Cheap Eat of the Week: the tomato and watermelon gazpacho at Woodlot
By Gizelle Lau
Cool soup (Image: Gizelle Lau)
Soup in the summer? Why not? Especially if it’s a gazpacho that’s not on a Summerlicious menu. Woodlot, located in an old garage space near Litte Italy, has been celebrated time and time again for its distinctive cuisine. Call it what you may: farmhouse-chic or “lumberjack” cuisine, the bottom line is that chef David Haman and his team create hearty, humble cuisine that’s as tasty as it is friendly to both carnivores and vegetarians.
On the menu through late summer is a tomato and watermelon gazpacho ($9) that’s not only a perfectly cool, refreshing starter for your journey at Woodlot, but it’s so bang on in flavour — slightly watermelony sweet with a touch of tomato acidity — that you’ll forget how warm it is in the restaurant (the giant, roaring wood oven doesn’t help).
The chilled gazpacho soup keeps with the season, using local tomatoes and juicy sweet Ontario watermelon. At the heart of it all is a salad of balled watermelon and tomato, complete with fried bread (and who can say no to fried bread, especially when it’s made using Woodlot’s delicious sourdough?), all of it topped off with creamy Monforte Dairy feta cheese, olives, a few drops of olive oil and a couple sprigs of mint for additional palette refreshment. Summer lovin’!
Woodlot, 293 Palmerston Ave., 647-342-6307
Gizelle Lau is a food and travel writer and photographer in Toronto who lives from one meal to the next. Her column, Cheap Eat of the Week, highlights dishes that costs $10 or less. Follow her on Twitter for your daily dose of food from in/around the city.
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