The Farm Boy location near Yonge Street and Eglinton Avenue has been closed by the City of Toronto for failing a DineSafe inspection on Monday.
According to the City’s website, the location at 2149 Yonge St. was shut down for four infractions during the inspection, including two critical and one significant.
The crucial infractions were “food premise maintained in manner permitting health hazard (rodents)” and “fail to protect food from contamination or adulteration,” while the significant infraction was “fail to protect against harbouring of pests.”
In a statement to CityNews, a spokesperson with Farm Boy said the company is dedicated to providing a safe and clean shopping environment.
“We have taken immediate action, including a full sanitation of the Yonge and Soudan location at 2149 Yonge St, Toronto and a rigorous review by our third-party pest control management company,” the statement reads. “Together with building management, our food safety team is on-site and working closely with public health officials and other experts to review our pest management program to identify any additional opportunities to strengthen it.”
This is the first failed DineSafe inspection for the grocery store this year, according to the City’s website, but there were three other “conditional” passes for Farm Boy on May 23, 2025, April 3, 2025 and Feb. 3, 2025. There was no data available for before 2025.
At their last inspection on July 7, Farm Boy passed with no infractions observed.
Farm Boy’s website has the store closed on Monday and Tuesday with regular hours beginning on Wednesday.