London

IVANOPOBLANO is a small owner-run Organic Mexican restaurant on Wharncliffe Road South, with Ivano Santana-Barnes in the kitchen and Christopher Santana-Barnes up front. Order around cheese-grilled Tacos, Tortivano, Mole Enchiladas, scratch sauces, organic ingredients, and a walk-in heritage-house room.

Hunter & Co. is a downtown London small-plates room built around cocktails, oysters, and a menu that keeps familiar indulgence and global detours in the same night. The current draw is the way Hunter Fried Chicken, bone marrow, crudo, and daily features give a planned evening multiple useful entry points.

Owner-operated French bistro in downtown London with current official-menu anchors, wine-list depth, and a long-running David Chapman story that still shapes the room.

Plant Matter Kitchen is a fully plant-based Wortley Village restaurant built around from-scratch vegan comfort food, current lunch, dinner, brunch, and beverage menus, and a local-organic identity that still leaves room for pot pie, flatbread, brunch, cocktails, and group dining.

Pub Milos is a downtown London craft-beer pub where Milos Kral's Ontario-focused beer cellar meets a current European pub menu, weekly house promos, and a conversation-first room.

An East London neighbourhood restaurant and bar with steakhouse anchors, international comfort dishes, live-music programming and a weekend breakfast buffet.

A long-running downtown London breakfast-and-lunch diner where all-day eggs, deli sandwiches, and comfort sides do the heavy lifting.

Dolcetto is a modern Italian risto on Colonel Talbot Road with a large patio, house-named pasta, a wide pizza board, lunch features, cocktails, takeout meals, dietary menus, and an Italian wine shop. The strongest order path runs through Fettuccine Dolcetto, Pappardelle, and Marie Bianca.

Idlewyld Inn & Spa is a polished London occasion room inside an 1878 Victorian mansion, with a current menu built around lamb rack, black cod, Digby scallops, seafood linguini, Sunday prix fixe brunch, and monthly afternoon tea.

Creative thin-crust pizza in downtown London built for plant-based, gluten-free, lactose-free, vegetarian, and omnivore diners at the same table.

Five87 is a London modern-bistro room with a wide menu: lobster dip, cilantro-lime Peruvian Chicken, a house burger, falafel wraps, lobster ravioli, wine, cocktails, and brunch. It works best for diners who want one room that can handle lunch, date night, or a fuller dinner.

Garlic's of London is a Richmond Row farm-to-table fixture where garlic is a real menu language: black garlic fettuccine, a slow roasted garlic bulb, garlic bisque, local beer and weekly pasta, date, pizza and burger offers give the polished downtown room practical repeat-visit hooks.