The Top 100 Places to Eat and Drink Near 1 Hotel Toronto
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Rank 1. Edulis
Spanish Mediterranean
A modest house on Niagara Street where Michael Caballo and Tobey Nemeth cook the tasting menu with the discipline of classical European dining, phones off, table yours for the evening. Impeccable seafood and house-cured charcuterie speak to their debt to Spain and France, down to the crusty red fife bread and langoustine tartare that justifies the ritual.
- Air Canada 2012 · #1 · Best New Restaurants
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best Mediterranean Cuisine Restaurant
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Rank 2. Alder
Wood-Fired Mediterranean
Dark brick and tall windows frame Patrick Kriss's Mediterranean kitchen at ground level of the Ace hotel, where a serious brigade works a wood-fired program around roast chicken, lamb, and beef. The cucumber salad—shaved fennel, dukkah, hazelnuts—outshines its reputation, and the coconut cream pie arrives almost weightless.
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – Canada
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – Canada
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 3. XXX
Cocktail Bar
Down a staircase beneath Little Sister, a 20-seat speakeasy channels 1970s Amsterdam through groovy design and a bar stocked with outlier ingredients—carrot-cake-infused whisky, vermouth, sherry—mixed into high-concept cocktails by H, the barman who redesigned the space in 2023. Intimate, nervy, self-aware.
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Rank 4. Alo
Contemporary
Patrick Kriss's renovated dining room pairs European technique with Asian flourishes across a surprise tasting menu, the marble chefs counter offering ringside views of an unhurried kitchen. The bar treats walk-ins like regulars, and the whole place hums with the confidence of a restaurant that has learned not to take itself seriously.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best French Cuisine Restaurant
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #7 · Best Restaurants
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Rank 5. Evangeline
Cocktail Bar
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – Canada
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – Canada
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Rank 6. TOCA
Traditional Italian
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Four Star
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Air Canada 2011 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
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Rank 8. DaNico
Fine Dining Italian
A historic bank vaults into fine dining: dark walls, linen, plush seats, and irreverent art strike an unlikely balance between formality and playfulness. Chef Daniele Corona's Italian cooking—anchored by Ontario produce and refined with almost kaiseki precision—reveals itself in details like spaghettoni boiled in mushroom extract and crab finished tableside with Sicilian olive oil.
- 50 Top Italy 2025 · #3 · The Best Italian Restaurants In The World
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
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Massimo Zitti's fermentation-forward cocktails—kombucha, lacto-ferments, house distillates—anchor a bar where technique meets ingredient obsession. The minimal backbar and chiaroscuro lighting frame drinks like the Toasted Chai Piña Colada with a restrained elegance that feels earned rather than affected.
- 50 Best 2026 · #22 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Europe
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #48 · Best Bars
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A cramped, cluttered shrine to cocktail irreverence that outlasted its parent restaurant by reinventing itself without losing the Absinthe Whip. Fifteen years on, it still mixes housemade classics with playful new drinks like the agave-based Deep Cut.
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Canada
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #49 · Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Canada
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Rank 11. Campechano Adelaide
Mexican
A narrow taco counter where heirloom corn becomes fresh tortillas daily, and the kitchen's smoke and clatter fill a austere room of tile and weathered wood. The barbacoa arrives smoky and urgent, the haddock beer-battered and brisk—a place built for speed and appetite, not lingering.
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Rank 12. Le Swan
French
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Restaurant Bar – Canada
- Air Canada 2019 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Restaurant Bar – Canada
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Rank 13. Reign
Canadian
- AAA Four Diamonds
- The Pinnacle Guide 2026 · 1 Pin
- VineRoutes 2025 · Vine Award Winners · Restaurant Awards
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Rank 14. Library Bar
Cocktail Bar
A jewel-toned Deco den in The Fairmont Royal York where tableside martinis have been poured for half a century, anchored by a literary obsession with Toronto's own history. Beverage director James Grant crafts cocktails inspired by Michael Ondaatje's novels with the precision of a 2021 World Class champion.
- 50 Best 2026 · Ketel One Sustainable Bar Award 2026 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best International Hotel Bar
- 50 Best 2026 · #19 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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Rank 15. Pompette
French Cocktail Bar
A Parisian-style cocktail bar where bentwood chairs and a marble counter frame drinks built on unexpected flavors—curry leaf and rum, masala chai with cognac. The bartenders' research and restraint make even their most baroque combinations feel effortless and clear.
