Toronto
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Top-ranked rooms with exceptional dining experiences, hand-picked by our editors.
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Molkagtez Mexican Cuisine
9.7Parkdale Mexican spot built around molcajetes, tacos, ceviches, cocktails, weekly specials, and lively late-week energy.
Black+Blue
9.6Black+Blue Toronto is a Bay Street steakhouse with Glowbal polish, a Kobe-certified beef program, raw bar, sushi, tableside classics, and recurring lunch, happy-hour, Wellington, burger, and prime-rib entries. It is built for business lunches, splurge dinners, private rooms, and steakhouse theatre.
Arbequina Restaurant
9.6Arbequina is Moeen Abuzaid's modern Arabic dinner restaurant on Roncesvalles, where Levantine flavours meet a polished full-service format, seasonal Ontario produce, an intentional zero-proof program, and a menu built for a paced evening rather than a quick stop.
Sake Sushi
9.4SAKE SUSHI TORONTO is a menu-led Roncesvalles sushi spot with late-night hours, a broad roll and sashimi range, and several clearly named paths for salmon, aburi, vegetarian, low-rice, and group ordering.
Pizzeria Badiali
9.4Pizzeria Badiali is the original Dovercourt slice shop from chef Ryan Baddeley and partners, known for long-fermented dough, crisp-edged New York-style pies, and a menu that makes Vodka Pie, Burrata Marinara, and Cacio e Pepe feel like the core order rather than one-off specials.
Jacobs & Co. Steakhouse
9.4A polished CIBC Square steakhouse for dry-aged beef, tableside Caesar, raw bar, serious wine and occasion/business dining near Union Station.
The Lunch Lady of Saigon
9.3The Lunch Lady brings Nguyen Thi Thanh's Saigon soup-stall legacy to Ossington through Benedict Lim's full-service Vietnamese menu: rotating noodle soups at lunch, crab-rich Banh Canh Cua, ribeye Steak Luc Lac, 24-hour beef broth, Vietnamese coffee desserts, and cocktails that carry the room into dinner.
RASA
9.3RASA is a Harbord Village sharing-plates room from The Food Dudes, opened in 2014 and now led by executive chef Lia Silva and head chef Callum Smith. The strongest order runs through Truffle Gnudi, the brisket-and-gochujang RASA Burger, Spicy Ceviche, and the early-evening wine happy hour.
Liberty Soho
9.3Liberty Soho is a Liberty Village social bar and restaurant with a Ruby Soho sibling identity, bookable seating, weekend brunch, happy hour, late-night food, cocktails, and a menu anchored by wagyu burgers, hot-honey chicken, spicy vodka rigatoni, wings and shareables.
Lee
9.3Susur Lee's flagship now lives at Richmond and Portland as a polished Waterworks dining room built around shareable French-Southeast Asian signatures.
Sushi Masaki Saito
9.3Sushi Masaki Saito is a Yorkville omakase counter built around Masaki Saito's Hokkaido-to-Tokyo-to-New-York arc, a seasonal chef-selected dinner, Japanese fish, aged-vinegar rice, a 200-year Hinoki counter, and reservation-only service.
Yakiniku Legend
9.2Yakiniku Legend brings all-you-can-eat Japanese BBQ to McCaul Street, with table grills, Prime Kalbi, sushi, rice and noodle choices, desserts, daily midnight hours, and a late-night menu that makes it useful for downtown group meals.
PAI
9.2PAI is Chef Nuit Regular and Jeff Regular's downtown Toronto Northern Thai restaurant, grounded in the Pai-to-Toronto origin story and a menu where Khao Soi, Chef Nuit's Pad Thai, Sai Ua, and the Northern Thai Platter carry the clearest reasons to book the Duncan Street room.
Mozy's
9.2Mozy's turns Liberty Village charcoal chicken into a chef-built counter meal: brined, air-dried birds over charcoal, detailed dips and sauces, smart sides, and a tahini miso cookie that gives the compact menu a proper finish.
Descendant Detroit Style Pizza
9.2Descendant Detroit Style Pizza is a Leslieville square-pan specialist built around crisp-edged Detroit-style pies, Toronto-minded topping combinations and the award-winning Daddy's Favourite. Order for the dough, stay for the crossover builds.
Foxley
9.2Foxley is a long-running Ossington pan-Asian bistro built around seafood ceviches, lamb-and-duck dumplings, sticky ribs, vegetable small plates, patio appeal, and Tom Thai's share-plate point of view.
Alo
9.2Alo is Patrick Kriss's Spadina tasting-menu room: precise contemporary French cooking, a blind multi-course format, serious pairings, and room choices that range from Kitchen Counter seats to private dining.
Scotland Yard Pub
9.2A long-running Esplanade pub for Fish N Chips, football days, late-night comfort plates, weekend brunch, and group-friendly reservations near St. Lawrence Market.
Rikki Tikki- Kensington Market
9.2Rikki Tikki is a chef-led modern Indian restaurant in Kensington Market with tandoori platters, coastal curries, house-named breads, lunch and late-night menus, and Indian-inflected drinks. Chef Ricky's room works for reservations, group dinners, and a focused first order built around the platter and lobster curry.
Casa Morales
9.1Casa Morales turns the Morales family's Gus Tacos roots into a full-service Kensington Market dinner room, with Felipe Kwon steering a modern Mexican menu built around Shrimp Aguachile, Barbacoa, Crema Poblana, Pulpo, and Golden Hour.
Top 10 in Toronto
The highest-rated restaurants and most-loved dishes, ranked by Restaurantica readers.
- 1Guacamole en la Mesaat El Catrin Destileria15
- 2Signature Singapore Style Slawat Lee11
- 3Smoked Fish Chips N Dipat Grey Gardens10
- 4La Giuliettaat Giulietta10
- 5Champagne & Absintheat PREQUEL & CO. APOTHECARY10
- 6Chef’s Mix Platterat Rikki Tikki- Kensington Market10
- 7Stuffed Chicken Wingsat Mimi Chinese10
- 8Cote de Boeuf 48oz Dry Agedat Côte de Bœuf10
- 9Wagyu Smash Burgerat Liberty Soho10
- 10Four Foot Belt Noodleat Mimi Chinese10
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