J's Steak Frites

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.

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.

College Street has no shortage of rooms that dress up ordinary cooking in good lighting, which is part of what makes Zafoon worth your attention.

Garden Express runs against just about every current Toronto restaurant trend, and that's precisely what makes it worth understanding.

Bar Eugenie is the room Toronto keeps failing to build: thirty seats, a back patio that actually earns the word intimate, and a name hung from the ceiling like a dare — Eugénie Brazier, the first chef to earn six Michelin stars, a woman…