- 50 Best 2025 · Art of Hospitality Award
- 50 Best 2025 · #55 · World's 50 Best Bars
- 50 Best 2026 · #8 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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Rank 16. SARA
Contemporary
Sara's austere dining room—phones stowed in table compartments—enforces a kind of secular monasticism around globally inflected shared plates. Butternut squash latkes arrive crowned with smoked ikura and maple kombu; Alaskan king crab swims in nuoc cham and crispy rice. The kitchen moves with evident precision, and half-portions let you chart its range alone.
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A no-reservation bar on Bathurst that trades reservations and flair for candlelit informality and unpretentious food. Years of requests softened its stance on cocktails, though the place still refuses to genuflect to mixology theater.
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Rank 18. Quetzal
Mexican
A 10-metre grill dominates this sleek dining room where chef Steven Molnar builds nearly every dish around open flame and ember, from daily-ground corn tortillas to grilled secreto and charred scallops with popcorn and Tajín. Eight years in, Quetzal's upscale Mexican cuisine rewards the discipline this primal cooking demands, its flavours crackling with smoke and sophistication.
- 50 Best 2025 · #11 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Restaurant Bar – Canada
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Rank 19. Bar Raval
Spanish
The mahogany cocoon wraps around communal tables where diners lose hours over house-cured jamón and pintxos, the room itself as essential as what arrives on the plate. Smith's kitchen and Figueiredo's drinks program—vermouth-forward cocktails, a deep sherry list—keep the place vital across its second decade.
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best International Restaurant Bar
- Air Canada 2015 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #10 · Best Bars
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Rank 20. Chubby's Jamaican Kitchen
Jamaican
Island cooking arrives on Portland Street with homey curry goat and jerk chicken that justifies the line out the door. Wood smoke and spice marry in dishes humble in appearance but surprisingly deep in flavor.
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Rank 21. Beast Pizza
Canadian
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Rank 22. Canoe
Contemporary New American
A sleek tasting room suspended above the city, where the kitchen's ambition matches the view. Wild Pacific halibut arrives with Savoy cabbage and champagne cream; lamb saddle comes paired with its braised shoulder. Service operates with the precision of a practiced institution, and the tarte au sucre closes the evening with quiet confidence.
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Rank 23. Linny’s
Jewish American Steakhouse
A mid-century steakhouse wrapped in golden light, where David Schwartz channels Jewish-American nostalgia through impeccably seared beef brushed with pastrami tallow and whole roasted lamb. The menu's intelligence—from chicken liver mousse on dark rye to kasha varnishkes—cuts through richness with pickles and a bar that builds cocktails from deli ingredients.
- Air Canada 2025 · Best Cocktail · Best New Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #14 · Best Restaurants
- Air Canada 2025 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
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Rank 24. Fix Coffee + Bikes
Coffee
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Rank 25. R&D
Fusion
In a Chinatown storefront born from a mentorship between two televised chefs, R&D serves dim sum and mains that blur continents without apology: sou pastries harboring foie gras, bao stuffed with kimchi and galbi, lobster poached in butter and finished with dashi. The cooking is playful rather than precious, more interested in what works than what's proper.
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Rank 26. Prime Seafood Palace
Steakhouse
A pale wood cathedral softened by tan leather and civil-volume soundtrack, Matty Matheson's steakhouse has matured into a serious venue for special occasions and indulgent evenings alike. The Australian wagyu ribeye under black truffle and bordelaise, the Sicilian crudo, the inventive vegetables—each element settles into place with the confidence of a kitchen that knows exactly what it's doing.
- Air Canada 2022 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #41 · Best Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – Canada
- The Pinnacle Guide 2026 · 1 Pin
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – Canada
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Rank 28. Suite 115
Cocktail Bar
Suite 115 hides behind a publicly posted code, its long bar staffed by owners who craft drinks like an Ackee & Saltfish Martini with theatrical precision. Warm lighting and food-forward cocktails served with playful sides—mango rice cake, homemade lollipops—reward those who enter.
- The Pinnacle Guide 1 Pin
- 50 Best 2026 · #74 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best New International Cocktail Bar – Canada
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Rank 29. Don Alfonso 1890
Elevated Italian
Forty stories above Toronto, floor-to-ceiling windows frame the city and waterfront while Davide Ciavattella's eight-course tasting menu commands the view. Wild-rose tagliatelle with eel gelato sits alongside seared duck and porchetta with honey glaze—a vision that layers Amalfi Coast tradition with local precision. This is a room built for occasions that demand a certain formality.
