Opening
Amadeus
An Austrian giant takes downtown By James Chatto
Ein klieines Bier, bitte: bier stube manager Stan Adamcyzk's suspenders are made the traditional way—of goat suede
Ever since he went to hotel school in Vienna 40 years ago, restaurateur Bob Antoniou (Little Anthony’s, Mediterra) has longed to open a high-end Austrian restaurant. He fulfi lls the dream with Amadeus, on Richmond Street’s suddenly red-hot strip, a stein’s throw from the opera house. While suits dine on Austrian chef Rudi Kitzberger’s classic tafelspitz (boiled beef served in the traditional copper pan) and blood sausage dumplings, the less formally minded can tuck into Viennese pastries in the café or make merry in the 190-seat bier stube. There, comely fräuleins in frilly dirndls serve all manner of sausage and 14 draft beers to the rhythms of a live oompah band. Toronto has never seen anything quite so Austrian—a perfect pit stop before a Mozart opera over the road.
Amadeus, 111 Richmond St. W., 416-366-3500.
TEST Originally published October 2006
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nunzia October 8, 20061
My partner and I, Austrian Pastry Chef Burgi Riegler, and her mother visiting from Austria have a few comments with regard to the desserts we sampled at Amadeus. We are of the belief that one should not falsely advertise one's goods. The Sacher torte is not Sacher torte. Yours is a chocolate cake. The apple strudel is not the Vienesse style as filo dough has been used, not the stretched dough. And the Black Forest cake was missing a critical ingredient—the kirsch.
—Ben Stellino
dwdl420 February 8, 20102
Please remove/edit this article since the contact info is no longer up-to-date. Their phone number is now registered for a different business and is causing the new company a lot of trouble receiving phone calls from people asking for reservations.
Indeed, a lot of people review Toronto Life for information. Business contacts for recommendations need to be current and accurate.
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