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Reviewed by Toronto Life
  • 55 Avenue Rd. (at Yorkville Ave.), Hazel­ton Lanes • View on map »
  • 416-935-0000
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Editorial Review

For lunch, Sunday brunch and afternoon tea, the two-storey courtyard in Hazelton Lanes becomes Manyata (Kiswahili for “meeting place”), a genteel arena favoured by elderly ladies who lunch. The menu suits them: a list of pretty dishes that sound much more global and exotic than they taste. Saku tuna salad lamu style, for instance, is three islands of accessible flavour posed on heart-shaped leaves: a mound of shredded wakame, a heap of pickled daikon and ...

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