Being liberated from gluten has never been so sweet. Having opened in 2011, Almond Butterfly is a petite bakery and bistro that has always been completely gluten-free.

The café and cafeteria-style restaurant has become extremely popular for its guilt-free take-away and delicious Israeli-style breakfast. The hearty and homey shakshuka, which originated in Tunisia and means "mixture," is usually associated with a dish belonging to the Sephardic Jewish people.

Canada’s first fully automated restaurant, dubbed Box’d, is at 4 King St. W. in downtown Toronto and is a project by Paramount Fine Foods. At Box’d, patrons order in advance with a mobile app or at a digital kiosk at the location. Patrons are made aware of when their food is ready via a digital

North York restaurant Burgers Park draws inspiration from US burger joints like Shake Shack for its classic smash burgers. Meats are locally-raised and halal, plus free of hormones and antibiotics. Their namesake Park Burger features an Angus beef smash patty served on a sesame brioche with sauteed onions and American cheese. Other menu items include

Queen West is chock full of great cafés, and Cafe 23 stands out amongst the crowd. This little coffee shop located just east of Trinity Bellwoods Park is making great coffee and playing some great tunes. Supporting local bands and making sure coffee house music isn’t limited to soft rock and jazz, the café hopes

Chances are, those who have been to Israel (birthright, anyone?) are familiar with Cafe Landwer. The popular Israeli café, which got its start back in 1919, finally opened its very first Canadian outpost in Vaughan earlier this year.

Inspired by Hawaiian breezes and the California sun, Calii Love is bringing brightly coloured, feel-good health food to Yorkville. Be it a poke bowl, smoothie bowl or salad bowl, this counter-serve eatery is inspiring everyone to eat a little cleaner, no matter what time of day it is or how much time you have. The

With three locations across Toronto, this Vietnamese cafe was established as an eatery in 2016 and brings coffee from Asia to the streets of Toronto. Signatures include the traditional, Vietnamese-style drip espresso as well as the egg coffee, both which have been popular for those who have been to Vietnam and fans of strong coffee.

Fuel+ is a healthy food destination that specializes in juices, coffee but, most of all, smoothies. The smoothie menu boasts extensive 20 different flavour combinations, each packed with all the vitamins and nutrients needed for hours’ worth of productive energy. No smoothie has any gluten or added sweeteners and flavours and are served in jars

Greenhouse Juice Co. is one of Toronto’s original and favourite destinations for juices, smoothies and other plant-based food that tastes good and is good for you. The juices are made from cold pressed produce that is sustainably and ethically sourced and available in glass bottles because Greenhouse Juice Co. has a reuse and recycle program

Plant-based food served counter-order quick is the restaurant model that has been working out amazingly for Kupfert & Kim, and its diners. Fresh produce, in its whole form, arrives every morning for the staff to make their food, sauces, pickles and curries from scratch. Thus, the menu only features dishes that are good for humans,

Kupfert and Kim bills itself as a plant-based, full service restaurant making delicious, minimally processed food that is awesome for humans, animals and the planet. Fresh produce arrives each morning and is prepped on site with almost everything made in-house from scratch, including the sauces, pickles and curries.

With a simple concept and delicious offerings, Light Cafe is certainly brightening up the Baldwin village area. Light Cafe is rooted in Taiwanese cuisine and serves up light and colourful drinks to pair with gourmet sandwiches, salads and bowls. Not just a lunch spot — or not encouraging only savoury foods for lunch — there

The sisters who run this salad shop are humble, wholesome and want nothing more than to serve some good, healthy food to people who deserve it—which is why they’ve expanded from gourmet shops in Montreal right to Ossington. Mandy’s began in the back of a woman’s clothing store, but now the duo have dozens of

Midtown has a new restaurant dishing up “soul food”. No, not the jerk chicken or stewed oxtail variety but “whole food for the soul.” A lawyer and sometime food blogger Sarah Huggins and her partner are behind the new Mary Be, located at Yonge and St. Clair.

...swapping beef with tofu and some gai lan for colour. They also have a roster of noodles of the non-beef variety such as seafood with glass noodles and BBQ pork...

Naan & Kabob is a colourful Middle Eastern restaurant in downtown Toronto that specializes in Afghan cuisine. The founders are a family of immigrants from Afghanistan who followed the spice route, in honour of their ancestral merchants, all the way to Canada. The menu is made up of locally sourced ingredients; the meat is halal

Inspired by the made-to-order methods of steak house kitchens and the fearless work of Pablo Picasso came baker Masamitsu Sakimoto’s Pablo Cheese Tarts. Based out of Osaka, Japan, the bakery in Toronto’s Little Japan has formulated the perfect recipe for its beloved cheese tarts, cooking them fresh to order. The cheese tarts are served medium

’Tis the season… for most of Toronto’s restaurants to close down, leaving it to the city’s stalwart Asian restaurants to keep hungry people at bay. Although Pho Xe Lua’s late-night history isn’t stellar (ahem, remember Halloween?), it’s definitely got some hit-the-spot food and it will be open over the holidays.

With several locations across the GTA, Revitasize is doing its best to ensure that everyone tries to eat and live just a little bit healthier. The menu goes beyond cold pressed juices, smoothies and smoothie bowls to offer several filling and nutritionally dense salads, rice bowls and wraps. With their background in nutrition, the founders