Eating and staying in Ontario
33,429 cafés, restaurants, bars, hotels and motels across 1,556 towns and suburbs in Ontario.
Ontario accounts for 37% of every venue we hold in New Zealand, which makes it the 1st-largest of the 13 regions by venue count. Those 33,429 venues sit across 1,556 named towns and suburbs, of which 219 carry at least 25 venues and get a page of their own.
Distribution inside the region is relatively even: Toronto (3,799), Ottawa (1,334) and Vaughan (1,187) hold 19% of everything between them. The remaining 1,337 places average 5.4 venues each — a long tail of small settlements that we list on the nearest town page rather than give an empty page to.
The regional split runs 93% eating to 11% accommodation, against a national 81/19. Accommodation is thinner on the ground here than nationally, which is what a region with more residents than tourists looks like in the data.
22,318 venues in Ontario carry a cuisine tag. Measured against the national mix, the region over-indexes on sports bar (4), canadian-chinese (10) and eritrean (6), and under-indexes on bistro and poke.
Data quality varies by region and it is worth knowing where this one stands: 6,148 venues here publish opening hours (18% against 21% nationally), 8,608 list a website, and 1,779 record step-free access. Everything on this site comes from open data, so coverage reflects what mappers and councils have published — not what exists on the ground.
The category split
| Restaurants | 12,230 in Ontario · 37% of the region · 39% of New Zealand's 31,320 |
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| Takeaways | 11,544 in Ontario · 35% of the region · 51% of New Zealand's 22,636 |
| Cafés | 5,424 in Ontario · 16% of the region · 41% of New Zealand's 13,367 |
| Holiday parks and campgrounds | 1,558 in Ontario · 5% of the region · 21% of New Zealand's 7,523 |
| Hotels | 994 in Ontario · 3% of the region · 23% of New Zealand's 4,289 |
| Pubs | 960 in Ontario · 3% of the region · 39% of New Zealand's 2,458 |
| Bars | 764 in Ontario · 2% of the region · 32% of New Zealand's 2,361 |
| Motels | 635 in Ontario · 2% of the region · 31% of New Zealand's 2,062 |
| B&Bs and guest houses | 255 in Ontario · 1% of the region · 20% of New Zealand's 1,250 |
| Serviced apartments | 230 in Ontario · 1% of the region · 12% of New Zealand's 1,845 |
| Hostels | 31 in Ontario · 0% of the region · 12% of New Zealand's 264 |
Towns and suburbs in Ontario
A further 1,337 smaller places in Ontario carry fewer than 25 venues each. Rather than publish a page with nothing to say, we list their venues on the town pages nearest them.