The AGO restaurant’s $35 prix fixe, $10 of which is donated to The Stop, is great food for a great cause
The place: The upgraded AGO has a restaurant to match, named for Frank Gehry, the celebrity architect behind the transformation. The vibrant multi-level dining room is amenable to mid-gallery refuelling, long dinners and relaxed brunches.
The crowd: True to its slogan, “Art. Food. Talk,” the dining room is full of chatty AGO staff, University Avenue bureaucrats and camera-laden families discussing King Tut.
The deal: For the month of March, chef Anne Yarymowich has prepared a special three-course prix fixe ($35), from which $10 will go to the Stop Community Food Centre’s anti-hunger campaign.
The dish: The pear and parsnip soup served—pleasantly, if redundantly—with crisp pear and parsnip chips is smooth, sweet and tangy. The Ontario beef burger, with rosemary-infused white bean spread and mild Blue Haze cheese, is a juicy, messy delight. Lunch wraps up with pastry chef Van Vi Lam’s apple kuchen: a warm German-style apple cake in a pool of apple cider reduction. It finds excellent company in a scoop of brown sugar ice cream.
The time: One hour, 10 minutes; not bad for a three-course lunch.
(Images: Matthew Fox)
The cost: $45, including tax and tip.
Frank, 317 Dundas St. W. (at McCaul St.), 416-979-6688, ago.net/frank
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What’s with all these primary colour plates? We’re not in kindergarten. Besides…it’s well known that the colour pink and shades of are an appetite turnoff.
December 2, 2010 at 2:22 pm | by Geotravel