Stratford

Pizza Bistro is a downtown Stratford comeback story: a Greek-Mediterranean pizzeria shaped by a Greece chapter, current sourdough pizzas, small plates, and all-week takeout deals. The strongest read is the menu breadth, not a chef biography.

Polished Stratford hotel dining built around Perth County sourcing, pre-theatre prix fixe, tasting menu, wine, caviar, and current chef Nick Benninger.

The Starlight is a downtown Stratford restaurant and bar where Megan Jones and Tim Pritchard's motel-lounge idea brings dinner, Sunday brunch, late-night food, cocktails, and recurring live music into one full-service room.

The Prune has occupied a singular place in Stratford dining since 1977, pairing a long local history with seasonal Canadian cooking under co-head chefs Randi Rudner and Mike Booth. The current dinner menu moves from salt cod croquettes and Crying Tiger grass-fed beef tartare to duck confit, while a separate plant-based menu and a six-course evening tasting give the room more range than its special-occasion polish first suggests.

Mercer Kitchen & Beer Hall is a downtown Stratford hotel restaurant where izakaya-inspired cooking meets an Ontario craft beer program. The menu moves from karaage chicken, coconut curry soup and steam-bun pierogies to seafood khao soi, brunch Benedicts and a daily happy-hour drinks window.

Romeo’s Corner Cafe is a Stratford breakfast-and-lunch cafe built around Benedicts, burgers, sandwiches, pancakes, skillets, and family-friendly daytime choices.

Downtown Stratford Italian fixture for thin-crust pizza, house-made pasta, Festival-adjacent meals, and Friday/late-night value windows.

A Stratford diner for all-day breakfast, big-value comfort plates, fish and chips, classic sandwiches, kids meals, and first-come daytime service.

Stratford Thai Cuisine is a downtown Stratford Thai kitchen with a chef-owner backstory, a deep noodle-and-curry core, seafood specials like Mango Salmon, and a practical weekday lunch-special hook for dine-in, takeout, and delivery.

Downtown Stratford breakfast fixture with cookie-sheet portions, French-toast Benedicts, and a smoked-meat thread running through brunch and lunch.

Mone-Thai is a family-owned Thai restaurant in downtown Stratford, open since April 2012, with curries, noodles, pho, Tamarind Fish, Thai Style Pad Thai, house sauces, and a full Dancing Lion bubble tea lineup.

Family-owned Stratford standby for Greek-Canadian comfort plates, breakfast/lunch service, and early dinners built around souvlaki, moussaka, fish and chips, burgers, and family logistics.

Bentley’s is a downtown Stratford pub-and-inn fixture where British pub staples, Chef Pascal menu cues, daily features, and the 1984 move into 99 Ontario Street all work together.

Raja is a downtown Stratford Indian and Thai restaurant beside the Avon Theatre, built around butter chicken, tandoori dishes, curry-and-naan comfort, direct online ordering, and a community-rooted story tied to Zafar Quazi.

Lovage is a small downtown Stratford bistro and wine bar where chef-owner Jamie Crosby folds a frequently changing European menu into an exposed-brick room with an open kitchen, bar seating and a rear patio. Pork Schnitzel, Pan Bagnat and Mussel & Carrot Escabeche show the kitchen at its most specific, while lunch, dinner and online reservations make the room useful for both a focused daytime meal and a longer evening over wine.

The Parlour Inn Restaurant is a heritage Stratford dining room for theatre-day meals, familiar full-service cooking, daily happy hour, and a patio-backed downtown visit.

Casa 1881 gives The Windsor Hotel a modern Italian dining room with a companion aperitivo bar, moving from Weekend a Casa brunch through dinner and Friday-Saturday late-evening service. Chef de Cuisine Lawrence Sayas centers the menu on pastas, antipasti, DOP cheeses and tomatoes, seafood, and seasonal Ontario ingredients, while recurring programs make it easy to plan a visit around Stratford's theatre schedule.