Restaurant recap (May, Toronto)

Visited some restaurants in May, but didn’t have time to write full reviews for them. So, here’s a recap.

(1) Gilead Cafe
Gilead Cafe – visited on a Tuesday afternoon for lunch. It’s located on Gilead Place, between King and Eastern. I got there a bit earlier and took a walk around the historic Corktown neighbourhood.

We had the Croque Madame w/ Thunder oak Gouda on Sourdough

and a Curried Vegetables w/ Raita on Olive Bread

The Croque Madame was really good. We liked the mustard sauce. I usually like olive bread and that was why I ordered the curried veggie on olive bread, but it was ok, a bit difficult to eat.

FYI: Gilead Cafe
4 Gilead Place, Toronto, ON.
Tel: 647.288.0680
Open: 8am-6pm Mon to Fri | 8am – 4pm Sat & Sun

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(2) The David Duncan House:

I’ve driven by this place many times… going down Don Mills Road (from GTA North), you can see a stand alone old fashioned building on the right hand side. One night, we went to this place and tried it out. The ambient was pretty nice. It definitely wasn’t my style, but once in a while it’s nice to check out some restaurants that I’ve wanted to try. Service was good. The food wasn’t too expensive considered it is a fine dining restaurant. I ordered a seafood entree. Sigh. It was a bit disappointing – nothing spectacular. From that perspective, the food was a bit overpriced. Another person tried the steak but didn’t like that either.

FYI: The David Duncan House
125 Moatfield Drive, Don mills, Toronto
Tel: 416.391.1424

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(3) Remezzo Italian Bistro:

Another restaurant that I’ve been thinking of trying but never had a chance. Went there on a Thursday night for dinner. Overall food was pretty good. Entree price range around $12-18. Service was a bit slow and not very responsive – as I was told many servers are part-timers. The dessert Tiramisu was quite good as well, but the rapsberry white chocolate mousse cake was disspointing. Overall… I think it’s not bad at all.

FYI: Remezzo Italian Bistro
3335 Sheppard Ave. E. (@ Warden)
Tel: 416.498.8848

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(4) Tony’s Italian Restaurant:

The big tomato sign on Yonge near Sheppard definitely caught my attention. For so many years, I never had a chance to try it. So, one night… we went there. Service – nothing to complain about. The place was cozy. We got a table near the window. There weren’t a lot of customers on a weekend, and later we kinda knew the reason. Depends on what you order… some entree are quite bland. I ordered the Chicken and Shrimp Cacciatore and I liked it, but my friends ordered some pastas and pizza and found them not so great. As a result we didn’t try the dessert there.

FYI: Tony’s Italian Restaurant
4864 Yonge Street, Toronto (North of Sheppard)
Tel: 416.733.3021

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(5) Cafe Mirage:

This one is a bit different. I never thought about going into this place. Used to hang out at Sheppard Centre a long time ago. Back then this place was called “Plantation” or something like that. Now, it’s Cafe Mirage. There’s another location near Kennedy and Sheppard. We went to the Sheppard Center after dinner. I liked this place. Wide selection of food to satisfy your craving… you can go there with your significant other where he hasn’t eaten all day and order an entree but you’re just up for dessert (a very possible scenario lol). Huge waffles! OMG… should definitely share with friends. Argh. I wish I checked out this place earlier. (From outside… I didn’t think it’d be like this.)

FYI:Cafe Mirage
(1) Sheppard Center (Yonge & Sheppard)
Tel: 416.250.9422
(2) Kennedy Commons (Kennedy & 401)
Tel: 416.335.1177

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(6) Duff’s Wings

The first time I saw this place was a few years ago when I went to Hollywood Gelato. Since then, this idea came up a few times but I never tried it. Finally, we were there. The wings were pretty good, but I think I prefer St. Louis (Yonge/Finch). Let me know what you think.

FYI: Duff’s Wings
1604 Bayview Ave.
Tel: 416.544.0100

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(7) Patisserie la Cigogne

After Duff’s Wings we went to this place – recommended by my friend, JL. Nine of us shared 6 individual cakes. We liked Intense and Louis XIV. We both agreed that the cakes here were better (fresher) than the ones that we had @ La Bamboche. Nice! Check it out if you’re in that area. Took a lot of pictures, but haven’t uploaded. You can check out the cake pictures on the website. (don’t drool :p I hate blogging late at night! Makes me wanna eaaat)

FYI: Patisserie la Cigogne
1626 Bayview Ave., Toronto
Tel: 416.487.1234

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Maybe I’ve missed a few restaurants… but these are the ones that I can think of top of my head. *cough cough* late at night… I should sleep and rest. Long flight coming up.