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Toronto Local Grocers

Toronto's grocery aisles look varied, but a lot of that variety is an illusion. Loblaw Companies alone operates 22 grocery banners across Canada, including familiar names like No Frills, Zehrs, and Real Canadian Superstore, so two different-looking stores a few blocks apart are often owned by the same company.

Independent grocers are the real alternative, and Toronto has plenty: organic and bulk shops, international grocers stocked for a specific neighbourhood, and co-ops built around community rather than a head office. The city's best-known food landmark is St. Lawrence Market, named the best food market in the world by National Geographic in 2012, with vendors going back to 1803.

Which grocers in Toronto are worth the trip?

The city's best-rated independents include Rise Up Foods, Fresh 1 Market, Moberly Natural Foods and Roncy Fruit Market, plus butchers like The Butcher's Son and Domenic's Quality Meats and the member-owned Karma Co-op. Most are single-location shops built around a neighbourhood.

Ranked by Google rating across the 124 independent grocers in the mytoronto.city app — a starting point if you're looking to shop outside the big chains.

These are 10 of 124 grocers. The Toronto app has all of them — free, and private.

Toronto Local Grocers

Which grocers in Toronto are worth the trip?

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