Crème Brasserie has opened its doors in Yorkville. “We’re offering French-inspired cuisine with a Mediterranean twist,” says co-owner Ricardo Sousa, whose culinary resumé includes stints at Lolo, Jump, Prego and Bistro 990.
Brad Long, the well-known local chef behind the Great Canadian Pub and Veritas and regular guest on the Food Network’s Restaurant Makeover, is moving into the Brick Works.
When it comes to Canada’s best grilled cheese, Toronto just can’t seem to cut it. Top chefs from Toronto, Whistler, Wolfville (Nova Scotia), and Calgary gathered at the CNE today for what was billed at the “Grate Canadian Grilled Cheese Cook-Off.”
The popular Roncesvalles Avenue restaurant Boho may be closed, but there are high hopes for the space’s new inhabitants, Melissa Fox-Revett and Julia Young. The former Boho staff members have combined forces and have launched their own culinary venture, Blue Plate. “We are so happy to be back in the space. We’ve always loved the … Continued
This weekend, legendary Japanese competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi takes on Canada’s own super-masticator ‘Furious Pete’ Czerwinski in a pizza pie showdown. On the verge of competition, Postcity.com checked in with Furious Pete to see what’s cooking.
TINY TOM DONUTS has ruled the roost at the CNE since opening up shop there in the ’60s. But last year, a challenger arrived with a product even more audacious: chocolate-covered bacon. So, is there a new master of the midway?
Recently, a friend told me about a fast food place in a mall food court where I could get authentic Mexican tacos. When I heard how far away the location was, northwest of Highway 400 and Finch Avenue, I was a bit discouraged. However, my food curiosity won out and I headed up to check it out.
No One Writes to the Colonel, named after Gabriel Garcia Márquez’s novella about an old, forgotten Colonel, is the type of place that just feels, well, familiar.
When Toronto’s Chinese culinary centre Lichee Garden closed the doors of their Thornhill location roughly a year ago, it was with the promise that a new, downtown theatre district restaurant was in the works. Fast forward a year, and the state of the sanctuary’s new location seems a little, well, stagnant and uncertain.
With New York Chef Scott Conant at the helm, Scarpetta enjoyed a much-anticipated opening late last month. Located in the avant-garde Thompson Hotel, the restaurant is very modern and minimal but, at the same time, quite comfortable.
With Toronto’s Festival of Beer off to a full and frothy start, armchair beer connoisseurs have the chance to sample a wide variety of beer from all over the world. But since beer tokens are precious, PostCity.com has narrowed the list down to three must-sample ales.
Gavin Quinn knows the hospitality trade. Not many restaurateurs in the city can claim roots that extend back to the pub trade in Dublin, Ireland. Quinn can, and on both sides of his family.
