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Toronto · Oakville · Mississauga
Outdoor Kitchens Built for Ontario Winters
We design and supply the cabinetry, appliances, and stone — from Oakville estate lots to Muskoka lake country. A TSSA-licensed gas technician handles the hookup, an ESA-licensed contractor handles the wiring, and the footings go below whatever frost line your municipality sets. We don't install.
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02Design
A full outdoor kitchen
Layout, appliances, cabinetry and stone, drawn around how you actually cook and entertain — then supplied to your door. A licensed contractor sets it. From a single island to a full estate kitchen.
Most builds land between $30,000 and $150,000
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Materials
Freeze-thaw, not salt air.
Ontario winters run well below -20°C in Ottawa and interior Muskoka, with dozens of freeze-thaw cycles a season that stress concrete, natural stone, and any cabinetry not rated for it. Footings have to sit below the local frost line, and that line is set municipality by municipality, not province-wide — roughly 1.2 m around Toronto and the Golden Horseshoe, deeper again toward Ottawa and cottage country. Confirm the exact number with the local building department before pouring. The Great Lakes are freshwater: there's no chloride salt air the way there is on the Gulf or Atlantic coasts, so full marine-grade 316 stainless isn't the default here — 304 does the job, with 316 reserved for kitchens sitting in direct splash of a heavily salted driveway or road. What Ontario does bring: de-icing salt underfoot every winter, lake-effect humidity, and — in cottage country — a build season that effectively runs May to October. Gas hookups require a TSSA-licensed gas technician; electrical work requires an ESA notification of work, a Licensed Electrical Contractor, and an ESA Certificate of Acceptance at the end.
- 304 stainless
- The industry default for good reason: strong, clean, repairable, and widely available in every appliance size you might want. It is not corrosion that kills it here, it is water that had somewhere to sit. A seam, a drawer bottom or an unsealed joint holds meltwater, that water freezes, and freezing water expands by roughly nine percent. Do that a hundred times a winter and the joint opens. Specify drainage and sealed seams and 304 lasts decades in this province.
- Powder coat over aluminium
- Will not rust. Light, quick to install, available in colours stainless cannot do. It chips, and in Ontario a chip is not cosmetic. Water gets under the coating, freezes, and lifts it from beneath — a nick that would sit harmlessly for years in a dry climate peels through a single freeze-thaw season. Touch-up is not optional maintenance here.
- Marine polymer (HDPE)
- Genuinely inert. No rust, no rot, no corrosion, and it cleans up with soap. Excellent for door and drawer fronts. It could not care less about frost, which is exactly why it belongs here. The catch is movement: Ontario swings roughly fifty-five degrees between January and July, and this material expands and contracts across that range more than steel does. It needs fastening detailed for movement, or it will oil-can and pull at its screws.
Not every project needs the top of that list. On plenty of sites it is money better spent elsewhere, and we will tell you which one you are before you pay for it.
Where this comes from
Fifteen years of outdoor kitchens. In the same winter.
BBQ Ontario comes out of BBQ Québec — three stores, a team of thirty-five, and hundreds of custom outdoor kitchens built in a place that spends five months a year under snow.
In Ontario that is not a story we have to turn around. It is the same winter. The freeze-thaw cycle, the footings below frost, the road salt — we have been building against all of it for fifteen years, in the same country.
What is different here is the same winter, minus the ocean — freshwater, road salt underfoot, and a frost line that changes by municipality. The discipline carries over intact; the specification is written for this province, not copied from ours.
Where we work
7 cities. What each one actually demands.
Your address decides the specification long before anyone talks about style. Footings below the local frost line — and a materials list built for cold, not for an ocean that isn't here. Find your city below — its page says what to spend the money on there, and where spending more changes nothing.
Toronto
City of Toronto
Ultra-affluent inland estate enclaves — Bridle Path, Forest Hill, Rosedale — where lot scale and mature-tree logistics matter more than proximity to water.
Oakville
Halton Region · Coastal
Lake Ontario estate market where an outdoor kitchen is now described locally as baseline, not upgrade, on properties above $2M.
Mississauga
Peel Region · Coastal
South Mississauga's Lake Ontario bluff enclaves — Lorne Park, Mineola, Port Credit — mature-canopy estate living at a step below Toronto's price point.
Muskoka
District Municipality of Muskoka · Coastal
Cottage-country seasonal-property market — waterfront-first, permit-gated near the shoreline, and winterized before ice-in every year.
Niagara-on-the-Lake
Regional Municipality of Niagara · Coastal
Wine-country estate and heritage-town market with a built-in culture of outdoor entertaining, from vineyard estates to Old Town heritage homes.
London
City of London
Southwestern Ontario's fastest-growing large city — established wealth in Byron and Old North, a Western University-adjacent professional class.
1 more cities across Ontario, each with its own page. Not on the list? tell us where you are.
Before you ask
What people ask before they spend the money.
Do I need 316 marine-grade stainless in Ontario?
Usually not. The Great Lakes are freshwater — there's no constant airborne chloride the way there is on an ocean coast — so 304 stainless is the standard spec here. We'd upgrade specific components to 316 only if the kitchen sits in direct splash range of a driveway or road that gets heavy de-icing salt each winter.
Who is allowed to hook up the gas on my outdoor kitchen?
A TSSA-licensed gas technician. In Ontario, a G3 certification covers supervised work; a G2 certification is what allows a technician to do unsupervised residential gas or propane work on equipment up to 400,000 BTUH, which covers a typical outdoor kitchen. We supply the appliances; the TSSA technician does the hookup and sign-off.
What about the electrical?
Any new circuit, outlet, or exterior wiring needs a notification of work filed with the Electrical Safety Authority (ESA) and has to be done — or at minimum inspected — by a Licensed Electrical Contractor. ESA issues a Certificate of Acceptance once the work passes, including checks for proper GFCI protection on exterior kitchen circuits.
How deep do the footings need to go?
Below the frost line set by your local building department. That depth varies by municipality — shallower in the south, meaningfully deeper toward Ottawa and interior Muskoka — so it's confirmed at the permit stage, not assumed from a province-wide number.
Start here
Tell us about the space.
A photo of the patio and a rough budget is enough to begin. We come back with a layout, the material specification your site actually needs, and a real number for the whole supply — plus the contractor in your area who should be setting it.