The best restaurants for upscale in Toronto, curated by TastyPals editors.
Fast answers for diners searching for upscale restaurants in Toronto. These first picks make the occasion easier to compare.
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.
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At the corner of Shaw and Dupont, Maison T operates on a philosophy many Toronto restaurants articulate and very few honour: restraint as a form of generosity.
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Seahorse is a contemporary pick in Rosedale in Toronto when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Penny Blue suits a night out in King West when you want contemporary that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Sam's Ristorante is a italian pick in Woodbridge in Toronto when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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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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Le Baratin occupies a quiet stretch of Bloorcourt and operates on the logic of a real French bistro — short menu, a wine list assembled with actual conviction, a room that prioritizes the table over the turn.
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Robot Boil House is not a room designed to flatter the evening — it is designed to dismantle it in the best possible way.
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Yorkville has a way of making restaurants perform for the room rather than cook for the diner.
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Honest Weight occupies a specific and stubborn position on Dundas West — twenty seats in the Junction, a neighbourhood that still leans more hardware store than cocktail bar, at a fish counter that operates as though simplicity were its…
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Joso's has anchored the edge of Yorkville, which in Toronto restaurant years amounts to something close to mythology.
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Mineral operates on a split identity that, by most accounts, it manages without strain.
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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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Cantina Amici arrives in Woodbridge with the kind of backstory that either redeems a restaurant or haunts it: Antonio Caputo built I Sarti Italian Menswear into a luxury GTA boutique brand before deciding his real ambition was bringing t…
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Seafood Kitchen Toronto is the kind of seafood room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Rodney's Oyster House has been making the same argument, and Toronto has largely come around to its side.
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Jacobs & Co.
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Taline arrived in Rosedale in April 2023 carrying something rarer than a strong concept: a genuine inheritance.
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Animl Steakhouse at 420A Wellington St.
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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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Nikkei cuisine — the century-old fusion of Japanese precision and Peruvian boldness that took root when Japanese immigrants arrived in Lima — doesn't have many serious Toronto addresses.
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Sash is, in the most literal sense, a chef's restaurant — not as a branding exercise but as a biographical fact.
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Miku Toronto is a sensible fine dining call in Financial District in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well.
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Hy's Steakhouse & Cocktail Bar is a sensible steakhouse call in Toronto when you want something that usually lands well.
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Barberian's Steak House is a steakhouse restaurant in Toronto that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Auberge du Pommier has been doing a specific and increasingly rare thing: making the case that a French restaurant can be genuinely romantic without tipping into pastiche.
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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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Don Alfonso 1890 occupies a position in Toronto's dining landscape that few rooms can credibly claim: it is the only North American outpost of the Iaccarino family's Michelin-starred original from the Amalfi Coast, and it carries that li…
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Africola suits a night out in King West when you want contemporary that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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La Palette is a french pick in Toronto when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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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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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.
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Library Bar is not trying to be a restaurant that happens to serve cocktails, nor a cocktail bar that happens to serve food.
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The Rebel House has been a fixture on Yonge Street in Rosedale long enough to have earned a kind of quiet authority — not the loud, self-congratulatory kind, but the sort that comes from a place knowing exactly what it is and refusing to…
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Sorrel has been operating in Rosedale, and fourteen years of continuous service in a neighbourhood that cycles through concepts with some regularity says something substantive about the room's positioning.
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Tigo Trattoria is the kind of room Woodbridge actually keeps to itself — ten tables, a family at the helm, and a clientele that reportedly runs toward politicians and diplomats who've learned that the best Italian in Vaughan doesn't anno…
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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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Manita Rosedale suits a night out in Rosedale when you want contemporary that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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SQUISITO TRATTORIA is a italian pick in Woodbridge in Toronto when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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For thirty years, Canoe has occupied the 54th floor of the TD Bank Tower, and in that time it has become the rare Toronto institution that treats its view as the second-best thing about the room.
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Le Sélect Bistro has been anchoring the intersection of Wellington and John in Toronto's King West neighbourhood, which makes it one of the city's longest-running French bistros — and one of the few that has resisted the temptation to mo…
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Lobster Burger Bar is the kind of seafood room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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The Chase occupies a dramatic multi-level space in the heart of Toronto's Financial District, and its positioning is deliberate: this is the room the Bay Street crowd books when the occasion demands something more considered than a steak…
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Pearl Diver is a seafood pick in Toronto when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Maison Selby is a french pick in Toronto when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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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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Prime Seafood Palace is a seafood omakase counter from the team behind Quetzal — Kate Chomyshyn, Julio Guajardo, and sommelier Remi Leroux — and its central premise is one that Toronto has not seen executed quite this way before: Japanes…
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Adelaide is a french pick in King West in Toronto when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Cluny Bistro & Boulangerie suits a night out when you want french that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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King Taps First Canadian Place occupies 100 King St W with the kind of ambition that goes well beyond typical bar programming.
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Yamato Japanese Restaurant is a japanese pick in Yorkville in Toronto when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Sushi Inn Japanese Restaurant suits a night out in Yorkville when you want japanese that feels grown-up without getting stiff. California Roll & Futo Maki and Sushi Inn Special also give you a decent sense of the menu.
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KOKO Share Bar is a japanese pick in Yorkville in Toronto when you want dinner to feel a little more planned. Kimchi Trio and Korean Spicy Crispy Cauliflower also give you a decent sense of the menu.
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Terroni suits a night out in Rosedale when you want italian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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LOUIX LOUIS is an easy fine dining option in Financial District in Toronto to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Via Mercanti Woodbridge suits a night out in Woodbridge when you want italian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Pantry Rosedale has built a reputation as Rosedale's go-to all-day kitchen by committing to a deceptively straightforward premise: comfort food that is properly seasoned, genuinely fresh, and assembled with enough care to stand apart fro…
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La Plume is the kind of french room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Kasa Moto occupies several floors of a Yorkville address and has built a reputation as one of the neighbourhood's more serious attempts at pairing a high-design room with a kitchen that can hold its own.
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The top restaurants for upscale in Toronto include Tovico Trattoria, Maison T, Seahorse. TastyPals curates these picks based on occasion tags, Google ratings, and editorial judgment.
Tovico Trattoria is among the top-rated options for upscale in Toronto, with a 9.6 Google rating and 559 reviews.
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