- 50 Top Italy 2025 · #10 · The Best Italian Restaurants In The World
- AAA Four Diamonds
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · World's Best Fine Dining Experience
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Rank 31. Lunch Lady
Street Food Vietnamese
A cavernous room on Ossington hums with the energy of a Vietnamese street kitchen transplanted through Vancouver and now run by Benedict Lim and chef Allan Lu. The late Nguyen Thi Thanh's recipes—crispy shrimp with nuoc cham, eggplant glazed in tamarind and soy—land somewhere between Saigon memory and Toronto appetite.
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Rank 32. Louix Louis
European
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Recommended
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · Canada's Best Hotel Restaurant
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Rank 33. Yan Dining Room
Chinese
Chef Eva Chin serves an eight-course tasting menu three nights weekly, weaving seasonal Canadian ingredients through regional Chinese traditions with restless fusion sensibility. The private dining room demands advance planning but rewards with dishes that feel both rooted and inventive.
- Air Canada 2025 · Best Concept · Best New Restaurants
- Air Canada 2025 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · Recommends
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Rank 34. No Vacancy
Cocktail Bar
Exposed brick and soft amber light frame a gleaming bar at this November 2024 newcomer on Ossington, where Troy Gilchrist and Kat Yu craft Japanese-influenced cocktails with genuine ambition alongside excellent small plates and a thoughtful selection of beer and wine. The design alone drew crowds; the drinks and food keep them returning.
- 50 Best 2026 · #82 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best New International Cocktail Bar – Canada
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #14 · Best Bars
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A narrow College Street trattoria where owners Kolomeir and Imola fold Italo-Jewish culinary history into house-made pastas and charcoal-grilled secondi built from local vegetables and proteins. The liver toast—bridging Tuscan and Jewish traditions—and the rugelach on dessert charts suggest a kitchen working in deliberate conversation with two deep roots.
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- 50 Best 2026 · #90 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best New International Cocktail Bar – Canada
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Rank 37. Bar Vendetta
Italian
A sliver of a room on Dundas West where Jen Agg's kitchen, barely bigger than a closet, produces fresh pasta and bread at an improbable clip. The ricotta-filled cacio e pepe is the signature, though the oxtail ragu and rosemary focaccia deserve equal attention. White-and-orange tiles, wood, and vintage posters set the scene; many come just for the wine list.
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Rank 39. Linny’s
Steakhouse
A steakhouse with deli inflections and an old-school convivial hum, Linny's trades croutons for crispy chicken skin and serves challah with house-made sauerkraut and whipped cheese dotted with berry jam. The caramelized apple cake, finished tableside with chantilly cream, suggests a chef who understands that comfort, seasoned properly, never goes out of style.
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Sweaty Betty's wears its dive-bar roughness—red light, mismatched chairs, anarchic spirit—like armor against the Ossington strip's polish, a standby since 2004 that rewards those who look past the stumble-in allure. Cocktails are built with precision, beers span a thoughtful roster, and the kitchen moves beyond the usual with vegan options, all priced to encourage return visits.
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Rank 41. Gift Shop
Cocktail Bar
Behind a barbershop on Ossington, a dimly lit bar where the playlist runs deep and the cocktails chase complexity through unexpected ingredients like shōchū and Parmigiano Reggiano. Nine years in, it has settled into the role of a place you return to, not discover.
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You enter through a chemist's storefront into Frankie Solarik's apothecary bar, where cocktails materialize from house-made bitters, crushed herbs, and vintage jars lined across the backbar. The drinks—layered with basil, fennel, and unexpected botanicals—arrive with just enough showmanship and '90s hip-hop to remind you this is still BarChef's second act.
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Rank 43. Mott 32
Elevated Chinese
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Rank 44. Aanch
Indian
A modest room on Wellington Street houses a kitchen that moves with quiet confidence through the landscape of Indian regional cooking. Chicken 65 arrives deep-fried and urgent; vindaloos burn with Goan spice; butter-rich dal bukhari and garlic naan anchor the menu. The plating gestures toward refinement, but what matters here is the cooking itself.
