The Top 100 Places to Eat and Drink Near Quatrefoil
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Rank 1. Quatrefoil
Contemporary
A Victorian house in Dundas hosts Fraser Macfarlane's unfussy but composed cooking—seared scallops in corn puree with bacon butter, Quebec duck glazed in lavender and partnered with kale and pear chutney, halibut in tarragon vin blanc. The room and its long-standing team move with practiced ease through birthdays and anniversaries, executing a short menu of upscale comfort without pretense.
- Air Canada 2010 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- VineRoutes 2025 · Award of Distinction · Restaurant Awards
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 2. Barrel Heart Brewing
Contemporary
A chef and brewmaster operate out of a converted post office in downtown Dundas, rotating monthly concepts through tacos and Korean barbecue while the kitchen turns out snap peas in gochujang vinaigrette and spaghettini with corn and tamarind sauce. The beer list favors local fruit and wine-barrel aging; the dulce de leche banana pudding justifies the trip alone.
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David Burns, a competitive shucker, runs this modest oyster bar where raw and cured seafood share space with beef tataki and kombu mushroom risotto. The fried clams arrive golden and briny, a counterpoint to the pristine raw bar that has won over both neighborhood regulars and the city's serious cooks.
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- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best Landmark Restaurant
- VineRoutes 2025 · Award of Distinction · Restaurant Awards
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Rank 10. Hexagon
Contemporary
A glass-walled room overlooking the lake, all clean lines and easy elegance. The kitchen works familiar ingredients—scallops, short rib, pasta—into composed, unfussy dishes: Hokkaido scallop arrives with potato foam and brown butter; corn agnolotti plays off Manchego; a cheesecake leans savory with strawberries and almond. Refinement without pretense.
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Rank 11. 7 Enoteca
Italian
A handsome room in downtown Oakville where banquettes carve out intimate corners and wood-fired pizzas emerge blistered and crisp. The kitchen treats pasta and pizza with equal precision—trecce with crab, 'nduja with stracciatella—while a tuna crudo with gnocco fritto signals the care applied throughout. A neighborhood anchor that cooks as confidently as it carries itself.
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Rank 12. Gol's Lanzhou Noodle
Lanzhou Noodles
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Rank 14. Langdon Hall
Contemporary
A 37-year-old country estate where chef Jason Bangerter sources 85 percent of ingredients from Ontario's gardens and forests, plating foraged elements alongside classical technique. The dining room's formality—pressed linens, polished crystal—yields to drama on the plate, whether smoked trout with skin-crisped crackers or lobster accented with edible flowers.
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Rank 15. Mama Fatma
Turkish
A colorful room where kebabs char over live coals and dome-shaped pita emerges from a wood-fired oven, feeding large families who sprawl across tables laden with abundance. The garlicky yogurt-dressed dumplings and warming tea suggest this local favorite has earned its reputation through years of generous, unhurried hospitality.
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Rank 17. Tamarind
Indian
Tamarind layers familiar curries with inventive flourishes—lamb Roganjosh and paneer shine alongside Chettinad chicken tacos. The Mississauga spot channels exuberance through live music and dancing, though its kitchen proves substance matches the spectacle.
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Rank 18. Guru Lukshmi
Indian
A sprawling South Indian canteen in a Mississauga strip mall where dosas arrive in bewildering variety—the Mysore Bhaji, stuffed with spiced potatoes, alone justifies the pilgrimage. Idlis, vadas, and uttapam emerge hot and fresh, accompanied by proper sambar and bright chutneys, the whole meal dispatched with such velocity you're already planning your next visit before the check arrives.
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Rank 19. Pearl Morissette
Contemporary
On a sprawling Niagara farm, chefs trained in Paris and rural Belgium craft spontaneous tasting menus anchored to vegetables and fish sourced within hours. The Scandi barn setting and accomplished juice pairing elevate what could be agrarian simplicity into something genuinely consequential.
- Michelin Guide 2 Stars
- 50 Best 2025 · #3 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
- Air Canada 2018 · #1 · Best New Restaurants
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A small Kitchener restaurant where charred vegetables meet mango mousse and roast duck pairs with pineapple and smoked cinnamon—cooking that chases flavor across continents without apology. The staff's wine list matches the kitchen's restless creativity with equal conviction.
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Rank 24. Zet's Restaurant
American Greek
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Rank 25. 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
- Air Canada 2023 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
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Rank 26. Fat Rabbit
Steakhouse
A casual butcher shop with a restaurant attached, Fat Rabbit transforms whole animals into house-made charcuterie and charcoal-grilled steaks with unfussy confidence. Chef-owner Zach Smith works the seasons into every plate—lamb ribs glazed with Vietnamese heat, pork schnitzel layered with whatever produce peaks that week—and the zero-waste ethos feels earned rather than announced.
