A ten-seat Toronto chef's counter serving a seasonal, plant-forward Canadian tasting menu from chef Julian Bentivegna in Brockton Village.

Ten Restaurant is small by design and ambitious by temperament. In Toronto’s Brockton Village, chef Julian Bentivegna serves a plant-forward, multi-course Canadian tasting menu to just ten guests at the chef’s counter. The arithmetic is tidy; the cooking is more interesting than that.

The seasonal menu is built around high-quality ingredients, creativity and a small-scale sustainable model rooted in food, knowledge and community. Ten is in the Michelin Guide Toronto for 2022, 2023 and 2024, with a Wednesday-to-Saturday dinner service and a tasting menu format. The ten-course menu is now fully vegetarian.

That makes Ten a useful kind of luxury for Luxa Terra: not ornamental, not performatively virtuous, just precise, intimate and vegetable-led. Vegan options are available on request, and vegetables carry the room.

Expect counter theatre without the pomposity: a small kitchen, seasonal Canadian produce and the pleasure of watching craft happen close enough to catch the rhythm. For travellers who plan dinner as seriously as hotels, Ten is a Toronto table worth building a night around.

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