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Rank 45. Lai Wah Heen
Cantonese Chinese
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Recommended
- Chinese Restaurant Awards 2025 · Top 50 Honourees · Elite 30 Canada
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Rank 46. 苍蝇馆子 Cheng Du Street Food
Sichuan Chinese
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The counter at Lonely Diner stretches beneath wood panelling and vintage paper, a refuge for regulars nursing cold beers and cocktails that drift toward the savory and strange—Szechuan peppercorn in a White Negroni, black garlic brine in the Martini. Greasy spoon classics get lifted: Atlantic cod arrives beneath yuzu-tartar and caviar. It's comfort food in conversation with itself.
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Rank 48. Sunnys Chinese
Chinese
Down a narrow Kensington Market hallway, Sunnys occupies a retro diner space where David Schwartz and Braden Chong chart a fiery course through Chinese regions, each dish animated by chili oil and regional heat. The kitchen refuses restraint—tripe glazed in Sichuan peppers, cumin-coated chicken thigh, charred noodles—and servers navigate the spice taxonomy with ease.
- Air Canada 2021 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #94 · Best Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
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Rank 49. Sushi Yūgen
Omakase Sushi
At an eight-seat counter in the rear, Kyohei Igarashi orchestrates a kaiseki-inflected omakase of eighteen courses sourced entirely from Japan, where seasonal rarities like okoze arrive alongside a wine list tilted toward rarefied white Burgundies and Japanese whiskies found nowhere else in the country. The precision feels less like service and more like a conversation conducted in fish.
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Rank 50. DaiLo
New Asian/French
At DaiLo, chef Nick Liu treats the sharing table as theater: whole fried trout arrives glossy with nam jim and soy, while Hainanese chicken harbors black truffle beneath its skin, paired with foie fat rice. Hand-folded dumplings shift with the seasons, and the cocktail list matches the kitchen's generosity of spirit.
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Rank 52. Henry's Restaurant
Contemporary
The mid-century modern dining room—globe lights, forest green banquettes, a backyard patio—signals Henry's ambitions as a wine bar willing to play loose with cuisine. A menu of beef tartare, shrimp toast, and skate wing in fiery curry proves the kitchen serves the wine list, not the other way around.
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Rank 53. Fika
Nordic-Inspired
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Rank 54. PAI
Northern Thai
A former nurse named Nuit Regular cooks family recipes and street food in a mod bohemian room that fills nightly with people studying the sprawling menu. The North Thai dishes—khao soi, kanom jin nham ngeaw, gaeng panang—arrive fresh and portioned for sharing, each one calibrated with care.
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Rank 56. Bar Mordecai
Cocktail Bar
Bar Mordecai orchestrates controlled chaos across two floors—a polished cocktail den above, karaoke den below—where the drinks swing from guava-chocolate hybrids to boozy soft-serve, and the fizzy wine list spans Champagne to sparkling sake. The calendar brims with bachata classes and drag-hosted bingo nights, creating a place less concerned with quiet romance than spirited revelry.
- 50 Best 2026 · #94 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Canada
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Canada
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By day a butcher shop, by night a narrow wine bar where the knife work on steak tartare matters as much as the meat itself. The namesake 48-ounce côte de bœuf and steak frites anchor a Parisian-leaning menu; the butcher's table, scrubbed clean, opens for private bookings. French wines by the glass at the zinc counter.
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Rank 58. The Cottage Cheese
Indian
Sunlight floods the windows of this Kensington Market dining room, where an Indian kitchen takes familiar classics—chaats, curries, claypots—and renders them with uncommon care. The butter chicken arrives vivid and silken; a coastal fish curry tastes of depth and salt. Naan comes crisp and garlicked, though rice proves essential for the generous, well-seasoned sauces that demand mopping up.
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Rank 59. Jacobs & Co
Steakhouse
A sleek steakhouse in CIBC Square where bookmatched veneer and marble converge beneath a live pianist's touch. The kitchen moves deftly between raw bar seafood and an austere selection of aged beef—striploins sourced from Canada, Australia, Japan—while warm popovers studded with garlic and oregano arrive unbidden. This is a room built for the kind of meal that wants both ambition and grace.
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You thread through a coffee shop into a narrow dining room where binchotan grills anchor an airy kitchen, and Thai cooking snaps with fresh herbs and chilis across a menu built for sharing. The fried calamari salad and beef tartare with fish sauce show a kitchen that thinks beyond rote execution.
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Rank 62. The Heartbreak Chef
Comfort Food
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Rank 63. SAMMARCO
Steakhouse
Sammarco arrives as a steakhouse unafraid of elaboration: oxblood leather banquettes and gold leaf frame Ontario beef dry-aged sixty days alongside composed salads and theatrical seafood. The tableside Martini trolley and polished desserts suggest a restaurant that treats restraint as a suggestion, not a doctrine.
