Four restaurants will make their Bib Gourmand debut as part of the 2023 MICHELIN Guide Toronto, which features a total of 21 Bib Gourmand restaurants.
All of Toronto’s Bib Gourmand recipients will be honored on stage at the MICHELIN Guide Ceremony on Wednesday, Sept. 27 at HISTORY.
“We’re so excited to add BB’s, Sunnys Chinese, Tiflisi and White Lily Diner to the selection of Bib Gourmand restaurants in Toronto,” said Gwendal Poullennec, the International Director of the MICHELIN Guides. “The anonymous inspectors were quite impressed with the imaginative, delicious cuisine at these eateries, as well as the value and experience. We hope that local foodies as well as international travelers will enjoy these tasty gems we’re pleased to reveal.”
Here are the new Bib Gourmand restaurants, with excerpts from the inspector notes. The full list of Bib Gourmand restaurants will be available on guide.michelin.com and the MICHELIN Guide mobile app immediately after the MICHELIN Guide Ceremony.
BB’s (Filipino cuisine)
Start your morning or fire up your evening at this groovy Filipino diner bursting with color and coolness. Brunch is a treat, featuring puffy-fried Adobo-marinated chicken paired with pineapple habanero hot sauce. The wonderfully sour braised pork loin soup will ward off the longest nights and the coldest winters. Dinner is a different speed. The kitchen trades in Japanese milkbread French toast for classic pancit with chili oil, chicken liver mousse and calamansi pie with orange blossom meringue.
Sunnys Chinese (Chinese cuisine)
Spicy, fiery, crispy, smoky – the high-wattage cooking is a total delight, as the kitchen pulls no punches at every possible junction. Tripe and beef shank coated in chili oil is a good start before launching into the charred silver needle noodles. Best of all might be the grilled chicken thigh coated in cumin, chili and pepper. To finish, the crispy Hong Kong French Toast with black sesame jam and oolong condensed milk short-circuits all manner of restraint.
Tiflisi (Central Asian cuisine)
East of downtown Toronto in Beaches, the Pkhakadze family delivers some of the city’s best and brightest Georgian cooking. Portions are built to share so bring a friend or two. Without question, this is hearty food, seasoned beautifully, prepared with care and radiating with all the comforts of home, wherever that may be.
White Lily Diner (Creative cuisine)
Old school diners are rare creatures these days, but ones that smoke their own bacon, make their own biscuits and donuts, bottle their own hot sauce and grow their own vegetables? Even rarer. Breakfast is the main draw, but guests are happy at any hour of the day. Verdant green salads, fantastic sandwiches on homemade bread, and a stunningly light hash brown make for a grand meal that gets all the details just right.
Bib Gourmand restaurants offer a meal of good quality at a good value.
The restaurants join the MICHELIN Guide selection of hotels, which features the most unique and exciting places to stay in Toronto and across the world. Every hotel in the Guide is chosen for its extraordinary style, service, and personality — with options for all budgets — and each hotel can be booked directly through the MICHELIN Guide website and app. The MICHELIN Guide is a benchmark in gastronomy. Now it's setting a new standard for hotels.