Aloette, Alo’s more-casual sister #Restaurant, will open next week
The ink hasn’t even dried on Alo’s recently acquired Relais et Chateaux recognition, but Patrick Kriss and his team are already opening a sister restaurant. Aloette, a more casual spot (yet still...
View ArticleIndigenous #Restaurant: meaty controversy in Toronto
It’s all about seal, and a small restaurant now at the centre of a controversy. Ku-Kum Kitchen is a 27-seat boutique restaurant in the heart of Toronto that opened earlier this year. It’s run by Chef...
View ArticleIndigenous #Restaurant in Toronto #Sparks debate over seal meat menu item
TORONTO -- There are many dishes on the menu at Kukum Kitchen that reflect chef Joseph Shawana's upbringing on the Wiikwemkoong Unceded Reserve on Manitoulin Island, but one in particular has attracted...
View ArticleSeal meat on the menu at Toronto #Restaurant #Sparks duelling petitions,...
A petition calling for a Toronto restaurant to remove seal meat from the menu has sparked an online debate between people who believe the Canadian seal hunt is inhumane and advocates for Indigenous...
View ArticleBest Special Occasion #Restaurants in Toronto
From one of the restaurant’s intimate corners ... Japanese pub Kinka Izakaya has three locations in Toronto (plus others in Montreal, Japan and Korea). It’s loud and rowdy with the staff challenging...
View ArticleSeal meat dish: Toronto #Restaurant faces flak from animal rights activists
Toronto, Oct 12 (IBNS): A restaurant in Toronto is engaged in a bitter battle with animal rights advocates after the latter objected to one of its dishes on the menu, reports said. The restaurant,...
View ArticleToronto #Teen — Dr. Kitty — allegedly posed as plastic surgeon, doled out...
The woman, with a high school diploma and no specialized training, apparently advertised her services through flyers, including one posted on a wall inside a Chinese restaurant in the city’s north end,...
View ArticleToronto #Woman charged in fatal hit and run gets bail
On Oct. 4, just after 11 p.m., 63-year-old Debbie Graves of Riverview, N.B., was struck and killed on the sidewalk of York Mills Rd., west of Don Mills Rd. She was visiting Toronto for business, and...
View ArticleToronto’s klezmer guru tours Klezmology
a private boys’ school in Toronto. “Fortunately, I enjoy teaching,” he said. “I know some musicians who do not, but I quite like it.” Lightstone and Katz will be playing at the Mezzetta Restaurant on...
View Article'Blistered and bleeding': Toronto MPP calls for ban on mandatory high heels...
The announcement follows a CBC Marketplace investigation that revealed dozens of female staff at Toronto's top restaurants felt pressured to wear gendered outfits or risk losing shifts. Restaurant...
View ArticleAnimal rights activists target Indigenous #Restaurant for serving seal meat
A new petition by animal rights activists is targeting Toronto restaurant Kukum Kitchen for serving seal meat on its menu raising ire from Indigenous people who say their traditional foods are being...
View ArticleToronto #Teen — Dr. Kitty — allegedly posed as plastic surgeon, doled out...
The woman, with a high school diploma and no specialized training, apparently advertised her services through flyers, including one posted on a wall inside a Chinese restaurant in the city’s north end,...
View ArticleHow Toronto's brash experiment is saving the lives of heroin users | Mike Newall
TORONTO – People were dying on the streets here ... “Because there was already drug use in neighborhoods – needles in the parks, and in the restaurant and library restrooms,” he said. Mayor John Tory...
View ArticleToronto resident rallies to save staple Tibetan eatery in Parkdale
But that's precisely why he'd like to see Tibet Kitchen stay, since it's a food-based business and never serves past 10 p.m. "We would be missing a valuable member of our community if this restaurant...
View ArticleGenre Fest A-Go-Go! Three #Film Festivals Catering to Horror Fans In the...
Like genre movies? Brooklyn Horror, Toronto After Dark, and Ithaca Fantastik have you covered! We’re not shy about our love of film festivals around these parts, but while we’re fans of them all my...
View ArticleThe Cheesecake Factory to open Nov. 21 at Toronto’s Yorkdale mall
The U.S. chain, which serves dozens of different kinds of cheesecake, announced earlier this year that it would bring its restaurant to Toronto’s Yorkdale Shopping Centre this fall. Its location will...
View ArticleToronto Seal Meat Controversy Smells Like Racism, Researcher Says
An online petition launched last week called for the Toronto restaurant to remove seal meat from its menu, stating that "seal slaughters are very violent, horrific, traumatizing and unnecessary." The...
View ArticleWhy ordering dessert, a dying art, is the most reasonable decision you can...
In Toronto and Vancouver, the maximum that restaurants can charge ... The chocolate egg draws lines of ravenous crowds, perhaps more than any other menu item at the classic French restaurant. Even when...
View Article'We're being squeezed out': Locals try to save Parkdale #Restaurant amid...
An online petition to save a longtime Parkdale restaurant is spotlighting gentrification in Toronto, after the local eatery revealed that skyrocketing rent will force it out of business. Tibet Kitchen,...
View ArticleBoston Pizza extends its urban strategy with second Toronto '#Restaurant Of...
Canada's largest casual dining restaurant chain is opening a second urban concept restaurant at Yonge and Gerrard with a showpiece retractable roof patio MISSISSAUGA, ON, Oct. 11, 2017 /CNW/ - Boston...
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