Best Restaurants To Dine Out With Friends In Toronto Near Me

4worldlovers: ABURI Restaurants’ first East Coast location is in Toronto’s Harbourfront at Bay and Queen’s Quay. With over 7000 square feet, a raw bar, sushi bar, and large patio, Miku brings contemporary upscale design to the Southern Financial District.

Expanding East, first from Japan, then Vancouver, ABURI Restaurants has built a reputation as a trailblazer for Aburi sushi and innovative Japanese cuisine in North America.

At Miku, we invite you to immerse yourself in a specially-curated menu combining traditional Japanese multi-course dining with modern West Coast culinary techniques, using the finest and freshest ingredients.

Indulge in a multi-sensory culinary experience as you explore nuances of flavours and spectacularly plated dishes from our esteemed culinary team.

Our ethos at Miku is based on Ningenmi, defined as “finding joy in your life by bringing joy to others.”

Sip while you savour. Discover modern, expertly crafted cocktails drawing inspirations from classic flavours and Japanese fare.

Discover our masterfully curated wine and sake offerings, perfectly paired with Aburi cuisine.

4worldlovers: Gift cards for Food Dudes Restaurant Group are available at both SARA and RASA Restaurants.

4worldlovers: The pleasure of enjoying a gathering around the table to share authentic dishes and to be greeted like a friend; conviviality, feasting, celebrating the craft and tradition of cooking, honesty, and spectacular ingredients.

Listening to your preferences, aversions, appetite, and making you a beautiful feast. As the season unfolds, so does our inspiration. Our menus change to showcase the ingredients of the moment - with a strong focus on seafood, vegetables, and wild mushrooms.

Please note we are a no-tipping restaurant, and all bookings are prepaid.

More details on our policies and FAQ via our booking site!


Art of Eating Issue #105 “Wedded to the Kitchen” by the incredible Jim Poris

4worldlovers: FIGO offers Italian inspired cuisine in a stylishly elegant setting. Using the freshest and finest ingredients, FIGO offers a distinctive take on Italian cuisine using contemporary techniques and features such as, house-made ricotta, wood-fired pizzas, and made-from-scratch pastas. At FIGO, our approach is simple; source the best ingredients possible and prepare them in an uncomplicated and modern way.

4worldlovers: PIANO PIANO is the Italian restaurant you always wished was just around the corner.

Sophisticated and fun, PIANO PIANO serves deeply satisfying food that comes in just the right size. The menu features traditional Italian fare that’s been elevated to its most delicious self. If there’s a common thread that runs through PIANO PIANO, it’s a deep-seated soulfulness and sensuality that’s at once warm, welcoming and just plain fun.


The first slow deep bite of from-scratch al dente maccheroni. A satisfying chewy crispy crunch of just thick enough pizza. Rapini, slicked with garlic and grassy olive oil, its sweetness coaxed out with gentle cooking. Fire-licked lamb, as deeply pink as the banquette cushion piping. A generous slather of golden hot polenta, strewn with eight hour ragu. A sticky sweet gelato that tingles ice cold on your tongue. The food of PIANO PIANO is soulfully satisfying, tending to your hunger like a Nonna’s instinctive touch. It’s always just enough, never heavy or precious. Every ingredient is on the plate for a reason, combining to make each dish far greater than the sum of its parts. You leave the table, perfectly full, the world a better place than when you came in, dreaming of the next satisfying mouthful that’s just a visit away.


“How do you make that one great ingredient taste even better?”

It’s a question Victor Barry asks himself over and over again. From the time he was 11 and working in his uncle’s pizzeria, his imagination was captured by the magic of creating food. Victor was born with an Italian soul…

All of our restaurants have been brought to life by working with amazing and talented Toronto-based designers.

Our Harbord Street location was brought to life by designer Tiffany Pratt with assistance from Claire Gilbert.

Our Mount Pleasant, Oakville, and Colborne Street locations, as well as our sister restaurant Piccolo Piano Pizzeria, were designed within a world without limits and boundless imagination by Alison McQuaid of Future Studio.

Our locations are proudly built by our dedicated and amazing friend Ernst Wallner who brings our whimsical interiors to life; a place all of us are proud to call home away from home.

All of our locations feature graffiti rose garden facades design by Alexandar Bacon.

Harbord Street, Mount Pleasant, Oakville, Colborne Street and Piccolo Piano Pizzeria proudly feature original artwork by Victor and Nikki's daughters, Charlotte & Sofie.

It was a dream to own a restaurant like Splendido. I first started at Splendido in 2005, as an assistant pastry chef working under Chef David Lee. In July 2009, I fulfilled my dream of owning the renowned restaurant, at the young age of 26. December 31st, 2015 was our last service and it felt amazing to leave on a high and I am extremely proud of that.

We've created so many memories here and we are looking forward to writing a new chapter at Piano Piano. I love everything about Italian food and we wanted to create a space where people felt like they were dining in my home, after all this is our second home. When people ask me what region of Italy we are cooking, I joke with them...New Jersey. The food of Piano Piano is soulfully satisfying, tending to your hunger like a Nonna's instinctive touch. Every ingredient is on the plate for a reason, combining to make each dish far greater than the sum of its parts. It's "tasty & f*#kn delicious!".

The name Piano Piano comes from "piano piano va lontano", an Italian phrase I love that translates to "slowly slowly we go further". And that's the dream...that if we slow down, take time to enjoy one another, great food, great wine then we all move together further as a family.

Piano Piano is the Italian restaurant you always wished was just around the corner, and now it is.