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Your weekly digest of Toronto food news

February 20, 2025

Dear reader,

This past Sunday, my almost-20-year-old stepson and his pal made a snow fort in our backyard. This is a person who—like almost everyone else his age—simply can’t function away from a screen for more than a few minutes, but he spent hours playing outside. There’s something magical about so much snow on the ground. And that, folks, is all the positivity I can muster. I’m out of nice things to say. I simply hate the stuff, and I wish it would disappear. There’s only one thing that snow and the cold are good for: resorting to our most primal instincts and eating like hangry bears preparing for hibernation.
Everyone has their own go-to comfort food, and mine is—and always will be—pasta. It’s a panacea for all of winter’s ills. In the past week alone, I’ve resorted to making one of my favourite 10-minute meals not once but thrice. It involves blistered cherry tomatoes, garlicky rapini, a fat thwap of ricotta and dollops of peperoncini, all over a noodle you can twirl. I used a chickpea-based spaghetti because health, and it was fine but just the wrong side of indulgent. And that’s where the feature post of this week’s Table Talk comes in. To ward off winter, we rounded up 10 of Toronto’s best new pasta dishes, including ribbons of pappardelle in a rich duck ragu, lasagna 14 layers thick, a pile of spaghetti bookended by lobster halves, and tender agnolotti pockets pregnant with mascarpone and roasted squash.

Sticking to the high-calorie-comfort-food theme, you’ll also learn about a Leslieville bakery and café with a cult following. After we published our ranking of the city’s best new cookies, we received an email from a reader politely informing us of a glaring omission: the honey-oat cookie from Alice Marie. Obviously we had to go and investigate.

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—Rebecca Fleming, food and drink editor

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OODLES OF NOODLES

In a city with so many excellent Italian restaurants, ranking the best new pasta dishes was almost impossible—but duty called. Scroll through this list on an empty stomach at your own discretion.

SORT-OF SECRET

Rachelle Cornish left her position as White Lily Diner’s pastry chef to open Alice Marie Bakery and Coffee, where she turns out cookies, scones, loaves and sandwiches worth lining up for. (And there are indeed lineups.) Also: a particular take on a certain grocery store cake.

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Pii Nong Thai’s new flagship at Yonge and Lawrence isn’t just a restaurant—it’s a direct flight from YYZ to BKK, no passport required. The two-storey, 10,000-square-foot space houses a dining room and bar, a market full of imported goods, and a full-on Thai massage parlour. Take a look at everything there is to eat and drink.

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