Category: Food
This Toronto restaurant is opening an outpost in Prince Edward County
Toronto’s 7 Numbers restaurant is bringing its classic Italian fare to Prince Edward County this summer. With two beloved locations already under their belt in Toronto (Danforth and Eglinton West), this new locale will bring the tally up to three for the 7 Numbers team. The new digs have already been picked out in Picton … Continued
Ten Restaurant, a vegetable-forward tasting menu in Brockton Village
By Nikki Gill
Named for its seating capacity, Ten Restaurant is a tiny new restaurant in Brockton Village, at the corner of Dufferin and College, with a big vision. Led by 25-year-old Julian Bentivegna, Ten offers five- and 10-course tasting menus comprising mostly vegetable-forward, seasonal and Canadian dishes with or without pairings of mostly organic and biodynamic wines. … Continued
Toronto’s best restaurants under $50
By lindsaylow
Where do Toronto’s favourite chefs go when they’re off the clock? They grab burgers and tacos, just like the rest of us. We’ve reached out to 60 of the best chefs in the city and asked them for their favourite street-side, late-night, down-home eats under $50 (excluding tax, tip and alcohol). We tallied their answers … Continued
Toronto’s best veal sandwiches
Toronto’s Reuben revolution
DELI GOES DECADENT Nouveau-chic Sara, with its sleek marble table tops and delicate small plates, throws its wagyu Reuben ($18) into the ring. The house-cured wagyu beef literally melts in your mouth. Well-buttered ciabatta toast is accented with a red cabbage caraway-infused sauerkraut and an aged Gruyère cheese. Presented like a little finger sandwich, this … Continued
Shook Israeli Kitchen set to open in Toronto, by the same group that brought us Byblos
Shook, a fresh new Israeli-inspired vegetarian concept from restaurateur and Iconink CEO Hanif Harji (Byblos, Patria, Figo, Mira) will open in Toronto at 77 Portland St. this June. The new 78-seat dine-in, takeout, and retail spot is built around the concept of the traditional Israeli “shuk,” open-air markets that sell fresh ingredients and traditional eats. … Continued
The Annex Commons, a new fast-casual eatery inside a boutique hotel
By Nikki Gill
The Annex Hotel has more than gorgeous rooms and an attractive lobby café and bar to offer Torontonians and travellers: The Commons is officially open, and just like the hotel, this restaurant-meets-bar is carving out a space that’s all its own. When partners Trevor Speis, Justin Fong and Andrew Peek got together to launch the … Continued
John Catucci dishes on his exciting new show ‘Big Food Bucket List’
By Erin Neilly
Although the phrase “eating your feelings” conjures rom-com images of jilted lovers crying into tubs of Ben & Jerry’s, for television personality John Catucci, it evokes a much more enduring concept of food’s relationship to our emotions, communities and personal identities. Catucci’s childhood home is five blocks away from us as we sit at his … Continued
Grant van Gameren’s very bad day at Quetzal
By Erin Neilly
My first real job was cooking at Three Small Rooms, then the acknowledged best resto in Toronto. I thought it was pretty cool, as jobs went: Until I went to visit my grandmother, whose first words were: “We sent you to Wellesley for this?” People who grew up in Forest Hill (or anywhere else fancy) … Continued
Inside Laissez Faire, the financial district’s new eatery-meets-bar
By Nikki Gill
Laissez Faire, a new venture from the team behind the popular King and Portland pub, Locals Only, has ambitions of offering a new standard of dining to the regular Financial District fare of super-casual happy hour pubs and bars, and tony white tablecloth dining rooms. Their approach: Meeting both of these evening stops in the … Continued
Hot new restaurants opening in Toronto for May
By Erin Neilly
The site of the former Electric Mud barbecue joint has been resurrected as Superfly (5 Brock Ave.), a snazzy new snack bar inspired by 1970s New York, led by alum of the Drake Hotel. Expect cocktails, sharing plates too pretty to eat, groovy tunes and an all-year-round patio to keep the party going into winter. One … Continued