I look for different things in a restaurant as a tourist vs. a local. As a tourist I'm less concerned about price and more concerned with the feeling of a place. Good places will be good objectively but there are many places I'd visit first as a tourist and less as a local.
This restaurant was perfect for a tourist. The food is exquisite, but exquisite food is available many places. More importantly for the tourist, the place itself feels very 'Toronto' (or what I conceive such a feeling to be). Warm and inviting with a purpose that is well-executed.
I may have missed some originality when I order the hamburger. The burger itself is cooked well. The highlight are the perfectly caramelized onions on top. Caramelized onions take forever to make and the phrase has become devalued as barely caramelized onions pass as the real thing. These are real and they're spectacular.
My companion's dish had a surfeit of originality and was equally amazing; but now I'm stuck reminiscing about the onions!