Win 2 tickets to Toronto Taste worth $450!
Hi foodies! It’s Canadian Living’s web food editor Colleen filling in for Christine as she gallivants across the country, frolicking in merriment as she discovers food and drink to share with us all. Oh to be a food writer!
But enough of my whining. I’m here to tell you that 50 of Toronto’s top chefs are gathering together on Sunday, June 8th to show off their culinary prowess at the Toronto Taste event in support of Second Harvest, a non-profit organization collecting and delivering unused fresh food from the Toronto’s restaurants and small grocery stores to shelters across the city. Wineries, micro-breweries and cocktail vendors also represent a large portion of the event’s purveyors. Yay!
Why is this important? YOU could win two tickets – valued at $225 each!!
Get your salivatory (and creative) juices flowing and tell us your favourite Toronto Taste. Is it pork dumplings in Chinatown? Vegan fare in the Annex? Flaming cheese on the Danforth? One lucky person who comments below will be chosen at random to attend next Sunday’s Toronto Taste event! The winner will be contacted on Thursday, June 5th and tickets will be held at the event in the winner’s name.
So pony up, dear readers, and tell us your favourite bites from the City of Toronto. You and a friend could be attending this year’s most exclusive foodie event in Toronto! Good luck!
My favourite Toronto Taste is tak kalbi at Joon’s restaurant in North York. It’s a mess of Korean chile-paste-marinated chicken, stir-fried on a griddle at your table with slices of napa cabbage, sweet potato and logs of chewy rice cakes. For an extra dollar they’ll add a mound of cheese.
I love Natchos Thai Thai at King and Church. It is the oddest combo – Thai and Mexican food (!), but somehow, it really works. So many of the main dishes can be made with a vegetarian version. These people really know how to make tofu taste fantastic! Excellent value for money.
toronto is the most diverse city in the world, and its no coincidence that its food is just as diverse…depending on my mood, these are my favorite food joints in the GTA.
best chinese: HONG SHING (dundas/university) – recommended: the chili chicken
best japanese: YANG’S KITCHEN (hwy.7/warden)
recommended: an appetite (it’s all you can eat)
best greek: PANTHEON (danforth)
recommended: grilled octopus/calamari
best wings: ALL STAR WINGS (markham/new market)
recommended: pandora’s box
hidden gem: Utopia (little italy)
recommended: deep fried wrapped brie
My Toronto favourite restuarant in Toronto is “Live” another hidden gem is “Fressen”
best italian – giancarlo, college st.
best lesliville resturant – giorannas, queen e @ leslie
best sweet shop – sweetbliss
best pub – allens on the danforth
I have many favourites in the city which all depend on what what I’m hankering for. My go-to favourite when I can’t decide is The New York Cafe at the corner of Broadview and Danforth. Great food, reasonable prices and great service. Katarina is reason enough alone to pay them a visit!
I actually have never been to T.O. Taste event but I love greek food and with the recommendations listed here, I might just have to get there to explore Toronto’s truely diverse food options and cultural experiences.
Food options in Toronto are as diverse as its population. I have a favorite food for each meal of the day and each season of the year. But what comes to mind at this hour are the chocolate almond croissants at Celestin Bakery on Mt. Pleasant. Crispy on the outside and gooey on the inside – arrive early on the weekend and you’ll be treated to the sensational taste of warm, rich chocolate flowing from the inside of one of these freshly baked treats. By far the best in all Toronto.
I love Dufflet’s! Anything sweet…
hakka food, any restorant
Late night bites at Happy Seven in China town. Generous portions- it is worth the long wait!
You must try anything with seafood and the green tea is delicious!
My new favorite Toronto Taste is the Macoroni & Asiago cheese at Trevor Kitchen and Bar. Such a simple comfort dish, but with a twist as only Trevor can produce! My mouth is watering just thinking about it…….
Portuguese Fine Dining you’ll find at Chiado Restaurant!(College/Ossington)
Grilled Squid with fresh coriander, lemon, garlic, extra virgin olive oil served with roasted sweet peppers, charred tomato and caramelized leeks……..mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!
I have a number of favourite Toronto Taste 1) grilled with spices corn on Gerrard street! It a great summer treat…..
2) Peeking man kung-pow chicken
3) hakka – Lin garden in Scarborough……
My favorite is Eastern Twist at Passmore Avenue and St.Clair Avenue and I love the huge Paratha wraps there!
Well, I don’t often get to eat in Toronto, but the few times I have gotten to go out for dinner have been very memorable! Great French food at La Bodega on Baldwin Street, awesome dumplings in Chinatown, excellent Italian at Serra on Bloor and the most extravagant tasting menu at Splendido! Great memories!
My favorite restaurent in Toronto is Franki’s Tomato in Woodbine st. with it’s delicious Ribs.
When I was visiting Toronto in the summer my niece and future nephew brought over some wonderful Indian food. They said it was from a small little restaurant that they particularily liked. There was the most delicious and yummy better chicken…mmmmm. Unfortunately at this moment I do not know the name of that restaurant but would gladly find out and supply it should I win.
I don’t get to T.O. much but when I do, I must stop at Falafel Queen (576 Queen St. W)and pickup one to eat and one or two to go. Best Falafel’s in Toronto, and I’ve tried most of them!! My kids and I love them.
Here is a list of my favorites:
Pork and Shrimp dumplings – The Dumpling House restaruant – Chinatown.
Veal sandwich – California Sandwiches on Claremont Street
Rare Beef Salad (it is truely addicting)-Pho Hung Vietnamese- Chinatown
Butter chicken – Banjara Restaurant on Bloor (at Christie)
Pepperoni Pizza – Bitondo’s on Clinton
Cabbage Rolls – United Bakery – Lawrence and Bathurst
Middle Eastern – The Jerusalem – Eglington and Bathurst
Back Bacon Sandwich – Carosel Bakery – St. Lawrence Market
Yukon Gold French French Fries – Jamie Kennedy Wine Bar
Cheese Danish – Harbord Street Bakery – Harbord and Bathurst
Hungary now – need to eat!
I know that Toronto has a plethora of amazing taste sensations, however, rarely get to experience them as I live about 2 hours away. Although I haven’t dined enough in Toronto to have a favourite restaurant, I’m sure the Toronto Taste Event would be the perfect place to get started on my culinary journey. Bon appetit!
I don’t get to eat in Toronto too often, but when i do i go to my 2 favorite restaurants the Whistling Oyster, you can sampling all differnt tappa food such as from Chinese to seafood they have a great selection and Big Daddy’s for their New Orleans style food especially they’re black rice. I could go on and talk about food all day, i love food. So when i eat at a very good resaurant i like to tell all my friends about it
Love everything at Flo’s in Yorkville!
Was recently at a taste testing for an event at Flo’s. Their coconut soup and their calamari is to die for!
I don’t live in Toronto anymore but I can’t wait to get back to visit a particular sushi restaurant on the Danforth. I can’t remember the name but it has the best Japanese food and the prices are so reasonable. A huge serving of vegetarian sushi, green tea, salmon teryiaki, vegetable tempura, green tea ice cream — it’s heavenly.
For years whenever I visited my sister it was tradition to go for wings at the Bistro on Avenue Road. My sister passed away a few years ago and whenever I am back in Toronto I always make a point of going to the Bistro to celebrate her memory and enjoy the fabulous wings. Totally worth the air fare!