The Year in Review: Best Spots to Eat At

This is the first of the year-in-review theme.

These are what I'd consider to be my top 5.


5. The Foxley Bistro. I like this place a lot. The food is good. The atmosphere is good. What's not so good, is the wait to get a table if you come between 7:00 and 9:00. The menu is reasonably priced and tapas style. Dinner for two here can easily be $80 with a few beers.

Rating: 2 Bunnies

4. Tati If you asked be at the beginning of the year whether Tati would've made my top 5, I'd probably say no. But the place has grown on me as well as showing some improvements on some things that bugged me on my early visits to the place. Bistro food for the most part, with some other things mixed in at a decent price point. Nice place for dinner for 2 or a group. A younger crowd for the most part with good music and a couple of nice still life photographs (i like the one of the putty knifes especially). The wines are surprisingly good for the price points they offer them at. Not too shabby.

Rating: 1 Bunny

3. Teroni. I really like this place -- the courhouse one. The food is simple and good. The place is nice looking in a non-Toronto sort of way. I don't think you could go wrong here.

Rating: 1 Bunny

2. Delux. A new French Bistro on Ossington. I've been there quite a few times. So I know enough about it to review it, just haven't found the time to collect my thoughts. This a low key spot where minimalist is the operative word -- from the layout of the place to the menu and the wine list. The menu is simple and well curated, but solid. They are big on the characturie, and they might do most of it on sight (i'll have to ask about the sausage next time i go). Even the deserts are good. And you get all of this at a reasonable price. Hopefully, the economic downturn doesn't hurt this place.

Rating: Unrated -- no review yet

1. Boba Well this is the second time a number #1 pick on my year in review has gone out of business. It's a shame. Of all the Yorkville high end places I've been too this is easily the best. They took things like the food and the service seriously. But I guess the owners decided to move or try something different. Oh well ...

Rating: 2 Bunnies

Notes on the Bunny Rating System:

• 0 or no Bunnies, it's a waste of time; don't go.
• 1 Bunny, the place is worth checking out.
• 2 Bunnies, you should go out of your way to check out the place; the food is really good and the place is cool.
• 3 Bunnies, you absolutely have to go there; the food is exceptional and the place is really cool