New Toronto restaurants: Yonge Street Warehouse, Paris Paris, Juanmoto

Plus: Luke's Lobster, Spice Indian Bistro, Basil Box (Finch) and more

By Natalia Manzocco

Jan 30, 2018

Downtown

College kids and five bucks-havers, get ready: the latest in the El Furniture Warehouse family, Yonge Street Warehouse, opens next week at 336 Yonge (at Gould).
Veteran chef Debu Saha is back yet again with Spice Indian Bistro (320 Richmond East, Unit 107, at Sherbourne).
The people behind Oddseoul, Hanmoto and Pinky’s have opened up a pop-up kitchen inside Cold Tea (60 Kensington, at St. Andrew). It’s a South American snack bar called (wait for it) Juanmoto.
U.S. chain Luke’s Lobster has announced it’s scouting out locations in Toronto.

North

A new Basil Box location is going in at 5607 Yonge (at Finch).
Cheese Garden is expanding to Skycity Shopping Centre in Scarborough and Pacific Mall in Markham.

East

Creeds Coffee Bar has a new location at 1595 Bayview (at Fleming).

West

Jonathan Poon and Jesse Fader (previously of Bar Fancy and Superpoint) are opening a new wine bar, Paris Paris, at 1161 Dundas West (at Ossington).
Junction Brewing‘s new space at 150 Symes (at Glen Scarlett) is open for tours, samples, event bookings and pop-up eats.
Tacos Baos (which, presumably, does what it says on the label) is opening soon at 914 Bloor West (at Ossington).
El Fogon has has shut down at 543 St. Clair West (at Vaughan) after 16 years.

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Natalia Manzocco

Natalia came to NOW as the food writer in 2015 before taking over the lifestyle desk in 2019. She has written about food, style, technology, life and travel for the National Post, Sun Media, blogTO and Metro. She enjoys thrift stores and bad puns.