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Honest Nibbles

The GTA, scored honestly

Where we’dgo back.

A small crew of friends eats across the GTA, from Scarborough plazas to Queen West, and scores every spot out of 100 on one question: would we go back?

How we score Meet the crew

Illustration of a GTA food street: a streetcar, a plaza of small restaurants with a roti counter, a shawarma spit and steaming dim sum, friends eating outside, and the CN Tower far off.

17,430 restaurants on the map · 25 cities

How to read a score

One question, five answers.

Every spot gets a word first, then a number out of 100. The word tells you how far to travel for it; the number is the detail.

  1. Worth crossing townCross the city for it.90–100
  2. Worth a detourGo out of your way for it.75–89
  3. Worth a stopGood if it's on your route.60–74
  4. If you're already thereFine nearby. Don't plan a trip around it.40–59
  5. Skip itWe wouldn't go back.0–39

1 · The headline

Crew score

Friends who paid for the meal, each scoring taste, quality and vibe. Their average, out of 100.

2 · Kept separate

Diners’ score

Signed-in diners rate too. It shows once 5 people have rated a spot, and it is never averaged into ours.

3 · Only a link

Google’s rating

On each spot’s page as a link (↗) with the date we noted it, so you can compare. Never mixed in.

The full method

Browse the GTA

Start where you are.

Some of the best food in the GTA is in a plaza off a highway. We eat in the suburbs as much as downtown, and score them the same way.

What are you craving?

By dish, with how many spots on the map serve it

Who’s scoring

Real visits. Real bills.

No critics, no influencers. We pay, we go back, we argue about the number, and each of us signs every review.

The map

Every spot, on one map.

Filter by price, dish or tier, or just look around your end of town. The list beside it says why each spot is there.

  • 90+
  • 75 to 89
  • 60 to 74

Open the map 17,430 spots and counting

Why you can trust a number here

No paid reviews. Ever.

We pay for every meal, and restaurants can’t buy a score, a place on a list or a better spot on the map. Readers who chip in keep us going, and delivery links may earn a small commission that never changes a score.

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