Owl of Minerva
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416-538-3030
For most of the day, this 24-hour joint feels like a cafeteria at a second-tier community college in Incheon. When the clock strikes midnight, though, the city’s exhausted chefs and half of the U of T campus stop in for some highly spicy, belly-filling Korean food and a few icy beers before bed. Sharing a fluffy pancake studded with shrimp, squid, mussels and spears of green onion is a good way to start. A salty dip of soy sauce, garlic and sesame seeds doubles the umami pleasure. The gam ja tang can hold its own against Koreatown’s best: a satisfying spicy-sweet-sour broth is packed with potato, kimchee, chunks of pork bone and a haystack of bean sprouts. Other dishes veer too sharply toward the sweet side. Glutinous rice cakes, stir-fried with ribbons of fish cake and crunchy cabbage and onion, are Korea’s answer to gnocchi, but the ketchupy fluorescent red sauce tastes like Chef Boyardee. Cash only.
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Vegetarian: Yes
Kitchen open past midnight on weekends: Yes
Price Range: $30 Gourmet
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