Five Etobicoke brunch spots worth knowing: Kitchen on Sixth in New Toronto, DeCourses Café in Long Branch, Crème de la Crème Café in The Kingsway, Sunny Morning Breakfast & Lunch on The Queensway, and Eva’s Daily Cafe on Lake Shore Boulevard West. Between them you get pub brunch, daily cafe brunch and early weekday breakfast.
Brunch is the meal that tells you whether a neighbourhood works on a Saturday. It is also the question I get asked most often by buyers moving west from the old city, usually phrased as some version of: is there anywhere to go, or is it all drive-through?
The answer in Etobicoke is that brunch is real but it is spread thin, and almost all of it sits on two strips — Lake Shore Boulevard West through New Toronto and Long Branch, and The Queensway. These are five places that come up regularly, with the hours and the practical details that decide whether a Sunday morning works.
Kitchen on Sixth
2976 Lake Shore Boulevard West, New Toronto. A British brunch and gastropub room on the Lake Shore strip, and the closest thing South Etobicoke has to a proper weekend brunch destination. It is known for British comfort cooking — scotch eggs, bangers and mash, Sunday roasts.
Hours from the restaurant: closed Monday and Tuesday, Wednesday to Friday 11:00 am to 9:00 pm, Saturday and Sunday 9:00 am to 9:00 pm. Weekend service starting at nine is the important detail; it is a genuine brunch operation rather than a lunch menu with eggs on it. Reservations go through its own site.
It sits on the 501 Queen streetcar line, which runs the length of Lake Shore Boulevard West, so it is reachable without a car from most of South Etobicoke.
DeCourses Café
3232 Lake Shore Boulevard West, Long Branch. Serving the Long Branch neighbourhood since 2018, with brunch every day and bread, cakes and pastries baked in house daily. That combination — a bakery counter and a brunch menu in the same room — is rarer in Etobicoke than it should be.
Hours: Monday to Friday 8:00 am to 7:00 pm, Saturday and Sunday 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. Note the short weekend close — three o’clock, not five — which catches people out. Reservations by phone.
Crème de la Crème Café
2991 Bloor Street West, The Kingsway. An all-day breakfast and brunch cafe on the Bloor Street strip, open daily 7:30 am to 4:00 pm, doing coffee, breakfast, sandwiches and cafe standards.
The value here is the schedule. Seven days a week from half past seven means it works for a weekday coffee-and-eggs as easily as for a Sunday. It is a short walk from Royal York station on Line 2, which makes it the most transit-convenient entry on this list for anyone coming from the east.
Sunny Morning Breakfast & Lunch
1602 The Queensway, Unit E2, in the Canadian Tire plaza. Open 7:00 am to 3:00 pm every day for dine-in, takeout and delivery. This is the straightforward one: a breakfast-and-lunch room that opens early, runs seven days, and does not require a plan.
Two practical points that matter more than they sound. It is wheelchair accessible, which is not universal among Etobicoke’s older storefronts. And it is in a shopping plaza, so there is a full parking lot — the single biggest difference between brunch on The Queensway and brunch on Bloor.
Eva’s Daily Cafe
3333 Lake Shore Boulevard West, Long Branch. A cafe serving European food with a Greek accent, at the western end of the Lake Shore strip near the Etobicoke Creek end of Long Branch. Coffee, pastries and comfort cooking through the day.
It is closed Mondays; the rest of the week it opens mid-morning and runs to late afternoon, with a slightly earlier close on Sundays. Check the current hours on their site before you go — this end of the Lake Shore is a long way to backtrack.
