Friday Restaurant Recap rounds up the week’s Toronto restaurant news. In this edition: a new Italian joint for Dundas West, a mobile pizzeria, a makeover for Reds Bistro and more.
Opening soon
- Cafe+Bar+Pasta is set to open in December, bringing — wait for it — coffee, wine and pasta to 1588 Dundas West. [Twitter]
- El Almacen is bringing its yerba mate and empanadas to the Junction with a second location at 1642 Dupont Street. It’s slated to open some time before Christmas.
- The longstanding Hot Oven Bakery is planning to open a new location at 177 Roncesvalles this November. [Facebook]
- The long-awaited Five Guys Burgers and Fries and Yonge and Dundas is set to open this weekend. [The Grid]
Newly opened
- Pizza Settecento is taking pizza to a whole new level with a portable wood-burning pizza oven.
- Reds Wine Tavern, formerly Reds Bistro and Wine Bar, has reopened after getting a facelift and new chef: Ryan Gallagher (of Top Chef Canada fame). [BlogTO]
- Japas brings seafood-focused Asian tapas to Koreatown, reaffirming that there’s more to Japanese cuisine then just sushi.
Closing
- Lick’s is closing its iconic Beaches location to make way for a condo building. A new Lick’s location for the neighbourhood is in the works.
Change-ups
- The Ritz Carlton welcomes chef Gihen Zitouni to head up a new menu for the upcoming relaunch of TOCA.
- Popular Middle Eastern restaurant Mideastro has moved one of its two locations to a bigger, better venue in Thornhill. The Yorkville location has stayed put, but the former 80-seat restaurant at 1200 Highway 7 is now open at 8020 Bathurst Street in a 130-seat space.
