My husband and I first visited Opus over a decade ago and although we liked the food a lot, we unfortunately had a bad service experience. Our server's attitude shifted as soon as he found out that we were not ordering a bottle of wine (my husband had requested a couple of wines by the glass), and remained surly throughout the evening. My husband was so put off that he refused to give them another chance, for all this time. I really wanted to try it again, because I loved the decor, ambiance, and food. I finally convinced him to give it another shot a couple of weeks ago and I am so glad that I did! Not only was the food excellent (I had the cod and truffle porridge followed by the salted caramel chocolate tart) and the environment as lovely as I'd remembered, but our server was so friendly, good humoured, and helpful, he completely made up for the past experience. Additionally, there was another gentleman (the manager, I think) who helped us with our coats and saw us out the door at the end of the night and was so warm to us, it sealed the deal - we definitely plan to spread the word and be back! read more

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Had dinner at Opus. Must say I left feeling let down. The good: oysters were awesome, the foie gras, the lamb and the tuna mains. The bad: the tuna and hamichi tartare a flavorless joke for $23. The molten chocolate cake which was dry. Our waiter was dismissive of our constructive and polite feedback. That simply should not happen when spending $400 on dinner for two. Hence, I would not go back. I am food industry professional and I am simply blown away by being dismissed completely not even an acknowledgment. read more

Had a special occasion to splurge on and landed at arguably one of the Top 3 restaurants in the city. When it comes to dining at the very high end, few places do it better than Opus. Hidden off the beaten track of Bloor/Yorkville hustle and bustle, Opus occupies one one of the elegant Victorian houses that dominate the neighbourhood. Inside, the room is elegant and comfortably laid out with lots of plush dark grey furnishings and rich wood accents. The magnum opus (and likely from where its name derives) of this fine restaurant is its encyclopaedic wine list containing everything from the rarest of the rare to the eclectic. All compiled in one large volume too extensive to comb through in detail but full of surprises that jump out as you browse. Opus boasts a 52,000 (yes, not a typo) bottle wine cellar and fortunately, a polite and personable sommelier to steer you right. He possesses a knowledge of wine as exhaustive as his wine list and could probably name and price every bottle in that book having personally curated the massive collection. Never intimidating, he is down to earth and easy to engage. The staff is top notch and deliver flawless service. The food is expertly prepared and free of the pretense of a chef that's trying too hard. I had the lobster 'ceviche' to start and a cut of medium rare tenderloin with a sliver of foie gras and truffled gnocchi. Both were delicious and beautiflly presented. When dining at the high end, you come to expect excellence and consistency and this is what Opus excels at - high degree of quality delivered every single time. You will bet on a return visit if nothing else than to enjoy the rarest of fine wines and all the accoutrements to go with it. read more

Spectacular. Everything splendid. World class, small French-style plates. Had the ravioli w/ Swiss chard. Brilliant. Great spot all-around.

I have been to OPUS about 4-5 times now for dinner. Their wine list is amazing, and the cellar downstairs is just beautiful. I beleive they are one of the restaurants in the world that has such an extensive wine list--and that's impressive. Please try the chateauneuf du pape......incredible. The food: the steak tartare is good, the salads a bit bland . The gnocchi is GREAT..very filling though so watch out! The meat mains have been good, but i would not say the MOST memorable plates. Make sure to get the creme brulee!! The bar at the front as soon as you walk in gives the place a cool yet very classy atmosphere. The martinis are very good, and I would suggest dropping by for a drink even if you are not going to have a meal. read more

I haven't been to a ton of fine dining restaurants, but this is one of the best I've been to. The location is very quaint, situated on a residential side street, the place inside is elegant and cozy, and the wait staff is as professional and courteous as it gets. The somelier had a lot of recommendations for ordering wine. The wine list was the size of the phone book. All that said, I was not paying as this was a company dinner, so it would be hard to give an objective view on a free meal. The portions were on the smaller side as you would expect, but after several courses, including dessert and several glasses of wine, I was stuffed. For the entree, I had a deer steak, which was much more tender and not as gamey as you might think. I had no expectations as to what contemporary Canadian might entail, and I still couldn't tell you what the big differences are, but all I can say is that if you want a special dining experience, this is a great place. I would say everything I consumed, app, entree, wine and dessert must have totaled something like $150, to give you an idea of the price range. It looked like there was an outdoor area in back, but I couldn't say for sure, as it was dark out. read more

