Toronto's standout pure vegetarian Indian restaurant on Eglinton East — famous for their 4-foot dosa and an entirely meat-free menu ranging from chaat to hearty mains. Ishq (deep love in Urdu and Hindi) takes Indian vegetarian cooking seriously. Scarborough location at 2007 Eglinton Ave E.
Neighbourhood: Scarborough · Address: 2007 Eglinton Ave E, Scarborough, Toronto, ON M1L 2M9 · Hours: Mon–Fri 11:30 AM – 11:30 PM | Sat 11:30 AM – 12:00 AM | Sun 11:30 AM – 11:30 PM · Price Range: $$ · Phone: (416) 285-0919 · Website: https://ishqveg.com/ · Editorial status: Not yet verified
Ishq Veg serves Indian vegetarian classics you’ll rarely find elsewhere in Toronto, like their colossal 4-foot dosa and authentic chaat snacks. If you’re craving bold South Asian flavours without meat, this spot’s for you.
Their claim to fame is the sheer variety of purely vegetarian menu options—everything from North and South Indian street food favourites to family-style dosas you actually need to share. Unlike other Indian spots in the city, Ishq Veg is completely meat-free and offers showstopper dishes that feel festive, not just another curry.
Ishq Veg Restaurant is named for the Urdu and Hindi word meaning deep love or passion — and the menu reflects that name as a sincere statement about Indian vegetarian cooking rather than a marketing phrase. The restaurant is 100% meat-free and 100% committed to the breadth of Indian cuisine that vegetarians have always eaten: the chaat, the street food, the paneer preparations, the lentils, the desserts, the regional dishes that don't require meat to be complete.
Indian vegetarian cooking is one of the world's great culinary traditions. The subcontinent's vegetarian heritage is millennia old, rooted in religious observance across Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist communities, and the result is a canon of dishes that are as complex, satisfying, and varied as any meat-based cuisine. Ishq's menu draws on this tradition with an approach that's "vast and diverse" — the restaurant's own phrase, and an accurate one.
Ishq is famous for their 4-foot dosa — a paper-thin South Indian crepe stretched to an absurd length, crisped on the griddle, and served with sambar and coconut chutney. It's a spectacle that's become their signature: the kind of dish that arrives at the table and stops conversation. Order it first.
The chaat section rounds out the experience: pani puri (crisp semolina shells filled with spiced potato and chickpeas, drowned in tangy tamarind-mint water), bhel puri (puffed rice with onion, tomato, chutneys, and sev in a sweet-sour-spicy cold salad), sev puri, and dahi puri. These are the dishes of the Mumbai street food tradition, assembled fresh.
The paneer preparations — paneer tikka, palak paneer, paneer butter masala — use fresh Indian cottage cheese as the protein anchor for dishes that are otherwise indistinguishable in satisfaction from their meat equivalents. The dal makhani (black lentils slow-cooked overnight with butter and cream until the lentils dissolve into a thick, smoky gravy) is the kind of dish that requires no justification to anyone.
Yes — Ishq Veg Restaurant is 100% pure vegetarian. No meat, chicken, or seafood is served. The entire menu is built around vegetarian Indian cooking: chaat, paneer dishes, dal, biryani (vegetable), Indian breads, and a full dessert selection. It's Scarborough's best pure vegetarian Indian restaurant and well worth visiting even if you usually eat meat.
Ishq Veg Restaurant is at 2007 Eglinton Avenue East, Scarborough, Toronto, ON M1L 2M9. Phone: 416-285-0919. Accessible by TTC 34 Eglinton East bus. There's also a Mississauga location at 6781 Hurontario St. Both locations serve the full vegetarian menu.
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