The Top 100 Places to Eat and Drink Near Abruzzo Pizza
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Rank 1. Abruzzo Pizza
Italian Pizza
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Rank 3. Loon Fong
Hong Kong-Style Chinese
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Rank 4. Flavourful House
Cantonese Chinese
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Rank 5. Jumbo Lobster Restaurant
Seafood
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Rank 6. Nian Yi Kuai Zi
Yibin Chinese
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Rank 8. Yu Seafood
Seafood
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Rank 9. Restoran Malaysia
Malaysian
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Rank 10. Glass Kitchen
Asian Fusion
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Rank 11. Piggy’s Island
Korean
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Rank 12. Gol’s Lanzhou Noodle
Lanzhou Noodles
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Rank 13. Zen Japanese Restaurant
Japanese
In a strip mall wedged between an auto shop and mundane commerce, Zen executes omakase with restraint and care—fish flown in multiple times weekly, rice pitched at the precise temperature, nori that recalls the sea itself. The room matches its philosophy: spare wood, good light, a counter where chefs move without flourish. Sushi this honest costs less than you'd expect.
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Rank 14. Gol’s Lanzhou Noodle
Lanzhou Noodles
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Rank 15. Sang-Ji Fried Bao
Chinese
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Rank 16. Casa Victoria
Cantonese Chinese
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Rank 17. Auberge du Pommier
Innovative French
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Rank 18. Shoushin
Edomae Sushi
At a hinoki counter opposite Jackie Lin, an omakase progression unfolds with surgical precision: kohada gives way to angler, seasonal uni, the rice a two-blend whisper calibrated to let fish speak. Service moves with intelligence, sakes arrive rare and considered, and the whole experience suggests a chef thinking several courses ahead.
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · World's Best Japanese Cuisine Restaurant
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Winner · North America's Best Japanese Cuisine Restaurant
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Rank 20. Nian Yi Kuai Zi
Chinese
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Rank 21. 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 22. 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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Rank 23. Miss Qu Bbq
Barbecue
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Rank 24. 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 25. Wilson's Haus of Lechon
Charcoal-Fired Filipino
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Rank 26. Scaramouche
Traditional French
Descend into what feels like a basement and emerge into a dining room suspended above the Toronto skyline, where Keith Froggett's classical French kitchen has held steady since 1983. Foie gras terrine with sour cherry, rabbit loin wrapped in bacon—the menu trades novelty for rigor, each plate an argument for why some things need not change.
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Rank 27. Kaiseki Yu-zen Hashimoto
Kaiseki Japanese
You navigate narrow corridors to private dining rooms where Chef Masaki Hashimoto's kaiseki unfolds with seasonal precision—kinmedai soups, bamboo shoots with shima-aji, grilled Miyazaki wagyu. The cooking favors restraint and clarity over spectacle, each course balanced and complete, a philosophy matched by the hushed, intimate setting and carefully chosen sake pairings.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best Japanese Cuisine Restaurant
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Rank 28. 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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At Civil Works, thematic cocktail menus unfold like curatorial projects—the current program traces Toronto's Garment District through drinks named after its history and served on fabric swatches sourced from nearby mills. The ambition never curdles into pretension; a mad-scientist spirit animates even the Jell-O shots, each one a small experiment in flavor and concept.
- 50 Best 2025 · Best Cocktail Menu Award
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · International Bartender of the Year · Elise Hanson
- 50 Best 2026 · #29 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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Rank 30. TOCA
Traditional Italian
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Four Star
- Air Canada 2011 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
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Rank 31. Reign
Canadian
- AAA Four Diamonds
- The Pinnacle Guide 2026 · 1 Pin
- VineRoutes 2025 · Vine Award Winners · Restaurant Awards
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Rank 32. 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 33. 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 34. 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 35. 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 36. 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
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #4 · Best Restaurants
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Rank 37. 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 38. Sushi Masaki Saito
Omakase Sushi
Masaki Saito presides over a hinoki counter in a temple-like space, his hands moving with the deliberation of ritual as he seasons rice and sources treasures from Japan's waters with connections few chefs possess. Each piece—whether topped with uni or buried under white truffles—arrives as a small revelation, the evening orchestrated to make you forget everything beyond this room.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best Japanese Cuisine Restaurant
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #52 · Best Restaurants
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Rank 39. 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 40. Café Boulud
Luxe French
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Recommended
- Air Canada 2013 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
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Rank 41. One Restaurant
French/Italian
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Rank 42. 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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A Scarborough strip mall houses Sumith Fernando's smoked meat operation, where halal brisket marinates in secret spices for days, then smokes for hours before a steam finish. Thin-sliced, peppery meat stacks high on soft rye with yellow mustard; the poutine arrives swimming in gravy, requiring a stack of napkins. Fernando's Montreal apprenticeship shows in every sandwich.
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Rank 44. 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 45. 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 46. KAPPO SATO
Japanese
Chef Takeshi Sato orchestrates a kinetic counter experience where a young team moves in controlled chaos, guided by his knife work and command of Japanese ingredients flown daily from across the water. Dashi broths anchor clever pivots—tempura mackerel with shiso, seared toro with scallion—that feel less ceremonial than instinctual.
- Air Canada 2023 · #1 · Best New Restaurants
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best Japanese Cuisine Restaurant
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Rank 47. 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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- 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 49. 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 50. Mhel
Japanese Fusion Korean
A modest storefront on a residential Toronto street conceals a kitchen where Korean-Japanese small plates rotate with the seasons, each one assembled with quiet precision from imported luxuries. The husband-and-wife team demonstrates particular mastery with fish—witness charcoal-grilled grouper finished with anchovy oil and karasumi—and a thoughtful sake list anchors the experience.
