Windsor
Across the river from Detroit, Windsor built its own appetite around Erie Street's Via Italia, a citywide loyalty to its own style of pizza, and one of Ontario's densest runs of Lebanese and Middle Eastern kitchens. A working city that takes its food personally.

Featured in Windsor
Top-ranked rooms with exceptional dining experiences, hand-picked by our editors.
Best Of Windsor
Pinned favourites first, then the local strengths Windsor is known for.
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Osteria Aventino
9.7Osteria Aventino is a dinner-led Italian osteria on Erie Street East, built around the La Zingara team's return to the room, regional wine, social dining, and an original wood-burning oven. The strongest public anchors are Valentino, fresh in-house Potato Gnocchi, and wood-burning oven pizza.
Vittorio's Trattoria
9.6Vittorio's Trattoria is a Forest Glade Italian room built around handcrafted pasta, Napoletana-style pizzas, and weekly dine-in offers. Carbonara, Chicken di Vittorio, Nutella Pizza, and lunch panini give the menu enough specificity for repeat visits.
Gladstone Commons
9.5Gladstone Commons is a Walkerville bistro with French influence, Windsor-Essex ingredient focus, and a dinner menu built around polished small plates, substantial mains, desserts, and a serious bar. Current standouts include Crispy Duck Wings, Charred Octopus, Grilled Swordfish, Lamb Chops, and Sticky Toffee Pudding.
Souq Lebanese Grill
9.5Souq Lebanese Grill is a Windsor Lebanese grill with a wide dip-and-skewer table, comfort dishes like Bechamel Pasta and Jwaneh, weekday lunch utility, and a community-rooted story that goes beyond takeout.
On a Roll Sushi and Sliders
9.5On a Roll Sushi and Sliders turns downtown Windsor dinner into a rock-and-roll menu exercise: specialty sushi rolls, sliders, cocktails, and weekend music in one late-running room.
Stathis Grill
9.5Greek diner comfort in Windsor with saganaki, pitas, soups, burgers, omelettes, and a dependable takeout rhythm.
Bally's Kitchen
9.4Bally's Kitchen is an Erie Street Vietnamese-Thai restaurant where Pad Thai, summer rolls, curries, pho, laksa, and banh mi make the menu broader than a single-cuisine comfort stop.
Ukrainian Restaurant
9.4Ukrainian Restaurant is a century-old Windsor home-cooking room on Marion Avenue, built around perogies, cabbage rolls, borscht, stuffed peppers, stews and tortes. Pearl Hawrylak founded it; Anna Momcilovic has carried it since 1968.
The Dragonfly Sushi Bar
9.4The Dragonfly Sushi Bar is a compact Walkerville sushi spot with dine-in, pickup, and delivery around a menu of big rolls, platters, dumplings, salads, bowls, and house sauces. Dynamite Roll and Steamed Shrimp Dumplings lead the order, with walk-in dinner service posted Wednesday to Saturday.
World Marathon Ethiopian
9.4World Marathon Ethiopian is a downtown Windsor Ethiopian restaurant built around injera combo platters, doro wat, tibs, shiro, rice dishes, soups, juices, and coffee ceremony, with a shareable menu that works for both first-timers and plant-forward diners.
TOAST
9.3TOAST is a Windsor daytime brunch room built around playful sweet signatures, hearty skillets, Benedicts, and complete breakfast plates. The menu is strongest when it turns familiar brunch into specific orders: Cinnamon Toast Crunch French Toast, Chicken N Waffles, Avocado Toast, and breakfast poutine.
La Marina by Eddy's
9.3A Lebanese seafood room in west Windsor built around whole fish, seafood boils, mezze, grilled meats, halal meats, smoothies, desserts, and a weekend Manoushii breakfast.
Acapulco Delight Restaurant
9.3Family owned since 1991, Acapulco Delight is a downtown Windsor Mexican spot built around flautas, chimichangas, loaded fries, combo plates, and easy pickup or delivery value.
The Twisted Apron
9.2The Twisted Apron is a Walkerville brunch room built around comfort food with a twist: Eggs Benny Poutine, Mediterranean Plate, Chicken N Waffles, French-toast variations, boozy brunch drinks, and a walk-in rhythm that keeps the experience casual rather than formal.
Uptown Restaurant
9.2A Windsor breakfast-and-lunch diner for generous omelettes, skillet plates, classic sandwiches, and easygoing value.
Cucina 360
9.2Cucina 360 is Remo Tortola's full-service Italian restaurant in downtown Windsor, extending the Oven 360 story into a broader table-service format built around pasta, pizza, seafood, Italian wine, and occasion dining. The menu's strongest route runs through cuttlefish-ink spaghetti with mixed seafood, porcini-and-sausage pappardelle in black truffle sauce, and a black truffle pizza layered with mushrooms, sausage, and roasted peppers, while a private room and advance reservations give the restaurant a practical shape for both dinners for two and larger celebrations.
The Sandwich Nook Restaurant
9.2The Sandwich Nook Restaurant is a long-running Manning Road diner built around all-day breakfast, stacked sandwiches, steady portions, and a regulars-first rhythm. The safest order path is classic comfort food: the Reuben Sandwich, Club Sandwich, Eggs Benedict, Corn Beef Hash & Eggs, pancakes, waffles, soup, and other familiar breakfast-lunch staples.
La Guardia Italian Cuisine
9.1Downtown Windsor Italian fixture with a Rat Pack-inspired dining room, Scotch Lounge, fresh pasta, veal classics, pizza and posted weekday lunch specials.
Eastern Flavours
9.1Eastern Flavours is a South Windsor halal restaurant where Pakistani, Indian, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern cooking share one practical, group-friendly menu.
Spago Little Italy
9.1Spago Little Italy is a long-running, full-service Italian restaurant on Erie Street where the strongest order is built around house-made noodles, seafood-rich pastas and boldly topped pizza. The room suits a relaxed lunch, a family table or a planned celebration, with reservations and takeout available and later closing on Friday and Saturday.
Top 10 in Windsor
The highest-rated restaurants and most-loved dishes, ranked by Restaurantica readers.
- 1Halibut Fish & Chipsat Sir Cedric's Fish & Chips12
- 2Parmigiana Chickenat Sundried Tomato Bistro12
- 3Beef Tartareat The Cook's Shop10
- 4Chicken Wingsat The Loose Goose RestoPub & Lounge10
- 5Dill Chicken Crunchat The Loose Goose RestoPub & Lounge9
- 6The Stampederat The Loose Goose RestoPub & Lounge9
- 7Pizza Omeletteat Uptown Restaurant9
- 8Gnocchi Gorgonzolaat The Cook's Shop8
- 9Lobster Pappardelleat Spago Caesars Windsor8
- 10Hungry Man Breakfastat Uptown Restaurant8
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