The Top 100 Places to Eat and Drink Near Sundays
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Rank 1. Sundays
Creative
A husband-and-wife team tends their organic farm and their intimate bistro in equal measure, drawing tomatoes and greens into bright salads and tender omelets, then pivoting at dinner toward smoked duck and ricotta agnolotti. Red brick walls and a neighborhood warmth suggest the kind of place worth visiting often.
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Rank 2. Casa Victoria
Cantonese Chinese
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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 4. Gol’s Lanzhou Noodle
Lanzhou Noodles
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Rank 5. Jumbo Lobster Restaurant
Seafood
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Rank 6. Flavourful House
Cantonese Chinese
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Rank 8. Nian Yi Kuai Zi
Yibin Chinese
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Rank 9. Nian Yi Kuai Zi
Chinese
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Rank 11. Restoran Malaysia
Malaysian
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Rank 12. Yu Seafood
Seafood
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Rank 14. Miss Qu Bbq
Barbecue
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Rank 15. Loon Fong
Hong Kong-Style Chinese
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Rank 16. 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 17. Northern Smokes
Barbecue
The smoky perfume hits before you do—a lure into this Scarborough strip mall outpost where Imran Ali tends a custom reverse-flow smoker burning seasoned hardwood. Montreal brisket, Korean-style short ribs glazed sweet, and halal chicken emerge tender and deeply flavored, served by the plate, sandwich, or pound alongside maple-smoked beans that ground you firmly in Toronto.
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Rank 18. Glass Kitchen
Asian Fusion
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Rank 19. May Yan Seafood Restaurant
Cantonese Seafood
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Rank 20. Abruzzo Pizza
Italian Pizza
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Rank 21. Patty Time
Jamaican Caribbean
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Rank 22. Piggy’s Island
Korean
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Rank 23. 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 24. Gol’s Lanzhou Noodle
Lanzhou Noodles
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Rank 25. Sang-Ji Fried Bao
Chinese
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Rank 26. Auberge du Pommier
Innovative French
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Rank 28. 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 29. 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 30. Wilson's Haus of Lechon
Charcoal-Fired Filipino
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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.
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Rank 32. The Daughter
Natural Wine Bar
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Rank 34. 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 35. Yu Seafood
Seafood
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Rank 36. Yukashi
Japanese
Chef Daisuke Izutsu composes kaiseki dishes of austere beauty—hay-smoked hamachi on marble, wagyu blowtorched with foie gras—in a modest, cluttered room. The ornate presentations justify their cost for those seeking intimacy and restraint over spectacle.
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Rank 38. 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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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 40. TORA
Sushi
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Rank 41. The Wood Owl
Contemporary
A narrow room lined with wine bottles glows in sepia tones at this unpretentious Danforth wine bar. The small menu skews vegetable-forward—roasted carrots with green goddess, fried polenta with romesco—but weekly beef specials arrive with shoestring fries that justify their own pilgrimage. Nothing here strains; everything lands.
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Rank 42. Doner G Turkish Cuisine
Turkish
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Rank 43. Maha's
Egyptian Middle Eastern
Maha Barsoom's Leslieville cafe smells of cardamom and butter, a small homesick shrine to Cairo where you climb to the counter and wait without a reservation. The lentil soup arrives in a warm bowl, vinegar onions and charred pita conspiring to prove why she opened the place at all.
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Rank 44. Restaurant Tiflisi
Central Asian
In the Beaches, the Pkhakadze family cooks Georgian food with uncommon care—cold leek salad yields to khachapuri, a bread cradle of melted cheese and egg yolk that announces itself as pure comfort. Lamb khinkali and kebabs follow in portions built for sharing, each plate seasoned with the kind of confidence that suggests a kitchen cooking from memory.
