Locals Welcome (2025)

Season 1

Suresh Doss takes viewers on a journey to explore the country’s best neighbourhood restaurants.

Released Oct. 5, 2025 Episode 22 min None+

Genres: Documentary, Reality

Keywords: tmdb.food, tmdb.reality, tmdb.montreal, tmdb.canada, tmdb.toronto, mdblist.has-trailer

Production Companies: CBC, UltraBoom Media

Country: Canada
Languages: English

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Suresh Doss

S1E1 - Nigeria - Naija

Suresh Doss explores Naija, that popular term to describe Nigerian culture, and finds it exploding all across the city.

Oct. 5, 2025, midnight

S1E2 - Around the Airport - Flights of Flavour

Suresh Doss explores the food scene around Toronto’s Pearson Airport, finding a neighbourhood full of South Asian fare, guest starring Matty Matheson.

Oct. 12, 2025, midnight

S1E3 - Richmond - Dining Out

Suresh Doss heads to Richmond BC to explore a diverse Chinese food scene adapting to the surrounding natural abundance.

Oct. 19, 2025, midnight

S1E4 - Scarborough - Hometown Flavours

Suresh Doss introduces us to some of his favourite spots and hometown flavours.

Oct. 26, 2025, midnight

S1E5 - Filipino - Transforming a Food Scene

Suresh Doss explores Filipino food in Toronto.

Nov. 2, 2025, midnight

S1E6 - Maghreb - Where Time Slows Down

Suresh Doss slows down as he explores the cultures and cuisines of the Maghreb in Montreal.

Nov. 9, 2025, midnight

S1E7 - Latin American Sanctuary

Suresh Doss explores Latin American food in Toronto, and finds cuisine and culture can be a form of sanctuary.

Nov. 16, 2025, midnight

S1E8 - Tehranto - Rich Traditions of Hospitality

Suresh Doss explores Iranian food in Toronto and finds a cuisine with rich traditions of hospitality.

Nov. 23, 2025, midnight

S1E9 - Montreal - Haiti - L'Union fait la force

Suresh Doss discovers that the phrase “Unity Is Strength” is driving the emergence of Haitian cuisine in Montreal.

Nov. 30, 2025, midnight

S1E10 - Food Courts - A Culinary Refuge.

Suresh Doss explores food courts in Toronto and finds a culture unto itself.

Dec. 7, 2025, midnight

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22 min/ep

220 min

Oct. 5, 2025

Dec. 7, 2025, midnight

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