Sugo on Surrey is a Guelph Italian-influenced dining room with a sauce-first story, a current menu built around house pastas, seafood and pizza, and a weekly specials sheet that makes the restaurant useful beyond special occasions. The room has a heritage-house backbone, while lunch, date night and happy-hour offers give locals several ways to use it.
Manhattans Bistro & Music Club is a Guelph bistro and live-music room built around house-made thin-crust pizzas, pastas, composed mains, a 4-5pm happy hour, and Thursday-Saturday performances in a long-running neighbourhood setting.
La Cucina Ristorante is a downtown Guelph regional Italian dining room for lobster tagliatelle, Barolo filet, handmade pasta, Italian wines, weekly specials, desserts, Il Terrazzo patio meals, and Bruno-and-Maria hospitality with chef David Mercanti.
Cafe Two Forty Five is a weekday Guelph cafe built for coffee, breakfast, lunch, and catering, with an unusually specific sandwich-and-bowl menu for a business-park counter. Veal on a Bun, Hot Beef Sandwich, Hummus Bowl, and rotating daily features give the place its shape.
Buon Gusto is a downtown Guelph Italian fixture built around a Tuscan wood oven, house-made pasta, burrata, meatballs, Italian wine, cocktails, and a current menu that still feels specific. Use it for Boscaiola Pizza, Cannelloni all'Amalfitana, Pranzo Presto lunch, and polished group or date-night dinners in the historic Gummer building.
A Guelph Italian takeout counter where pizza cones, counter panini, fresh dough, prepared staples, and a small market shelf make the stop useful beyond one meal.
A warm Guelph Mediterranean bistro for chicken souvlaki, Mousaka, seafood fettuccine, saganaki, family hospitality, catering, and neighbourhood dinners.
Downtown Guelph pizza, bottleshop drinks, all-week combo ordering, and a current sandwich pickup lineup inside Jimmy Jazz.
Romero's Mediterranean and Italian Restaurant is a long-running Guelph spot for Chicken Parmigiana, Penne with Chicken, Linguine Romero, Calamari, souvlaki, seafood, salads, rotating features, patio meals, takeout, and host-led hospitality.
Fork On York brings Modern Italian American range to Guelph, from lamb chops and cheese-wheel rigatoni to seafood pastas, burgers, cocktails, wine, and private-dining energy.
Town & Country is an east Guelph family diner rebuilt around all-day breakfast, comfort dinners, and a long local memory. Start with Classic Benedict or Cowboy Breakfast, then keep Town & Country Pork Schnitzel, Hot Turkey Sandwich, and Homemade Coconut Cream Pie for the dinner side.
La Cucina Pizzeria is a downtown Guelph Italian pizzeria for Paesana Pizza, Margherita Pizza, Gnocchi ai Quattro Formaggi, Lasagna, Burrata, Tiramisu, wine, late hours, and weekly pasta, wine, pizza, and long-drink specials.
