Choose your dinner
- A pizza of your own: Bar Libretto has the lowest food subtotal in this comparison.
- Several dishes to share: Foxley lets you build the order across its menu.
- Fish and chicken as the centre of dinner: Paris Paris gives you two sharing plates with bread and fries.
What the food costs
All figures are CAD, for the specific suggested order for two. Drinks, dessert, tax and tip are excluded. These orders contain different amounts and kinds of food; the totals compare spending choices, not equivalent meals. Adjust for your appetites; these are suggested orders, not fixed-price offers or promises about portions.
| Restaurant | Suggested order for two | Food subtotal | The planning catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bar Libretto | Margherita 19 + Funghi 21 + focaccia and marinated olives 9 | 49 | Published service is Wednesday–Sunday |
| Foxley | Sea bream ceviche 24 + dumplings 13 + beef cheek curry 28 + eggplant 16 + rice 3.50 | 84.50 | Extra dishes change the bill; Sunday is not listed |
| Paris Paris | Sea bass 35 + roasted half chicken 31 + bread and whipped butter 9 + fries 14 | 89 | Patio seating cannot be reserved specifically |
Bar Libretto: keep dinner centred on a pizza each
221 Ossington Ave · Ossington, toward Dundas Street West
If you would rather compare pizza toppings than negotiate a tableful of dishes, start here. The order above has a clear shape: one pizza per person and a small plate between you. It also has the lowest demonstrated food cost among these three choices.
The official menu puts Margherita beside a mushroom-focused Funghi, a white pizza with cremini and gorgonzola crema. Use those two pies as a starting point, then check the price of whichever toppings you actually want.
The address may be familiar from Pizzeria Libretto, but the current venue is Bar Libretto. Its restaurant page describes the evolved concept and links to booking. The published Wednesday–Sunday schedule makes checking the day part of this choice.
Foxley: choose this when sharing is the point
207 Ossington Ave · Ossington, toward Dundas Street West
Foxley earns its place for the order you can assemble, rather than a single centrepiece. The suggested five-item selection moves from sea bream ceviche with yuzu and shiso to lamb-and-duck-prosciutto dumplings, then beef cheek in red curry, eggplant with yuzu miso glaze and rice. The official menu makes it possible to build around seafood, meat and vegetables in the same order.
This is a useful choice when both diners want to discuss dishes and share the decisions as well as the order. If one person would prefer to keep a main to themselves, Bar Libretto is the more straightforward plan.
Keep the subtotal in view as you add plates; “one more” still has a price. Consult the published schedule before choosing the night, and use the restaurant’s Resy link to check booking options.
Paris Paris: when you want a bistro order built around fish and chicken
146 Ossington Ave · Ossington, near Foxley Street
Paris Paris gives this shortlist a different kind of shared dinner: start with two sharing plates, then add bread and fries. The official dinner menu lists Mediterranean sea bass with sweetcorn sauce and pea shoots, and roasted half chicken with piri piri sauce and lemon. With bread and whipped butter plus Paris Paris fries, that suggested order totals CAD89 before drinks, dessert, tax and tip.
Both fish and chicken sit in the menu’s sharing-plates section. Choose this plan if those are the dishes you want to build around; Foxley offers the more varied five-dish example. The restaurant publishes service every day, which gives it a role when the others’ schedules do not fit. Use the official booking route, but keep the patio separate from the reservation: the restaurant’s linked OpenTable page says patio seating is first come, first served.
Match the night to the restaurant
All three addresses are on the Queen-to-Dundas portion of Ossington identified in Destination Toronto’s neighbourhood guide. That keeps the comparison useful if you have already chosen this stretch for the evening.
Bar Libretto lists service from 4 p.m. Wednesday–Sunday. Foxley’s published hours cover Monday–Saturday; Sunday is not listed, so confirm directly before making it a Sunday plan. Paris Paris lists service every day. Check your intended dinner time through its booking page.
Use the linked booking pages for your actual date and party size. If your first choice is full, pick the next restaurant by its menu rather than assuming any open table will give you the same evening.
Make the choice before you make the reservation
Choose Bar Libretto for separate pizzas, Foxley for shared choices, or Paris Paris for a shared bistro order built around fish and chicken. Agree on the food format before booking.
Leave room for drinks, tax, tip and dessert. Start with a figure you both feel comfortable building on.
How we chose: We compared official restaurant menus, published service information and restaurant-linked booking pages, checked 13 October 2026. These are research-based recommendations; we have not sampled these meals. Prices and menus may change.