- Canada's 100 Best 2025 · #7 · Best New Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #37 · Best Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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A narrow room on Ossington where Tom Thai has spent two decades threading pan-Asian and Latin flavors into ceviches with startling clarity and beef preparations—grilled steak tataki meets chimichurri, beef cheek swims in red curry—that feel less like fusion than conversation between two kitchens. Order small plates and share.
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Rank 65. Pho Tien Thanh
Vietnamese
A narrow storefront on Ossington draws lines of diners content to wait for Vietnamese pho that arrives steaming and prompt from the kitchen. The rare beef variations are worth the queue; quality ingredients and restrained execution suggest this kitchen knows exactly what it's doing.
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Rank 66. aKin
Asian
Chef Eric Chong's aKin assembles a 10-course tasting menu at a spare, elegantly lit counter, reimagining classic Asian dishes with ingredients sourced across Canada. A raw oyster arrives with jellyfish and horseradish buttermilk; madai, grilled over binchō-tan, meets sauerkraut and mala consommé. His cooking balances spice with lightness, precision with invention.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Air Canada 2025 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #27 · Best Restaurants
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Rank 67. Union
French
On a worn stretch of Ossington lined with butchers and antique dealers, Union anchors itself with a horseshoe bar and a brick dining room where the chef works the counter as readily as the kitchen. Teo Paul's rustic, seasonally driven cooking—from omelettes to steak frites—carries the same meticulous attention, each plate arriving with its own narrative.
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Rank 69. Lucie
French
Yannick Bigourdan named this French restaurant for his grandmother, and her influence settles into the warm dining room like soft light filtering through pendant fixtures above an open kitchen. The cooking is rooted in classical technique but tilted toward the present—the cocktails, too, carry a French sensibility.
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Rank 70. La Cubana
Comfort Food Cuban
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Rank 71. Black + Blue
Canadian
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Rank 72. Mother's Dumplings
Chinese
Zhen Feng's Chinatown institution rolls and folds dumplings at all hours, from boiled pork and dill to pan-fried varieties worth their soy-tinged dip. You can eat them here or take frozen bags home, and either way you're tasting two decades of the same deliberate hand.
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A two-floor Chinatown spot with a terrace where young staff and lively crowds make eating feel like an event. Southern Thai curries deliver serious heat alongside gentler noodle dishes, each plate arriving with the kind of speed that keeps the inevitable line moving.
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Rank 74. Bar Banane
Cocktail Bar
The bar at this Ossington Avenue institution draws a stylish crowd beneath jewel-toned walls and propulsive music. Cocktails arrive with precision—a shrimp preparation chilled to glassy perfection—while the kitchen works through luxe proteins and truffled preparations with equal conviction. It's the kind of room where sophistication and swagger coexist without apology.
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Rank 76. Casa Paco
Spanish
Rob Bragagnolo's small house restaurant delivers a tasting menu of crispy socarrat rice and briny seafood—P.E.I. tuna aged in-house, John Dory confit—drawn from his years cooking in Spain and Italy. Sundays pivot to family-style paella, served with mussels and uni from a wine list devoted to obscure regions.
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Rank 78. Restaurant 20 Victoria
Contemporary Mexican
In a compact financial-district room with an open kitchen, chef Rafa Covarrubias delivers a tasting menu of vivid, finely executed Mexican cuisine—bluefin tuna with salsa macha, crisp-skinned Pekin duck with chilmole negro. The space is polished yet unstuffy, the service unhurried and warm, the experience calibrated to feel both sophisticated and genuinely at ease.
- Air Canada 2022 · #1 · Best New Restaurants
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #10 · Best Restaurants
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A whitewashed brick gallery conceals a glowing curved bar where a bouncer guards the threshold and the crowd stays cool. The narrative-driven cocktail menu riffs on Toronto deep cuts and Yellow Pages nostalgia, executing even unlikely combinations—say, gin and Greek yogurt—with serious technique. This is a place where the art on the walls matters as much as what's in your glass.
