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artyboy123
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Name: Riley’s Fish and Steak
Contact: 155 Wellington St. W., rileysrestaurant.ca/toronto, @rileysfishandsteak
Neighbourhood: Entertainment District
Owner: Emad Yacoub (Glowbal Restaurant Group)
Head chef: Scott Saunderson
Accessibility: Fully accessible
Emad Yacoub, president of the massive BC-based Glowbal Restaurant Group—which brought Toronto the two-storey, 9,000-square-foot steakhouse Black and Blue—literally squeezed his way to the top. In 1984, Yacoub emigrated from Egypt to Toronto. He was only 19 years old and didn’t speak a word of English. “My first job was juicing oranges at the Harbour Castle Hilton,” he says.
Personal take: Been to this place in Vancouver many times due to corporate events - food was meh!
artyboy123
Senior Member
Now, the man who brought us the edible architecture of Colborne Lane and spent years judging cooking competitions on MasterChef Canada is staging a comeback that feels less like a corporate rollout and more like an analog reset. Opening this June in Burlington, right by the waterfront and across the street from the swish Pearl Hotel, Bar Origin will trade the frantic buzz of downtown Toronto for the bedroom-community charm of the burbs. “I just felt a real yearning for this restaurant,” says Aprile, who was previously doing a lot of consulting work.
artyboy123
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Som Tum Jinda, the wildly popular Michelin-recommended Thai spot at Church and Gerrard, owned by Wassawan “Earth” Chansopa and Phanom “Patrick” Suksaen, has opened a new location at the edge of Kensington Market, in the former home of Caplansky’s Deli.
artyboy123
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The viral supper club is getting its first brick-and-mortar location at 77 Grange Avenue, inside a former auto body shop that is being converted into the multidisciplinary Squig Space, also home to a ceramics studio and a community centre. “We hope Kusi’s new home will feel like a family dinner or going to a friend’s house,” says Francisco.
artyboy123
Senior Member
Name: The Dirty Laundry
Contact: 1186 Queen St. W., thedirtttylaundry.com
Neighbourhood: Little Portugal
Previously: Cold Tea, the Brooklynn
Owners: Robin Goodfellow (Czehoski, Bar Raval, PrettyUgly, Vela, Harry’s) and Aldo Pescatore (La Carnita, Sweet Jesus)
Chef: Renelle Joubert
Accessibility: Not fully accessible
Toronto hospitality veterans Robin Goodfellow and Aldo Pescatore were working together on making a podcast called “Forward Drinking” when COVID hit. “We had all the funding, and everything was good to go,” says Goodfellow. The duo ultimately pulled the plug, feeling it would be tone-deaf to launch a show about cocktail culture during a global pandemic.
bcx
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Huh? Isn't that where Sue Fung's is? Are they gone?
RGB_11
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Lots of Thai restaurants popping up all over the place recently,
including one where Chine used to be on Spadina near Dundas and on Bloor near Spadina, where a Mexican restaurant used to be. (a Japanese AYCE before that)
including one where Chine used to be on Spadina near Dundas and on Bloor near Spadina, where a Mexican restaurant used to be. (a Japanese AYCE before that)