Wynona Toronto

819 Gerrard St E, Toronto - M4M 1Y8
129 reviews
Italian Wine Bar Mediterranean
(416) 778-5171

One of the best meals you can have in the city. The menu changes and there are always interesting creative options.We had tuna with a cold gazpacho, and it was unique and incredibly well done. They also had an excellent squid ink pasta.The patio has a really nice ambiance. The wait staff is helpful and pretty quick.They weren't able to immediately seat us for our reservation , as a customer had not left yet, and they provided us with some drinks on the house as we waited which was really nice.

Nice casual evening sharing delicious food with wonderful friends. Hostess and servers were friendly and offered great suggestions. We were a table of 5, dining on a Wednesday night. Judging from how busy the place was, reservations are a must.• Grilled focaccia - delicious but wish it was a larger portion. Only 3 slices per order.• Burrata, white wine poached Asian pear, green grape, pine nuts, and fennel pollen - lovely combination of flavours. However the Burrata was served too cold and didn't melt when we cut into it.• Salad of little gem, Ontario sweet peas, green goddess dressing, feta, and pumpernickel dill breadcrumb - we all loved the sprinkle of the pumpernickel dill breadcrumbs. Added a nice flavour and texture to the salad.• Beet honey agnolotti, poppy seed butter, sherry vinegar gastrique, currants, red kale, and ricotta salata - at first we thought it wasn't going to be enough but these little pockets of yummy goodness were richer than we expected. Portion size was perfect for us.• Cuttlefish ink tonnarelli, octopus ragu, baresane olives, paprika oil, dandelion - surprisingly tasty and quite filling. The octopus was well cooked (not rubbery) and the flavours all worked really nicely together.• Branzino, brown butter, cerignola olives, capers, oregano, and lemon - always nice to have a whole fish. Wish it was a slightly larger portion.• Grilled Ontario pork chop, purple mizuna, shaved almond, and apple mostarda - pork chop was cooked perfectly. Tender and juicy. The apple mostarda went so well with the pork chop.• Olive oil cake, Ontario strawberries, pastry cream, and chantilly - think deconstructed strawberry shortcake with a little twist. The fresh strawberries were great as they were in season.• Crème caramel - exactly what we expected it to be. Silky and smooth.If we were in the area again, we would definitely come back.

We had high hopes for Wynona, but at the end, the food just didnt wow us and lack something. The branzino was the best tasting thing. The pastas both lacked salt and tasted bland (no prominent or harmony of flavour). The burratta was interesting with blueberries and olives, but honestly, have had better burratta elseware. Vibes were great. People were nice. The lack of cocktails hurt my soul, but I'll survive.

Simple but flavourful food. Pasta was the stand out dish. Excellent wine selection including a really lovely orange wine we had with appetizers.One small complaint is that the space, while beautiful, was quite open resulting in it being very echo-y and loud.

4.5We loved the food. Flavours were unique and dishes were well presented. Our favourite was the tonnarelli. The ingredients were fresh and we loved the freshly in house made pasta. Ambiance was great and service was attentive as well. Would definitely want to come back and try more dishes.

Delicious!!Burrata was exceptional and perfect for summer. Loved the flavor combinations of the Asian pear.Charred escarole, morels, romesco was great. Romesco sauce was flavorful and perfectly balanced. The escarole has a slight bitter taste but I liked it.Lumache, garlic oregano sausage, sugar snap peas, pecorino, stracciatella - was a bit salty and needed a bit of acid. The pasta itself was delicious and perfect texture not too al dente.Grilled focaccia - this was probably the most disappointing. A bit too salty and too burnt.Overall - service was great. It's quite loud inside but lovely airy interior with light wood palette

Been to wynona multiple times and the foods been so comforting and the atmosphere is also great and homie. Definitely get the focaccia and the pastas and grilled dishes were also very good. One of my favorite dishes were their mussels, but they change based on the season, so hopefully that comes back.

Tl;dr trendy restauraunt, great flavours, fresh ingredients, service was meh, no cocktails or beers, pasta dishes and burrata were great, rest can be left.Came here under recommendation of friends. Fresh, local, season flavours pop out with colour and unstated flair. Pasta dishes were outstanding but appetizers didn't live up to the hype. Scallops were super overpowered by sauce and oranges. If scallops were the star, they were squashed by citrus. Endive salad was bland at best. The star was the small + expensive but tasty burrata dish: lovely Combo of grapes, pears, cheese and bread.Pastas is where they're at. If you're looking to share, get all the pastas and skip the rest.Creme caramel was something out of Metro frozen ailse section. Not amazing texture, monocoloured syrup blob. Deconstructed chocolate cake was rich but lacked.... Acidity and made it overly monotonus.Worth a look but stick with the pasta. Expensive for the flavour, quality and service. Hit and miss menu.

Love the clean aesthetic of the restaurant and plating of the food. Food was light and delicious, a bit on the pricier on the side compared to the portion sizes.My favourite was the scallop crudo.Staff was very friendly.

I’d give this place a 3.5 star review (not. 3). It was fine, food was really nicely presented and they do have some really interesting things on the menu. The flavours were creative, and there were some stand outs for me (such as the grapes in the burratta dish, or the beet-ricotta pasta with honey- but to be honest, the flavours were kind of light (minus the mackerel- that had a lot of flavour) and nothing was a ‘stand out dish’. Also, portion sizes are TINY for the price you’re paying. All in all, wouldn’t go back for dinner.