Good Brother Chinese Barbecue has set up shop in Thornhill with a concept built for lingering: open-air skewer grilling, a late-night kitchen, and a setting designed to keep the party going well past when most restaurants have closed up for the night. The format draws on Chinese barbecue traditions that have become increasingly popular across […]
Nile Coffee Club Is a Cafe by Day, a Club House by Night — and Little Portugal Can’t Get Enough By day, Nile Coffee Club reads like any other neighbourhood café — specialty coffee, a laptop-friendly room, the kind of place you’d walk past without a second thought. Once the sun goes down, though, the […]
Mambo Italiano is taking on a genuinely ambitious culinary challenge: reimagining classic Italian cuisine as a fully halal menu, without sacrificing the richness and technique that define the cuisine in the first place. Traditional Italian cooking leans heavily on pork products — prosciutto, guanciale, pancetta — making a fully halal Italian menu a real test […]
Late-night food options in Toronto tend to skew toward pizza, shawarma, or fast food, so a dedicated gnocchi spot staying open into the small hours is a genuinely rare addition to the city’s after-dark dining scene. Via Gnocchi has built its entire concept around a single, tightly focused idea: affordable, quality gnocchi, served fast and […]
Spice challenges are nothing new in the restaurant world, but Curryish Tavern’s version comes with a genuinely compelling incentive: finish their spiciest curry, and the restaurant doesn’t just comp the meal — they hand over an extra $100 on top of it. The catch, as with any good spice challenge, is that finishing isn’t as […]
Alvin Leung has built an international reputation as one of the most inventive names in modern Chinese cuisine, and his newest venture is bringing that sensibility to an unlikely format: the steakhouse. The Leo, opening in Markham, reimagines the traditional steakhouse through a distinctly pan-Asian lens, positioning itself as a bigger, bolder answer to the […]
Sonny Can’t Dance isn’t shy about setting itself apart in an already-crowded King West dining scene. The new steakhouse, from the team behind Paris, Texas, pairs a genuinely elevated menu — developed alongside Cheese Boutique’s Afrim Pristine — with a service model that leans hard into old-school indulgence: dedicated butler service at the table. The […]
Scarborough’s Ding Tai Fung Is Finally Changing Its Name For 27 years, Scarborough’s Ding Tai Fung has quietly caused a very specific kind of confusion — the kind where a diner walks in expecting the globally famous Din Tai Fung chain and instead finds a similarly named, entirely unaffiliated restaurant that just happens to sit […]
After months of visiting restaurants, bars, kitchens and hospitality venues across Ontario, the 2026 Gold Plate Awards tour is entering its final stretch — and the anticipation is building. Throughout 2026, the Gold Plate Awards team has been on the road experiencing the people, places and culinary talent that continue to shape Ontario’s hospitality industry. […]
Shake Shack and Pizzeria Badiali Team Up for a Three-Item Collab Toronto Can’t Stop Talking About Pizzeria Badiali has spent years earning one of the most reliable lines in Toronto — the kind of block-long queue that forms outside its Dovercourt storefront on a regular weeknight, not just a special occasion. Now that reputation is […]