Best Group Dinner Restaurants in Toronto : 185 Picks for 2026

Ethiopian•Toronto•$$

Ethio Kana

There is a distinction that matters in Toronto's Ethiopian dining scene, and Ethio Kana on College Street sits clearly on one side of it.

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Haidilao Hot Pot Scarborough - 海底捞火锅

Haidilao needs little introduction — the Sichuan hot-pot chain has built a global reputation as much on its service culture as on its soup, and the Scarborough location on Sandhurst Circle appears to deliver the full, slightly theatrical…

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Based on 7221 reviews

Liuyishou Hotpot Scarborough

Liuyishou Hotpot Scarborough is not trying to charm you with atmosphere or seduce you with a tasting menu — it is a full-throttle Chongqing-style hotpot house doing exactly what its thousand-plus global locations were engineered to do: a…

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Based on 6979 reviews

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大个子砂锅王 Pot-licious Stew (SC)

Twenty years on Finch Avenue East is long enough to become an institution or an afterthought, and Pot-licious Stew has reportedly built its reputation by choosing neither complacency nor spectacle.

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Chinese•East Chinatown•$

Haidilao Hot Pot Toronto Downtown

Haidilao's downtown Toronto location at 237 Yonge operates at a scale that makes most North American hotpot spots look tentative.

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Based on 5267 reviews

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Sinjeon Topokki & Bar (Pocha) - Bloor 신전떡볶이

What separates Sinjeon Topokki & Bar on Bloor from the rotating cast of Korean concepts arriving in Toronto is provenance with a point.

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Based on 1255 reviews

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Lucky HotPot 八囍老火锅八喜老火锅

Lucky HotPot 八囍老火锅八喜老火锅 is a chinese restaurant in Scarborough in Toronto that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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Based on 1037 reviews

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Barbecue•Midtown•value

Cowboys Grill Toronto - Yonge St

Cowboys Grill on Yonge knows exactly what it is — a smoke-and-eggs counter where Midtown's working regulars eat breakfast like they mean it, and nobody is performing brunch.

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Gimbap Shop

Gimbap Shop on Spring Garden Avenue has been a North York institution for twenty-eight years — operating long before the neighbourhood's dining scene attracted any serious outside attention.

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JJAJANG1980

North York's Yonge Street corridor has no shortage of Korean restaurants, but JJAJANG1980 stakes out a specific and deliberate lane: Korean-Chinese comfort food, the category of cooking that anchors lazy Saturday afternoons and late week…

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The Spicy Ethiopian

What The Spicy Ethiopian is doing on Queen Street East feels more deliberate than its name might let on.

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Pine tree Sonamoo

Pine Tree Sonamoo takes its name from the Korean word for pine tree — a symbol of endurance, of colour held through winter.

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La Vegan Ethiopian & Eritrean Vegan Cuisine

La Vegan Ethiopian & Eritrean Vegan Cuisine is doing something Toronto's plant-based scene has largely failed to do: root vegan cooking in a living culinary tradition rather than chase the trend cycle.

Contemporary•Little Italy•moderate

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Radici Project

Chef Emiliano Del Frate — who has worked in Noma's kitchen during its third Michelin star era and contributed to the opening of Gucci Osteria Tokyo — could have built a reputation on biography alone.

New spotsdate nightgroup dinner

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Contemporary•Toronto•$$

Mista Boiga

Mista Boiga suits a night out when you want contemporary that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

cocktailsstylishhigh energy

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Filipino•Scarborough•$

Lola Asty's Authentic Flipino Cuisine

Lola Asty's Authentic Flipino Cuisine is a filipino restaurant in Scarborough in Toronto that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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Haidilao Hot Pot Markham - 海底捞火锅

Haidilao Hot Pot in Markham is not competing with the quiet neighbourhood spots along Steeles, and it makes no attempt to.

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Based on 7216 reviews

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Mapo Korean BBQ

Mapo Korean BBQ takes its name from Mapo-gu, the Seoul district where open-flame barbecue is less a dining concept than a civic institution, and that context shapes everything about the Bloor Street room.

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Based on 3675 reviews

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Gyodong Restaurant

Gyodong, at 694 Bloor St W in the western stretch of Toronto's Koreatown, is making a genuine argument that the neighbourhood's most interesting Korean dining extends well beyond the BBQ-and-soju formula.

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Based on 3388 reviews

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Ye Skewers Hot Pot 三大爷串串香

What Ye Skewers Hot Pot is reportedly doing that most of Toronto's hot pot scene refuses to is hand you a bamboo skewer and get out of the way.