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Canada
- 50 Best 2026 · #69 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Canada
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Rank 84. Simpl Things
Cocktail Bar
Evelyn Chick's cocktails at this pastel Parkdale bar traffic in nostalgic pleasure—Cosmos and caviar-topped Martinis alongside playful riffs like banana daiquiri—with enough polish to satisfy. Chef Cody Wilkes pivots from daytime focaccia sandwiches to evening Asian comfort: creamy udon carbonara threaded with lap cheong and chili crisp.
- The Pinnacle Guide 2026 · 1 Pin
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Restaurant Bar – Canada
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #39 · Best Bars
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Rank 85. Maven
Polish-Jewish Eastern European
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Rank 86. Bar Prima
Italian
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Rank 87. Gia
Italian
The narrow dining room—high ceilings, exposed brick, herringbone floors—hums with the quiet confidence of a chef who happens to cook without meat. Jenny Coburn's house-made pasta, especially the mushroom agnolotti in brown butter, tastes like it needs no justification at all.
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Rank 88. Aloette
New American
A narrow dining room on Spadina hums with the ease of a place that knows exactly what it's doing. Chef Patrick Kriss's diner serves iceberg wedges crowned with puffed wild rice and a burger that needs no introduction, each plate arriving with the care of fine dining stripped of pretense. Lemon meringue pie—tall, browned, unapologetic—sends you out satisfied.
- Air Canada 2018 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Toronto, Canada
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Rank 89. Kiss My Pans
Singaporean
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Rank 90. Conejo Negro
Caribbean
A narrow College Street corner where Creole, Caribbean, and Latin flavors converge in shareable plates of firecracker shrimp and fried chicken with smoked hot honey. The wood-benched backyard patio, strung with warm light and ringed in greenery, feels designed for crews who plan to linger.
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Rank 91. Civil Liberties
Cocktail Bar
A no-menu speakeasy on Bloor West where bartenders construct custom cocktails from house-made liqueurs—herbal, bright, deliberately unconventional—in a room that swings from nerdy deep-dive to full dance floor depending on the hour. Civil operates like a neighbourhood bar with ambitions beyond the ordinary, unpretentious even when it's intellectually rigorous about what goes in the glass.
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Canada
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Canada
- 50 Best 2026 · #54 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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Rank 92. Enoteca Sociale
Italian
A marble counter curves through this Roman trattoria like an embracing arm, the kind of place that makes solo diners feel instantly adopted. Nearly everything arrives from the kitchen's own hands—charcuterie, pasta, even the arancini—but what matters is the cacio e pepe, silken and obsessive, the dish most tables refuse to leave without.
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An izakaya on Dundas West where the open kitchen turns out precise renderings of Tokyo home cooking—yuzu fried chicken with an exact crackle, tebasaki wings dusted with pepper, sashimi that speaks for itself. The room carries a deliberate shabbiness; the beer and sake list rewards curiosity. Finish with taro ice cream melting into Tokyo Toast.
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In a slender room with a storied past, Chef Rebekah Bruce composes small plates where Filipino flavors—coconut, chili, the bite of kinilaw—surface alongside her own sensibility. The scallop arrives silken and sharp; the breads from the wood-fired oven are impossible to resist. Work is precise, portions modest, satisfaction complete.
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Rank 95. Restaurant Pompette
French/Italian
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Rank 96. Bar Isabel
Spanish
On College Street, Bar Isabel serves unfussy Spanish tapas with real conviction—the pork secreto, glazed in honey and apple cider, exemplifies Grant van Gameren's restrained approach. Half portions invite exploration, while the drinks list pivots smartly between craft beer and Sherry cocktails.
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Rank 97. Osteria Giulia
Ligurian Italian
Candlelight softens cream walls and blond oak at Chef Rob Rossi's assured dining room, where a poised staff moves with quiet confidence. The menu pivots on Liguria's seafood traditions—vitello tonnato arrives ethereal, snow crab tagliolini gleams with bottarga—while a deep Italian wine list and exceptional cocktails complete an experience of real refinement and warmth.
- 50 Top Italy 2025 · #50 · The Best Italian Restaurants In The World
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · World's Best Italian Cuisine Restaurant
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
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Rank 98. Takja BBQ House
Korean Barbecue
On College Street, two chefs have rebuilt Korean barbecue around sourced proteins—Kansas hanger steak, Guelph rib-eye, Australian wagyu aged in-house—grilled tableside with practiced restraint. The sides matter as much as the meat: house-fermented ssämjang and kimchi, seafood pancakes crowned with uni, cocktails and natural wines that honor the cuisine rather than distract from it.
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Rank 100. One Restaurant
French/Italian