The Best Dishes you ate in [Toronto] in 2022

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https://torontolife.com/food/ten-toronto-chefs-on-the-best-dishes-they-ate-in-2022/

Which were your favourites?

My slice of pizza at Badiali’s was also one of the best things I ate this year.

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Mine’s pretty simple, the Nashville hot chicken from Chica’s. Maybe it’s because I’ve never had it before but the difference between that and the non-Nashville hot chickens made it stand out for me.

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Happy 2023 everyone! How many dishes do I get to pick?

Here are bunch of our favourites from the past year:

  • Riff on poke with ahi, tamari, shio koi, pear, coriander, daikon, sesame - Alo (takeout). Amazing clean, fresh flavours.
  • Blood orange teriyaki chicken over sushi rice, charred radicchio, blood orange togarishi - Lake Inez (takeout). Smokey chicken with a strong blood orange flavour throughout.
  • Pizza carbonara - Gusto 501. Highlighted by crisp guanciale and a barely cooked egg overtop.
  • Koshari (rice, pasta, lentils with a cumin-y tomato sauce and a lemon garlic sauce - Papyrus. Simple and lots of great flavours.
  • Mathlootha - Mandi Afandi. Steamed fall-off-the-bone lamb, perfumed with preserved lemon, with crushed wheat, rice, tomato sauce, caramelized onions.
  • House-smoked ham, celery, shave Comte, truffle aioli - Lapinou. Hope they bring this one back.
  • Beef noodles with pickled cabbage - GB Hand Pulled Noodles. Spicy tender flank, accented with green onion, radish, and green onions.
  • Pork neck pancake - Pinkerton’s Snack Bar. Tender pork, chili candied peanuts, kimchi, green onions. Salt, fat, sweet, mildly spicy.
  • Pork chilaca - La Chilaca. Hot pepper, stuff with cheese, fried, and slathered with tasty pork.
  • Eggplant and ricotta “meatballs” - Tutti Matti. With melted smoked mozzarella, great tomato sauce, and a a big wad of chewy and moist pizza dough.
  • Cured lake trout with pine salt spruce tips and house-made fish sauce - Actinolite. Supple trout with lots of umami and evergreen overtones.
  • Spaghettoni with pistachio pesto - Massimo Bruno. So good we got seconds.
  • Raw side striped shrimp, poached mussels, green tomato water, honeydew, and charred cucumber - Grey Gardens. Refreshing on a summer day.
  • Shakshuka - Shook. Great combo of smokey tomato, poached eggs, sukkah, and harissa.
  • Ban cuon - Que Ling. Simple and consistently excellent.
  • Ham and leek quiche - Emmer. Lots of gruyere too.
  • Thai green curry pizza - LaMoon Thai Cafe. No really, you should try it.
  • House porchetta sandwich - When the Pig Came Home. Decadent and delicious.
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You jogged my memory!

Excellent quiche at Emmer and at Le Conciliabule’.

Excellent croque monsieur at Emmer, Le Conciliabule, Bar Pompette and Nadège.

My favourite breakfast sandwich on a biscuit at Emma’s Country Kitchen.

My favourite breakfast sandwich on an English muffin at Emmer. I get the sausage cooked well, because I like it more well-done.

Union for year-round patio brunch. I like the Swiss Train Ride but sometimes try features.

My most memorable and nicest Italian meal of 2022 was at Enoteca Sociale. Burrata, an interesting salad, pasta amatriciana.

My go-to pubs have been the Duke of York for it’s convenience and the Oxley for its food (very good sticky toffee pudding)

I haven’t ventured to Markham in 4 years, and haven’t been doing upscale dim sum as often as I once did. My take-out dim sum order from Pearl Harbourfront was excellent this past Sept.

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