Toronto Restaurants

  1. Chapter Eleven

    Part lounge bar, part restaurant, Cabbagetown's Chapter Eleven derives it's name from a US term for bankruptcy. Perhaps they're tempting fate, but if they keep doing what they're doing now, bankruptcy won't ever be a problem. The menu has plenty of appetizers (hummus, deep-fried pepperoni, wings; around C$4 to around C$6 ), or tackle something more substantial like the spinach salad with goat's cheese, grapes, cherry tomatoes, chicken, sliced almonds and balsamic vinaigrette ($11).

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  2. Commensal

    Cafeteria-style Commensal sells 100-plus buffet dishes, including fresh salads, hot main dishes with international flavors and desserts naturally sweetened with maple syrup or fruit nectars. Most dietary restrictions can be accommodated; only a few dishes approach blandness (which the mod-mall interior design approached years ago). Herbal teas, beer and wine also make the grade.

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  3. Pier 4 Restaurant

    Sit inside if you want to, but the place to be on a muggy summer day is on Pier 4's lakeside patio, strewn with timber-topped tables like God's spilled Scrabble board. Patio food offerings are cheap and cheerful (burgers, wings, salads, sourdough chowder etc). Inside the faux-nautical restaurant - a landlubber's spoil of wicker and wood - the menu extends to pastas, soups, steaks and seafood.

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