Eataly

Reviews

• Brandon C.

  star star star star star 15 August 2026

  Eataly is a sensory delight.  It is worth repeat visits.
  
  My Toronto experience has revealed one consistent truth about its Yelp-i-verse:
  
  Whenever a new restaurant, bar, Eataly, etc. comes to/opens in Toronto with much fanfare and pre-opening hype in (and maybe especially)Toronto Life or local media, the Yelp-i-verse (of which I am family) stands ready to pounce. Almost as if we feel like the uninvited guest with something to prove, our reviews of these types of places skew negative.
  
  While I did not comb through the cumulative 3 1/2 star reviews, there are bound to be things like: "the biscotti from here that my friend brought to my birthday party gave me gas-one star" or "the Eataly in Dubai, where I take multiple month-long vacations on my cousin, the sultan's yacht, is much bigger- 3 stars".
  
  Anyway, you get the idea.
  
  Eataly Toronto is amazing for service, options, and value. Separate dining options from pizza to seafood abound.  The amount of freshly-prepared side items and baked goods are staggering.  Massive cheese wheels and cheese selection. Also a full grocery store with lots of fresh produce and unique Italian foods. (I scanned prices of familiar items and discovered them to be (surprisingly) within the Loblaws margin of error.) I ate lunch here and the prices were no different than going to someplace like Flock with the added bonus of being simply grand.  
  
  I can't wait to go back. Glad that Eataly is in Toronto.

• Jason G.

  star star star star_border star_border 7 August 2026

  I had heard a lot about this place, and i have to say i tried not to let the praise and a little hype affect my anticipation of coming here, but it did.
  In regards to it's design, I was expecting bigger, i was not expecting the giant crowd and the very hard to navigate aisles, i could see they tried for some IKEA type flow, but failed miserably. the design is ultimately not the best for people who want to shop for those unique or hard to find items. I felt browsing was very difficult as people were always pushing past you. I always seemed to be in someones way.  Eataly does have some good products, a nice little butcher shop, and fresh seafood shop as well as a delicious smelling bakery, but i think Eataly is more about the restaurants inside than the shopping sadly for someone like me. I got the vibe that it was just a fancy Pusateri's with some above average restaurants inside it. From what i saw, the food at the 3 restaurants i passed by looked great, but again, very crowded, very jam packed. I didn't try any of the restaurants, but they looked good, the shopping was good but difficult. Checking out was disorganized and a little confusing.
  
  Would i suggest going there? sure
  would i go back? possibly, but i certainly wouldn't go out of my way to go there again.

• Cindy C.

  star star star star_border star_border 6 August 2026

  Had difficulty finding this place from underground path due to lack of signage and incorrect directions from two separate security guards at the building. Later found out there are stairs accessible from the brewery shop in the basement and inside the cafe on the ground floor.
  
  Walked around the market on the second floor, lots of nice looking but pricey items. Big selection of cheese but I couldn't find one made with truffle. There is a fresh pasta counter that sells squid ink pasta and truffles which I find quite interesting.
  
  Highlight of my shopping trip was the Italian pastries counter, La Pasticceria, 4-pack of mix-and-match bite-size desserts for $6.90. Come in a nice box that can be flattened out easily. The pastries are pretty and sweet, just perfect to satisfy my sweet tooth.

• John B.

  star star star_border star_border star_border 26 July 2026

  Food was good - competently prepared.
  
  Service slow and pretentious.
  Grossly over priced.
  
  Real annoyance is it's cafeteria setting (after waiting an hour to be seated), then being told that desert and coffee are not available in the "restaurant".
  
  Our first and last visit

• Lester C.

  star star star_border star_border star_border 26 July 2026

  We ate at the Le Pizza La Pasta restaurant.
  
  I would have given this place 4/5 if it weren't for what happened with our billing/menu.
  
  We came in on a Tuesday night. Put our name in and had a walk around for 40-45 minutes. Overall the food was good. We ordered a pasta and a pizza along with the Burutta as an appetizer. The bread came with some really tasty olive oil. The pizza was excellent with generous toppings. I found our pasta good but not great.
  
  WHAT WENT WRONG: The menu had the Burutta for $8. When the receipt came - I did a quick glance and paid the bill. However the total came up higher than I thought it would be I went back to look at the receipt. The Burutta showed up as $18. I did a double take on a new menu from the front desk to make sure it said $8. My server was elsewhere by now. I went to the front to ask the hostess who at this point basically dismissed me with a chuckle that the menu was "printed wrong". I was in a rush so left but I would have definitely taken this up with the manager.
  
  I really think they should have just fixed their menu (even just pencilled it in), or warned me it was a pricing error when I ordered.