C5
Toronto
| Address: | 100 Queens Park |
| Website: | www.c5restaurant.ca |
| Telephone: | +1 416 586 7928 |
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| Average Price p.p.: | £16-63 ($25-$100) |
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Diners at C5 bask in the drama of Daniel Libeskind’s Crystal design on the fifth floor of the renovated Royal Ontario Museum. Starkly modern with an open concept kitchen, airy ceilings, soaring walls and jutting angles, the effect is fresh and provocative.
Jamie Kennedy Wine Bar
Toronto
| Address: | 9 Church St. |
| Website: | www.jamiekennedy.ca/v3/rest
aurants.html |
| Telephone: | +1 416 362 1957 |
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| Overall rating: |  |
| Average Price p.p.: | $30-80 |
| Cuisine: | Tapas, International, Canadian, Wine Bar |
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The best place to sit is at the long bar overlooking the open kitchen. Another dozen or so seats are at the bar across the aisle where the drinks and wines are poured. Tables are only for those who want a modicum of privacy.
Lee
Toronto
| Address: | 603 King St. W |
| Website: | www.susur.com/lee/ |
| Telephone: | +1 416 504 7867 |
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| Average Price p.p.: | $25-100 |
| Cuisine: | Tapas, Fusion |
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Chef Susur Lee created the recipes, and talented chef de cuisine Jason Carter, who has worked with him for eight years, executes them deftly and swiftly in this fast-paced, tapas-style restaurant. Wood floors, exposed beam ceiling, brick walls covered with semi-transparent silk screens and Eames-style molded plywood chairs contribute to the hip atmosphere as does the large eat-at bar with its Lucite counters.
Nota Bene
Toronto
| Address: | 180 Queen St. W |
| Website: | notabenerestaurant.com/welcome/ |
| Telephone: | +1 416 977 6400 |
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| Overall rating: |  |
| Average Price p.p.: | $24-282 |
| Cuisine: | American, Continental, Contemporary |
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Franco Prevedello, the force behind many of Toronto’s best restaurants in the eighties, teamed with the owners of the classy Splendido---Yannick Bigourdan and executive chef David Lee---to bring the city an upscale bistro with cosmopolitan panache
Nyood
Toronto
| Address: | 2 Hawthorn Gardens |
| Website: | www.nyood.ca |
| Telephone: | +1 416 466 1888 |
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| Average Price p.p.: | £38-50 ($60-$80) |
| Cuisine: | Mediterranean, Middle Eastern |
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From the team that opened Kultura, this spot is in the achingly hip West Queen West area, anchored by the Drake Hotel. Edgy art galleries, photo galleries and trendy boutiques intermingle with scruffy storefronts of indiscernible purpose
One Restaurant
Toronto
| Address: | 116 Yorkville Ave |
| Website: | www.onehazelton.com |
| Telephone: | +1 416 961 9600 |
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| Average Price p.p.: | $10-25 |
| Cuisine: | Korean, Bar |
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Toronto’s celebrity executive chef Mark McEwan has done it again with this twist on home cooking served family-style. Diners may be dressed to the nines, but the food is noticeably less fancy than at McEwan’s North 44 and ByMark. Toronto’s hot design firm Yabu Pushelberg created a space that’s grand, yet spare, with amusing touches (think grey fur-accented walls and luminescent gold mesh curtains).
Splendido
Toronto
| Address: | 88 Harbord St. |
| Website: | www.splendido.ca |
| Telephone: | +1 416 929 7788 |
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| Cuisine: | Bar, Grill |
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No other spot in town quick hits the high notes like Splendido. You’re pampered from the moment you walk in with smoothly choreographed service that has just the right tone. Tables are spread out in the 60-seat dining room so conversations remain private, padded tablecloths dampen plate clatter and little stools give purses a perch.
Starfish Oyster Bed & Grill
Toronto
| Address: | 100 Adelaide St. E |
| Website: | www.starfishoysterbed.com |
| Telephone: | +1 416 366 7827 |
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The room is cozy with beige banquettes framed in dark wood, brown leather seats, a scuffed wood floor and seating at the long bar. Top quality sea fare is organic, non-endangered fish and the freshest mollusks and other shellfish flown in from around the world, served up raw or cooked to a translucent turn
The Fifth Grill
Toronto
| Address: | 225 Richmond St. W. |
| Website: | www.thefifthgrill.com |
| Telephone: | +1 416 979 3005 |
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The entrance to this glamorous spot is off an alleyway, through a pulsating nightclub and up a wooden freight elevator of the former warehouse. Then you step into a chic candlelit room with a long bar, pale woods and white tablecloths. In winter there are sofas by a warming fire and in summer a tented terrace for al fresco dining
Zucca Trattoria
Toronto
| Address: | 2150 Yonge St |
| Website: | www.zuccatrattoria.com |
| Telephone: | +1 416 488 5774 |
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| Cuisine: | Italian |
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New Zealand-born chef-owner Andrew Milne-Allan cooks pure Italian from the soul. He takes very traditional Italian dishes, deconstructs and improves them with a deft touch, drawing inspiration from Naples, Umbria, Sicily, Sardinia and elsewhere on the boot.
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