Newest Restaurants in Toronto

The 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.

The Playbook Commons is a full-service Hotel X restaurant built around sports-theatre energy, American-Italian steakhouse cooking, cocktails, and game-night planning. Chef Jia Zou's menu gives the room real food weight, from Corn Arancini and Branzino Crudo to spicy vodka rigatoni and steaks.

RHAPSODY is a late-night Ossington cocktail room with a current Chinese comfort-food menu: Dragon Box, Spice Bag, crispy chili beef, duck rolls, prawn toast and seafood snacks. It works best as a reservation-led night out, especially when happy hour or a first cocktail frames the food.

Linny's is David Schwartz's Ossington deli-steakhouse: hand-cut pastrami, Ontario beef, Ashkenazi steakhouse cues, a mid-century room, and a reservation-led special-dinner posture.

Lyla is a Queen West Mediterranean restaurant from Daniel van Welie and Amen Habtemariam, with current chef Daniel Kim leading a seafood-forward menu that runs from raw bar and Octopus Bravas to lobster linguine, brunch, Golden Hours, and private dining. The clearest read is Mediterranean sharing with a raw-bar spine rather than a single-cuisine room.