Toronto Life
April, 2007 - RG27

Restaurant Guide April 2007

Love Shacks: Every big date needs just the right setting and menu to help stoke the fires of passion. Splendido is one of our top picks for the most romantic restos...

Food of Love: Splendido serves up romance

The place to take a hard-to-impress first date-if chef David Lee’s sumptuous, enthralling plates can’t do the trick, then maybe it’s time to move on. Try the butter-poached gnocchi with lobster-vanilla bean foam ($55). Consistently among the ($21). Consistently among the top restaurants in the city for food, wine and kind. Knowing service, Splendido does little short of spectacularly well. Staff exceed expectations with freebie surprises, almost any one of which could put most other restaurants on the map. The elegant mood here is the perfect inducement to sweet whispered nothings