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Reviewed by Toronto Life
  • 36 Wellington St. E. (at Church St.) View on map »
  • 416-504-9990
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Editorial Review

Veteran restaurateur Simon Bower (Mercer Street Grill, YYZ) has turned Pravda’s old space into an eclectically decorated but curiously elegant room. Leather walls imitate open brick; curling metal masks a vintage bar and sunset ceiling (both aglow). It’s a cool frame for co-owner and chef Scot Woods’s highly contemporary, technically masterful food. Octopus is grilled Japanese bincho style, sliced thinly and partnered with chorizo, fingerling, delectable black olive “leather” and pimento caviar. Sweetly spiced Berkshire ...

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    36 Wellington St. E. (at Church St.)
  • 416-504-9990

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