- World's 101 Best #91 · World's Best Steak Restaurants
- Air Canada 2024 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #48 · 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 28. 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 30. 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 31. 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 32. 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 33. 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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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 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 Cocktail Bar – Canada
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Canada
- 50 Best 2026 · #54 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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Rank 36. 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 37. TOCA
Traditional Italian
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Four Star
- Air Canada 2011 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
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Behind an unpretentious storefront, the Fat Rabbit's sister venture wields genuine technique across a seafood-forward menu: the raw bar gleams beside koji-cured pork and puttanesca tartines, all paired with a thoughtful roster of Ontario and French wines. The room buzzes with a deliberate casualness that masks serious craft.
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Rank 39. 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 2024 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Canada
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Canada
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Rank 40. 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 41. 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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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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Rank 43. 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 44. 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 45. Reign
Canadian
- AAA Four Diamonds
- The Pinnacle Guide 2026 · 1 Pin
- VineRoutes 2025 · Vine Award Winners · Restaurant Awards
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Rank 46. 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 47. 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 48. 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 49. 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 50. 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 51. 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 53. 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 54. 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 55. 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 56. 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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In a small St. Catharines dining room, chefs Justin Duc and Scott White move fluidly between caviar service and burger, fried chicken and foie gras pancakes, each dish executed with the same technical precision and assertive seasoning. The range could feel scattered in lesser hands; here it reads as confident eclecticism, a kitchen that knows exactly what it's doing. The place fills nightly.
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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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Rank 59. 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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- 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 61. The Ace
Gastropub
A slim 1950s diner where Rafael Badell and Maggie Stackpole have revived the daylight kitchen. House-made sourdough hits the griddle with purpose; duck confit and mushroom toast arrives crowned with a poached egg, while their brioche French toast—caramelized pears, vanilla whipped ricotta, pistachios—justifies the early wake-up call.
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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 63. 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 65. 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 66. 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 67. 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 68. 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 69. 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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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 71. 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 72. BB's
Filipino
A sea foam and pink Filipino diner where breakfast pancakes yield to dinner's pancit and calamansi pie, the cocktail bar humming with a come-as-you-are crowd. BB's trades earnestness for color and appetite—adobo fried chicken with pineapple habanero heat is the kind of detail that matters here.
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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 74. Chica's Chicken
American
A Junction corner devoted to Nashville hot chicken, where two-day dry-brined birds are fried to order and coated in a dark, complex spice blend that builds from medium heat to ghost-pepper tiers. Boneless sandwiches move fast; the bone-in birds demand a half-hour wait in a spare, bass-heavy room where deep-fried pickles bridge the anticipation.
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Rank 75. 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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Rank 76. 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 77. One Restaurant
French/Italian
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Rank 78. Arbequina
Middle Eastern
Chef Moeen Abuzaid's restaurant on Roncesvalles honors Palestinian and Jordanian cooking through manti with jameed yogurt, sea bass in grape leaves, and lamb chops that taste of careful sourcing and technique. The Angus short rib arrives as an edible assembly kit—meat, condiments, flatbread—inviting you to build each bite; dessert is sticky date cake with cinnamon ice cream and coffee cream.
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Two veteran chefs run a fish counter on Dundas West that doubles as a sixteen-seat restaurant, offering seasonal preparations of undervalued Canadian lake fish—whitefish katsu arriving as sandwich, rice bowl, or noodle dish depending on the day. The operation feels less like a restaurant than a fishmonger's love letter, minimal menu and all.
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Rank 80. 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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Rank 81. Dil Se
Indian
Along Roncesvalles, Mani Panwar's dining room glows with draped linens and colorful fabrics, a warm setting for northern Indian cooking that arrives carefully composed. The paneer lababdar—soft cheese in a cashew-enriched Mughlai sauce—and lamb seek kebab with its tart chutney show the kitchen's command of both cream and spice. What emerges is cooking that respects tradition without strain.
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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 84. Café Boulud
Luxe French
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Recommended
- Air Canada 2013 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
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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 86. Musoshin Ramen
Japanese
Off a quiet Roncesvalles street, Musoshin distinguishes itself through Chef Aoi Yoshida's house-made noodles and vegetable broths that achieve savory depth without the heaviness of tradition. Her Japanese milk bread arrives warm from the oven—a small gesture that signals how seriously she treats every component of the meal.
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Rank 87. 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 88. 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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- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best Landmark Restaurant
- VineRoutes 2025 · Vine Award Winners · Restaurant Awards
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Rank 90. 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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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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Rank 92. 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 93. Opus Restaurant
Global
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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 95. 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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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 100. Viaggio
Italian
A neighborhood Italian kitchen that swaps convention for invention: smoked pastrami crowns pizza, tagliolini tangles with charred octopus in smoked dashi butter. The tiramisu—part soufflé, part pancake, finished with espresso maple syrup—alone justifies the trip. Housed in a historic building with a handsome room and garden-lit deck.