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Based on 2941 reviews

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Nian Yi Kuai Zi

Nian Yi Kuai Zi occupies a strip-mall unit on the Finch Avenue corridor in Scarborough, and it has quietly built one of the more compelling reputations in that stretch of the city.

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Based on 2563 reviews

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La Nayarita

La Nayarita plants a flag for the coastal cooking of Nayarit — western Mexico's Pacific shoreline — on Queen West, and by most accounts it is doing something the city doesn't have much of: a Mexican kitchen with a genuine regional point…

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Based on 2093 reviews

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B's Sizzling Kitchen

B's Sizzling Kitchen is doing something Toronto's Filipino dining scene badly needs, and it's happening out of Scarborough on a cast-iron plate.

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Based on 1911 reviews

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Molkagtez Mexican Cuisine

Molkagtez Mexican Cuisine in Parkdale has built its entire identity around the object in its name: the molcajete, a volcanic-rock mortar that reportedly arrives at the table still sizzling, loaded with meat, cheese and salsa in a present…

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Based on 1876 reviews

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Global•North York•$

Grill Gate

Grill Gate opened on Sheppard Avenue West in February 2018 with a premise North York was genuinely missing: the comfort-food logic of a diner filtered through a Canadian-Iranian lens.

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Based on 1643 reviews

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Middle Eastern•North York•$

Old Avenue Restaurant

Old Avenue Restaurant is doing something North York — and honestly, most of Toronto — hasn't seen before: anchoring an entire menu around the Southern Caucasus, specifically Azerbaijan, with the kind of conviction that signals a genuine…

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Based on 1618 reviews

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Korean•North York•$

Woojoo Bunsik

Woojoo Bunsik operates on Yonge Street in North York with the quiet confidence of a place that has decided exactly what it is and declined to apologize for it.

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Based on 1261 reviews

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Mediterranean•Toronto•$$

Petros82 Restaurant

Petros82 is not trying to be a neighbourhood Greek spot or a trendy mezze bar designed for content creation.

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Based on 1211 reviews

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Grandma Kitchen阿婆私房菜

East Chinatown doesn't need another pan-Asian shortcut, and Grandma Kitchen on Spadina isn't offering one.

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Chopfire 西门炊烟

Chopfire is doing something specific and unambiguous on Spadina: a mainland Chinese restaurant that refuses to apologize for it.

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Tovico Trattoria

Woodbridge's Italian-Canadian dining scene is dense enough that a new trattoria has to justify its existence on something more than nostalgia and red-sauce comfort.

cocktailsstylishhigh energy

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Contemporary•Toronto•$$

Stella Artois Terrace at Woodbine Racetrack

There are very few dining rooms in Toronto where the view is doing as much work as the kitchen, and the Stella Artois Terrace at Woodbine Racetrack is one of them.

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Korean•North York•value

DOLSOE Korean Restaurant

Dolsoe on Alness Street in North York is a family-owned Korean room that operates entirely without pretense — no recent renovation, no trending ferment on the menu card, no interest in being discovered by anyone who wasn't already looking.

Korean BBQgroup dinnerdinner

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Denj restaurant and bar

North York has a Persian dining problem — not a shortage, but a sameness.

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Mesobs Restaurant

Mesobs, on Lansdowne Avenue steps from the subway, is doing something that feels increasingly rare in Toronto's Ethiopian dining scene: it is committed to the full communal ritual of the meal, not just its flavors.

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Kim’s Table

North York's Yonge Street corridor is not short on Korean restaurants, which makes Kim's Table's refusal to compete on spectacle worth paying attention to.

Contemporary•Chinatown•moderate

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Taberna LX

Taberna LX is a contemporary pick in Chinatown in Toronto when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

New spotsdate nightgroup dinner

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Hongdae Banjeom Restaurant 홍대반점

Hongdae Banjeom Restaurant 홍대반점 is a korean restaurant in Koreatown in Toronto that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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Penny Blue

Penny Blue suits a night out in King West when you want contemporary that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

Mediterranean•Harbourfront•$

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Queens Harbour

Queens Harbour is not interested in subtlety, and the Harbourfront is better for it.

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Based on 6326 reviews

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Japanese•North York•$

Shinta Japanese BBQ

What Shinta Japanese BBQ is doing at the North York Centre subway concourse is worth paying attention to: it treats all-you-can-eat as a format for serious eating rather than a license for mediocrity.

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Based on 4800 reviews

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Contemporary•Church Street•value

House on Parliament

House on Parliament has no interest in performing cool — it simply is what Church Street needed: a multi-floor pub that feels lived in rather than launched.

