The Best Restaurants for Wine Lovers in Toronto

Adega Restaurante

Toronto, Canada

Adega Restaurante occupies a spot on Elm Street in downtown Toronto, drawing on Portuguese culinary tradition within a city whose dining scene has moved decisively toward provenance-conscious cooking. The address places it alongside some of Toronto's most serious restaurant options, making it a reference point for those tracing the city's evolving relationship with European heritage cuisines and ingredient-led menus.

Alobar Downtown

Toronto, Canada

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

Alobar Downtown at 150 York St sits inside Toronto's Financial District dining conversation, where the question is less about whether a room can feed a crowd and more about whether it can hold a room's attention through the full arc of a meal. The address places it among the city's more deliberate mid-to-upper tier tables, where ritual and pacing carry as much weight as the plate itself.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining

Bar Isabel

Toronto, Canada

Bar Isabel has anchored Toronto's Spanish dining conversation since it opened on College Street, earning consecutive Michelin Plate recognition in 2024 and 2025. The tapas format here is grounded in Iberian classics done with consistency: patatas bravas, pan con tomate, bone marrow that remains a benchmark order. A Spain-focused wine list and sessionable cocktails make it as much a drinking destination as a dining one.

Also recognized by Canada's 100 Best, Star Wine List, World's Best Wine Lists Awards

Bar Vendetta

Toronto, Canada

Bar Vendetta on Dundas West earns back-to-back Michelin Plate recognition (2024 and 2025) as one of Toronto's more considered Italian addresses, operating at the mid-price tier where technique matters more than spectacle. The room sits in the city's west-end dining corridor, where neighbourhood familiarity and culinary seriousness coexist more comfortably than in the downtown core.

Barberian’s

Toronto, Canada

Open since 1959, Barberian's on Elm Street is one of Toronto's longest-running steakhouses, holding its position through decades of dining trends with dry-aged beef, a deep wine cellar recognised twice by Star Wine List in 2026, and a multi-room setting that reads as a document of the city's dining history rather than a contemporary reinvention.

Also recognized by Canada's 100 Best, Star Wine List

Bardi's Steakhouse

Toronto, Canada

Bardi's Steakhouse occupies a long-standing position on York Street in Toronto's Financial District, where the city's classic steakhouse tradition has historically served the downtown business crowd. Located at 56 York St, it sits within walking distance of Union Station and the core corporate corridor, placing it among a tier of established Toronto dining rooms where occasion dining and weekday lunch business intersect.

Biagio Ristorante

Toronto, Canada

On King Street East in Toronto's St. Lawrence corridor, Biagio Ristorante occupies a position that Italian dining in this city has long needed: a room where the pacing of the meal matters as much as what arrives on the plate. The address places it among the neighbourhood's heritage-building stock, and its reputation rests on a classical approach to Italian hospitality that the broader downtown scene has largely traded away for faster formats.

Buca Osteria & Bar

Toronto, Canada

Buca Osteria & Bar occupies a discreet address off Yorkville Avenue, reached through the Four Seasons Hotel courtyard — a routing that sets the register before you've sat down. The room positions itself inside Toronto's premium Italian tier, where the conversation between kitchen, cellar, and floor defines the experience as much as any single dish.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining

Canoe

Toronto, Canada

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Thirty years into its run, Canoe remains the clearest argument for what contemporary Canadian cooking can be at the summit of the market. On the 54th floor of the TD Bank Tower, the kitchen works a seasonally driven menu anchored in Canadian terroir — farmed, foraged, fished — while the room delivers panoramic views of Toronto and Lake Ontario that few dining rooms in the country can match.

Also recognized by Canada's 100 Best, Forbes, La Liste, Opinionated About Dining

Carisma

Toronto, Canada

Carisma serves authentic Italian fine dining at 15 Toronto St, with an extensive wine list and leisurely pacing for lunch or dinner.

Don Alfonso 1890

Toronto, Canada

1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Awarded a Michelin star in 2024 and ranked among La Liste's top restaurants globally, the kitchen runs an eight-course tasting menu that balances Amalfi Coast heritage with Canadian ingredient sourcing. The wine list spans nearly 5,000 bottles with depth across Piedmont, Tuscany, Burgundy, and Bordeaux.

Also recognized by Canada's 100 Best, La Liste, Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List

Gatsby

Toronto, Canada

Gatsby occupies a quiet address on St Thomas Street in Toronto's Yorkville corridor, positioning itself within a neighbourhood where the premium dining conversation runs from contemporary Canadian tasting menus to Japanese omakase counters. The address alone signals intent. For a considered multi-course evening in one of the city's more measured dining pockets, Gatsby is worth the reservation.

Grey Gardens

Toronto, Canada

A Michelin Bib Gourmand recipient in consecutive years (2024 and 2025), Grey Gardens brings contemporary cooking to Kensington Market under chef Ksenija Krajšek Mahorčič. Part of restaurateur Jen Agg's Toronto portfolio, the Augusta Avenue address pairs a carefully composed dining room with food that earns its place in the city's mid-range conversation without straining toward formality.

