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Restaurants Scene

Oshawa's restaurant district is in the downtown core, and that's pretty well the case in every community in the region. Each of theses communities has its own commercial, industrial and professional base to support area restaurants, but they are also considered "bedroom communities" for the Greater Toronto Area (the "GTA") and have a lot of restaurants focused on evening family dining. In all the larger communities like Pickering, Ajax, Whitby or Oshawa you will also find a restaurant for pretty well any kind of food along the very street you're driving along.

Downtown Oshaw has the higher-end noon hour restaurants and fine dining establishments, the area close to campus has the cheaper eats, and the outlying residential areas have the family-friendly and affordable dining options. The Oshawa-Durham region has over 500 restaurants.

The area is also known as a vacation paradise, with the lakes from Simcoe east along the Trent River system and the Kawarthas area, and north to the rugged Algonquin Provincial Park. Tehre is also the quaint rural and winemaking area in Prince Edward County (the Isle of Quinte) osuth of Belleville and Trenton. These visitors, often from big cities in southern Ontario or from the United States are used to big city cuisine, and this area aims to keep our visitors happy and well-fed. In the past, that's been important for the workers in physically demanding sectors like forestry and manufacturing, but is also great for those rugged individuals enjoying the scenic splendours of the region.

Use the pop-down list above to quickly find restaurants by cuisine. You can use the Restaurant Search Form to quickly filter the restaurants by community/neighbourhood AND by cuisine. You can even search by postal code, even by street to find all restaurants really close to you.

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