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Based on 3044 reviews

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Daldongnae Korean BBQ - Dundas Square

Daldongnae Korean BBQ - Dundas Square is a korean restaurant in Koreatown in Toronto that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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Based on 2904 reviews

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Sarang Kitchen

Sarang Kitchen is a Korean fried chicken spot in Koreatown founded in 2022 by former educator Jennifer Low and Chef Deon Kim, and the operational decisions here are as deliberate as anything on the menu.

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Based on 2674 reviews

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Happy Valley Village

Dongbei cooking — the northeastern Chinese tradition built around communal iron pots, bone-warming braises, and tables that seat eight at minimum — has exactly one room in Toronto doing it with this kind of regional commitment, and it si…

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Based on 2274 reviews

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Korean BBQgroup dinnerdinner

Korean•North York•value

Han Ba Tang

Han Ba Tang occupies a brick-and-wood bar space near Yonge and Sheppard in North York, positioning itself as a Korean-fusion izakaya that runs late and draws a reliably young, loud crowd.

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Based on 2186 reviews

Lalibela Cuisine

Lalibela Cuisine has held its corner on Bloor West for more than thirty years, which in Toronto's restless restaurant landscape amounts to a kind of institutional status.

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Based on 2059 reviews

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Reina De Mexico

Reina de México has built a real reputation on King Street West in Parkdale — a Mexican spot that leans into the party without letting the kitchen slide.

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Based on 1591 reviews

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Mediterranean•Leslieville•moderate

Restaurant Tiflisi

Restaurant Tiflisi holds what is, by most accounts, a singular position in Toronto's dining landscape: the only proper Georgian restaurant downtown, run by the Pkhakadze family with the kind of ownership investment that tends to make its…

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Based on 1547 reviews

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Patio•Toronto•$

Public Gardens Toronto

Public Gardens Toronto isn't angling for your anniversary dinner, and GM Asher Jones has been upfront about that.

patiosummerbright

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Based on 1521 reviews

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LOCAL Public Eatery Adelaide

LOCAL Public Eatery Adelaide suits a night out in King West when you want contemporary that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

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Based on 1476 reviews

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Casual•Liberty Village•$

Liberty Soho

Liberty Soho is a sensible casual call in Liberty Village in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well. If Unable to extract signature dishes is your kind of order, that is a good sign.

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Damda

Koreatown on Bloor runs deep with Korean restaurants, and damda positions itself toward the honest, mid-week end of that spectrum — no reservation strategy required, menus that don't demand translation, and a price level that makes sense…

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Jokbal Night Market

Jokbal Night Market is one of the more deliberately specific Korean restaurants to land in North York, and that specificity is the whole point.

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Jangteo Gukbap

Jangteo Gukbap is making a quiet, unambiguous argument on Yonge Street in North York: that the most honest meal in this city costs under fifteen dollars, arrives in a clay pot, and asks nothing of you except a spoon and an appetite.

Mexican•Leslieville•moderate

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Puerto Bravo

Puerto Bravo has done something quietly impressive on Gerrard East: it has pulled back-to-back Michelin Bib Gourmands for regional Mexican cooking that most of Toronto wasn't even looking for.

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Mapo Pocha Soju Bar

Mapo Pocha Soju Bar is a pojang macha — the Korean late-night street stall, the kind that runs until the city goes quiet — reconstructed inside a Koreatown row unit on Bloor West, and by most accounts it is the only room in the neighbour…

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Lucy Ethiopian Restaurant

Lucy Ethiopian Restaurant has held its ground on the Danforth for more than 15 years, and everything about it — six tables, a bar, a tree-shaded patio — signals a kitchen that cooks with conviction rather than franchise instincts.

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Funghetto Trattoria

Funghetto Trattoria plants itself in Woodbridge with a clarity of purpose that most Italian rooms in the GTA only gesture toward: this is a kitchen led by a chef with 35 years of career behind him — Chef Angelo — supported by Sous-Chef S…

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Casa Paco

Casa Paco has the kind of origin story that tends to produce rooms worth paying attention to: chef Rob Bragagnolo and three partners run the entire operation themselves, on a quiet Clinton Street corner, without the buffer of a larger ho…

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The Carvery At The Well

The Carvery At The Well is an easy global option in Toronto to suggest without needing a long explanation.

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Mandarin Restaurant

Mandarin Restaurant is a dependable chinese option in Scarborough that a lot of diners already know and return to.

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Based on 12923 reviews

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Contemporary•Church Street•$

Storm Crow Manor

Storm Crow Manor does not arrive with ambiguity about what it is.

cocktailsdinnergroup dinner

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Based on 4719 reviews

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Wilbur Mexicana

Wilbur Mexicana has been holding down a corner of King West since 2014, and the name is a genuine statement of intent: it's a nod to Wilbur Scoville, the chemist who gave the world the chili-heat scale.

