Not a "top 5" but current favourites (in no particular order) include: Globe Bistro, Carens Wine Bar, Weezie's, Le Papillon on the Park, Volo, Coffee Mill, Gallery Grill, Le Paradis, Melanie's Bistro, Olde Yorke.
My most tattered cookbooks:
The New Chatelaine Cookbook by Monda Rosenberg (1992); The New York Times 60-Minute Gourmet by Pierre Franey (1979).