Labora - Toronto

Easily the best seafood options in Toronto! It was our first restaurant dine-in during the whole 6 months due to the pandemic and the experience nothing but pleasant. Their safety and health protocol definitely makes us feel comfortable. Moving on the menus, our server of the night recommend us of some of their special menus and we picked squid paella with hot calamari. It was out of this world! Their calamari sizes are huge and when you dipped it in the squid ink sauce, it feels like 2020 never existed at all. The server did mentioned beforehand for paella dish must be ordered with a minimum of two due to their serving rules. It was superb! Rice with octopus, prawns and artichoke blends perfectly with the herbs in the dish. Octopus very tender and not chewy, as well as the rice was cooked to perfection. This restaurant ambience really puts your mood to chat and eat with your friends, spouse or family. Definitely will come again (and again! .

I need more photos, better photos because Labora is beyond wonderful. The most incredible vibe, loads of different seating areas with chefs bar, raw bar, people watching through the front window, banquettes and a sweet new private dining room. The Spanish food is made with love by Chef Rob Bragagnolo and his amazing team. Do not miss the cool Vermut list, wine list and cocktails. Simply go here, eat here and go again. Please follow @joannasable on instagram for more food fun. Spoiler Alert meet @robbragagnolo newest darling @laborarestaurant on Queen West West. It’s incredible! Let’s start with the patio, it’s big roomy, stunning and on the side away from traffic. Next, service, above and beyond in a casual boite that thinks it’s fine dining. Wine list is creative and the drinks oh so well balanced and pretty. But, we came here to eat and we ate brilliantly. Chef Bragnolo’s food has been some of the top eats in Toronto for a very long time and his newest is no different. Presentation is beautiful and flavours are balanced yet powerful. We started with their take on Pan con Tomate with hot bread straight out of the grill, without a doubt my favourite dish looked incredibly simple yet it was text book perfect. Lovely balls of various tomatoes all perfectly peeled in a rich luscious gazpacho with a drizzle of great olive oil. Now, I am not a rice girl but I had 3 helping of the smoky charred octopus rice. The chicken was impossibly moist with the zing of chili and the nuttiness of toasted smashed almonds. You think the humble potato would be humble but no, they melted in my mouth and I adored the creamy dunk. @ssifishco with chorizo and spicy celery juice was to me a fun rift on a ****! Dessert was perfect on a warm summers night, creamy rich vanilla soft serve melting with roasted Ontario strawberries. The important and best bit is they TAKE RESERVATIONS! From 530 to 830. They open on Wednesday and like the rest of our beloved restaurants will be gearing up for indoors as well. Tag me, I am dying to hear your thoughts. Congratulations team!

This place has a nice ambience, the plating is appealing. But the flavours are kind of lacking. This place is small plates so it’s kind of disheartening when you taste something and it’s just “ehh”. The bread and tomatoes w Manchego and fish crudo were lacklustre, but the spare ribs was really good.

Ordered laboras paella and patatas brava several times during the COVID locks and it always tasted so good, also as a pull out! it is a somewhat different takeover of paella, but by far the best paella that I had in toronto, and possibly even better than the paella that I had in barcelona! very sad that they have closed for the in-house eating, but really hope that they will come back! also wait for an apology to care of them! until then I will dream of this paella and patatas brava!

Food was exceptional, service was great. The decor is very cute and makes you feel like you’re on a vacation! The piña colada specials were DELICIOUS. easily one of the best I’ve had in the city. Will definitely return. I hope they introduce more food specials however, as I’ve noticed their menu items have decreased.