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| - I have been buying seafood at Diana's for years now, which is the best spot in Scarborough, by the way, and we finally decided to eat at the restaurant.
The décor is nice, modern, clean, comfortable, but not very high end. Still, it has some nice features such as clean bathrooms, music that is not too loud, and comfortable seating.
As is was our first visit we opted for the cold appetizer platter, the hot sampler, and a selection of fresh oysters. The cold platter came with some jumbo shrimp cocktail, a squid and octopus salad, smoked salmon, smoked trout, and tuna tartare. The hot sampler came with some grilled shrimp, grilled scallops, and a piece of grilled salmon atop a bed of mixed grains.
You know how you find that little place on the coast that serves up some perfect seafood - fresh, perfectly cooked, and redolent of the locale? Well, Diana's is one of those places. The seafood was perfectly cooked, not just well done, but to the nanosecond of perfection.
The shrimp cocktail offered some truly large shrimp that were full of flavor, served with a cocktail sauce made with real horseradish. The tuna tartare was a revelation - high quality diced tuna, marinated in sesame oil and topped with a tomato and pepper garnish that served as an erstwhile ceviche, I wish I could have this every day. The squid and octopus salad was fantastic - served with seaweed and high quality kalamata olives, the octopus and squid were as tender and flavourful as I have ever had. The smoked salmon and smoked trout were wonderful, with the capers, red onion and sour cream they were perfect on the fresh bread and mode a wonderful side by side comparison of fish and smoking techniques.
The large, fresh sea scallops were perfectly grilled to maximize the flavor yet retain the juiciness and soft texture scallop should have. Ditto for the grilled shrimp - simple, pure flavours enhanced by grilling without burning or drying them out. And the salmon fillet? After 15 years of living on the west coast and having salmon as a daily staple, I didn't expect to find perfectly cooked salmon in Toronto, but there it was. As my wife said, it is hard to cook salmon that perfectly - it flaked apart, with perfect grill marks and no drying, burns or inconsistency - perfect.
The selection of oysters were top notch. My server provided a selection of East coast and West coast oysters for comparison and flavour journey. Regardless of which ones you personally prefer or dislike, they were all incredibly fresh and expertly shucked with almost no irritating shell fragments. Served on a bed of ice with the appropriate garnishes, they were the equal of that other great Toronto oyster bar, Starfish.
My one pet peeve with Diana's would be the wine list - while well thought out and with very good value, it isn't very extensive, and there's only one bubbly.
I highly recommend that you make a reservation as the place fills up regularly - those in the know know that the food here is definitely worth the price.
Best seafood dinner I have ever had in Toronto!
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