Greektown runs along Danforth Avenue between Chester Avenue and Dewhurst Boulevard in east Toronto, with commercial buildings on the strip dating to as early as 1910. Storefronts sit at street level with apartments or offices above, and the neighbourhood is often described as having one of the highest concentrations of restaurants per kilometre anywhere.
The area became one of Toronto's main Greek settlement areas after the First World War, with a larger wave arriving in the 1950s and 1960s. Street signs on the strip are bilingual, in English and Greek.
The stands on the Danforth just west of Pape Avenue, built between 1913 and 1926 and modelled on Rome's Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore. is a few blocks north on Gough Avenue. A public square at Logan Avenue holds the , with a bronze bust donated to the city in 1990 by the Pan-Macedonian Association of Ontario and the Greek Community of Metropolitan Toronto.
, a mini-mall built around the Big Carrot natural food market, sits on the Danforth at Jackman Avenue. Ethiopian, Turkish, Egyptian and Lebanese restaurants have also opened along the avenue among the older Greek storefronts. , a red brick building with a public pool, faces Logan Avenue south of the strip.
Each August the Taste of the Danforth food festival shuts down about a kilometre and a half of the avenue, from Broadview Avenue past Jones Avenue. It grew from about 5,000 people in 1994 to as many as 1.6 million over three days at its peak.
