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This flamboyant ‘hot spot’ near Church & Wellesley is an institution in itself. As the Eastern Roman Empire before it, the restaurant felt separated from Toronto-west proper, developed a unique, ‘religious’ following and has thrived for years and years. And while the restaurant tries so hard to be different, its food had no differentiating factor. The poutine, pasta and cake were all reminiscences of Longo’s lunches. The poutine stuck so loyally to the holy trinity of fries, gravy and curds that it failed to add anything even a bit unconventional as Smoke Poutinerie might have. The pasta was a mashed up poached salmon thrown with past-al-dente pasta in an excessively heavy rosé. Creativity was limited to shaving some smoked salmon on top of real salmon and sprinkling enough dill to pickle several years’ worth of cucumber. Finally, the chocolate cake was standard birthday party fare. In general, the flavours were too forward and altogether pedestrian.
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