Toronto restaurants that opened and closed this week: July 21-27
Toronto restaurants that opened and closed this week: July 21-27
French tacos land in Little Italy, East Thirty Six closes and the CN Tower s 360 Restaurant is taking reservations By NOW Staff
Vancouver-based French taco spot Brick N Cheese has opened a location in Little Italy.
Toronto restaurants are continuing to post “we’re hiring” notices as indoor dining resumes. Others are using the relaxed rules to host staff appreciation events, which are surely much needed given the past year of uncertainty.
This week’s roundup includes a couple of reverse-pivots (tired of that word yet?), as restaurants reimagine or scrap pandemic-attuned takeout and retail businesses and move back to being full-service dining experiences. Meanwhile, restaurants that opened for takeout and delivery-only in recent months are finally getting to welcome indoor diners for the first time.
Bar Volo is opening a bottle shop in the Royal Cinema lobby
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We re now booked solid every weekend until mid-July : What reopening is like for the city s busiest patios
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Quarantine Cuisine: How to make Uncle Mikey’s punchy peanut noodles at home Quarantine Cuisine: How to make Uncle Mikey’s punchy peanut noodles at home
By Alex Baldinger | Photography By Graydon Herriott |
February 10, 2021
02/10/2021
When travel is a thing again, Uncle Mikey’s chef Mikey Kim will be overdue for a return to New York’s Lower East Side, for a paper plate of egg noodles with a splash of peanut sauce. The heart wants what it wants, and for Kim, the $2 (in 2009) dish from a restaurant called Shu Jiao Fu Zhou brings back powerful taste memories of his culinary school days. “I go every time I visit NYC, and I love it,” Kim says. When he opened Uncle Mikey’s in Brockton Village in 2017, he spun up his own version, which he calls Starving Artist Noodles; it’s still on the takeout menu, even as Uncle Mikey’s has pivoted to become a bottle shop. The velvety sauce clings to every noodle strand with a toasty-sweet grip, and it’s hard to imagine a
1977 Dundas St. W., 416-530-1430, @tommyswinebarto
Weeks before the first lockdown, Tim Morse and Jamal Watson were carefully turning an old convenience store into their dream coffee-shop-slash-wine-bar. Though the timing for a wine bar was unfortunate, the bottle-shop iteration of Tommy’s has nestled perfectly into the Dundas West strip. Expect the comforts of a good local laid-back energy, stellar espresso but with fridges of boozy (and non-boozy) bevvies.
The vibe: Pop in for a coffee, end up leaving with at least two bottles of wine
The snacks: Patties from Patty King and ham sandwiches from Donna’s
The selection: Strongly local, and more than just bottles of wine: bottled cocktails from Solid Olive; wine-beer hybrids from Hamilton’s Merit Brewing; and Ramona, a canned wine by sommelier Jordan Salcito