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Toronto restaurants that opened and closed this week
Bloorcourt watering hole Open House will close this month and a new spot to get booze and gelato lands on Queen West By Kelsey Adams
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You have to line up to get your hands on the bacon butty from Emmer in Harbord Village.
You may have noticed pylons lining the streets around many Toronto restaurants. The city is preparing CafeTO street patios so they can be ready at a moment’s notice once lockdown restrictions are lifted.
With beautiful, warm weather this past weekend but no patios to sip and eat on, Torontonians took to the parks en masse (some leaving a bit of a mess in their wake). In this week’s roundup of new openings, there are a lot of picnic or backyard-friendly offerings. Restaurants are getting creative, meeting people where they are – Pastiche’s new roving mini-van popped up at Trinity Bellwoods, serving sandwiches, cocktails and freezies.
NOW Magazine
Toronto’s best new restaurants 2021
Despite hardship, restaurants are continuing to open with creative (and tasty) offerings attuned to the takeout era By Kelsey Adams, Kevin Ritchie and Richard Trapunski
May 13, 2021
It feels redundant to state that it’s been a tough year for restaurants in Toronto. With multiple lockdowns and indoor dining off the table for much of the past 12 months, it’s been an uphill battle for eateries to keep the doors open.
Restaurateurs are a tenacious bunch and despite the hardship, new joints continue to open. Typically, NOW’s best new restaurant lists consider things like atmosphere and table service. So much of the dining experience is really all about those peripheral elements – just not right now.