Toronto’s Alo tops 2017 Canada’s 100 Best Restaurants list
Toronto’s Alo has topped the 2017 Canada’s 100 Best Restaurants list while Vancouver eatery Kissa Tanto has been named the country’s best new restaurant.
Alo, which launched in 2015 with fine-dining tasting menus, made the jump from the seventh spot on last year’s list.
It’s the second time in recent months that chef Joel Watanabe’s Kissa Tanto, which features a blend of Italian and Japanese cuisines, has been called the hottest new restaurant in Canada. In the fall, enRoute magazine put Kissa Tanto — which means House of Plenty — atop its list of best new restaurants, while Alo placed second.
The annual list of top restaurants is determined by an 82-member panel of judges and printed in the Canada’s 100 Best Restaurants magazine. Other awards were also handed out by the publication on Tuesday night, including a lifetime achievement honour for Susur Lee.