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Based on 4692 reviews

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Korean Village Restaurant

Korean Village Restaurant has been doing something the city's now-crowded Korean dining scene still struggles to match: holding a room together across generations, occasions, and table sizes without losing the thread of what made it matt…

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Based on 3515 reviews

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Contemporary•Danforth•moderate

Square Boy

Square Boy has been making the same quiet argument on the Danforth since 1964, and sixty years of cash-only loyalty suggests it does not need to raise its voice.

East end dinnerdate nightgroup dinner

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Based on 2783 reviews

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Thai•Liberty Village•$

Chiang Mai Liberty

Liberty Village has plenty of casual Thai contenders, but Chiang Mai Liberty at 171 E Liberty St appears to be operating with more intention than the neighbourhood average suggests.

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Based on 2153 reviews

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The Avenue Restaurant and Lounge

The Avenue Restaurant and Lounge is not attempting to be Scarborough's default Chinese takeout stop, and the premise behind that distinction matters.

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Based on 2096 reviews

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Barbecue•Leslieville•value

Breakwall BBQ & Smokehouse

Breakwall BBQ & Smokehouse is a sensible barbecue call in Leslieville in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well.

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Based on 1614 reviews

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Italian•Harbourfront•value

SIMONA

Simona sits at the waterfront edge of Harbourfront doing something that restaurants in tourist-adjacent Toronto real estate rarely bother to do: taking its food seriously.

Waterfront patiodinnergroup dinner

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Based on 1474 reviews

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Thai•Danforth•moderate

Chiang Mai Danforth

Chiang Mai Danforth pitches itself at a specific, underserved gap: the Danforth strip has long been synonymous with Greek tavernas, but this spot plants a contemporary Thai flag on the avenue and holds it with a menu that's neither fusio…

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Based on 1470 reviews

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Mexhico Foods

Mexhico Foods is a mexican restaurant in Toronto that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room. Traditional Guacamole and Queso Fundido also give you a decent sense of the menu.

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Based on 1343 reviews

Oodles Wok Lebovic - Toronto

Oodles Wok Lebovic - Toronto is a sensible chinese call in Scarborough in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well. Vegetable Spring Rolls and Chicken Wings also give you a decent sense of the menu.

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Based on 1089 reviews

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Ethiopian•Toronto•$$

Selam Restaurant & Lounge

Selam Restaurant & Lounge occupies a particular lane in Toronto's Ethiopian dining scene that goes beyond the communal injera spread and into something with genuine lounge ambition — the kind of place where the room is designed to hold a…

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Based on 1051 reviews

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Que Ling Vietnamese Cuisine

Que Ling Vietnamese Cuisine is a sensible chinese call in East Chinatown in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well.

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LaVinia Restaurant

LaVinia has a reputation in Toronto's west end that outlasts trends, and the room on Lakeshore earns it the kind of loyalty that only comes from a kitchen with actual convictions.

Restaurant•Leslieville•moderate

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Wynona Toronto

Wynona occupies a particular kind of Leslieville real estate — the neighbourhood wine bar that locals talk about in lowered voices, as though volume alone might ruin it.

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Bao House (Dundas)

Bao House's Dundas Street location — second floor above the Chinatown-AGO corridor, soft-opened in late November 2024 — is the downtown extension of a North York institution that's been making Chinese pastries, bao, dumplings, and noodle…

Steakhouse•Liberty Village•$

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Paris Steak

Paris Steak is a steakhouse restaurant in Liberty Village in Toronto that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room. French Onion Soup and Steak Sandwich also give you a decent sense of the menu.

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Based on 422 reviews

Bocconcino Restaurant

In Woodbridge's heavily Italian corridor, where red-sauce joints compete for the same loyalists who've been eating Sunday gravy since they landed in Vaughan, Bocconcino on Trowers Road has held its ground for over 25 years by doing somet…

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La Paella

La Paella suits a night out when you want spanish that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

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Casual•Liberty Village•$

LOCAL Public Eatery Liberty Village

LOCAL Public Eatery Liberty Village is a sensible casual call in Liberty Village in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well.

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Based on 4751 reviews

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Japanese•Harbourfront•$

Miku Toronto

Miku Toronto is a sensible japanese call in Harbourfront in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well.

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Based on 4395 reviews

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Chinese•Chinatown•$

Juicy Dumpling

Juicy Dumpling is a sensible chinese call in Chinatown in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well. If Juicy Dumpling is your kind of order, that is a good sign.

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Based on 3907 reviews

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Contemporary•King West•$$

Añejo Restaurant

King West has no shortage of mezcal bars that moonlight as restaurants, but Añejo operates with a different level of commitment on both fronts.

late nightcocktailshigh energy

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Based on 3474 reviews

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Steakhouse•Scarborough•moderate

SumiLicious Smoked Meat & Deli

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.

