polish food. You want great Portuguese food. You can have so much
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I know, Josh and I, we went to Koreatown last time we were here. And ate fantastic Korean food
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Chinatown, another trip here. Ate fantastic Chinese food. Literally, go to Greektown and eat there
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I mean Jadassa like this is legit I mean you have such great international food that here Just pick a country that you want to try their food from and there be a restaurant here Because if there not there not a restaurant for it in the entire country okay
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But it'll be fantastic. And what I love about the international food here in Toronto is even if you go to like a cheaper place, right
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Or a fast food version of international cuisine, it will probably be better than the fancy version of that restaurant in your own hometown, okay
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So you will eat well here no matter what, okay? Now I know I said you should come here and eat international food because it's so good here
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But also I got to tell you is don't forget you can eat Canadian food here as well
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The old classics, right? If you want to get your poutine, yes, you can have that with the French fries with the cheese curds and the gravy on top
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You can get that. You get all kinds of stuff from all over Canada because people from all over Canada have moved here
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So if you want to get your smoked meat, you can get that here as well. So you can get those Canadian classics
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but I think one of the Canadian classics that's really important to get when you're here is the
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beef. Like, I know we're not cow town, that's Calgary, but honestly, people love beef here
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When you go around downtown, you will see tons and tons and tons of steakhouses. Also, kind of
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the go-to meal when you go out with your buddies is to go get a burger and fries. I mean, it is a
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thing here. It's a traditional food. It's not something, oh, it's McDonald's. No, no, no, no
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no. You go to a bar, you go to a brew pub, anything like that, they will have fantastic
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burgers, oh my god, with fantastic fries, you can't go wrong, okay
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But there a lot of the traditional Canadian things you going to enjoy when you are here in Toronto so don worry about that I think a really traditional Canadian treat you should have when you here is another advice I have for you And that is drink local when you here
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Toronto has a lot of breweries around town and they make great beer and the locals demand great beer
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So they deliver great beer. So whether you're going to a brewery or a bar or wherever
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ask them, hey, you know, give me whatever's on tap. They'll give you whatever's on tap as their local thing
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That's what you're going to enjoy. You don't have to get the big macro brews. You can, they're still good
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don't get me wrong, but you want to do the local drinks when you are here and so that can help you
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out. Now, when you're going around town, whether you want international or Canadian or whatever
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just know that this is very much a city of neighborhoods. So you're going to go around
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and have different food in different neighborhoods, but it's not like just one neighborhood, but it's only one kind of food. So look around and wherever you're staying, I know you're going to find some
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great places to eat, okay? And if you're looking for a good breakfast, because a lot of the hotels
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downtown charge insane prices for a breakfast. Go find a breakfast spot to have brunch because
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there's some good brunches around here or just go grab yourself some old-fashioned pancakes and
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maple syrup which you can never go wrong with anywhere in Canada especially here in Toronto
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So what are some advice you have for people that are coming to Toronto to eat and enjoy the food
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that's here because I want to help out more travelers because yes you can get beaver tails
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down by you know down by the waterfront but that's an Ottawa thing but again remember Toronto gets
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people from everywhere, even from Ottawa. So I hope you have a great time. Eat well when you're
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in Toronto, because if you don't, that's on you, not on Toronto. They got too much good food. Bye
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