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Rank 45. Café Boulud
Luxe French
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Recommended
- Air Canada 2013 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
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Rank 46. 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 47. One Restaurant
French/Italian
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Rank 48. Puerto Bravo
Mexican
A cramped Mexican seafood counter on Gerrard turns out crisp tostadas and tacos built around octopus and shrimp with minimal fuss and maximum spice. The wera tostada's macha mayo and the charbroiled octopus with poblanos arrive bold and exact, finishing with a creamy carlota.
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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 51. 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 52. 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 54. Opus Restaurant
Global
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Rank 55. 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 56. 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 57. Azura
Mediterranean Cuisine
Warm honeyed light and a central bar frame Chef Adam Ryan's seasonal tasting menu of Mediterranean dishes—striking canapés, a short rib tagine arranged with care—where locally foraged ingredients meet considered wine and cocktail pairings in a neighborhood space that feels both ambitious and unhurried.
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Rank 59. 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 60. 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 61. Taline
Armenian
Seb Yacoubian runs this Armenian kitchen with his brothers, the window onto Yonge Street framing him at work with the calm of someone at home. Octopus meets green harissa, Ontario lamb finds eetch—classical technique applied to dishes of perky freshness that taste like they were made to be shared. The olive-toned room, both floors equally inviting, feels like gathering around a family table.
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Rank 62. 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 63. 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 64. 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 66. Reign
Canadian
- AAA Four Diamonds
- The Pinnacle Guide 2026 · 1 Pin
- VineRoutes 2025 · Vine Award Winners · Restaurant Awards
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Rank 67. 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 68. 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 69. 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 70. 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 71. 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 72. 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 73. TOCA
Traditional Italian
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Four Star
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Air Canada 2011 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
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Rank 74. 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
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #10 · Best Bars
- Air Canada 2015 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
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Rank 75. Amal
Lebanese Middle Eastern
Amal's sleek dining room fills with weekend energy from belly dancers and DJs, drawing crowds for modern Lebanese mezze and grilled skewers executed with uncommon refinement. The halal menu balances authenticity with polish, from seared halloumi to a delightful kanafeh finale.
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Rank 76. Que Ling Restaurant
Vietnamese
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Rank 78. 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
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #7 · Best Restaurants
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best French Cuisine 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 80. 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 81. 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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Basilio Pesce's narrow room seats barely two dozen, each table angled toward the kitchen where lasagne sheets are layered by hand. Truffle and maitake crown the ricotta ravioli; black cod arrives Livornese-style with Saltspring mussels. The wine list moves unhurried through price and temperament, a nod to the fact that Italian comfort food, when executed here, asks for patience and respect.
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Rank 83. 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 84. Sang-Ji Fried Bao
Chinese
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Rank 85. White Lily Diner
Creative
A bright yellow corner diner where the kitchen smokes its own bacon, bakes biscuits and donuts from scratch, and grows vegetables out back—a working reminder of what diners can be when they commit to doing things right. The hash browns arrive impossibly light, sandwiches built on house bread justify their own meal, and breakfast anchors a menu that treats every hour with equal care.
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Rank 86. 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 87. 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 88. Maven
Polish-Jewish Eastern European
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Rank 90. Adrak Yorkville
Indian
Gilt archways and turmeric velvet booths frame a dining room of theatrical ambition where hand-carved details catch light like jewelry. The kitchen matches that grandeur with precisely seasoned dishes that range from fiery paneer tikka to a fragrant biryani finished under pastry, each plate deliberate rather than rushed.
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Rank 91. 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 93. 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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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 95. Planta
Vegetarian
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Rank 96. Sushi Okeya Kyujiro
Japanese
At the counter, drums thunder overhead while chefs break down whole fish and slice them in real time, each course arriving in rapid succession—kelp-cured botan ebi, grilled unagi with sancho pepper, pressed mackerel. The room moves at the rhythm of the kitchen's energy, a theatrical display of grilling and frying that justifies the premium price by sheer force of spectacle and skill.
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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 98. 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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- 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 100. 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