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Based on 2296 reviews

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American•Chinatown•moderate

Chica's Chicken

Chica's Chicken has built a serious reputation in Toronto's fried chicken conversation without ever asking you to sit down.

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Based on 2047 reviews

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Bread & Bone

King West has a habit of burning through restaurant concepts, but bread bone has held its ground by committing to a tight, specific identity: a smoke-forward, bone-obsessed kitchen that takes the carnivore brief seriously without tipping…

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Based on 1833 reviews

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Japanese•Church Street•value

Kintaro Izakaya

Kintaro Izakaya is a sensible japanese call in Church Street in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well. Edamame and Gyoza also give you a decent sense of the menu.

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Based on 1814 reviews

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Greek•Danforth•$$

Athens Restaurant

Athens Restaurant is a greek restaurant in Danforth in Toronto that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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Based on 1503 reviews

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Africola

Africola suits a night out in King West when you want contemporary that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

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Based on 1462 reviews

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Mediterranean•Toronto•$$

Volos Greek Cuisine

Volos Greek Cuisine suits a night out when you want mediterranean that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

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Based on 1381 reviews

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Jin Dal Lae Korean Restaurant

Jin Dal Lae Korean Restaurant is a korean restaurant in Koreatown in Toronto that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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Based on 1101 reviews

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Melrose On Adelaide

Melrose On Adelaide suits a night out in King West when you want contemporary that feels grown-up without getting stiff. If Charcuterie Board is your kind of order, that is a good sign.

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Based on 1090 reviews

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Italian•Church Street•value

Sambucas On Church

Sambucas On Church is a italian restaurant in Church Street in Toronto that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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Barbecue•Koreatown•value

BBQ at Bloor - Grill and BBQ Smokehouse

BBQ at Bloor - Grill and BBQ Smokehouse is an easy barbecue option in Koreatown in Toronto to suggest without needing a long explanation.

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Based on 943 reviews

Italian•King West•splurge

Parisi's Restaurant

Parisi's Restaurant is the kind of italian room in King West you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.

Italian•Liberty Village•$

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Caffino

Caffino has been holding down the corner of King Street West since 1996, which means it was Italian-restaurant-in-a-converted-factory before that became a Liberty Village cliché.

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Waterworks Food Hall

Waterworks Food Hall is the rare project that earns its ambition through architecture alone — and then backs it up with talent.

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Oji Seichi

Toronto's ramen defaults to tonkotsu — the heavy pork-bone broth that reads as the whole category to most of the city.

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Wazema Ethiopian Restaurant

Wazema has been doing something specific on the Danforth for over fifteen years: bringing the kind of Ethiopian cooking that tastes like it came from someone's home kitchen, then staging it in a room that feels nothing like a casual take…

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Barbecue•Midtown•value

Beach Hill Smokehouse Downtown

Beach Hill Smokehouse Downtown is an easy barbecue option in Midtown in Toronto to suggest without needing a long explanation. If Unable to identify signature dishes is your kind of order, that is a good sign.

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Makilala

Makilala is a sensible filipino call in Scarborough in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well. Lumpia and Sinigang also give you a decent sense of the menu.

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Il Gatto e la Volpe Woodbridge

Il Gatto e la Volpe arrived in Woodbridge in 2022 with a clear thesis: import the culinary identity of Calabria — the toe of Italy's boot, with its deeply spiced, sun-scorched cooking traditions — and reframe it for a neighbourhood that…

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Chinese Feast Restaurant

Chinese Feast Restaurant is an easy chinese option in Scarborough in Toronto to suggest without needing a long explanation. Vegetable Spring Rolls and Crispy Fried Tofu also give you a decent sense of the menu.

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Manyaman Foods Filipino Cuisine - Scarborough

Manyaman Foods Filipino Cuisine - Scarborough is a sensible filipino call in Scarborough in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well.

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SQUISITO TRATTORIA

SQUISITO TRATTORIA is a italian pick in Woodbridge in Toronto when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

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Bao Bao Dim Sum

Bao Bao Dim Sum is an easy chinese option in Chinatown in Toronto to suggest without needing a long explanation.

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The Yard

The Yard is a global restaurant in Toronto that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

Contemporary•Harbourfront•$$

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Kellys Landing

Kellys Landing keeps showing up in the right conversations in Harbourfront when people want a reliable contemporary plan.

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Based on 7382 reviews

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Xiang Zi HotPot

Xiang Zi HotPot is an easy chinese option in Scarborough in Toronto to suggest without needing a long explanation. If Unable to identify signature dishes is your kind of order, that is a good sign.

