Toronto Restaurants

  1. Beer Bistro

    Packed to the gills with city lunchers during the day and boozy, flush-faced suits after dark, this stylish bistro offers sensational sandwiches, salads, meat and seafood dishes, each with a suggested beer pairing. Descriptions of the alcoholic experience include 'spicy,' 'bold,' 'robust' and 'sociable.' Try the grilled lamb loin niçoise with a pint of 'appetizing' Petrus Oud Bruin (around C$22 ). Avoid the side patio unless it's balmy beer weather.

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  2. Pop Bistro

    This exquisitely designed, narrow bistro just east of the Don River is a shining light of class on an otherwise uninspiring strip of Queen St E. A simple menu of half a dozen appetizers and as many mains is balanced and well conceived, embracing the likes of beef and chevre salad with pork shallot reduction (around C$10 ) and lamb meatloaf with blue cheese and sweet potato (around C$17 ). Sunday brunch features eggs any which way but loose.

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