Late Night Burgers in Toronto

Toronto is not a late night eating city, which every person who has ever left a show at midnight already knows. The kitchens close, the options collapse to whatever is on the corner, and you eat it because it exists rather than because you wanted it.

Burgers are one of the few things this city reliably does late. Here is how to find a good one.

King West runs the latest of our stores

Our King West store at 214 King St W stays open latest, and by a wide margin on weekends. That is not an accident. King West at 1am is the Entertainment District emptying out: the clubs, the theatres, the restaurant staff who just finished a double, and the people walking east from the venues on Richmond and Adelaide. It is the single densest patch of hungry people in Toronto after midnight.

A griddle is well suited to this. An Oklahoma onion burger takes minutes. There is no proving, no resting, no sixteen ingredient build. Patty, onions, press, cheese, bun.

Our other stores, roughly

Spadina sits between the Fashion District and Chinatown and catches the post-venue walk west. Yonge is the most transit-driven of the three, right by Bloor-Yonge, and tends to follow the subway rather than the bar crowd. Mississauga runs on food hall hours and is the earliest of the four.

Always check before you walk over

We are deliberately not printing closing times here, and you should be suspicious of any blog post that does.

Late night hours are the most volatile numbers a restaurant has. They move with the season, with staffing, with how the week is going, and with whether there is an event on. Every listing site in this city has stale hours for somebody. The number of people who have walked twenty minutes to a dark storefront because a three year old blog post said “open until 2am” is genuinely large.

Each of our location pages links straight to that store’s Google listing, which is where our real hours live and where they get updated. Check it on your phone before you start walking. It takes four seconds:

What to order at 1am

The double. You know it is the double. It has always been the double.

Add onion rings rather than fries if you are walking, because rings survive a fifteen minute walk considerably better than fries do. This is not opinion, it is steam physics: fries trap moisture against themselves in a paper bag and go limp, while rings hold their structure.

If you want to know what actually makes an Oklahoma onion burger different from a standard smash burger, we get into that here, and into where the style came from here.