Best for
- Friday or Saturday dinner that flows into the late-night switch at 11pm
- Midtown date nights that don't want to head downtown
- Group dinners 6-12 in the golden parlour
- Studio Munge design tourism — the three rooms reward a visit
- Bottle service, private parlour bookings, milestone celebrations
- Anyone who remembers the original Queen West Ultra and wants the reimagined midtown version
Skip if
- You wanted downtown — this is a deliberately midtown room
- You're allergic to the velvet-rope / dress-code / INK operating standard
- You're a price-sensitive diner — full dinner with cocktails runs $95-$180+ per person
- You wanted anything before 5pm (no lunch, no brunch)
- You're under 19 or arriving in athleisure or a baseball cap
Ultra is Charles Khabouth's reimagined supper club, dropped into the midtown space that previously housed Arthur's Restaurant at 12 St. Clair East. The original Ultra ran on Queen West through the 2000s — one of the defining nightclub-supper-club hybrids of that era, with velvet ropes, celebrity cameos, and a rooftop patio — until Khabouth replaced it with Cube nightclub in 2012. Eleven years later, in 2023, INK Entertainment (Khabouth + president Danny Soberano) partnered with Harlo Entertainment (Michael Kimel + Brandon Marek) to bring the brand back to a different neighbourhood with a different concept: Pan-Asian food, three Studio Munge-designed rooms, and an Alexander McQueen-inspired aesthetic. Toronto Life called it "part reopening, part reimagining."
The format is the same supper-club formula that's worked for Khabouth for forty years: three spaces, one ticket to all of them. The Onyx Bar is where the night starts — cocktails, no commitment, walk-in friendly. The opulent golden parlour is where dinner happens, and then where dancing and entertainment happens after 11pm on Fridays and Saturdays. The rooftop terrace is the warm-weather extension. Executive Chef Kihyun Kim (formerly of Akira Back) leads a Pan-Asian menu that Khabouth has called deliberately contrarian — "something of the past" that "nobody else in the city is really doing anymore" — spanning Chinese, Vietnamese, and Thai influences, with cold and hot share plates leading into robata grill mains (steak, cod, lamb chops) and a sushi-and-sashimi program. The Studio Munge design earns its design tourism on its own.
The honest trade-offs are the Khabouth-room trade-offs you already know: it's expensive (full dinner with cocktails runs $95-$180+ per person), the door enforces business casual, and the location is a deliberate midtown play that some downtown guests still won't make the trip for. The fix is structural: book a Friday or Saturday dinner that flows into the 11pm late-night switch, sit in the golden parlour, see all three rooms across the night. Bottom line: the closing supperclub in our Phase 11 build and the only one that runs a true dinner-into-late-night format north of Bloor — if you live north of St. Clair, this is your King West replacement.
