Pusateri’s and Saks have managed to capture most of the food-related attention in Toronto this week for the opening of their joint-venture food hall at Sherway Gardens.
Just Opened
- Creemore’s Batch is now open in the always-a-brewpub, never-for-long space on Victoria Street. Ben Heaton (The Grove) is in charge of the INK/Icon-operated kitchen.
- There are enough eat-in options (oysters, prosciutto and panini to name just three) at the Saks Food Hall by Pusateri’s that the new top-flight grocery store belongs here in a restaurant update.
- Are we past the cliché of needing to mention Uncle Tetsu and Japanese cheesecake together? (I guess not.) Well, for a noticeably different take on the airy dessert, check out Love Me Sweet north of Steeles.
Coming Soon
- With each passing year, Toronto’s food trucks seem to be evolving to all serve some take on the ultra-caloric dessert. This year’s entry to the list is set to be the chimney cake — roughly a cone-shaped doughnut filled with soft serve. Eva’s Original Chimneys is launching mid-April. [blogTO]
Restaurant Coverage
- We reached further afield than usual for our restaurant review last week when Jon Sufrin visited Tapagria in Markham.
- It’s not always good news for Toronto restaurants: We told you about Pangaea closing after nearly 20 years.
- Karolyne Ellacott kept it strictly vegetarian for her lunch pick this week from Banjara.
- The udon from MeNami is what you should be eating right now in Toronto.
- DINR is a new app that does a neat job of solving a dining problem: Restaurants have extra tables and diners want to make last-minute reservations.
- After parting ways with Langdon Hall and later his partners with Queen Margherita Pizza, Jonathan Gushue is back with The Berlin in Kitchener-Waterloo and we have a profile.
Changes and Other News
- March 14 is Pi Day (give it a minute) and the LeBron James-backed Blaze Pizza is selling discounted pizzas for $3.14 at all of their North American locations (including Toronto, where the exchange rate means we’ll get an even better deal.) The marriage of word and number play is almost too much.
- Starting March 19 the Drake is hosting a series of Montreal-themed popups at their two Toronto properties as well as the Drake Devonshire in Prince Edward County. Naturally, the roster includes a poutine party for 86'd Monday on March 21.