The five at a glance
| Name | Neighbourhood | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Kitchen on Sixth | New Toronto | British pub brunch, Sunday roasts; weekends from 9:00 am |
| DeCourses Café | Long Branch | Daily brunch plus bread and pastries baked in house |
| Crème de la Crème Café | The Kingsway | All-day breakfast, seven days, 7:30 am to 4:00 pm |
| Sunny Morning Breakfast & Lunch | The Queensway | Early daily breakfast and lunch; plaza parking; accessible |
| Eva’s Daily Cafe | Long Branch | Greek-inflected European cafe food; closed Mondays |
Why this matters if you’re moving here
Weekend routine is the thing buyers underestimate and then feel every single week. A household that walks to breakfast on Saturday has a completely different relationship with its street than one that drives twenty minutes for it, and that difference does not show up anywhere in a listing.
In Etobicoke the walkable brunch clusters are narrow and specific: the Lake Shore Boulevard West strip through New Toronto and Long Branch, the Bloor Street West strip in The Kingsway, and pockets of The Queensway. Those strips are mostly condo, townhouse and semi-detached stock with transit at the door. The interior streets with the driveways and the bigger lots are, almost by definition, a drive from all of it.
Neither trade-off is wrong. But it is worth walking the route on a Saturday morning before you commit — not on a weekday viewing at 2:00 pm, when every strip in the city looks the same.
The takeaway
Etobicoke’s brunch is concentrated on Lake Shore Boulevard West, Bloor Street West in The Kingsway, and The Queensway. If a walkable Saturday morning matters to you, pick one of those corridors first and the house second. And check hours — several close by mid-afternoon.
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Frequently asked questions
Where is the best brunch in Etobicoke?
It depends what you want. For a proper sit-down weekend brunch, Kitchen on Sixth at 2976 Lake Shore Boulevard West serves British pub cooking from 9:00 am Saturday and Sunday, including Sunday roasts. For an everyday breakfast that opens early and does not require a reservation, Sunny Morning at 1602 The Queensway runs 7:00 am to 3:00 pm daily. DeCourses Cafe in Long Branch serves brunch every day alongside bread and pastries baked in house.
Which Etobicoke brunch spots are open on weekdays?
Sunny Morning on The Queensway is open 7:00 am to 3:00 pm seven days a week. Creme de la Creme Cafe on Bloor Street West in The Kingsway is open daily from 7:30 am to 4:00 pm. DeCourses Cafe in Long Branch opens at 8:00 am Monday to Friday. Kitchen on Sixth is closed Monday and Tuesday and does not start weekend brunch service until 9:00 am, so it is a weekend option rather than a weekday one.
Do I need a reservation for brunch in Etobicoke?
For most of these, no. The cafes on Lake Shore Boulevard West and The Queensway run walk-in. Kitchen on Sixth takes reservations through its own site and is the one most likely to fill on a Sunday. DeCourses takes reservations by phone. If you are going with a group of more than four on a weekend, call ahead regardless — these are small rooms.
Sources
- Kitchen on Sixth. Official site: address, opening hours and reservations. Accessed 23 August 2026.
- DeCourses Café. Official site: address, daily brunch, hours and 2018 opening. Accessed 23 August 2026.
- Crème de la Crème Café. Official site: address on Bloor Street West and daily hours. Accessed 23 August 2026.
- Sunny Morning Breakfast and Lunch — Locations. Official site: Etobicoke address, hours, plaza location and accessibility. Accessed 23 August 2026.
- Eva’s Daily Cafe — Contact. Official site: address, hours and closed-Monday schedule. Accessed 23 August 2026.
- Toronto Life — Mimico, New Toronto and Long Branch. Independent confirmation of South Etobicoke addresses and what several of these places are known for. Accessed 23 August 2026.
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About the author — Jatin Dua, Etobicoke real estate agent
Jatin Dua is a licensed Realtor with RE/MAX Quantum Realty, working out of 799 The Queensway in Etobicoke. He advises buyers and sellers across Mimico, New Toronto, Long Branch, Alderwood, Humber Bay Shores, The Queensway, Islington Village, The Kingsway and Stonegate-Queensway, and writes this local guide series because the questions that decide where people actually want to live are rarely the ones on a listing sheet.