54Guu SakaBar

Not just another Guu, the new one has a slightly different menu, and it ranks higher because unlike Guu Church Street, Guu Bloor Street has a long enclosed hallway for diners to stay warm while they wait (up to an hour) for a table. Dinner at new Guu is worth the trouble. The menu at Guu Two is slightly different from Guu One, but certain things don’t change. Still no reservations, still the cramped communal tables with backless benches. Still the marvellous shouting from the staff when you arrive and depart. Still the dark noisy hectic craziness, and still the fabulous food tastes. This Guu does more raw stuff – impeccably fresh sea urchin and sweet raw shrimp, grand scallop sashimi with creamy sea urchin sauce, barely torched BC tuna with crispy garlic chips. They have entered the land of fusion with entertaining carbonara udon (some cream and bacon with your dashi? Yum!). Dip nori-wrapped fish cake tempura in green tea salt, and thank the food gods for giving Toronto another Guu.