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Cabbagetown, Toronto — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Cabbagetown is Toronto's Victorian rowhouse quarter, a leafy residential district of brick porches east of the downtown core.
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Where to stay in Cabbagetown
Where the beds are, and what that means for the visit.
Beds here favour the quiet. Cabbagetown keeps its lodgings among the brick terraces of a residential quarter, so guests trade the noise of central Toronto for tree-lined streets that stay calm well past dark, waking a short walk from the museum halls of the wider city. Little Trinity Anglican Church marks the southern edge.
St. Paul's Basilica stands close by the district's western reach.
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The brick terraces
Rows of restored Victorian porches on the residential streets that give Cabbagetown its rowhouse character.Find hotels in The brick terracesGuests who want the calm south fringe with a quick line into the old town.Near Little Trinity Anglican Church
The old stone church on the district's southern edge, steps from the King Street corridor into Corktown.Find hotels in Near Little Trinity Anglican ChurchVisitors bound for the museum district and the central core each morning.Toward St. Paul's Basilica
The western reach of the quarter beside the tall dome of St. Paul's Basilica, closest to the streetcars downtown.Find hotels in Toward St. Paul's BasilicaHotel links are affiliate links: booking through them may earn us a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never affects how places are ranked. How this works
Things to do in and around Toronto
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Museums & Galleries
3- Art Gallery of Ontario
- Bata Shoe Museum
- Gardiner Museum
Churches & Religious Sites
4- St. Paul's Bloor Street Heritage
- St. Andrew's Church Heritage
- Metropolitan United Church Heritage
- St. Basil's Church Heritage
Landmarks & Notable Places
4- The Grange Heritage
- Campbell House Heritage
- George Brown House Heritage
- James Cooper House Heritage
worth knowingacross 3 categories in and around Toronto
About Cabbagetown
What are the main landmarks in Cabbagetown?
St. Paul's Basilica rises at the western edge of the quarter, its dome the tallest mark on Cabbagetown's low residential skyline. Little Trinity Anglican Church holds the southern fringe in cut stone. The neighbourhood keeps no grand museum of its own.
For those, guests cross the city to the Royal Ontario Museum or the Art Gallery of Ontario, both a ride west across Toronto from these brick streets.
What is the history of Cabbagetown?
Working families settled these blocks. Irish labourers raised the first cottages here in the mid-1800s, and the plots grew cabbages so freely that the vegetable lent Cabbagetown its lasting name across Toronto. Brick terraces replaced the early cottages as the quarter filled.
Decline set in through the middle of the last century, before restoration turned the Victorian houses of this district into some of the best-kept in Ontario.
Where is Cabbagetown?
Cabbagetown sits on the east side of downtown Toronto, a low residential quarter of brick terraces on the rising ground above the Don valley in Ontario.
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What is the best area to stay in Cabbagetown?
The brick terraces: Walkers who want quiet heritage blocks over the din of downtown Toronto.. Near Little Trinity Anglican Church: Guests who want the calm south fringe with a quick line into the old town.. Toward St. Paul's Basilica: Visitors bound for the museum district and the central core each morning..
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Updated October 2026