Kaytoo Restaurant & Bar

The plate that explains Kaytoo is one of the first to reach the table: potato and three-cheese perogies under crisped bacon, sweet onion, and a spoon of sour cream. They have been the resort favourite at this address for more than twenty years, popular enough that the kitchen gave them their own night — All-You-Can-Eat Perogie Tuesday, when the signature order stops being a starter and becomes the whole table's project. Kaytoo sits in the middle of Blue Mountain Village, steps from the water, and the perogies set the register for everything around them: unfussy Canadian comfort cooking aimed at people who have spent the day on the hill or the trails and want something generous when they come back in.

From there the menu spreads wide, and on purpose. The Kaytoo Burger is a five-ounce smashed sirloin on a garlic-butter-brushed brioche bun with the classic garnish and fries; the Kaytoo Kolossal is the same idea scaled up for a bigger appetite. The Smoked Meat Reuben stacks Montreal smoked meat on rye with Russian sauce, sauerkraut, and Swiss, and the kitchen will push it into poutine territory if the table is committed. An order of Shwingggs lands first for sharing. Past that pub core the list keeps reaching — butter chicken, Cajun jambalaya, fettuccine alle vongole, grilled salmon, fish and chips, a pulled-pork sammy, the Hot'n Honey Chicken Crunch, a Canadian Club wrap, calamari and bruschetta to open. It reads less like one cuisine than a whole mountain's worth of cravings set down on a single page.