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Don’t feel like grabbing delightful dim sum for one today? How about free fish and chips instead? To celebrate two years in business, King West’s The One That Got Away, which we featured as a Weekly Lunch Pick last year, will be giving out free haddock and chips all day long. Plan on making this a lengthy lunch break: we’d be shocked if there wasn’t a lineup.
The One That Got Away, 581 King St. W., 647-351-6153, totga.ca, @theonefish
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Trying to choose a selection of our favourite lunch picks from the last year proved too much like choosing a selection of our favourite children. So instead we present a complete year of lunch picks, ranked by price, from a humble porchetta sandwich (a reasonable $6.75) to a somewhat less humble five-course feast (treat yourself for $100).
Open only a couple weeks, Off the Hook already has a strong local following (Image: Daniel Barna)
A punning name seems to be obligatory for fish-and-chips shops these days. First there was The One That Got Away, which opened last fall on King Street West. Now Steven Karataglidis has opened Off the Hook on Broadview, which, in addition to succeeding Deep Blue as the Greektown’s only fish fry, might be Toronto’s first shop to fry its daily catch in gluten-free batter.
The fish basket at The One That Got Away (Image: Andrew Brudz)
Since it opened last November, The One That Got Away has been serving simple sandwiches, wraps and tacos (only available after 2 p.m. for now) to King West workers and nighttime revellers. The cafeteria-style dining room features the rustic wood and kitschy artifacts ubiquitous in new restaurants, but the classic fish ’n’ chips is hard to come by downtown.
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