At Queen West Argentinian restaurant AMA, Wednesday is the best day of the week. For two years and counting, partners Michael Mizzi and executive chef Sebastian Galluci have been running a $1 empanada special on Wednesday nights. In March 2020, the two will be bringing a brief hold to the popular service as they renovate … Continued
Chef Daniel Boulud is helping catapult us into spring with a special dinner event on March 12. Hosted at Café Boulud in the Four Seasons Hotel, the Boulud Sud Pop Up will see the celebrity chef teaming up with his restaurant’s chef de cuisine, Nicholas Trosien, to present a menu inspired by coastal Mediterranean flavours. … Continued
At the end of 2019, the Toronto Star parted ways with its veteran food critic, Amy Pataki, who had been reviewing the city’s restaurants for nearly 18 years. She made the announcement abruptly, in the final paragraph of a year-end restaurant roundup, so that an inattentive reader might easily miss it. Her reviews, she says, … Continued
Iconic live music venue the El Mocambo is set to make its long-awaited relaunch at Spadina and College this spring. Originally opened in 1948, the El Mo was known for hosting some of the biggest names in music in its heyday, from the Rolling Stones and Blondie to Jimi Hendrix and Muddy Waters. After closing … Continued
As restaurants struggle to keep up with ballooning rent prices, one chef may have found the solution to carving out a sustainable culinary career: don’t have a restaurant. Chef Ken Yau has been running K.Dinners, a Monday night pop-up dinner series hosted at Fiorentina restaurant for more than two years. Yau started his career working … Continued
Sophie’s Dine-In and Takeout brings a casual lunch and dinner option to Eglinton. The restaurant’s crowd-pleasing menu runs the gamut from sandwiches and burgers to pizza and souvlakis. Sophie’s also has a lengthy vegetarian menu, which includes traditional Persian dishes. Holt Renfrew’s flagship restaurant has reopened with an ultra-modern look and a revamped menu developed … Continued
If you thought all the Eataly excitement had began to die down in Toronto, you would be wrong. The Italian food giant is launching its final restaurant, Trattoria Milano, this week. True to its name, the new sit-down restaurant is dedicated to the cuisine of Milan. As a result, the menu veers away from the pizzas … Continued
