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When I saw the headline, I thought "Isn't that place in Kensington?" Guess my information is out of date...
 

What started as an online source for freshly baked focaccia last fall has found a permanent home in Kensington Market. Uncle Pete’s Bread Co. is officially opening the third weekend of August, when it will sell the floofy focaccia and sandwiches that garnered the brand a following through custom catering and pop-ups at Black Lab Brewing.

“All of our ingredients and materials are sourced locally from Toronto businesses. We use Grace Meat Market on College for our meats, Cheese Magic in Kensington for our cheeses and International Cheese for our ricotta,” says owner and sandwich artist Pete Petrovic.
 

For anyone who has ever stared longingly at the UFO-shaped Flying Saucer Restaurant in Niagara Falls and thought, Toronto needs more space-themed diner food, Atomic Burger may be the interplanetary meal they’re after. Gene Carpenter and Linda Jong, who co-own Elsie’s, the Junction’s record shop with a sandwich counter, opened their ’60s-retro-futurism-inspired takeaway spot near Greenwood and Gerrard in May. “We landed on our first menu item name, Space Cadet, while we were recipe-testing, and with every bite, we said, ‘This is out of this world.’ So we decided to run with the space theme for everything,” says Carpenter. The two are hoping their burgers, fried sides and neon-hued milkshakes will also send their customers into orbit.
 
artyboy123 said:

For anyone who has ever stared longingly at the UFO-shaped Flying Saucer Restaurant in Niagara Falls and thought, Toronto needs more space-themed diner food, Atomic Burger may be the interplanetary meal they’re after. Gene Carpenter and Linda Jong, who co-own Elsie’s, the Junction’s record shop with a sandwich counter, opened their ’60s-retro-futurism-inspired takeaway spot near Greenwood and Gerrard in May. “We landed on our first menu item name, Space Cadet, while we were recipe-testing, and with every bite, we said, ‘This is out of this world.’ So we decided to run with the space theme for everything,” says Carpenter. The two are hoping their burgers, fried sides and neon-hued milkshakes will also send their customers into orbit.
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Now if only they could find a way to get Orbitz.

AoD
 
bAuHaUs said:
Has anyone heard which restaurant is coming to the York Blvd restaurant campus in Richmond Hill (Hwy 7 & Hwy 404). This is what it looks like to date.

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It's a Shoeless Joe's
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Name: Sal’s Pasta and ChopsContact: 614 College St., dinnerwithsal.com, @dinnerwithsal
Neighbourhood: Little Italy
Owners: Michael Sangregorio and Fabio Bondi (Lucia, Local Kitchen and Wine Bar)
Chef: Fabio BondiAccessibility: Not fully accessible


After a successful run with Lucia, their cozy 30-seater in the Junction Triangle, Michael Sangregorio and Fabio Bondi are back on home turf with their newest project, Sal’s Pasta and Chops. The long-time friends both grew up in Italian families that settled along College Street—and both had fathers named Salvatore.

Sal’s is about more than good food. It’s a tribute to Sangregorio and Bondi’s upbringing and the kind of Italian Canadian cooking they remember from childhood: hearty plates of pasta and chops, served without fuss in the neighbourhood that helped shape them.
 

Name: Taberna LXContact: 1611 Dundas St. W., @taberna_lx_to
Neighbourhood: Trinity-Bellwoods
Owners: Kelly Amaral, Jonathan Poon and Gani ShqueirChef: Jonathan Poon
Accessibility: Fully accessible main floor

It’s possible that no one in Toronto loves Portugal more than Kelly Amaral, the co-owner of Taberna LX—a sprawling two-storey, 70-seat restaurant at Dundas and Ossington. Amaral was born just down the street to her Azorean parents in the early ’70s, around the same time Portugal was beginning to find freedom from dictatorship.
 
artyboy123 said:
Sal’s is about more than good food. It’s a tribute to Sangregorio and Bondi’s upbringing and the kind of Italian Canadian cooking they remember from childhood: hearty plates of pasta and chops, served without fuss in the neighbourhood that helped shape them.
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I know they have to foot the cost of the whole wheel of Parm in advance, but $44 for tagliatelle dressed with nothing but parmesan cheese is quite something!

I actually love a lot of these very expensive restaurants that Toronto Life writes about. My wife and I went to Ayla on the weekend and it was delicious. I just find it hilarious when they talk about these restaurants like they're some sort of humble tavern that the owners are opening so that Italian food is accessible to everyone.
 
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Retail-Insider reporting that Shake Shack's Toronto moment is winding down any...............they are adding six more locations.

That will bring them to 9 GTA locations.

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Shake Shack Accelerates GTA Expansion with 6 New Locations

Shake Shack is opening six new GTA locations, adding local art, Canadian menu exclusives, and over 400 jobs as it deepens its Canadian presence.
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One has actually just opened as is in the Kitchen Hub on Castlefield; while the new location at Square One Mall in Mississauga will open in two weeks, on August 19th, 2025.

The others are as follows:

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For comparison:

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Taken from: https://www.scrapehero.com/location-reports/Shake Shack-USA/
 
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