Become a Local Champion in Toronto

A Local Champion in Toronto has rated five different Toronto places, answered three Top 3 questions about the city and made a list with a Toronto place on it in the Mosey app. It is earned by activity alone, and in a city where so many cuisines sit a few streetcar stops apart, five ratings are an easy and enjoyable target.

How do you become a Local Champion in Toronto?

Do three things in the city: rate five places, answer three Top 3 questions and make a list with a Toronto place on it. A card on Home shows Done or To do for each step and counters such as "3 of 5 rated". Toronto is large, so your five may sit in very different parts of town, and that suits the title: five ratings of one favourite count as a single place.

Plan around your week. A brunch on Saturday, a lunch near work and a dinner after a game already make three.

What do peameal bacon and poutine add to your ratings?

The city's tourism site lists the peameal bacon sandwich, poutine and the Jamaican patty among the classic dishes to try, and it names butter tarts, artisanal doughnuts and extravagant milkshakes as bakery treats. Eggs benedict anchors the brunch scene. Peameal bacon is a thick slice of cured pork loin, usually served on a roll.

Rate each by the dish. The title never reads what you write, so a disappointed rating of a famous sandwich counts exactly like a delighted one. The same site celebrates fusion as a Toronto habit, with Chinese-Jamaican and Mexican-Mediterranean mash-ups as examples of bold, unexpected flavours. If you rate one, name both halves of the dish in your rating so the next person knows what to expect.

Which Toronto neighbourhoods suit your five ratings?

The tourism site points to Chinatown for dim sum and hand-pulled noodles, to Koreatown for Korean barbecue, bibimbap and Korean waffles, and to Little Tibet for momos and butter tea. The Danforth is known for souvlaki, shawarma and baklava, and the shawarma guide goes deeper. Kensington Market is described as a global food haven, with Jamaican patties, tacos and Latin American food. Little India on Gerrard Street East, Little Jamaica and Roncesvalles Village each add a different thread.

You do not need to cover them all. Two or three neighbourhoods are a perfectly good start, and the dumplings guide is useful for a Chinatown stop.

What does a first Toronto week of ratings look like?

Monday is a peameal bacon sandwich for lunch. Wednesday is a Jamaican patty on the way home. On the weekend, a brunch with eggs benedict is one more, a dim sum table in Chinatown a fourth and a bowl of momos in Little Tibet a fifth. Each is a different place, so the five arrive in a single week with no special trip, and nothing about the order matters.

A slower rhythm works just as well. Rate one place on each trip across the city for a month and you will have the same five, and a much better map of Toronto.

What are the Toronto Top 3 questions about?

Top 3 puts one question in front of you per visit and waits at least four hours before the next. The questions are about kinds of food and occasions, such as brunch, pizza, poutine, Chinese, Indian and coffee. Torontonians argue about all of them. You name up to three places, ranked, and you need three different questions answered in Toronto for the title.

A skip protects your daily streak yet adds nothing toward the title. Name at least one place when you answer.

What belongs on a Toronto list that counts?

A list of your own with a Toronto place on it. "Weekend dim sum", "Visitors get a patty and a peameal" or "Gerrard Street on a Sunday" are good titles. Two lists are left out of the step: My Favourites and the list Top 3 builds from your answers, so start a fresh one.

Add a place, jot a note and share it with a friend. In a city of so many neighbourhoods, a friend's addition is often the best part.

How do dishes, tags and friends help in Toronto?

Toronto is a city of specifics, and the dish matters more than the name over the door. Rate by the dish, add tags such as Hidden Gem or Great Value, tag who you ate with and follow friends to see what they rate on Home. None of it changes whether you earn the title, because the app counts only that you did the activity. The earned, not bought guide explains the reasoning.

What do you get once you earn it?

A thank-you reads "You are a Local Champion of Toronto", and the title then shows on your profile and beside your name on ratings of Toronto places. A Share my title button builds a picture card out of three plain numbers. No prize, discount or payment comes with it. The how-to guide lists every rule, and the Local Champion page shows the screens.

Mosey is free for a place to list, with no hidden fees and affordable tools, and supporting local in Toronto starts with telling people which corner earned your return visit. The Vancouver page does the same for the west coast, and the Canadian food guides have more.

Get the Mosey app, rate your next Toronto lunch by the dish and start the list that completes your title.