Where Toronto shops, snacks and lunches: the markets worth your morning.
Food markets, farmers markets and covered halls: where Toronto shops, snacks and lunches.
St Lawrence Market on Front Street East has been Toronto's main food market since 1803, the South Building daily and the rebuilt North Building Saturday.
Go for: Peameal bacon sandwich, Cheese, Produce, Seafood
Tip: Closed Mondays. The rebuilt North Building reopened April 2025 and hosts the Saturday farmers' market from 05:00; busy by 09:00. South Building runs daily.
Kensington Market between Spadina and Bathurst is Toronto's reference open-air food district, vendor storefronts along Augusta, Baldwin and Kensington Avenue.
Go for: Cheese, Produce, Caribbean, Mexican
Tip: Pedestrian Sunday on the last Sunday of every month May-October closes the streets to cars.
Evergreen Brick Works on Bayview is a Saturday Ontario-producer farmers market since 2010 in a Don Valley brickworks heritage site, with 70 vendors.
Go for: Ontario produce, Cheese, Bakery, Cooked food
Tip: Free shuttle from Broadview Station summer weekends. Indoor winter market Saturdays Nov-April runs 09:00-13:00.
Junction Farmers Market behind the Junction Stockyards is a Saturday producer market June through October, the west-end alternative to Brickworks.
Go for: Local produce, Bakery, Ontario meats
Tip: Summer Saturday only. The Stockyards Village mall around the corner has parking; or walk in from the Stockyards subway.
Trinity Bellwoods Farmers Market runs Tuesday afternoons through summer in the park's southeast corner, 30 Ontario producers plus a few prepared-food stalls.
Go for: Ontario produce, Bread, Cheese
Tip: Tuesday 15:00-19:00 May through October. Bicycle parking on Crawford Street side.