You know those restaurants where you have something so good you wish you were a dog and could just roll around in it?? Or you start talking about it and you have to pause so you can get the slobber under control? I know this isn't polite but.... (roll roll - drool drool - slobber!) The wine list is obscene. I was lucky enough to go with a wine lover who was prepared to do it justice. The sommeliers are really in charge here - but friendly and not too pretentious. Three bottles and several hours later, I'm pretty sure this place deserves its highest Wine Spectator Award several years in a row! Although the wine tends to take center stage here, the dining is excellent. Our waiter was very gracious and, as expected, happy to provide recommendations. Most of our dishes were top notch. I will outright disagree with the previous reviewer who thought the mushroom appetizer was just ok - it looks humble on the menu, but was far more than the sum of its parts! I have no idea how such a simple dish can be so rich, but it might have been my favorite of the night. The next best - probably equal - was the caribou loin, which was perfectly cooked and so tender and delicious it was unreal. Even the Israeli cous cous underneath was amazing. I personally ordered the pepper-crusted tuna, another signature dish, but compared to the caribou it wasn't up to par. It was served on a rice cake that was sticky, with a tough crust that was a major disappointment. However, all was well again with desert - a pear tarte paired with a pear-infused liquor on the side, a rec from the waiter. It was perfect, delicious, and an amazing end to a great meal. Best of all, the sommeliers made us feel so welcome that my wine-lovin' guest went home with an older copy of their wine list - and the staff followed us out the door to offer it to him! Yes, we blew a ton of money on this meal - about 200$ apiece. Was it worth it? Uh huh. Yes, definitely. If you have an interest in wine, especially, this place can't be missed! We'll be looking for special occasions to return. read more

Amazing restaurant opened by two brothers almost 20 years ago after their experiences at other high end Toronto locations (Cibo and Prego). The wine list is unmatched in the city and most likely in the entire country. From Jackson Triggs to vintage Petrus. The menu is great, while constantly changes. The steak is a constant and is always of the highest quality. Well informed staff, many of who have been their since the opening. read more

Superb wine list, intimate service and tasty food. More of an italian and french list with some hard to find gems. More of a formal setting, so be prepared to dress up for your special occasion. read more

This is from a while ago....I splurged and treated myself to dinner at Opus. The dress code is 'dressy' so I was happy that maitre de didn't give me any attitude for looking like I just took a hike. I had the sauté of mushrooms with garlic, herbs and tomato. It was pretty good but I don't know if it was worth the $19CAD...they have a nice vino list from their cellar...good set of Napa of cabs. I'd come back, and I'll not wear sandals next time. read more

Simply put my favorite resturant anywhere. Service and food is immpeciable. It never dissapoints. I've been maybe 10 times and everything I've tried has been perfect. The foie gras is the only thing that never changes and is out of this world. read more

Really great restaurant, their foie gras is extremely delicious, it literally melts in your mouth. We have a baby with us to celebrate my birthday and the owner and server was welcoming and accommodating for us giving us a nice quiet corner to dine in. Their service was great and food was delicious! Would definitely recommend and go again. read more

Great place. They greet you and make you feel like a friend from the minute you walk in. Great menu turnover so always something new to try. Terrific wine list. Check out the classic Richebourgs in the wine cellar read more

If ever there was a restaurant that is deserving of winning a James Beard Award AND Michelin star multiple times, Opus would be that restaurant for you. From the moment you walk into the establishment there is a warmth that is extends further by the owners, Mario and Tony, who are genuinely happy to see you. The food is exquisitely orchestrated playing a symphony to your palate in flavor. You will be taken care of with precision service by experienced staff. Each dinner has always exceeded our expectations. We are looking for excuses just to come back and host an evening dinner event there. read more

Opus is by far my favorite restaurant in Toronto. The customer service is unmatched, and their wine list is fantastic. Their chef Jason is magical, and makes me wish I wasn't allergic to seafood. The foie gras is spectacular. I strongly recommend this place to anyone who cares about quality and understated elegance as opposed to flash. read more

One of Toronto's best, fine dining, Italian restaurants. A classic setting. Wide-ranging menu, and exceptional wine list. Not inexpensive ($250/person). read more

Excellent food, beautifully presented. It is very expensive for what it is, but it's been there for 20 years so they obviously know what they are doing. Wine list is extensive. A nice experience although my wife thought it too snooty. read more

Way overpriced for the way we were treated. If you are not a regular, forget it. Doesn't matter what you order and how much you spend, if the owner didn't know you, you are treated like a peasant. We walked into the restaurant and there was the owner and several waiters who saw us, nobody greeted us. We stood there while these waiters and the asshole owner walked past us several times until I made a comment aloud. Then one waiter said hello and brought us to our seat. The owner only goes around to the tables that he knows the clients by their name and treats them like royalty. But for us, he plopped down our glasses without a word or even looking at us. I said thank you, and he walked off without a response. By the way, the tuna is only 4 tiny pieces at $46 a plate. We ordered a bottle of wine, two entrees, and two desserts, and we had to go get food elsewhere. I was still hungry! I hated the service from the owner, and overpriced food that did not fill me, no, I am not coming back! read more

