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Nyood

Reviewed by Toronto LifePretty girls in tight dresses and the men who “love” them add splashes of colour to this black and white room on Queen Street’s perennially fashionable strip. The menu has changed little over the past couple of years, with its focus on international sharing plates, flirty cocktails and comforting sweets. A salad of avocado, watermelon and feta cheese tastes mostly of fruit, but is no worse for that. Among the numerous flatbread offerings, Iberico ham with sweet roasted figs, garlic purée and Zamorano—an earthy Spanish sheep’s milk cheese—is a standout. Dishes arrive in a hurry, making it difficult to pair wines from the food-friendly list when both the warm tiger shrimp salad with zesty chimichurri and heirloom tomatoes and the sweet short ribs (oddly cold) arrive within moments of each other. Let one of the personable, knowledgeable servers persuade you to have a glass of vin santo with dessert. The oddly rubbery panna cotta is saved by a lovely and refreshing pink grapefruit vodka sorbet. Small plates $9–$32.

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