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DL Chicken
I’m taking bites of the Nashville-style OG Chicken sandwich and hanging off Doug’s every word when the extra hot sauce starts to kick and I start to imagine what it might feel like to be on the Hot Ones set.…
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The Foreign Affair Winery
Inspired by a love of decadent Amarone, this winery is one of the few in Niagara to specialize in the small-batch appassimento method, where grapes are partially dried before fermentation to concentrate flavor and structure.
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Hello Nori
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.
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The Chase
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.
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Alder @ The Ace Hotel
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…
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Kiin
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…
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Civil Works
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.
Jesse Ship
Journalistic Omnivore