Also recognized by Star Wine List

Henry's

Toronto, Canada

Henry's sits on Queen Street West at the less frenetic end of Toronto's contemporary dining corridor, earning a Michelin Plate in 2025. Owned by a wine importer, the room leans on a carefully sourced bottle list and a contemporary kitchen that draws on classical technique. At the $$$ price point, it occupies a distinct middle tier between Queen West's casual spots and the starred rooms further downtown.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List

Le Sélect Bistro

Toronto, Canada

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Le Sélect Bistro on Wellington Street West has anchored Toronto's French bistro tradition since the 1970s, serving classic dishes including steak tartare, cassoulet, and confit de canard in a Parisian-inspired interior that remains one of the city's most committed examples of the genre. The wine list follows the same transatlantic logic as the menu.

Also recognized by Star Wine List

Midfield Wine Bar & Tavern

Toronto, Canada

On Dundas Street West, Midfield Wine Bar & Tavern occupies a quieter register than Toronto's tasting-menu circuit — a neighbourhood wine bar where a rotating list of interesting bottles meets small plates, cheese, and charcuterie. The format is deliberately casual, the wine selection genuinely engaged, and the pace set by the guest rather than the kitchen.

Also recognized by Star Wine List

Modus Ristorante

Toronto, Canada

On King Street West in Toronto's Financial District, Modus Ristorante earned a White Star recognition from Star Wine List in October 2023, signalling a wine program that the platform's editors considered worth flagging to serious drinkers. The address places it among a cluster of Italian-leaning dining rooms where the wine list often does as much talking as the kitchen.

Also recognized by Star Wine List

Moretti Toronto

Toronto, Canada

Moretti Toronto sits on Wellington Street West in the heart of the Entertainment District, positioned within the same Italian-focused tier as DaNico and Don Alfonso 1890. Where Toronto's top Italian tables have moved toward contemporary reinterpretation, Moretti draws from the deeper cultural grammar of regional Italian cooking, placing it in a specific conversation about what Italian cuisine means in a city with one of the largest Italian diaspora communities in North America.

Opus Restaurant

Toronto, Canada

Wine Spectator Grand Award

Located on Prince Arthur Avenue in Toronto's Yorkville neighbourhood, Opus Restaurant has held a place on Opinionated About Dining's North America rankings since 2023, reaching #326 in 2025. Chef Jason Cox leads a European-influenced Canadian kitchen, while the wine program — directed by Tony Amaro — spans 2,100 selections across 52,000 bottles, with particular depth in Burgundy, California, and Bordeaux.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List

Osteria Giulia

Toronto, Canada

1 Michelin star

Osteria Giulia brings Ligurian cuisine to Yorkville with a Michelin star and a menu that focuses on the seafood-rich coast rather than the usual pan-Italian repertoire. Chef Rob Rossi's uptown room, with its candlelit cream walls and blond-oak tables, is the kind of place that absorbs a milestone dinner without effort. La Liste ranked it among the world's top restaurants in both 2025 and 2026.

Also recognized by Canada's 100 Best, La Liste, Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List

Reign

Toronto, Canada

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Inside the Fairmont Royal York, Reign operates across a dining room, a Jazz Age-inspired wine bar, and a bakery — a multi-format property with a 2-Star World of Fine Wine accreditation anchoring its wine credentials. The wine bar is the venue's most distinctive element, pairing serious cellar depth with one of downtown Toronto's more atmospheric dining settings at 100 Front Street West.

Also recognized by Star Wine List, World's Best Wine Lists Awards

Sorrel Restaurant and Bar

Toronto, Canada

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

On Yonge Street in Summerhill, Sorrel brings French and Mediterranean cooking to a mid-tier price point that sits well below Toronto's upper-tier omakase and tasting-menu counters. A wine program spanning 1,050 selections and 11,000 bottles in inventory, overseen by Wine Director Sarah Pearson, gives the list genuine depth across France, Italy, California, and Canada. The kitchen and front-of-house share ownership, which shapes how the two halves of the experience align.

Taline

Toronto, Canada

Armenian cuisine occupies a small but serious niche in Toronto's dining scene, and Taline on Yonge Street has held a Michelin Plate in both 2024 and 2025 — a signal of consistent execution across successive inspector visits. The mid-price format makes it accessible relative to the city's starred tier, while the kitchen's focus on Armenian tradition gives it a distinct position among Toronto's ethnically diverse restaurant offerings.

The Daughter

Toronto, Canada

On Bayview Avenue in Toronto's Leaside neighbourhood, The Daughter occupies a small dining room that draws on the intersection of Canadian produce and globally trained technique. The kitchen's approach places it within a growing cohort of Toronto restaurants rethinking what local-ingredient cooking looks like when filtered through international methods. Reservations are advisable, particularly on weekends.

TOCA Restaurant

Toronto, Canada

TOCA Restaurant sits inside The Ritz-Carlton Toronto on Wellington Street West, serving Italian-inflected cuisine built around locally sourced Canadian produce. The dining room centres on a glass-walled cheese cave stocked with selections from Prince Edward Island to France, while hand-painted charger plates by resident artist Jacqueline Poirier give the room a detail-driven character rarely found in hotel dining at this tier. A Forbes Travel Guide Four-Star rating anchors its position in Toronto's upper bracket.

Also recognized by Forbes

Trattoria Milano

Toronto, Canada

Trattoria Milano sits on Bloor Street West in Toronto's Yorkville corridor, operating within a city where Italian dining ranges from quick-service trattorias to Michelin-adjacent tasting menus. The address places it in proximity to some of Toronto's most competitive dining real estate, where neighbourhood expectations run high and the Italian category is well-contested by venues like DaNico and Don Alfonso 1890.