Thanks to Yelp we found this little place. I rely on Yelp rating and once again it didn't disappoint . Food was great. Service was excellent. Ambience was enjoyable. I ordered beef tartare to start which is "rare" for me. It was absolutely wonderful! Portion was just right. I forgot that I was eating raw meat. For the main I had their cod dish. For typically bland fish they made it work in terms of taste and texture. Delicious! The wine they paired was very yummy as well. It's hard to pick restaurants with excess here in Toronto but this one is a repeat. read more

Lovely.... simply lovely. This is an elegant experience with gorgeous and very enjoyable food. Beautiful atmosphere with spot-on service. The food is visually stunning, and follows through in taste. Truly a memorable experience. read more

The service and food exceed 5 stars! I had the sweet corn bisque and tuna tartare. The sweet corn bisque was just so flavourful with the bit of uni flavour (I'm an uni fanatic). And the tuna was so fresh. I just had two appetizers and they didn't push for more sales, which I find classy. I hate going to restaurants that are so desperately trying to increase the bill. read more

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Amazing food, wonderful service. My girlfriend and I had our first date here. They sure knew how to make it a special experience!

Wonderful food, great wine list and terrific service. Our waiter kept us in stitches while providing excellent recommendations from the menu. I really hate people who take pictures of the food to post online, but the presentations were just beautiful and the Flavors just as good. Our favorite in Toronto. read more

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I love this place, I first came in 1997 and still as good or better, and the owners are always there to make sure you have a good experience. I could eat the foie grass all day. read more

The great service started the moment i walked in the door bone weary and probably not dressed as I should have been for what looked like ( and was) an elegant restaurant. My attire was no deterrent to the lovely girl behind the bar in welcoming me. in fact the entire experience from the owner's knowledge of wines; the patrons with whom I spent the evening; (perhaps it began with our shared outrage over Canada's loss to the US in the Olympic soccer,) but it felt like I was among old friends. The wine was every bit as good as the man sitting next to me promised; the oysters were superb- icy, briny, delicious and the lamb was cooked exactly as I had ordered. I must confess I picked up the bones and nibbled the little crusts of fat my knife could not cut off. Bravo!! read more

Yo, Mario... "Mr. Curly" here. Nothing but a 5'er would suffice. Your chef and company are incredibly inventive. The supportive, background, subtle favors of each individual plating component are a wonderful experience - each comes through on it's own, at it's own time. I was amazed, again and again. Needless to say, the wine listing is nearly matchless - clearly, some smart thought went into it. Many thanks... bo read more

Small and cozy. Very friendly staff and attentive. We had steak and it was very good - had some red wine which someone in our party chose...don't know what it was (some Barrolo I think) and it was fantastic. Price is high as expected. Have been a couple times and is good for a celebration or a nice night out. read more

Amazing restaurant, food, service, environment is the absolute best in Toronto. Haven't had a bad experience ever. I would say they have the best food in Toronto and maybe even the best food in all of Canada. read more

Amazing service&food. We went to that restaurant as a splurge dinner with 6people this Feb, even though on the weekend night our waiter considerably took care of and food was served everyone at same time. I believe the restaurant hire a very experienced waiter so that they know what/how to entertain customer well. Also my husband and I came early for our reservation so we sat at the bar for a drink. This lady at the bar asked what would we like to order. We don't drink anything particular cocktail so often so when I was thinking she offered something special that she can originally make for us. what a hospitality! It was ended up REALLY expensive but it was worth it. Like every once a while special night out with someone sp. They have private parking lot as well. read more

I went there for some sweet wine or dessert after a meat-heavy dinner with a couple of friends. We were traveling from the U.S. on vacation and were looking forward to a good sweet wine such as a late-harvest Riesling or Canadian ice wine to celebrate our last day in Canada. There was a Riesling Alsace Cuvée Ste. Catherine 2001 for $22.50 per glass that I ordered under the recommendation of the waitress/sommelier that it was a "very sweet" wine from France. I specifically asked her about the wine because I was not familiar with Ste. Catherine. I asked her again if it was sweet because sweet Rieslings from Alsace are rare except the late harvests. It was definitely not a sweet wine. I explained this to the waitress and asked if she had tasted the wine. She insisted that she had and she stuck to her claim that is was very sweet. She was, in fact, offended by my question about whether she had tasted the wine. I have never gone to such a high-end wine bar with such an unprofessional waitress who argues with the customer without even tasting the wine to see if maybe something was wrong with it. Considering that they are charging $20+ for a bottle of wine that costs around $45-50 retail, it is even more ridiculous. And even if I were wrong, I would expect a little more deference because wine tasting is generally a subjective evaluation. Do not be enticed by their impressive wine list (some of their wines run in the thousands of dollars per bottle). They would probably not admit it even if one of their $10,000+ bottles of Pomerol or Romanee-Conti were corked. And, finally, to add insult to injury, they actually charged us for the $22.50 glass of alleged sweet wine. Wine Spectator and other sources concur that the wine is "off-dry," a far cry from "very sweet." read more

