About the data

01 · Where it comes from

DineSafe is Toronto Public Health's food safety program. Inspectors visit every establishment that serves or prepares food and post the result at the entrance. The City publishes the results as open data on the City of Toronto Open Data portal, refreshed daily. We copy that file every night. Newest restaurants also uses the City's business licences and permits data.

This site is independent and not affiliated with the City of Toronto or Toronto Public Health. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto.

02 · What's covered

• 81,278 inspections of 18,717 food premises, from Nov 10, 2023 to Nov 4, 2026: the City's live DineSafe file, which starts in November 2023.
• We keep our own copy, so history isn't lost when older records drop out of the City's live file.
• All food premises the City inspects, not only restaurants: cafés, take-out, grocers, food trucks, and institutions such as daycares and hospitals.

03 · Notices

Each inspection ends with one of three notices. A place's current status on this site is the notice from its most recent inspection.

04 · Infraction severity

Patios, business areas and neighbourhoods

• Patios come from the City's CaféTO program (sidewalk, curb lane and private patios), updated monthly, and are matched to restaurants by address and name.
• Business areas are the City's Business Improvement Areas (BIAs), and neighbourhoods are its 158 official neighbourhoods. Each restaurant is placed by its map location. A neighbourhood or BIA is listed under the area (Downtown, East End…) that holds most of its restaurants.

05 · How leaderboards work

• Each board counts notices or infractions in the chosen period: since November 2023 (default) or the last 12 months.
• Places inspected more often can collect more notices, so each row also shows the number of inspections.
• Currently operating means inspected in the last 18 months. Toronto Public Health inspects every food premises at least once a year, so a longer gap usually means the business has closed.
• Cleanest records ranks places with no Conditional Pass or Closed notice and no crucial or significant infraction in the period by their number of passes. Equal passes are ranked by fewer minor infractions.
• Boards show restaurants by default: places with a City eating-establishment or take-out licence at the same address and name, or a restaurant-type name. Daycares, hospitals, schools, grocery stores and other food premises are included when you choose all food premises.
• Places with the same count share a rank, shown as T (tied), and are listed most recent first.

06 · Areas

The City's data has no neighbourhood field, so each premises is assigned to an area from the first three characters of its postal code. Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough, East York and York follow the former municipalities. Downtown, Midtown, East End and West End have no official boundaries; our groupings are approximate.

07 · Newest restaurants

New eating-establishment and take-out licences with no cancel date are matched to inspection records by street address and name. Only inspections on or after the licence date count, so a new business is never shown with a previous business's record. A licence date isn't an opening date, and names can differ between the two datasets.

08 · Limitations

• A record reflects conditions on the day of inspection. A place can look very different a week later.
• Names and addresses appear as the City recorded them. A new owner under the same name keeps the earlier history.
• In November 2025 the City changed its record system and some places appear under two IDs. We merge these so inspections aren't counted twice.
• The City's one-line inspection summary sometimes disagrees with the infractions listed. We use the infractions.

09 · Questions

What is DineSafe?

DineSafe is Toronto Public Health's food safety program. Inspectors visit every establishment that serves or prepares food and post the result, a Pass, Conditional Pass or Closed notice, at the entrance.

What does a Conditional Pass mean?

Inspectors found one or more significant infractions. The business can stay open, and a re-inspection follows.

What does a Closed notice mean?

Inspectors found a crucial infraction that posed an immediate health hazard. The premises stays closed until it passes a re-inspection.

How often is this site updated?

Every night, from the files the City of Toronto publishes as open data.

Is this site run by the City of Toronto?

No. It is independent and not affiliated with the City of Toronto or Toronto Public Health. It republishes the City's open data under the Open Government Licence – Toronto.

10 · Report a data issue

Spotted something that doesn't match the City's record, or a display problem on our side? Tell us. We can't change official inspection results; for those, contact Toronto Public Health directly.