Live Food Bar offers an array of gourmet, gluten and sugar free vegan dishes to recharge and cleanse your body, mind, and soul.

We believe that the only way food should be processed is by the human body. Our cuisine is influenced by the flavors we remember from our mother’s kitchen. Many different cultural ingredients are combined in our hand made organic vegan dishes where quality and flavor come first. We offer healthy and satisfying choices with which to create a gourmet dining experience.

Internationally known Chef and restaurateur, Jennifer Italiano and her brother Chris Italiano, CFO and manufacturer, compliment each other perfectly by overseeing all aspects of the business. With their deep love of food, and service they inspire a life changing culinary experience.

Raw and Vegan food has come a LONG way in the past ten years joining into the Gastronomic Dynasty. You needn't be Vegan or Raw to dine here. Open mindedness, love of food and oneself is all that’s needed. Our light, gourmet foods leave you satisfied and well nourished. Try it.

Sit back, relax, and Live it up with us!

Live’s Social and Environmental Commitments

*We are committed to the essential stewardship of our earth through the support of sustainable organic food production and local farmers.

*Working with LivClean, an internationally ranked carbon offset company, Live dedicated themselves to reducing their carbon footprint in 2009.

*Live furthers their Green Earth support by only utilizing biodegradable take out products and employment of reuse and recycling.

*Committed to creating fair and fun working conditions Live has a progressive employment policy stressing all staff's value and input in the daily working of our restaurant and factory.  Everyone shares in all chores and all voices are heard.

Our History

In 2002 Live Food Bar became Toronto 's first Gourmet Raw and Vegan restaurant. It all began on the ground floor of the Yellow Brick Wellness Center. Chris Italiano and his former partner had transformed the space into an organic focused café and juice bar. A few months later his sister, Jennifer Italiano, began experimented with living Raw Foods and Vegan dishes.

Soon after its inception “Live food seemed to be everywhere, everyone we came in contact with seemed to be on the same wave length”; Raw foodists visiting from New York, local Torontonians interested in the lifestyle, visiting speakers and experts. “Even though the energy and interest was strong, there was nowhere to eat Raw food”.  Together they recognized the need. Soon after they opened Live Food Bar, the fist of its kind in Toronto.

Cooking and preparing live foods is always a process of trial, error and discovery, and is the basis of Live Food Bar’s foundation. "In the basement of the kitchen in our old space, bumping into low hanging pipes and craving sunlight", Jennifer admits that "to this day, making mistakes probably led to my best creations".

Working away in the busy kitchen, with help from her mother, Jennifer began to make Live her own.  “To tell you the truth, as I look back, I don't know how we did it" she says. "I use to think... I'll give it all I can, I have nothing else I’d rather do”. Within a short period of time they experienced great success and began to hire and train staff.  And as they say, the rest is history.

Jennifer, who runs the restaurant, is now an internationally known Chef. Together Chris and Jennifer have made Live Food Bar a highly regarded culinary destination. In 2010 they opened a factory, run by Chris, and introduced Live Food Bar’s tried and tested products under the brand name Live Organic Raw ®. The brand quickly became a successful product line and is now sold by top retailers in Canada.