Food area · Toronto, Canada
Opening a cafe or restaurant in Queen West, Toronto
What stands out
About 31,400 people live within 1 km, a big pool of locals for a food street.
Exhibition is the nearest station or bus station, 940 m away.
319 food and drink places are on the map within 1 km. That's about as many for the number of residents as in the surrounding 3 km.
- Residents within 1 km
- 31,400
- About 218,000 within 3 km
- Residents per square km
- 9,990
- About 7,690 across 3 km
- Food and drink places within 1 km
- 319
- One per 98 residents, against one per 96 within 3 km
- Trade from people who live elsewhere
- High
- 1 station and 83 offices within 1 km
Measured from Queen Street West at Ossington Avenue on 18 October 2026. Residents and places within 1 km, compared with everyone within 3 km.
1Who lives here
About 31,400 residents within 1 km
Our age figures come as one mix for a whole district or region here, not street by street, so they can't show who lives on this street. For official age counts, see the Statistics Canada census summary for Toronto.
That’s about 9,990 people per square km, against 7,690 across the surrounding 3 km.
2Places like 10 common kinds
How many places like each kind are already within 1 km
Our age figures can’t tell these kinds apart here, so this shows only what’s on the map: places like each kind within 1 km, against the surrounding 3 km.
| Kind of place | Already within 1 km | Free check |
|---|---|---|
| Coffee shop | 69 cafes and coffee shopsAbout as many per resident as the wider area | Check it free: coffee shop |
| Brunch cafe | 69 cafes and brunch placesAbout as many per resident as the wider area | Check it free: brunch cafe |
| Bar | 51 bars and pubsMore per resident than the wider area | Check it free: bar |
| Pizza | 12 pizza placesAbout as many per resident as the wider area | Check it free: pizza |
| Burgers | 12 burger placesAbout as many per resident as the wider area | Check it free: burgers |
| Sushi | 11 sushi and Japanese placesAbout as many per resident as the wider area | Check it free: sushi |
| Pho or noodles | 8 Vietnamese and noodle placesMore per resident than the wider area | Check it free: pho or noodles |
| Bakery | 7 bakeriesFewer per resident than the wider area | Check it free: bakery |
| Bubble tea | 5 bubble tea and tea shopsAbout as many per resident as the wider area | Check it free: bubble tea |
| Fried chicken | 5 chicken placesAbout as many per resident as the wider area | Check it free: fried chicken |
3What’s already here
319 food and drink places within 1 km
One for every 98 residents, against one for every 96 in the surrounding 3 km.
Most-tagged cuisines on the map: coffee shop (30), pizza (12), burger (11), Mexican (10), sandwich (8) and Vietnamese (8).
The nearest named places to where we measured
- Cafe NeonCafe 40 msouth
- Jimmy's CoffeeCafe 60 meast
- Sweaty Betty'sBar 60 meast
- Grill DudesFast food, hot dog 60 mnorth-east
- Tim HortonsCafe, coffee shop 70 msouth
- WallenBar 70 msouth-west
- EnticeRestaurant 70 msouth-west
- Jal JoodFast food 80 meast
OpenStreetMap is built by volunteers and misses some places, so the real counts are likely higher.
4What brings people past
1 station, 83 offices and 8 schools within 1 km
These bring in people who don’t live here, so your customers can look quite different from the residents above.
- 1 stationNearest: Exhibition, 940 m south
- 83 offices
- 8 schoolsNearest: Givins/Shaw Junior Public School, 270 m north-east
- 1 hospitalNearest: Centre For Addiction and Mental Health - Queen Street Site, 180 m south-east
- 12 supermarkets and mallsNearest: No Frills, 470 m south-east
- 2 hotels and hostelsNearest: The Drake Hotel, 420 m west
- 2 attractions and museumsNearest: Museum of Television, 800 m south
5Limits
What this page can’t tell you
- Residents aren't diners. Workers and visitors who live elsewhere aren't counted, and the ages are 2020 estimates.
- The map misses places, and says nothing about how busy any of them is.
- Nothing here covers the lease: rent, visibility and parking.
Two checks only you can do: count who walks past at your hours, and test the rent against cautious sales. For census counts, see the Statistics Canada census summary for Toronto.
Nearby food areas
- Leslieville6.5 km
- The Danforth7.1 km
Straight-line distance between the points we measured from, not by road.
All Toronto food areas comparedEvery food area we’ve checked