Top Five: Toronto’s best take-out dinners

Great home cooking, done by somebody else

Photograph by Ryan Szulc

Ossington’s old-world butcher shop has an array of gourmet classics, including a daily selection of meat pies, bolognese, potato salad and especially excellent duck confit. 130 Ossington Ave., 416-532-2333.

Chef Mark McEwan’s 20,000-square-foot grocery store serves ready-to-cook meals based on his signature recipes (Bymark burger patties and truffle mac and cheese) along with fully prepped soups, salads, sides and restaurant-quality meals like braised beef tenderloin with peppercorn sauce, roasted fingerling potatoes with caramelized onions and roasted heirloom carrots. Shops at Don Mills, 38 Karl Fraser Rd., 416-444-6262.

All of Rosedale comes to this Shops of Summerhilll stalwart for dinner and party provisions, chiefly the wide range of prepared daily-made food, including the top-selling chicken pot pie—a flaky, creamy, oozy staple known to every school kid in the neighbourhood. 1101 Yonge St., 647-351-4793.