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Best Wine List Restaurants in Toronto 2026
Restaurant cellars & sommelier programs · Toronto · 7 lists ranked · Updated June 2026
Compiled by the Restaurants for Kings editorial team · Published June 19, 2026 · Updated June 21, 2026 · Reviewed by Fredrik Filipsson, Editor-in-Chief · How we rank · Corrections
The deepest wine list in the Toronto region is not downtown at all but in Etobicoke, where Via Allegro has held a Wine Spectator Grand Award every year since 2003. Behind it sits a tight scene of serious cellars: Patrick Kriss's award-winning floor at Alo, a 4,900-bottle Italian room above the harbour, and the best Canadian-wine program in the country fifty-four storeys up. Here is who each table suits, what the list does well, and how to book it. Seven, ranked on depth, the sommelier program and value rather than trophy labels alone.
1.Via Allegro Ristorante
A Wine Spectator Grand Award cellar since 2003, thousands of labels deep across Piedmont, Tuscany and Bordeaux. Book it for the bottle, not the room.
Roughly 5,800 labels sit on the Via Allegro list. The Magnotta-family Italian room at 1750 The Queensway in Etobicoke has held the Wine Spectator Grand Award every year since 2003, one of fewer than a hundred restaurants worldwide to do so. The cellar runs deep through Tuscany, Piedmont, Bordeaux, Burgundy, the Northern Rhone and Port, with verticals you will not find downtown. Claudio Aprile heads the kitchen and chef Marco Zandona cooks a continental Italian menu built for those bottles, with a wine pairing around CA$98 a person. It suits a collector or a table chasing a specific older vintage, and it is worth the drive west. Reserve ahead and tell the floor what you are hunting.
Call ahead with the vintage you want; the cellar runs to thousands of labels.
2.Alo
Patrick Kriss's one-star room with a Burgundy-led list and an award-winning floor. Take the pairing and let the sommelier lead.
Christopher Sealy was named Toronto's Michelin Sommelier of the Year in 2022, and he runs the floor at Alo. Patrick Kriss's tasting-menu room above Queen and Spadina holds one Michelin star, kept four years running since 2022, and its wine program is among the most serious in the country. The list leans Burgundy and Champagne, with the depth to pour grower bottles by the glass against the blind degustation. The six-course menu runs CA$185, with a wine pairing around CA$130. The room closed early in 2026 for a refit and reopened in March with adjoining spaces sharing the menu. It suits a couple who want a landmark dinner and a floor that reads the table.
Take the pairing and tell Sealy's floor a budget and a region.
3.Don Alfonso 1890
A one-star Amalfi room on the 38th floor with a 4,900-bottle cellar. Reserve for Italian depth and a view.
The cellar at Don Alfonso 1890 runs to about 4,900 bottles. The Toronto outpost of the Iaccarino family's Amalfi Coast restaurant sits on the 38th floor of the Westin Harbour Castle on the waterfront, with one Michelin star held since 2024. Wine director Julie Garton's list is strongest in Piedmont, Tuscany, Burgundy, Bordeaux and Champagne, with real concentration above CA$100 a bottle. The southern Italian tasting menu starts around CA$150, with a pairing near CA$100. It suits a celebration that wants Italian fine dining, a deep cellar and the harbour below. Reserve a week or two ahead and ask the floor for a regional match.
Book the harbour room; ask wine director Julie Garton for a Piedmont match.
4.Canoe
The country's best Canadian-wine program, 54 floors up. Come for Ontario and BC bottles beside game cooking.
Few restaurants take Canadian wine as seriously as Canoe does. On the 54th floor of the TD Bank Tower at 66 Wellington West, it has cooked a regional Canadian menu for more than twenty-five years under chef John Horne. Senior sommelier Billy Woon keeps one of the deepest Ontario, British Columbia and Nova Scotia lists anywhere, alongside old-world range and a rare-bottle program called Cellar 54. Glasses run roughly CA$17 to 19, with bottles from the high twenties up. It suits a business table or a visitor who wants to drink the best of Canada with the skyline below. Reserve ahead and ask Woon for a Niagara or Okanagan flight.
Ask senior sommelier Billy Woon for a Canadian flight from Cellar 54.
5.The Chase
A penthouse seafood room with a 300-strong list and marquee verticals. Book it for a glamorous night and a serious bottle.
The halibut with brown-butter tartar sauce is the dish to build a bottle around. The Chase sits in the penthouse of the 1833 Dineen Building at 10 Temperance Street, a Ralph Lauren-designed room open since 2014 under chef Michael Steh and owner Steven Salm. Sommelier Anton Potvin keeps a list of about three hundred selections with a strong by-the-glass program and marquee bottles that top out at a CA$4,000 Pingus. The cooking is seafood-forward Canadian. It suits a celebration that wants the room as much as the wine, with the range to find a great glass or a landmark bottle. Reserve ahead and name a budget.
