DaiLo Toronto Menu Prices 2026

The short answer on DaiLo menu prices: the Chef’s Tasting Menu runs $65 for 10 courses, the Tasting Tuesdays promo is $80, and the Premium Tasting Menu is $160 per person. All figures in CAD, verified October 23, 2026. DaiLo is Chef Nick Liu’s New Asian restaurant at 503 College St in Toronto’s Little Italy, where Chinese cooking follows French technique and the menu rotates with the seasons. You will not find an itemized menu on the official site. That is the point of the place. If you want an a la carte Asian comparison first, the ZUBU Ramen menu prices show what a Toronto ramen spot costs per bowl.

DaiLo Menu Prices: What the Tasting Menus Cost in Toronto

Honest sourcing first. DaiLo does not publish an itemized price list. The official site at dailoto.com posts no public menu at all, because the kitchen runs a rotating tasting format. Every figure below is the best confirmed price I could find, read on October 23, 2026, and I am telling you exactly where each one comes from. The $65 Chef’s Tasting comes from a mid-October 2026 Toronto roundup, and I will be straight with you: that figure may be a touch dated. The $80 Tasting Tuesdays figure comes from a May 2026 OpenTable diner review. The $160 premium tasting comes from a recent diner review and includes off-menu dishes. OpenTable’s own price band for the room is CAN$51 and over. Everything below is in CAD, before tax and tip. No per-dish prices exist for DaiLo, and I will not invent any.

DaiLo Menu Card Canada 2026

What Is the Food Like at DaiLo?

Think Chinese food through a French lens. Chef Nick Liu grew up as the son of Hakka parents in Canada, and his menu reads like a greatest-hits of the dishes he grew up with, rebuilt with fine-dining technique. The octopus taco in the crispy shell is the dish people talk about most. Hainan chicken rice, truffle fried rice, fried watermelon, Giggie trout, dumplings, surf and turf tacos with pork belly and octopus, chawanmushi, a cornbread madeleine. It sounds like a lot. On the plate it works. The truffle fried rice alone is worth planning a visit around, in my opinion. Dishes rotate with the seasons, so do not go expecting the exact plate your friend photographed last winter. If you want per-dish pricing to compare, the Santouka Ramen menu prices break down what Toronto charges bowl by bowl.

DaiLo Tasting Menu Desserts Toronto

How Much Is Dinner at DaiLo Really?

Let us do the maths. The $65 Chef’s Tasting is the way in. Add wine pairings or a couple of glasses and you are at $130 to $160 before tax and tip. The $160 premium tasting with pairings? That is a $250-plus evening, easy. Real money. Is it worth it? Here is the thing. Ten courses of this cooking for $65 is genuinely one of the better fine-dining values in Toronto, if that $65 figure still holds. And Tasting Tuesdays at $80 might be the smartest reservation in the city on a weeknight. The room holds a 4.9-star OpenTable rating across more than 1,600 diners, plus OpenTable Icons nods in 2024 and 2025. Rooms do not fake that. My verdict: book a Tuesday, order the tasting, and thank me later. For a cheaper Asian fine-dining benchmark, the Sushi Hana menu prices show what an omakase-style night runs in Ontario.

The Story Behind DaiLo

DaiLo means big brother in Cantonese. A term of respect for an elder, the brand explains, and a nod to the flavours of older generations. Chef Nick Liu built the restaurant on the food he ate growing up, then filtered it through French training and a modern Toronto sensibility. The result is what he calls New Asian Cuisine: predominantly Chinese fare that follows French tradition. It landed. OpenTable named DaiLo one of its Icons in both 2024 and 2025, and diners keep the room near 5 stars. The menu keeps evolving, which is why the prices here are tasting tiers, not a fixed list. Ancient favourites, updated. That is the pitch, and the room mostly delivers.

Where Is DaiLo in Toronto?

Anyone looking up DaiLo Toronto prices or hours can start here: the address is 503 College St, Toronto, ON M6G 1A5, in Little Italy near College and Bathurst. Phone (647) 341-8882. OpenTable lists hours as Tuesday to Sunday, 5:00 pm to 11:00 pm. One listing site shows Monday to Tuesday closed instead, so I would confirm before heading out. Casual dress code, so no suit required. Vegan and gluten-free options are available, there is a patio in season, and the restaurant does catering. Book through OpenTable. A room this decorated does not do walk-ins well on weekends.

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