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Opening
August 28, 2009 | 11:44 am

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Brad Long’s new spot in Bloor West Village will have four floors, luck and tourtière

Go Long: celebrity chef Brad Long is opening his pub in Blood West Village

Go Long: celebrity chef Brad Long is opening a pub in Bloor West Village

Chef and Food Network star Brad Long has a quick answer when asked what will be on the menu at his new Bloor West gastropub: “Canadian food.” He pauses. “What the hell is Canadian food?”

Long has been trying to answer that question for a while, from his days at the CN Tower’s revolving restaurant, 360, to his current gigs as executive chef at King East’s Veritas and sometime-guest on Restaurant Makeover. The quest will continue when the new joint, officially named My Place: A Canadian Pub (subtitled “like a bad movie,” says Long), opens in early September. It will be the pub yin to Veritas’s bistro yang, but the grub will still hinge on Long’s stock-in-trade: seasonal, local ingredients.

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Deathwatch
August 25, 2009 | 3:08 pm

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Restaurant closures roundup: now is the summer of our discontent

Photo by James Cridland

Photo by James Cridland

Steel for some heartbreakers. Since our last roundup of restaurant closures, three of Toronto’s hoariest dining institutions are no more. These and several other fallen eateries, after the jump.

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Restauran-TO
July 3, 2009 | 1:57 pm

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Follow the Tweeter: More Toronto chefs, bars and restaurants hop on the Twitter wagon

The mighty T: Increasingly, Twitter is everywhere (including Toronto kitchens)

More T?: Twitter gains popularity among T.O. foodies

Chefs and restaurateurs across the city are heading into the Twitterverse in a big way. Since our last roundup of Toronto foodie feeds, the popularity of the on-line service has exploded, with Grant van Gameren, Anthony Walsh, Dufflet Rosenberg and many more joining the fray. We find ourselves addicted to the culinary dispatches from these local epicureans (unlike most inane tweets that detail what’s for dinner). Here, our latest guide to who’s tweeting what.

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Aprons & Icons
May 4, 2009 | 12:24 pm

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David Adjey cooks up a series that will save new dining spots from disaster

David Adjey: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

David Adjey: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

David Adjey, the beaming and bronzed saviour-chef of Restaurant Makeover, goes back to basics on his new Food Network series Restaurant 101. The seasoned entrepreneur (formerly of Nectar, now head of his own consulting firm) will play guidance counsellor to troubled upstarts that can’t get their doors open for business. The chosen spots are located throughout Canada and the U.S., with about three in the GTA. One episode has already been shot at a Thornhill Italian–Middle Eastern fusion eatery called Mideastro, where a partner pulled out at the last minute. When we ask what’s in his bag of tricks this time, he responds, “I have been making mistakes in the industry for 27 years.” Enough said.

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Read All About It
February 19, 2009 | 2:34 pm

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Missing restaurateur, Obama’s new brew, a Winterlicious countermeasure

Missing: George Koutroubis was last seen on Tuesday at 7:30 a.m.

Missing: George Koutroubis was last seen on Tuesday at 7:30 a.m.

• Police are searching for George Koutroubis, co-owner of Restaurant Makeover-ed Six Steps Restaurant and Lounge, who was last seen on Tuesday at 7:30 a.m. [National Post]

• Timothy’s is preparing for Barack Obama’s visit by introducing blend number 44 in honour of the United States’ 44th president. We can’t help but notice that there is no Harper-adoring blend number 22. [CNW]

• An antidote to disappointing Winterlicious menus: Stop for Food, running from February 23 to March 28, will feature $50 prix fixes at 26 Toronto restaurants, Czehoski and The Citizen among them. [Martini Boys]

• Toronto Public Health is considering going one step beyond the federal voluntary Trans Fat Monitoring Program by regulating the trans fat in food at they city’s restaurants and grocery stores. [IP Address]

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