Toronto restaurants that opened and closed this week
One of Toronto s oldest Mexican restaurants closes down and three more spots devoted to fried chicken open shop By Kelsey Adams
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Chikin s Hot Mess sandwich, fried chicken stacked with blue cheese, Napa slaw and yuzu pickles and doused in hot sauce
Over 75 Toronto restaurants are part of a new Canada-wide initiative called LocalLicious, in a push to motivate people to support local.
Restaurants like Avelo, Enoteca Sociale, Fresh, Insomnia, the Drake Hotel, Pukka and Queen Mother Cafe are part of the 10-day event kicking off on February 25. They’re raising money for local charities with every order.
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Condo developer to take over Le Sélect Bistro
The long-running French bistro has sold the property and business to Allied Properties, which is looking for a new operator By Kevin Ritchie
Long-running French bistro Le Sélect is in “new hands” – those of a real estate developer.
The restaurant’s owners announced on Instagram on February 17 that Allied Properties has taken over the reins of the upscale restaurant, which closed at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic last year.
“As the bills piled up and the centimes started to run short, we asked ourselves: are we ready to enlist for another fight from the trenches?” they wrote.