6 Best Steakhouse Restaurants in Toronto
The best steakhouse restaurants in Toronto — Jacobs & Co. Steakhouse, Hy's Steakhouse & Cocktail Bar, Barberian's Steak House, and SumiLicious Smoked Meat & Deli and 2 more, reviewed by TastyPals editors.
The best steakhouse restaurants in Toronto are Jacobs & Co. Steakhouse, Hy's Steakhouse & Cocktail Bar, Barberian's Steak House, and more. Start with Jacobs & Co. Steakhouse if you want the strongest overall first pick.
How we picked: We weight beef sourcing and grade, the char and crust off the grill or broiler, sides and sauces that earn their place, and whether the room justifies a steakhouse cheque.
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Practical notes
What to plan for before you book — spend, reservation strategy, and who should skip this guide entirely.
- Expected spend
- $–$$$$ per person — plan on $90–160 a head once a steak, a side or two, and a glass of red are on the table.
- Booking strategy
- Reserve one to two weeks out for prime weekend windows, especially in Toronto. Early seatings are the easiest walk-in.
- What to order
- Order the cut the kitchen is known for and take it medium-rare unless you have a reason not to; split a larger format — ribeye or porterhouse — for the table and add one house side to share rather than one each.
- Skip if
- you want a light or budget meal. A steakhouse is a splurge format — for value-first dining, our cheap-eats picks are the better call.
Who this guide is for
This guide covers the highest-rated steakhouse restaurants in Toronto. The picks are sorted by Google rating and review volume to give you a reliable shortlist. Picks span Toronto, Scarborough and Harbourfront.
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How we chose
We looked for restaurants that feel like a strong fit for the guide topic, not just the most obvious names in the city. The shortlist favors rooms with clear mood, dependable pacing, and enough distinction to help someone decide faster. Read our full methodology →
Lighting, pace, and general energy all need to support the reason someone clicked this guide.
We favored restaurants that feel best suited for the moment, not just restaurants with broad reputation.
The final list tries to give readers enough variation in neighborhood, price, and style to compare real options.
6 ranked picks
Jacobs & Co. Steakhouse operates at the upper register of Toronto's carnivore hierarchy — a downtown room that has built its identity around dry-aged beef sourced with unusual specificity. This is not a steakhouse that leans on atmosphere to justify its prices; it leans on provenance. The concept centers on transparency about the origin of its cuts: guests are routinely directed toward what's aging in-house at any given time, making the menu a moving document shaped by what's ready and what's exceptional. That posture — serious, ingredient-led, relatively austere in its theatrical ambitions — distinguishes Jacobs & Co. from the brasher, scenier competition on King West. It is for the diner who has opinions about marbling grades, not the one looking for a birthday-booth experience.
Without sufficient verified dish-level data in our records to responsibly name specific plates, I'll hold to what the kitchen's reputation consistently supports: the dry-aging program is the through-line of the entire menu. Diners and reviewers have long noted that the house's willingness to offer multiple provenance options — domestic, American, and international cuts side by side — functions less like a steakhouse menu and more like a curated tasting flight for beef. Sides and starters are generally reported as competent support acts rather than destinations in themselves. The kitchen is understood to be classically oriented, not trend-chasing, which means sauces and preparations that frame rather than complicate the primary ingredient.
The practical move here is to ask your server directly what is currently aging and at what stage — the staff are reportedly well-versed in the program and this is the insider axis the room runs on. Book well ahead for Friday and Saturday, when the room fills with diners treating the cheque as a considered occasion rather than an impulse. Request a table away from the bar if a quieter, more deliberate pace matters to you. The tasting-menu or multi-course format, where available, is how the kitchen best makes its case.
Hy's Steakhouse & Cocktail Bar is a reliable steakhouse choice in Toronto when you want something that tends to land well. It also holds a 9.0 rating across 2,610 Google reviews.
Barberian's Steak House is a strong steakhouse option in Toronto when you want somewhere that already has a solid public track record. It also holds a 9.0 rating across 2,508 Google reviews.
SumiLicious has settled a debate Torontonians used to lose to Montreal every time: yes, genuinely great smoked meat exists in this city — you just have to commit to Scarborough to find it. The backstory carries real weight here. Owner Sumith Fernando reportedly spent close to two decades working at Schwartz's in Montreal before opening his own counter in 2018, and that apprenticeship is exactly the credential you want behind a smoked meat operation. The result has attracted a Michelin Bib Gourmand, which is about as official a co-sign as a deli counter gets, and regulars have consistently described the product as holding its own against the Montreal benchmark rather than just nodding in its direction.
The concept is straightforward deli, no apologies made. The room is a counter operation — don't arrive expecting white tablecloths or a cocktail program. What diners report is a focused menu built around smoked brisket sandwiches on rye, and the consensus across reviews leans heavily positive on the quality and generosity of the build. That said, a handful of reviewers have flagged that the spicing can read as aggressive depending on your palate, and there are occasional notes about the meat being chopped rather than hand-sliced during peak hours — worth knowing before you make the drive. The standing advice from repeat customers is to order medium-fat for the classic balance.
Practically speaking: this is a value proposition that's hard to argue with at price level one, and the lack of a legendary lineup is its own selling point compared to the Montreal original. Go with reasonable expectations about the setting, know what you're ordering before you get to the counter, and treat it as the low-key, specific, point-of-pride Toronto institution that its reputation suggests it has become.
Harbour 60 Toronto is a strong contemporary option in Harbourfront in Toronto when you want somewhere that already has a solid public track record. It also holds a 8.8 rating across 3,060 Google reviews.
BlueBlood Steakhouse is one to keep in mind when the meal is supposed to feel like an event. It also holds a 8.8 rating across 2,406 Google reviews.
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