City guide · Ontario
Best Sausage and Peppers in Toronto
Where is the best sausage and peppers in Toronto?
Toronto has one of the largest Italian communities outside Italy, and College Street's Little Italy serves the best sausage and peppers in the city — a sandwich with hot pickled peppers, plus street-festival grills all summer.
Locals ask for it as sausage and peppers Toronto (English).
| City | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
|---|---|
| Ask for it as | sausage and peppers Toronto (English) |
| Top 100 spots here | 1 |
| Best time to go | June through September, when the Little Italy and Woodbridge street festivals run. |
| Local rule | Hot peppers are assumed. If you want sweet, you have to say so. |
College Street is the historic Little Italy; St. Clair West and Woodbridge are where much of the community actually cooks now. All three have butchers worth the trip.
Toronto's version leans hot. Pickled hot peppers rather than sweet bells are the default in most sandwich shops.
Toronto on Larry’s Top 100
| Rank | Where | Order this | Larry’s note |
|---|---|---|---|
| #73 | Little Italy — College Street | Sausage sandwich with hot peppers | Toronto's Italian community is enormous and serious. |
Menus, feast dates and opening hours change. Call ahead before you travel.
How to order it in Toronto
- Sausage on a bun with hot peppers and grilled onions.
- Ask for it with a spoon of the pickled pepper brine. It cuts the fat.
- At summer street festivals, buy from the stand with the longest line and the oldest grill.
The local rule: Hot peppers are assumed. If you want sweet, you have to say so.
Best time to go: June through September, when the Little Italy and Woodbridge street festivals run.
Questions people ask about Toronto
Where is the best sausage and peppers in Toronto?
College Street's Little Italy for sandwich shops, and the Woodbridge and St. Clair West butchers for sausage to cook at home. Summer street festivals are the peak.
Is Toronto's Italian community big?
Very. The Greater Toronto Area has one of the largest Italian populations of any city outside Italy, which is why the sausage here is genuinely good.
Make it at home instead
You do not need a plane ticket. Larry’s own version takes about forty minutes in a cast-iron pan.
Sausage and peppers in other cities
Elsewhere in Canada
Further afield
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