New restaurant opening in a famous old Toronto building
Toronto s historic Dovercourt House will soon be home to a new Peruvian restaurant.
The news comes a few months after news broke that Dovercourt House, the 108-year-old building that was once home to a slew of weekly dance communities, would no longer be hosting its longrunning collection of classes.
Replacing it will a new restaurant called Waska Peruvian Chicken, a project from Chef Elias Salazar.
Salazar announced today that the restaurant will be opening on May 28 with a menu of Peruvian eats including pollo a la brasa, ceviche and purple corn chicha.
Beloved dance hub Dovercourt House is closing and people in Toronto are devastated
The beloved dance hub housed in Toronto s historic Dovercourt House is no more.
For nearly two decades, the brick structure at 805 Dovercourt Rd. has been home to some of the city s most eclectic collection of weekly dance events, from salsa classes to West Coast swing and ecstatic dance.
But a new tenant is moving into the 108-year-old building and community members who d hoped to run dance classes post-lockdown have been informed via e-mail that Dovercourt House is closing.
The building s longtime leaseholder, Andy Haslett, says it just didn t make sense for him to continue the lease with COVID-19 restrictions.