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Based on 3615 reviews

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Breakfast•Liberty Village•$

Mildred's Temple Kitchen

Mildred's Temple Kitchen occupies a large, bright room in Liberty Village — a neighbourhood that has grown considerably since the restaurant established itself there, though Mildred's arrival predates much of that development.

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Based on 3522 reviews

Cherry Street Bar-B-Que

Cherry Street Bar-B-Que occupies a former 1920s Dominion Bank building in Toronto's Port Lands — a deliberately unglamorous address, surrounded by waterfront construction, with a red neon sign that reportedly cuts through the industrial…

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Based on 3473 reviews

Bar Raval

Bar Raval has been one of Toronto's most argued-about rooms since Grant van Gameren opened it on College Street in 2015, and the argument almost always starts with the architecture before it reaches the food.

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Based on 3249 reviews

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Steakhouse•Harbourfront•$

Harbour 60 Toronto

Harbour 60 Toronto is a contemporary restaurant in Harbourfront in Toronto that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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Based on 3060 reviews

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Gastropub•Church Street•value

Hair Of The Dog Neighbourhood Pub & Restaurant

Hair Of The Dog Neighbourhood Pub & Restaurant is a gastropub restaurant in Church Street in Toronto that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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Based on 2588 reviews

The Well

The Well is a global restaurant in Toronto that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room. Large Curved Corner Digital Display and Front Street West Large Digital Double-Sided Blade Sign also give you a decent sense of the menu.

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Based on 2482 reviews

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Mexican•King West•moderate

Campechano Adelaide

Campechano opened on Adelaide Street in November 2015 with a conviction that Toronto's taco culture had consistently undervalued its own foundation: the tortilla.

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Based on 1958 reviews

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Italian•Danforth•moderate

Pizzeria Libretto

Pizzeria Libretto is the kind of italian room in Danforth you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.

East end dinnerdate nightgroup dinner

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Based on 1799 reviews

120

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Chinese•Chinatown•moderate

R&D

R&D on Spadina operates on a specific premise that the existing Toronto dining conversation has been slow to take seriously: that Chinese cooking, executed by a MasterChef Canada winner who trained under a Michelin-starred Hong Kong oper…

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Based on 1688 reviews

121

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Group Dinner•Toronto•$$

Daphne

Daphne is a sensible group dinner call in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well. RIGHT ON THYME and PINEAPPLE HABANERO MARGARITA also give you a decent sense of the menu.

group dinnersharing

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Based on 1488 reviews

Soulas Modern Greek Cuisine

Soulas Modern Greek Cuisine is an easy greek option in Danforth in Toronto to suggest without needing a long explanation.

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Based on 1469 reviews

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Italian•Chinatown•moderate

Enoteca Sociale

Enoteca Sociale occupies a narrow, candlelit room on Roncesvalles — an address that feels more like a Roman trattoria transplanted to a Toronto side street than anything approaching a generic Italian-Canadian dining room.

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Based on 1467 reviews

Ethiopian House

Ethiopian House is a sensible ethiopian call in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well.

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Based on 1282 reviews

Rendez-Vous Ethiopian and Eritrean Restaurant

Rendez-Vous Ethiopian and Eritrean Restaurant is an easy ethiopian option in Toronto to suggest without needing a long explanation.

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Based on 1267 reviews

126

Romano's Restaurant

Romano's Restaurant is the kind of italian room in Woodbridge you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.

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Based on 1254 reviews

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IRENE

IRENE is a contemporary restaurant in Harbourfront in Toronto that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room. IRENE WAGYU SLIDERS and AHI TUNA TARTARE NACHO also give you a decent sense of the menu.

Waterfront patiodinnergroup dinner

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Based on 1108 reviews

128

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Chinese•Kensington Market•moderate

Sunnys Chinese

Sunny's Chinese occupies a particular position in Toronto's Kensington Market — not Queen West, as some listings conflate — where it has built a reputation as one of the neighbourhood's more purposeful Chinese restaurants.

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Japanese•North York•$

Kajiken

Kajiken is a Japanese mazesoba specialist operating out of North York — one of a handful of spots in Toronto dedicated to this specific category of brothless ramen that originates in Nagoya.

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LAKAY Kusina

LAKAY Kusina is a sensible filipino call in Scarborough in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well.

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Casual•Liberty Village•$

NODO Liberty

NODO Liberty is a sensible casual call in Liberty Village in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well.

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Thai•Ossington•moderate

Favorites Thai

Favorites Thai has held a Michelin Bib Gourmand for four consecutive years — an unusual run for a room on Ossington that, by most accounts, seats only a handful of tables.

