THE TIP OFF - Edition 1
🎧 Listen to THE TIP OFF, a supplement to my OPEN/CLOSED featuring breaking exclusives, sneak peeks, hot tips + the week’s top stories and events like you’ve never seen - or heard - before in 3 minutes or less on TORONTO RESTAURANTS | THE PODCAST. p.s. While some items may appear in the OPEN/CLOSED, others will be reported here exclusively for the first time. NO ONE COVERS THE CITY LIKE THIS.
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The restaurant scene these days is wild, isn't it? It's like nothing I've ever seen before. I'm covering over a hundred restaurants a month and it's getting crazier. I've got so much great information and so much is happening so quickly. So I've brought what I used to have in the TR Newsletter, The Tip Off, to the podcast. What I'm going to be doing is bringing you the top stories, breaking news, intel, all my secrets. Well, most of my secrets.So what have we got this week?
First up, Badlands (192 Ossington Ave.) opened Saturday night. I don't know if you know Brook Kavanaugh and Lara Roberts. They're the couple behind their spot next door called Season Six on Ossington. Around the corner, they've got Sprezzatura Spaghetti Disco. And then also on Ossington, they've got Taqueria El Valiente, which is the one downstairs. They really love Ossington. So they've got a cute new Western-themed saloon, which is part of a new wave of restaurants that have touched down on Ossington lately. We've got Andrea's Cookies, Cereal Box Cafe, Chica San Chen, Fallen Feather, Linny's, and No Vacancy. And that's just in the last few weeks and months. Ossington is popping off.
Hot Tip from Oakville: Tatin Bakehouse (2345 Wyecroft Rd., Unit 20) by chef Lili Linda and Sheila Wang debuted on Wednesday. This has been on my watch list for a long time. I wrote about Chef Linda back in 2021 when she and her mom were doing a dried meat concept, She and Sheila have created quite a beautiful and well-crafted place to get baked goods.
Next up, Kensei Bar (1173 Dundas St. W.) , which I was the first to report of celebrity chef David Adjey's modern French restaurant, Bouffe closedo. And then I found out Kensei Bar was coming in and boy, love this concept. It's part listening bar, part restaurant, part cocktail bar on Dundas just around from Ossington. So again, part of the Ossington movement and I'm very excited about the menu.
And then sad news today, Chef Anthony Rose announced that Fet Zun will be closing. Last day of service is December 22nd. It was Bar Begonia for those of you from back in the day.But the good news is that Chef Anthony Rose is still the King of Dupont with his Fat Pasha and Schmaltz Appetizing still on the strip. And we'll have to go and say our goodbyes, but it's not goodbye to Anthony.
And that's just a few of the stories that are happening. The good news is The Tip Off will be coming to you here on the podcast. And then of course, the OPEN/CLOSED which is the most comprehensive resource of restaurant openings, closures, news events, intel, trends, all of those things.
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