Canoe
Canadian restaurant · Bay Street Corridor ·
Inventive Canadian cuisine with exceptional city views
Inventive Canadian cuisine with exceptional city views
"With the best view in Toronto—CN Tower to one side, planes landing at City Airport to another, and the skyline sprawling beyond the horizon—the food is just as good as the real estate. The menu is an adventurous, surprising, and just-plain-delicious celebration of flavors and ingredients from across Canada, with foie gras from Quebec, the flakiest fresh Pacific fish, and fine Ontario produce and dairy. Start with either the Ontario burrata with birch-pickled cucumbers and prairie seeds or the Quebec foie gras with rhubarb, pink peppercorn, and sumac meringue; the tea-smoked duck breast with duck-liver mousse, parsnip, and poached Niagara pear is sublime, and service feels just as top-notch—glasses are filled, tables are de-crumbed, and cutlery is replaced so fast you'll hardly even notice." - Todd Plummer
"Since 1995, Canoe has showcased Canadian ingredients from coast to coast. The fancy enterprise calls the 54th floor of the Toronto-Dominion Centre home, offering commanding views of the skyline and high prices to go with them. Executive chef Ron McKinlay traverses the globe for collaborative meals with other chefs, but on Canadian soil, he executes elaborate, hyper-seasonal tasting menus. The Taste Canoe option is an ideal way to explore the Great North through items like supple scallops — tossed with brown butter vinaigrette, aonori, vermouth, crisp apples, and crunchy hazelnuts — or a technically precise rabbit dish featuring an ensemble cast of saddle, filet, loin, heart, kidney, and liver. If you drive: Canoe is pretty well hidden in a finance tower, so your best bet is to get a rideshare to drop you off right in front of the Toronto Dominion Centre building, and then security at the front desk can direct you from there. There’s also an underground PATH walking system you can navigate, but unless you want to feel like a rat in a maze, avoid this at all costs." - Tiffany Leigh
"A high-elevation Toronto restaurant on the 54th floor of the TD Bank Tower where the kitchen riffs on classic sugar pie by adding Newfoundland Screech rum to the filling and presenting it tableside with a warm wintergreen sauce." - Pay Chen
"A 29-year icon, this dining room pairs unbeatable 54th-floor views with fantastic halibut and lamb." - Michael He
"You’ll have to take the elevator up to the 54th floor of the Toronto Dominion Bank tower to reach Canoe, but the food and CN Tower views live up to the journey. When this restaurant first opened in the 1990s, they were one of the first places to really try and define contemporary Canadian cuisine. And while Canadians are still figuring out their culinary identity, dishes like the Ontario lake trout bathed in champagne sauce and aged ribeye with smoked bacon make the absolute most of local ingredients. The chefs are also super accommodating and can prepare pretty much anything (just don’t ask for poutine) to suit your needs, whether you’re vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, or halal." - julia eskins
