Cafe Oro di Napoli

Playa Bowls at The Well is a franchise move, yes — but one executed with enough intention to avoid being written off as corporate smoothie-bar agnosticism.

Here's a restaurant that gets my heart rate up before the food even lands: at Santa Madre, on Gerrard East in Little India, there's no tipping and there are no servers.

Kensington Market rewards places that don't try too hard, and Kensington Socials leans right into that.

Let's clear something up first: the original Kabbana lives in Port Credit, Mississauga, but there's now a Toronto outpost in the Entertainment District at 132 John St., marked open.

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.