Boralia - Toronto

Boralia is definitely an amazing restaurant. What you'll get is original, tasty, quality, carefully cooked starter size entrees to be shared, all inspired by the boreal regions. For two, we took 5 meals: Pemican, l'Eclade, wild mushrooms salad as well as smoked arctic char and fish and brewis, the latter two being specials of the day. Each one was amazing. We also each took one of their original cocktails and a shared one desert made of rhubarb, cooked in a few ways.All this for 150$, it was way beyond our expectations. We would definitely go back to taste everything else on the menu...

We highly recommend Boralia for an interesting take on Canadian farm to table. Great service and some really neat menu items. The pigeon pie rocked!

Ate here last week and really enjoyed it although it didn't wow me the way it has obviously wowed others. I think part of my problem is that I just don't really enjoy sharing plates and maybe if you are here as a three or four it might feel better. I also think that from reading some of the reviews and looking at the photos I was expecting too much, so my reservations about the place are all down to me.It's a tiny place with a big high table with barstools at the back for larger parties, tables for two close to the entrance, booths for four further back.We started off with the bread, a baked oyster each and the eggs. Bread was lovely but the butter was super soft so just disappeared into the bread. Oyster was fine and the egg was ok. A fun, quirky start though.The first of the stand out dishes was the parfait. They have changed the menu recently and this dish now comes ready prepared, the parfait is in a shallow dish under the set parsley gel with dabs of the sharp redcurrant sauce, which makes sense for such a small kitchen. It was lovely and very moreish with prefect bread crisps. Next the mussels - another stand out - the flavour is amazing and very unusual. Next came the duck which was served with smashed beet and lovely little duck sausages, another lovely dish. Then the hellfire salad - this was tomato based with a small amount of goats cheese and very good toasted quinoa with tempura green chilli adding the fire. The tomatoes were a bit too soft for me but still a lovely dish. We finished our five sharing plates with the pigeon pie - one of the dishes that has been tweaked as it came as half a whole pie with no extra pigeon on the side - instead just salad leaves. I was a bit disappointed by it having seen the photos on here. Very nice still though. We finished off with the donuts with came with macerated strawberries and curd - for me not a great combination.We clearly enjoyed it as we managed a bottle of very nice Riesling each! Service was excellent all evening. The menu changes have clearly made things a bit easier for the kitchen but I was expecting the pigeon pie to be much better than it was.Would we be back, certainly, it's a fun place and the historic origins to the dishes is very unusual and a nice touch.

This was our first meal in Canada- and this restaurant was the one I wanted to try the most when visiting. I love that they are unabashedly showcasing Canada's bounty. We had the pine needle/shallot mussels, local salad with soft-fried egg, pierogies, elk tenderloin, and venison/foie gras mousse. The flavors were very robust and hearty, and the menu inspired me to get outside my comfort zone and sample Canada. The cocktail list is quite intriguing and I enjoyed a few drinks that showcased liquors I normally don't see such as calvados. Keep pushing the envelope and expanding our minds and palates, Boralia.

Without doubt one of the best meals I've ever had. Lots of lovely tidbits - some specials that day included scallop crudo and some gorgeous delicate salmon. From the menu we had two venison dishes - both great, but the liver and foie gras parfait was ridiculously delicious - the kedgeree whitefish, the duck, and the whole roasted trout.But the L'éclade - mussels smoked with pine needles - was the best bivalve dish I've ever had, period. Delicate, perfectly cooked mussels, with this gorgeous sweet-smokey hue. Stunning. And this from a PEI mussel snob.Nice wine list (lots of not run-of-the-mill choices here, too, ranging from very good Piemontese reds, to Nova Scotia sparkling). Not cheap - worth every cent. Great service, friendly, helpful, unobtrusive.