Restaurant Comings & Goings

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https://torontolife.com/food/swedish-meatball-flavoured-lollipop-chupa-chup-ikea/

The iconic furniture company has teamed up with Spanish lollipop-maker Chupa Chups to bring us—drum roll, please—a meatball-flavoured sucker.

 

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https://torontolife.com/food/rileys-fish-and-steak/

Name: Riley’s Fish and Steak
Contact: 155 Wellington St. W., rileysrestaurant.ca/toronto, @rileysfishandsteak
Neighbourhood: Entertainment District
Owner: Emad Yacoub (Glowbal Restaurant Group)
Head chef: Scott Saunderson
Accessibility: Fully accessible

Emad Yacoub, president of the massive BC-based Glowbal Restaurant Group—which brought Toronto the two-storey, 9,000-square-foot steakhouse Black and Blue—literally squeezed his way to the top. In 1984, Yacoub emigrated from Egypt to Toronto. He was only 19 years old and didn’t speak a word of English. “My first job was juicing oranges at the Harbour Castle Hilton,” he says.

Personal take: Been to this place in Vancouver many times due to corporate events - food was meh!

 

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https://torontolife.com/food/chef-claudio-aprile-origin-burlington/

Now, the man who brought us the edible architecture of Colborne Lane and spent years judging cooking competitions on MasterChef Canada is staging a comeback that feels less like a corporate rollout and more like an analog reset. Opening this June in Burlington, right by the waterfront and across the street from the swish Pearl Hotel, Bar Origin will trade the frantic buzz of downtown Toronto for the bedroom-community charm of the burbs. “I just felt a real yearning for this restaurant,” says Aprile, who was previously doing a lot of consulting work.