Hot Seats
New restaurants to inspire cravings for rabbit pancakes, soft-serve ice cream and kaiseki
Hashimoto
6 Garamond Ct.
For years, foodies flocked to a strip mall in Mississauga to sample kaiseki master Masaki Hashimoto’s sublime odes to cherry blossoms and conger pike. Now they can make a more pleasant trek to the Japanese Cultural Centre in Don Mills, home to his new venture. Reservations must be made a week in advance, as he orders most ingredients from Japan, and the dishes are often timed to Shinto festivals. October.
Hoof Café
923 Dundas St. W.
Lineups will be less of a problem at the Black Hoof once Hoof Café opens up across the street. Like a candy shop for carnivores, it will sell Grant van Gameren’s peerless charcuterie, as well as dish up gamy brunches (rabbit pancakes, blood sausage crêpes). Come cocktail hour, it will act as BH’s green room, with small plates and Jen Agg’s wickedly strong drinks. Opening Date TBA.
Origin
107–109 King St. E.
Claudio Aprile’s latest outpost is around the corner from Colborne Lane, where the chef’s every dish seems incomplete if it isn’t decorated with soy foam or some exotic powder. He’s secretive about his new menu, but he will admit that he’s planning to offer soft-serve ice cream. Compared to Colborne Lane’s ice cream, which is whipped tableside with a spurt of nitrogen, it sounds downright conventional. Late November.
Böhmer
93 Ossington Ave.
Ossington goes locavore with the opening of Paul Boehmer’s first solo endeavour. The itinerant chef (most recently of Rosewater Supper Club) is taking his inspiration from Michael Stadtländer. A seasonal menu will push Ontario produce, fish and game, the Canadiana theme echoed in a woodsy interior by furniture makers Brothers Dressler. So what’s with the umlaut on the restaurant’s name? It’s Boehmer’s original surname, before his father switched it on his move to Canada. Late September.
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