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French•King West•splurge

Adelaide

Adelaide is a french pick in King West in Toronto when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

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Fu Kee Bao Dim 富記包點

Fu Kee Bao Dim 富記包點 operates as a dim sum and bao specialist in Scarborough's Cantonese corridor — a room that earns its reputation not by reinvention but by precision within a genre where regulars know immediately when a kitchen is cutt…

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Wok Theory | 新天虹

Wok Theory | 新天虹 is a chinese restaurant in Chinatown in Toronto that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room. Dim Sum Selection and Snacks & Soups also give you a decent sense of the menu.

Restaurant•Koreatown•moderate

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Alma

Anna Chen's Alma has held its Michelin Bib Gourmand since 2022, and the recognition reads less as hype than as accurate shorthand for what happens across a room of thirty-odd seats.

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Tinuno

Tinuno is a filipino restaurant in Scarborough in Toronto that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room. If Unable to extract menu items is your kind of order, that is a good sign.

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Sue Fung's Dimsum Canteen 小鳯食堂

Sue Fung's Dimsum Canteen 小鳯食堂 is a chinese restaurant in Chinatown in Toronto that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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Wellington Market

Wellington Market is a sensible global call in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well.

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多伦多鸡锅店·Toronto Chicken Hot Pot

多伦多鸡锅店·Toronto Chicken Hot Pot is a sensible chinese call in Scarborough in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well.

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Messini Authentic Gyros

Messini Authentic Gyros is a greek pick in Danforth in Toronto when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

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Based on 4978 reviews

King Taps First Canadian Place

King Taps First Canadian Place occupies 100 King St W with the kind of ambition that goes well beyond typical bar programming.

cocktailsupscalestylish

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Based on 4873 reviews

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Gastropub•Harbourfront•$

The Goodman Pub and Kitchen

Harbourfront draws steady foot traffic along Queens Quay West, and The Goodman Pub and Kitchen is one of the few spots on that stretch that rewards slowing down.

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Based on 4219 reviews

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Latin American•King West•$$$

Baro

Baro is a latin american restaurant in King West in Toronto that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

late nightcocktailshigh energy

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Based on 3847 reviews

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Contemporary•Harbourfront•$

Hunters Landing

Hunters Landing is a sensible contemporary call in Harbourfront in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well.

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Based on 3503 reviews

Beso by Patria

Beso by Patria is the King West relaunch of the long-running Patria, reborn under INK Entertainment as a paella-forward Spanish room with a self-conscious sense of occasion.

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Based on 2147 reviews

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Korean•North York•value

Kayagum Korean Restaurant

Kayagum Korean Restaurant is an easy korean option in North York in Toronto to suggest without needing a long explanation. Deep-Fried Cast-Iron Skillet and Bibimbap & Rice-Bowl also give you a decent sense of the menu.

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Based on 2126 reviews

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Cafe le Majestik

Cafe le Majestik is a cantonese restaurant in Scarborough in Toronto that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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Based on 1737 reviews

Casa Madera

Casa Madera is an easy mexican option in Toronto to suggest without needing a long explanation.

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Based on 1523 reviews

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Dine & Dim

Dine & Dim is a sensible chinese call in East Chinatown in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well.

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Bistro Manila

Bistro Manila is a filipino restaurant in Scarborough in Toronto that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room. Dynamite and Baked Mussels also give you a decent sense of the menu.

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Union Food Court

Union Food Court is a global restaurant in Toronto that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room. Tonkotsu Ramen and Shanghai Dumplings also give you a decent sense of the menu.

Bistro•Church Street•value

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The Cherie Bistro

The Cherie Bistro is a sensible bistro call in Church Street in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well.

Filipino•Toronto•moderate

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BB's

BB's — short for Bahay ni Bella, Bella's House — is not positioning itself as a gateway to Filipino cuisine, and that restraint is precisely what gives it standing.

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Tulum Mexican Restaurant

Tulum Mexican Restaurant is a mexican restaurant in Toronto that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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Salonika Estiatorio

Salonika Estiatorio is an easy greek option in Danforth in Toronto to suggest without needing a long explanation.

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El Catrin Destileria

El Catrin Destilería is Mexican dining as a full-blown occasion, and the room makes that case before anyone orders a drink.

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Based on 9262 reviews

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Swatow Restaurant

Swatow Restaurant is an easy chinese option in East Chinatown in Toronto to suggest without needing a long explanation.

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Based on 3057 reviews

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Italian•Harbourfront•$

Taverna Mercatto

Taverna Mercatto is a contemporary restaurant in Harbourfront in Toronto that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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Based on 2653 reviews

Madrina Bar y Tapas

Madrina Bar y Tapas carries credentials that are genuinely unusual for Toronto's Spanish dining scene.

