Michelin Guide Toronto 2026 holds its stars steady

The Michelin Guide Toronto & Region 2026 selection, released on 22 September at a ceremony at Liberty Grand, added no new stars to the region for the first time since the guide launched here in 2022.

Restaurant Pearl Morissette, the winery-and-farm restaurant in Jordan Station run by chefs Daniel Hadida and Eric Robertson, keeps its two stars. The Michelin Guide calls it "a powerhouse": a working restaurant, winery, orchard, farm and bakery on one site in Niagara wine country.

Fourteen restaurants keep one star, thirteen of them in Toronto proper. The list spans Alo, Edulis, Enigma Yorkville, Kaiseki Yu-zen Hashimoto, Kappo Sato, Osteria Giulia, Quetzal, Sushi Masaki Saito and Shoushin, among others. The Pine, in Creemore, is the only one-star restaurant outside the city.

A restaurant, winery, orchard, farm and bakery, Restaurant Pearl Morissette is a powerhouse.

No restaurant holds three stars in the region. The guide has awarded none since its debut selection four years ago, a gap inspectors have not explained publicly.

What the stars reward

Michelin describes a one-star restaurant as one that uses "top-quality ingredients" to prepare dishes with "distinct flavours to a consistently high standard", worth a stop on a journey. Two stars mark "expertly crafted dishes" that are "both refined and inspired", worth a detour.

Pearl Morissette earned its second star in 2025 and has now defended it in a guide where turnover at the top has been rare. Hadida and Robertson built the restaurant's menu around what the property grows, ferments and bottles itself, a model the inspectors have singled out each year.

A guide still finding its shape

Michelin's Toronto & Region guide, backed by Destination Toronto and Ontario tourism bodies, was the company's first Canadian selection outside Vancouver. Five editions in, inspectors have added restaurants gradually rather than in the volume seen in longer-running guides such as Michelin Guide South Australia, which holds its first ceremony on 14 October.

Toronto's hospitality sector has watched the guide closely as a marketing tool since 2022, with several one-star kitchens reporting fuller books within weeks of past selections. Amuse previewed Monday's ceremony, and whether this year's flat result changes that reservations pattern will show up in the coming months.