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There is a distinction that matters in Toronto's Ethiopian dining scene, and Ethio Kana on College Street sits clearly on one side of it.

Di An opened in a Scarborough strip mall less than a year ago and has apparently been making the downtown Vietnamese corridor look a little complacent ever since.

What separates Sinjeon Topokki & Bar on Bloor from the rotating cast of Korean concepts arriving in Toronto is provenance with a point.

Cowboys Grill on Yonge knows exactly what it is — a smoke-and-eggs counter where Midtown's working regulars eat breakfast like they mean it, and nobody is performing brunch.

Gimbap Shop on Spring Garden Avenue has been a North York institution for twenty-eight years — operating long before the neighbourhood's dining scene attracted any serious outside attention.