Last checked: November 2026
Most of Toronto’s Guyanese food is in Scarborough, the city’s eastern district. That is where you will find the Guyanese bakeries, roti shops and Chinese-Guyanese restaurants the community actually uses. Head east along Sheppard, Morningside, Midland and Kingston Road, and order pine tarts, curry with roti, and chow mein.
At a glance
- Where: Scarborough, east Toronto; smaller pockets in Brampton, Pickering and Ajax
- Getting there: most places are in plazas, so a car is easiest; TTC buses reach all of them
- Time needed: one long afternoon for two or three stops
- Cost: varies; check current prices at the counter or on the shop’s delivery-app menu
- Best for: diaspora families, and anyone who wants Guyanese bakery food in Canada
Where do Guyanese people live in the Toronto area?
About 31,000 Guyanese lived in the City of Toronto at the 2021 census, and around 65,000 across the Greater Toronto Area. Scarborough has the main restaurant cluster. Brampton has the largest Guyanese population outside Toronto, and Pickering has the highest share of any GTA city.
Where to eat in central and south Scarborough?
Shereen’s Guyanese Bakery & Roti (1063 Midland Ave, between Eglinton and Lawrence). A family bakery that added takeout cooking because customers asked for it. Bakery staples are plait bread, pine tarts, cheese rolls, salara (red coconut roll) and cassava pone. On weekends, look for breakfast plates like bake and saltfish, fish cakes, and boil and fry (boiled plantain, sweet potato and dumpling). Weekday lunches include curry goat, stew fish and chow mein. Pepperpot appears around Christmas. Check opening days before you go, since it is closed early in the week.
Inner Circle Caribbean Cuisine (707 Kennedy Rd, Scarborough Junction, south of Eglinton). A Guyanese kitchen that closed, then reopened as a takeout spot. The roti leans Guyanese: dhal puri (roti stuffed with ground split peas) and oil roti. Order the curry chicken or, on weekends, the duck curry. The vegetarian combo of eggplant, pumpkin and channa (chickpeas) is a good meat-free plate.
Where to eat in north-east Scarborough?
Scarlet Ibis Family Restaurant (30 Dean Park Rd, north-east Scarborough). Run by Maylene Seecharran and Michael Mohamed since 2001, first in East York and in Scarborough since 2019. This is the closest thing to a Georgetown family restaurant on the list. Order chicken in the rough (Chinese-Guyanese fried chicken), pepper shrimp, pot roast goat with rice, and cow heel soup. Start with fried plantain and finish with a homemade peanut punch or mauby, a bittersweet bark drink. Vegetarians can get pumpkin or eggplant roti.
Tropical Nights Restaurant & Lounge (1154 Morningside Ave, near Sheppard). A Chinese and West Indian restaurant with a bar and a rooftop patio. Order fried rice topped with fried chicken, a classic Chinese-Guyanese plate, or lo mein. Black pudding and pepper lamb are also worth trying. Black pudding is a spiced rice-and-blood sausage.
Lucky Lin’s Express (91 Rylander Blvd, near Kingston Rd and Sheppard Ave E). A West Indian Chinese restaurant that spent 34 years on Finch Avenue East. Its landlord did not renew the lease, so it closed there in January 2026 and moved to this plaza, which also holds the Port Union DriveTest Centre. Expect Caribbean-style Chinese food such as chow mein and fried rice; ask what is on the menu since the move.
Where to eat along Kingston Road?
Christine K Kitchen (4288 Kingston Rd, east Scarborough). A Guyanese roti shop and bakery, mostly takeout and catering. Order cassava egg balls and salara. An egg ball is a boiled egg wrapped in seasoned cassava and fried. Lunch specials change, so ask what is on.
What should you order at a Guyanese spot in Toronto?
Order one thing from each tradition and you will see why Guyanese food is its own cuisine.
- Bakery: pine tarts, cheese rolls, plait bread, salara
- Indo-Guyanese: curry chicken, goat or duck with dhal puri
- Chinese-Guyanese: chow mein, fried rice, chicken in the rough, pepper shrimp
- Creole and Indigenous roots: pepperpot (meat stewed in cassareep, a cassava syrup) and cow heel soup
FAQ
Is there a Little Guyana in Toronto like the one in New York? Not in the same way. Toronto has no single Guyanese strip; the restaurants are spread across Scarborough plazas.
Where can I get Guyanese food in Brampton or Pickering? Both have large Guyanese communities, so local plazas often have a roti shop or Caribbean bakery. For the widest choice in one trip, Scarborough is still the place to go.
Can vegetarians eat well at Guyanese restaurants in Toronto? Yes. Inner Circle has a vegetable combo, and Scarlet Ibis does pumpkin and eggplant roti. Ask whether dhal and vegetable curries are cooked without meat stock.
Next step: In New York instead? See our guide to Guyanese food in New York. For the Chinese-Guyanese side, read our guide to Guyanese Chinese food.