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Based on 2369 reviews

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Happy Lamb Hot Pot 快乐小羊火锅

Happy Lamb Hot Pot 快乐小羊火锅 is a sensible chinese call in Scarborough in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well. Signature Ball Platter and Shrimp Paste Signature Ball also give you a decent sense of the menu.

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Based on 2231 reviews

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The Royal Chinese Restaurant

The Royal Chinese Restaurant is an easy chinese option in Scarborough in Toronto to suggest without needing a long explanation.

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Based on 1584 reviews

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163

Barbecue•Toronto•value

The Backyard Smokehouse Toronto

The Backyard Smokehouse Toronto is a sensible barbecue call in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well.

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The Friendly Greek Mediterranean Grill

The Friendly Greek Mediterranean Grill is a sensible greek call in Danforth in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well.

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J & J Kapuso Filipino Restaurant

J & J Kapuso Filipino Restaurant is a sensible filipino call in Scarborough in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well.

Global•Financial District•value

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TABLE Food Hall (Fare + Social)

TABLE Food Hall (Fare + Social) is an easy global option in Financial District in Toronto to suggest without needing a long explanation.

group dinnerfilipinocommunal

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Filipino•Scarborough•$

Jollibee

Jollibee is a dependable filipino option in Scarborough that a lot of diners already know and return to.

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Based on 5521 reviews

Dim Sum King Seafood Restaurant

Dim Sum King Seafood Restaurant is a sensible chinese call in Chinatown in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well.

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Based on 3879 reviews

Mother's Dumplings

Mother's Dumplings is a sensible chinese call in Chinatown in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well.

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Based on 3347 reviews

Astoria Shish Kebob House - Danforth

Astoria Shish Kebob House - Danforth is a sensible greek call in Danforth in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well.

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Based on 2374 reviews

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Indian•Toronto•moderate

Indian Street Food Co.

What Hemant Bhagwani built on Bayview Avenue in 2015 is a deliberate argument that the food of railway stations and roadside stalls deserves white tablecloths and reclaimed wood.

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Tapas at Embrujo

Tapas at Embrujo has a reputation that arrives before the food does: live flamenco every weekend, a guitarist and a dancer-singer whose footwork is, by regulars' own cheerful admission, gloriously, rattlingly loud.

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Tak Fu Dim Sum Emperor

Tak Fu Dim Sum Emperor is a sensible cantonese call in Scarborough in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well.

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Dragon Pearl Buffet

Dragon Pearl Buffet is one of the better-known chinese spots in Scarborough in Toronto, which makes it a practical place to start.

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Based on 8605 reviews

Rol San Restaurant

Rol San Restaurant is a sensible chinese call in Chinatown in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well.

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Based on 4595 reviews

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Wok & Roast Chinese BBQ Restaurant

Wok & Roast Chinese BBQ Restaurant is a chinese restaurant in East Chinatown in Toronto that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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Based on 1072 reviews

177

Big Way Hot Pot (Scarborough)

Big Way Hot Pot (Scarborough) is an easy chinese option in Scarborough in Toronto to suggest without needing a long explanation. Signature Mala Broth and Collagen Bone Broth also give you a decent sense of the menu.

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Based on 1001 reviews

178

Yummy Cantonese Restaurant

Yummy Cantonese Restaurant is a sensible cantonese call in Scarborough in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well. Abalone on Rice Noodle Roll and Deep-Fried Squid Tentacles also give you a decent sense of the menu.

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Congee Queen

Congee Queen is a cantonese restaurant in Scarborough in Toronto that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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7.8

Based on 2593 reviews

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Very Fair Seafood Cuisine

Very Fair Seafood Cuisine is an easy cantonese option in Scarborough in Toronto to suggest without needing a long explanation.

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7.8

Based on 2466 reviews

181

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Xiao Long Bao

Xiao Long Bao is a sensible cantonese call in Scarborough in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well.

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7.8

Based on 1369 reviews

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Casa Deluz Banquet Hall

Casa Deluz Banquet Hall is a sensible cantonese call in Scarborough in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well.

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7.6

Based on 1361 reviews

183

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Grandeur Palace 華麗宮大酒樓

Grandeur Palace 華麗宮大酒樓 is a sensible cantonese call in Scarborough in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well.

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7.4

Based on 1629 reviews

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Perfect Chinese Restaurant

Perfect Chinese Restaurant is a dependable chinese option in Scarborough that a lot of diners already know and return to.

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7.2

Based on 5028 reviews

The Porch

The Porch is a patio restaurant in Toronto that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room. Chips and Guacamole and Grande Nachos also give you a decent sense of the menu.

patiosummerbright

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6.6

Based on 1644 reviews