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05/17/13
Weekly Restaurant Recap rounds up the week’s Toronto restaurant news. In this edition: a new seafood restaurant on Queen West, Peruvian cuisine at Yonge and Lawrence, a new spot fot barbecue in the Annex and more.
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05/17/13
In compiling her annual top 100 Toronto restaurants list, veteran food critic Joanne Kates ate out — a lot. Below, we’ve put together her favourite foodie finds, from the city’s best pizza to its top wait staff.
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05/17/13
A New Zealand Sauvignon at its most stripped down and tangy. Pale straw in colour, it has a bouquet of green fig and elderberry. The wine is medium-bodied, crisply dry, elegant with tart flavours of gooseberry and elderberry. Long finish.
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05/16/13
After less than two years, east-end gastropub Le Canard Mort has closed. Its final day of service was April 27. The restaurant was known for its elevated pub fare, which included a popular Yorkshire pudding. According to owner Richard Henry, the reason for the close was simply that the restaurant had run its course.
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05/16/13
It’s a truism that salty snacks encourage beer drinking, but what if there were a way to put the salt right in the beer? Turns out that the German brewers of Goslar, near Leipzig, figured this out hundreds of years ago. The Gose river that runs through the town has enough dissolved mineral salts to give a distinctive salty flavour to the wheat ale from that region, which is known, appropriately, as Gose.
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05/15/13
When chef Nuit Regular, the wizard from Chiang Mai, decamped from Khao San Road to open Sabai Sabai, the word “bar” appeared quite frequently in descriptions of the new place. It is, indeed, cooler; charcoal grey punctuated by dozens of Edison lights, music booming.
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05/15/13
Restaurants devoted to the creatures of the sea are gaining ground in Toronto, and Ossington’s Fishbar — which recently rang in its second birthday — was on the cusp of the trend. Fishbar keeps the focus on sustainable catches, with most of the menu being Ocean Wise certified.
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05/14/13
Last November, chef Bruce Woods resigned from Modus Ristorante, the contemporary Italian hotspot frequented by Bay Street suits. He had no fallback, but luckily for him, the transition from being unemployed to accepting reservations at his new restaurant has been seamless.
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05/14/13
Now that spring has finally, yes, sprung, packs of hipsters are hitting the park scene hard. Trinity Bellwoods is particularly rife with them: nonchalant girls decked out in stripes sip Bellwoods Brewery brews while sunning themselves on the grass. Checking out the park-side happenings is de rigueur; once you’ve had your fix, Nadège is a great way to bookend your visit.
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05/13/13
Marky & Sparky’s Smokehouse opened in the Junction on Friday, just in time for barbecue season. Behind it are Frank “Sparky” DiGenova — the owner of Butcher By Nature across the street — and Marcus “Marky” De Simone, an avid barbecue enthusiast and a Junction local who came to know DiGenova at his butcher shop.
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