Front-row sushi bar seating, ultra-fresh ingredients, and minimalist wood-sculpted trappings keep diners coming back for these briny hand rolls and raw sashimi boats. The secret is a nori “humidor” that keeps seaweed sheets in a perfectly dry and crispy condition.

On the fifth floor of the historic Dineen Building, overlooking the Financial District, the Chase’s marvelous lighting fixtures, solarium dining room, and floor-to-ceiling windows are a glamorous setting for the surf-and-turf-focused menu.

Nearly every menu item here is kissed by the flames of the wood-fired oven that makes up the hearth—aka, the heart of the kitchen. Gigantic shareable cuts of porterhouse steak, creamy grilled horseradish beets, and house-made pull-apart brioche buns are some of the heartiest dishes on order.

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.