Best Vegan Restaurants in Bayview

This food is freaking delicious. Excellent service too.

We’re not vegan or even vegetarian but thought we’d give this a try on a recent visit to Toronto. To start with, the service and the staff are outstanding. The host made sure that we weren’t chilled because of the front door and our waiter, Santana, was knowledgeable and informed about how the food was prepared, as well as the history of the cuisine.  He made recommendations,since this was our first time, and we loved every dish we tried.  The dishes were very creative, in part because it’s a vegan restaurant, but every one had complex layers of flavor. We would heartily recommend giving this restaurant a try.

Avelo offers an 8-course tasting menu that was fully plant-based and “wow” it did not disappoint. When looking at the main ingredients of each dish it was nearly impossible to I vision how it was going to be prepared and transformed. The dishes offered such diverse flavor profiles that truly transformed the original ingredients. There were dishes that had ingredients that I have always been opposed to but due to the creativity and innovation of the chef they ended up being some of our favorite dishes. The atmosphere was well relaxed, dim lighting, and lovely music. The waitress offered so much information per each dish which I always appreciated. Having the 8 dish tasting was much more filling than I anticipated as well. Overall, it was worth coming from upstate NY to spend a night in Toronto and dine with Avelo.

The food was quite tasty and portion sizes were great.

Wonderful staff and great food. It was a busy time of the year (during holidays) when I dined there, service was fantastic. A bit crowded for my linking and noise level was high.