I have a lot of experience in fine dining, and although the food was spectacular, the service was not. My husband and I were on the younger side of the clientele that evening, and I guess that meant to them that somehow we deserved lesser service. We weren't even told the specials, and were served lesser glasses of wine with a lot of sediment. We left after the main, deciding not to get dessert. Very disappointing. Fine dining for me is about the excellent service as well as the food, and they just didn't do it. We left feeling rather insulted. read more

My wife and I shared the beef tartare which was decent but far from the best I have had (The Chase). I had the venison and my wife had the veal tenderloin. Both were cooked to perfection and had great flavor. The negative was the service and atmosphere. It began with the waiter giving a scowl when I did not order a wine priced over $100 and thereafter the service was perfunctory. Although the restaurant was not busy the owner was AWOL and was seen only on arriving and on leaving. The whole evening was cold and sterile. I guess if you are a regular you get good service but for an occasional customer they could not have cared less. read more

Ordered the salmon special with shaved truffle--there was no truffle. The owner admitted that they messed up, but his solution was to offer us a drink or a dessert with a candle in it because it was my birthday. We payed the $450 bill (included a bottle of wine) with a 20% tip (because it wasn't the waiter's fault), but when I spoke to the owner afterwards I told him that the appropriate adjustment would have been to take the item off of our bill. He did offer to do that, but I told him that it wasn't about the money and I just wanted to let him know that he should have automatically made the correction at the time that he admitted their mistake. Don't get me wrong, everything else was delicious, really! But we would have loved to have gone back there and now just feel like we can't endorse them. read more

A favorite for excellent service, food and atmosphere. Award winning wine list. Perfectly elegant and professional in every way.

My sister and I had dinner at Opus last month while visiting family in Toronto. I had not been there in 8 years and it is still just as wonderful as ever. Our waiter was Bob, who took great care of us and made excellent suggestions for our dinner. We enjoyed glasses of Prosecco followed by a delicious Tuna Ceviche appetizer with fresh avocado on it. Since I live in California, I'm pretty picky about fresh tuna but I have to say this was as fresh as it gets and the avocado was superb! Perfectly balanced with just the right amount of acid. I had a simple yet elegant entree of Seared Halibut with jumbo shrimp, polenta and fiddleheads. My sister ordered the lamb and it was cooked to perfection. She did not care for the chick pea sticks that were underneath the lamb (they didn't have much flavor) but enjoyed everything else. We were then surprised with a gorgeous birthday dessert platter with two great desserts which were stunningly beautiful. We had such a good time dining at Opus. I highly recommend it to anyone visiting Yorkville (Toronto). It's a perfect restaurant for an intimate dinner, or, a special celebration. read more

Attentive staff, great wine, but VERY mediocre food. We had the foie gras for appetizer which was good. And for main, we had the seared fish (special dish of the night, forgot which kind of fish) and Venison (medium rare), and they were just horrible. We normally love fish and venison but the fish was extremely fishy and had no taste to it. The venison tasted very gamie, plain, and was grilled poorly. The portion was tiny to begin with, and we could only eat half of the meat since it was so poorly done. I'm not sure how can this level of food live up to the standard this restaurant tries to deliver. If one dish was subpar I can assume it's just a bad day or bad luck. But when both entrées were horrible, and one of them was even a "special of the day" I just don't get it... maybe they lack constructive feedback, I'm not sure what was going on but we surely will not be returning... it was a disappointing tasting experience. read more

What a wonderful dining experience. My friends were running late so I sat and had a glass of wine. The list was extensive so I just asked for what the attentive bartender would recommend. He asked me a few questions and gave me a wonderful, dry, full glass of chardonnay. My party arrived and we were escorted in the beautiful dining room. I loved the big comfortable chairs and the round table seemed to make talking easier. Our waiter was so wonderful and experienced. He answered all our questions, was attentive without being over bearing and quite lovely. I had the wild boar special which I was trying for the first time. I didn't love it because of personal preference but presented and prepared beautifully. I wish I had the lobster as my friend did - she loved it! I had the lobster bisque to start and probably could have stopped there. It was so creamy without being too rich and wonderful chunks of lobster. This was a real treat. read more

We had the pleasure of attending a wedding at this location. The food, service and setting truly exceptional. Thanks to the owner and staff for making the occasion truly memorable!! We look forward to returning to try more menu items!! I can't give a better recommendation. read more