- 50 Best 2025 · #44 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
- Air Canada 2024 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #30 · Best Restaurants
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Rank 51. Yu Seafood
Seafood
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- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best Landmark Restaurant
- VineRoutes 2025 · Vine Award Winners · Restaurant Awards
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Rank 53. 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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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 Cocktail Bar – Canada
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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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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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Rank 57. Doner G Turkish Cuisine
Turkish
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Rank 59. General Public
British Steakhouse
Jen Agg's two-storey space channels the swagger of an American steakhouse and the convivial ease of a British gastropub, serving rib-eyes and seafood towers alongside skate wing and curried lamb tartare with flawless precision. The wine list reads like a master class, and an off-menu happy-hour burger suggests depths beyond the printed menu.
- Air Canada 2025 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · Recommends
- Foodism 2025 · Legendary Icon · ICON Awards · Jen Agg
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Rank 60. 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 61. Opus Restaurant
Global
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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 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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Rank 65. TORA
Sushi
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Rank 66. MIMI Chinese
Regional Chinese
Lipstick-red banquettes and dim light frame David Schwartz's polished take on regional Chinese cooking, where shrimp toast and four-foot belt noodles arrive with the precision of fine dining. The kitchen handles high-quality ingredients and refined technique without ceremony, leaving room for the chef's judgment and a wine list that knows what it's doing.
- Air Canada 2022 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- Chinese Restaurant Awards 2025 · #12 · Elite 30 Canada
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · Recommends
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Rank 67. 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 2024 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Canada
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Rank 68. 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 70. Enigma
Contemporary
Sam Corkum, an Alo alumnus, commands this Yorkville kitchen with restrained sophistication—a scallop arrives with potato chowder and spicy XO oil, nothing wasted. The eight-course tasting menu unfolds with Nordic and Japanese influences in careful balance, each plate a study in complementary flavors and deliberate texture.
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Rank 71. May Yan Seafood Restaurant
Cantonese Seafood
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Rank 73. Famiglia Baldassarre
Italian
A pasta factory that opens its doors for lunch in a narrow window, Famiglia Baldassarre draws lines down the block for house-made cavatelli and mozzarella served from a few scattered seats. Chef Leandro Baldassarre's daily rotations—ricotta ravioli, chanterelle tagliolini—feel less like menu items than the byproduct of a serious wholesale operation willing to feed the curious.
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · Recommends
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Toronto, Canada
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Rank 74. 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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- 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 76. 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 77. 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 78. 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 79. 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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Rank 80. 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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Rank 81. FK
Contemporary
At FK, a sun-filled room on St. Clair feels less restaurant than refuge, built around a kitchen that chases the season's best ingredients—garlic-scaped bread, soft-shell crabs, morels—without pretense. The Cornish hen glazed in smoky barbecue and braised oxtail tortellini, served small enough to start, prove that honest cooking and patient pacing are not flaws but features.
- Air Canada 2011 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- VineRoutes 2025 · Award of Distinction · Restaurant Awards
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 82. 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 83. 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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Rank 84. Aburi Hana
Kyō-Kaiseki Japanese
Down a Yorkville staircase into austere, drama-free rooms where Chef Ryusuke Nakagawa's modern Kyō-Kaiseki unfolds on historic Arita porcelain—each plate a study in layered technique and color. The maguro flower, a rose of raw tuna in two cuts, and duck breast with foie gras and black truffle announce a kitchen thinking carefully about restraint and indulgence in equal measure.
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Rank 85. Actinolite
Contemporary New American
Chef Justin Cournoyer forages and ferments his way through a seven-course tasting menu that shifts with the season and his network of local suppliers, each plate marked by restraint and precision. On Ossington's residential stretch, the kitchen's homemade sourdough and self-garden herbs suggest a cook more interested in what the land offers than what the menu promises.
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Rank 86. 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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Rank 87. Maven
Polish-Jewish Eastern European
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Rank 90. Ricky + Olivia
Creative
The dining room sprawls in cheerful compartments, its walls collecting art and whimsy like a cabinet of curios. Chefs Ricky Casipe and Olivia Simpson assemble plates that prioritize pleasure over logic—roasted carrots crowned with bay leaf ice cream, kofta dressed in rhubarb yogurt—and the effect is a restaurant that refuses solemnity.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Foodism 2025 · Local Icons · ICON Awards · Ricky Casipe, Olivia Simpson and Adrian Proszowski
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Rank 92. 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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Rank 93. 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 96. Doc’s Green Door Lounge
Cocktail Bar
A Junction café-bar that pivots seamlessly from morning coffee to evening cocktails, with a fastidious ice program and a cellar stocked in natural wine cult classics. Drinks are built with precision—the Martini arrives customized, the Banana Daiquiri balanced across two rums—yet icy pilsners and shot specials keep it a neighborhood fixture.
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Rank 97. 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 98. 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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A Dundas West bar where Japanese rockabilly aesthetics—vintage pinball, chromium stools, curated posters—meet sake cocktails and Japanese whisky served with rock-star deliberation. Owner Hideki Saito's band the Ichi-Bons occasionally play, lending authenticity to a seventeen-year romance with mid-century cool.
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A narrow storefront on Bayview houses a neighborhood kitchen that moves between Indian street snacks and regional curries with equal ease, its dining room glowing under reclaimed wood and murals. Order the thali to feel the range—cauliflower fried bright in chili glaze, savory chaats dressed in chutneys, dhal swimming in cream—or trust the servers to steer you right.