Best Restaurants

OUR PANEL FOR THE 2025 LIST FEATURED an all-time high of 160 voting judges — a balanced mix of informed culinary enthusiasts, food writers and critics, chefs, restaurateurs and other food-service professionals. Their number in each province and region is proportional to its population. Each judge is asked to submit a list of their top 10 restaurant experiences of the previous year, ranking them with consideration to service, décor, depth of the cellar and — above all else — food quality. Points are assigned to restaurants for each placement on a ballot and are heavily weighted for higher finishes. Broad judge support will promote a restaurant onto the top 100 list. But a restaurant requires passionate endorsement — expressed as first-, second- and third-place rankings on individual ballots — to earn a spot in the list’s upper echelons. We believe that the 2025 list is an accurate measure of which restaurants excelled in 2024, which makes them great dining choices for today. C100B congratulates all of these restaurants for their exceptional work. And we look forward to visiting again very soon.

Jordan Station

No. 1 Restaurant Pearl Morissette

From its perch on the top floor of an agrarian-meets-contemporary-Scandi barn, Restaurant Pearl Morissette has elevated Ontario wine-country cuisine to a level on par with the greatest wine regions of the world. Its 17-hectare farm in Niagara is a culinary playground for Ontario-reared chefs Daniel Hadida and Eric Robertson, who — while working at game-changing kitchens in Paris (Le Châteaubriand, Septime) and rural Belgium (In de Wulf) — collectively realized that to cook the best, they’d need to grow the best.