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Reviewed by Toronto Life
  • 110 Chestnut St. (at Dundas St. W.), Metropolitan Hotel View on map »
  • 416-599-8000
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Editorial Review

Everything befitting an elegant hotel restaurant is here: grand decor (orchids on the tables, dramatic paintings), a hushed yet pleasant atmosphere (with hovering wait staff) and a confident, well-executed menu offering familiar dishes with few hints of innovation. For example, peach-scented shrimp, scallops and tuna come with a passion fruit vinaigrette and maple-smoked pork rib-eye. Perfectly cooked chicken breast and thigh are enlivened with a sticky-sweet bourbon gravy and comforting sweet potato–parsnip mash. In desserts, ...

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