The past week in restaurants brought news that second locations for Caren's Wine Bar, Diana's Seafood and McEwan Foods are either open or getting close to it.

Just Opened

• Where Le Petit Castor once was, Carens Rosedale (the second location for the Yorkville wine bar) has opened.
• Perhaps to satisfy nostalgic memories of Trader Vic's, the owners of Wrongbar have opened Miss Thing’s on Queen West with a menu of Polynesian food and cocktails. 

Coming Soon

• As we reported, Diana’s Seafood is expanding with a 6,000 square-foot second location on Woodbine in Markham. 
• Word is that this week will see Mark McEwan open a new location of his successful high-end grocery store, McEwan Foods, in the PATH.

Restaurant Coverage

• This month for Kitchen Confidential we sent La Cubana’s signature sandwich to the lab and put it up against Rose Reisman’s panini clubhouse. 
• Our BBQ week feature continued with Joanne Kates’s picks in the sides category from restaurants like Barque, Buster Rhino’s Toronto and Stockyards.
• The Drake Hotel has added a seared pickerel salad as part of their summer menu update and it made the cut as this week’s lunch pick.
• Suresh Doss took the Strip Mall Gourmet column to Scarborough for the city’s best Indian biryani from Dindigul Thalappakattu.
• ​A #PostCityBBQ highlight was our guide to the city's best ribs. 
• Fans of summer sun and shellfish were, no doubt, happy to learn that Bar Raval has added a raw bar to their programme.
• We wrapped our BBQ feature with all the essential extras: chef tips, cocktails, sauces and summer pies.
• We had your guide to celebrating August’s warmer weather at the Panamerican Food Festival.
• Summer is the time to hit the Beach in Toronto and Food Crawl covered where to eat while you’re there.
• Union Station has a brand new restaurant market called Front Street Foods and we had your guide to getting the best out of it.
• Diana’s Seafood, the longstanding Scarborough favourite, is opening a second, restaurant-only location on Woodbine in Markham.

Changes and Other News

• After almost a decade of introducing midtown to mid-priced Indian food, owner Hemant Bhagwani has closed Amaya Indian Room for a concept reboot.
• Table 17, the restaurant that started the current sea change in Leaside dining has closed. But the owners have big plans, including for the revamped Broadview Hotel.
• Le Ti Colibri, Kensington Market’s longstanding and refined bistro has closed and blogTO reports the sad news that it will become a stoner cafe.