Photos of SARA by Kurtis Chen
Join BEAToronto in touring King West restaurant SARA, praised by the Michelin guide for “its cool, almost monastic modernity” and for its design as “a place to keep the outside world at bay.” Then join the designer for bites, or for a full family-style chef’s tasting menu dinner.
Your guide is Spanish architect Arancha González Bernardo, co-founder of Toronto-based Odami, who converted the 1900s Victorian townhouse into SARA, a process she says involved “striking the right balance between preserving the building’s domestic character, and maximizing its potential as a restaurant.”
Date: Monday, January 19, 2026
Location: SARA Restaurant | 98 Portland Street, Toronto, ON, Canada
Happy hour tour (including small bites following the tour): 5-6 pm, $25
Tour + seated chef’s tasting menu dinner: 6:30-9 pm, $100
Ticket prices include food, tax and gratuity; drinks not included in either option.
About Arancha:
Arancha González Bernardo [BCIN, ARIDO (Intern), M.Arch] is a Spanish architect and co-founder of Odami, a design firm based in Toronto. Founded in 2018, the studio focuses on residential and commercial projects, supplemented with material experimentation and furniture and object design. Prior to co-founding Odami, Arancha worked in offices in Spain, Austria, and Canada, collaborating on projects in cities across Europe and North America. Arancha completed her studies in Architecture at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura in La Coruña, Spain. In addition to Odami, Arancha is a Sessional Lecturer at the School of Interior Design at Toronto Metropolitan University.
About Odami:
Odami is an award-winning architecture and design studio that aims to converge the pragmatic and the expressive, the subtle and the striking, the familiar and the unexpected.From our offices in Toronto, Canada, we specialize in the full-service design of commercial spaces, residential architecture, and purposeful furniture, objects, and other material forms.Led by Arancha González Bernardo, a Spanish architect, and Michael Fohring, a Canadian designer, the practice represents a merging of design values and histories, a process deepened by the contemporary multiculturalism of the city in which we live and work. In embracing difference and purposely working between modes, perspectives, and dichotomies, we’re in search of a fertile meeting ground — a space of conference and connection that gives rise to inventive outcomes.
