The Best Thai Food in Toronto
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The best Thai food in Toronto, according to the experts: the Michelin Guide, Air Canada, and AAA have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Favorites Thai comes out on top.
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Kiin and Bangkok Garden hold the next two places. The Michelin Guide shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with AAA next.
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You walk through a tiny coffee shop at the front, keep going, and eventually the dining room appears around a small kitchen fitted with binchotan charcoal grills. It's a Thai restaurant on Ossington, narrow and sunlit, with a Michelin Bib Gourmand to its name. The menu is tight and considered, running from sticky rice spring rolls through green curry with fish and red curry with duck, all built around fresh herbs and chilis that mean business.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 2. Kiin
Royal Thai
Dumplings shaped like flowers and rice pressed into jewel-colored mounds set the tone at Kiin, a Royal Thai restaurant on Adelaide where the food looks almost too considered to eat. Chef Nuit Regular takes familiar markers like khao soi, larb, and hot and sour beef soup and reframes them through a courtly lens, everything arriving in petite bowls with an attention to presentation that stops just short of theater. The Michelin Guide has it listed among selected restaurants in Toronto.
The awards
- Air Canada Air Canada: 2018 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 3. Savor Thai
Thai
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Rank 5. Koh Lipe Thai Kitchen
Southern Thai
A terrace, two floors, and a Chinatown corner that always seems to have a lineup outside it. This is a Southern Thai restaurant where the kitchen leans into the heat and funk of regional cooking, the kind that doesn't soften things for the room. The staff are young and quick, which matters because tables turn fast enough that the line moves. The Michelin Guide has it selected, and the coconut green curry alone explains why.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 5. PAI
Northern Thai
Named for the northern Thai village where the chef first cooked, this packed Toronto restaurant brings family recipes and street food to a room that leans boho-mod and never seems to quiet down. The menu ranges across Thailand, but the northern plates are where to focus, khao soi especially. Everything is sized for sharing and calibrated by heat level, which sounds like a small thing until you're at the table arguing about it.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Isan-style som tum made with fermented fish paste is the point of this simple basement Thai spot on Gerrard, and the heat scale runs to levels most menus don't acknowledge. The papaya salad comes with salted crab if you want the full classic treatment, and the grilled pork jowl has quietly become the other reason regulars keep coming back. No alcohol, but the café next door handles drinks, which feels like a very sensible arrangement.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant