Chef Nuit Regular, Toronto’s powerhouse Thai restauranteur, invites diners to a rare taste of Baan Lao cuisine, a seven-course tasting menu of specialties that have been served over centuries to the Thai royal family (and there’s a vegan version as well). Don’t expect fiery curries but rather a sophisticated and textural experience of imaginative dishes fit for a regal palate.

Hidden in plain sight on the upper level of the Waterworks Food Hall, a former pipe and plumbing factory, this decadent art nouveau cocktail bar captures Toronto’s “Roaring ’20s” with its deliberate tribute to the building it’s housed in.

As much Greek history museum as palace of gastronomy, here you’ll find off-duty bankers, wealthy dowagers, and celebratory diners eating amongst enormous amphoras and ancient statues in alabaster surroundings.

A winning fusion of Dutch and Indonesian flavors sets this jungle hostel-themed resto-cocktail bar apart from the rest on Portland Street.

Bucking the trend toward relaxed fine dining, Harbour Sixty’s four-floor complex goes for sheer opulence, the drama of which is apparent from the get-go as you walk up stone steps to the grand entrance of the restored Harbour Commission building.