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Reviewed by Toronto Life
  • 1900 Dixie Rd. N. • View on map »
  • Pickering
  • 905-839-2506
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Editorial Review

Decked out in safe, suburban beige, this family-run bistro in Pickering draws a food-savvy crowd looking for an alternative to the area’s ubiquitous chain restaurants. A long, ambitious menu of trendy bistro fare (think calamari with pomegranate, or lamb with Latin flavours) challenges the kitchen. Spinach-fennel soup is a silken emerald purée, but its one-dimensional taste is curiously redolent of neither vegetable. House-made lobster-shrimp dumplings are crispy, plump, soy-drizzled won tons with subtle lemon grass ...

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