This Scarborough bakery on Kingston Rd. is known for the arancini, lasagna, meatballs, sausage, peppers and both chicken and veal cutlets it serves. However, they may be most known for their giant pizza slices with outrageous toppings.

Pop into this bakery on Corso Italia to treat yourself to some of the biggest portions at one of the most affordably priced hot tables in the city. Find options like lasagna, plus other pastas, and huge arancini.

This Castlefield Design District joint was founded in 1957 and serves pasta, veggies, chicken, fried fish, veal, porchetta, assorted soups, rice balls, stuffed peppers and pizza from a hot table 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Seven days a week, the Scarborough-based hot table offers items like lasagna, arancini, calamari, BBQ chicken, pasta and Sicilian square pizza. They also dole out Calabrese sandwiches made with their own house bread, and folded flatbreads called vota vota. Come by on Fridays for seafood specials.

Since 1986, people have been relying on this North York bakery for Italian favourites, and their hot table is a reliable source for pizza, porchetta, lasagna, seafood, arancini, veggies and sausages.

If you're looking for a hot counter that takes things just a little beyond the average red sauce joint, check out this place in the Castlefield Design District where you'll find items like grilled ribeye panini plus excellent pastas, pizzas and calzones.

This hot table in the Eglinton West area has a wide array of Italian cuisine that balances favourites like lasagna, meatballs, pizza, stuffed peppers and rice balls with some rarer options including rabbit cacciatore, trippa, ribs and a Swiss chard/kale/dandelion mix. Visit on Saturdays for porchetta.

Getting its name from the street it's on in North York, this butcher shop has been in operation since 1972 and is famous for its porchetta, but their hot table also has steak, seafood, pasta, sandwiches and salads.

Feel like you're stepping back in time when you grab food from the hot table at this Etobicoke restaurant on The Queensway, where best selling items like veal or chicken sandwiches, eggplant parm, sausage or meatball on a bun, pizza, lasagna and cabbage rolls often run out before closing time.