Best Restaurants for Chicken in Toronto

September is National Chicken Month, so we’re celebrating big time! Whether you like your chicken in the form of wings, curry, roasted with potatoes and seasonal vegetables, pulled on a bun, or cubed and skewered, this city has it all. Here are my picks for the top 5:

Best Restaurants for Chicken in Toronto
Stephanie Dickison By

Amaya The Indian Room

1
1701 Bayview Ave, East York, ON M4G 3C1

A number of chicken dishes will entice you. To start, select from Roast Chicken Kebab stuffed with goat cheese, served with pineapple chutney, or try the Tandoori Chicken Tikka accompanied by curry leaf, mustard seeds, mint foam and milk fritters.

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Churrasco Villa Toronto's Original

2
254 Eglinton Ave E, Toronto, ON M4P 1K2

Churasscovilla has been serving succulent Portuguese piri piri chicken in Toronto since 1978, Grilled over the hot fire using “natural wood charcoal” the moist chicken is enveloped in crisp skin and then basted with Churrasco Villa’s homemade piri piri sauce.

Chick N Joy

3
1483 Queen St E, Toronto, ON M4L 1E2

Serving fried chicken for almost 40 years, the chicken is juicy with a thick peppery coating that’s not dripping with grease. Whether you choose fries and gravy, and/or a selection of mixed bean, coleslaw, macaroni and potato salads, it’s the chicken you’ll crave long after the plates have been cleared and belts loosened.

Mata Petisco Bar

4
1690 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M6R 1B3

Mata Petisco Bar is one of the best new restaurants to open this year. You’ll quickly for the fall for their inventive Latin dishes that excite your senses and palate, as well as the welcoming and warm dining room and service.

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