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Mercatto

Reviewed by Toronto Life
$30 Gourmet
Allows one person to dine well for $30 or less, including tax and tip; they are not star rated More like this »
Editorial Review

A spring renovation has taken this booming downtown lunch concern’s Toronto Street location ever so slightly upmarket, the long, high, not-quite-comfortable communal tables now joined by some at normal height; an Enomatic wine-serving system that preserves open bottles with nitrogen adds considerable heft to the by-the-glass list. In spite of a larger sel­ection of antipasti, the food, however, is the same as ever: dependable salads and thin-crust pizzas backed by decent pastas (though leaden gnocchi ...

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