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- 270 Wellington St. W. (at Blue Jays Way) • View on map »
- 416-260-0200
Editorial Review
This cheery space—oxblood-hued walls, bare wooden tables and chairs, ceramic tiles and a postage-stamp open kitchen—is tailor made for the young denizens of condo land. The pizza-pasta-panino menu neither offends nor excites. Good choice of salads, including frutti di mare tossed with tender, tomato-sauced shrimp, and calamari perched on a mountain of mesclun. Workaday pastas tend toward bland sauces and overcooked toppings: linguine with tiger shrimp, scallops and mussels in light asiago-pesto cream or with tiger shrimp, Italian sausage, grilled chicken and sweet peppers in a red wine–tomato sauce. Thin-crusted pizza bianco is topped with an amalgam of button, oyster and portobello mushrooms, pesto and a parm-asiago sauce. Predictable desserts need improvement. Servers are enthusiastic but lack polish. Mains $10–$16.
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