Name a budget to sommelier Anton Potvin and let the floor pour up to it.
6.Cafe Boulud
Daniel Boulud's Yorkville brasserie with a French-rooted list and real Ontario depth. Reserve for the tasting and a pairing.
Five courses run CA$160 at Cafe Boulud, or CA$270 with the pairing. Daniel Boulud's brasserie in the Four Seasons in Yorkville cooks Lyonnaise-rooted French under chef William Kresky, with head sommelier Anna Jarosz on the floor. The list is built on French appellations but carries a genuine Ontario section alongside, a balanced, sommelier-led program rather than a trophy cellar. It suits a polished dinner in Yorkville where the pairing does the work and you do not have to think about the bottle. Reserve ahead and take the pairing if the tasting menu is the plan.
Take the five-course pairing; ask head sommelier Anna Jarosz to lean Ontario.
7.Buca Yorkville
An all-Italian list past 250 labels with a deep grappa program. Settle in for Barolo beside house pasta.
More than 250 Italian labels fill the Buca Yorkville list. Rob Gentile's room at 53 Scollard Street, reached through the Four Seasons courtyard, pours an all-Italian selection built by Luli Lavdari, strong in Barolo and Barbaresco with a deep grappa range to close. The kitchen runs seafood-focused Italian, from crudo to house pasta and nduja pizza. It suits a table that wants to drink Italian all night beside the food it was made for. Reserve ahead and ask the floor for a Piedmont red with the pasta. The original Buca on King Street West has closed, so the Yorkville room is the one to book.
Ask for a Barolo with the pasta; the list is all Italian, past 250 labels.
Not for a serious wine night
Great room, wrong list
Quetzal. The one-star wood-fire room is one of the best tables in the city, but its drinks list is built on agave, mezcal and tequila rather than a deep cellar. Go for the fire and the cocktails, and keep your wine night for Quetzal's neighbours on this list.
Aburi Hana and Sushi Masaki Saito. Both are exceptional, but their counters are sake-led and the wine is a supporting act. Drink sake at Aburi Hana or Sushi Masaki Saito, and save the bottle for the rooms above.
How to drink well in Toronto
Name a region and a number and let the floor work inside it; at Via Allegro, Alo and Don Alfonso that conversation reliably turns up a better, often older bottle than the label you would have reached for, and all three are deep enough to pull verticals on request. Book the destination rooms a week or two ahead through their own sites, where the best weekend tables go first.
For Canadian wine, Canoe is the city's reference, with Billy Woon happy to range across Niagara, the Okanagan and Nova Scotia. If Italian is driving the night, Buca Yorkville has the all-Italian list and the grappa to close it. And wherever you go, if you are celebrating, say so when you book so the room can make a night of it.
Frequently asked
Which Toronto restaurant has the best wine list?
Via Allegro in Etobicoke holds our top spot. It has carried a Wine Spectator Grand Award every year since 2003, with a cellar of roughly 5,800 labels running deep through Tuscany, Piedmont, Bordeaux, Burgundy and the Northern Rhone. It is the one room in the region with the verticals and the age to satisfy a collector, and the continental Italian kitchen is built around those bottles. Reserve ahead and tell the floor the vintage you are chasing.
Which Toronto restaurant has the best sommelier?
Christopher Sealy at Alo, named Toronto's Michelin Sommelier of the Year in 2022, runs the most decorated floor in the city alongside Patrick Kriss's one-star tasting menu. For Canadian wine specifically, senior sommelier Billy Woon at Canoe is the reference, with a rare-bottle program called Cellar 54. At either, tell the floor what you want to spend and let them lead the night.
Where can I drink Canadian wine in Toronto?
Canoe, on the 54th floor of the TD Bank Tower, keeps the deepest Ontario, British Columbia and Nova Scotia list in the country, with senior sommelier Billy Woon able to pour a Niagara or Okanagan flight against the regional Canadian menu. Cafe Boulud in Yorkville also carries a genuine Ontario section beside its French appellations. Both are the places to taste how far Canadian wine has come.
How much is a good bottle at Toronto restaurants?
Plan on roughly CA$70 to 150 for a genuinely good bottle at most of these rooms, with the ceiling far higher at Via Allegro, Don Alfonso 1890 and The Chase, whose list tops out at a CA$4,000 Pingus. Cafe Boulud and Buca Yorkville are the more value-minded picks. The smart move everywhere is to set a number with the floor and let them find the interesting bottle inside it.
Do these Toronto wine restaurants need reservations?
Yes for all of them, and well ahead for the destination rooms. Alo, Don Alfonso 1890 and The Chase release tables in advance and the best weekend slots go first, so book one to two weeks out. Via Allegro is worth a call ahead so the floor can have a rare bottle ready. Canoe, Cafe Boulud and Buca Yorkville are a little easier but still worth reserving.
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