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Chef Emiliano Del Frate — who has worked in Noma's kitchen during its third Michelin star era and contributed to the opening of Gucci Osteria Tokyo — could have built a reputation on biography alone.

College Street has no shortage of rooms that dress up ordinary cooking in good lighting, which is part of what makes Zafoon worth your attention.

Avenue Road north of Lawrence occupies a particular register of Toronto neighbourhood — understated money, tasteful storefronts, the kind of street where a serious bakery can actually behave like one rather than performing at it.

There's a certain kind of French bakery that functions less as a business and more as a neighborhood position — a quiet argument that slowing down is worth something.

Kate Chomyshyn and Julio Guajardo built something Toronto didn't fully know it was missing: a wood-fire Mexican kitchen in Little Italy that refuses to sand down its edges for a room that hasn't always encountered Mexican cooking at this…