dumpling sale extended just for you
Honest Dumplings is extending the 20 per cent promo for Bite and Tomato readers. Use the code TOMATO to get 20 per cent off until February 10.
bread and circuses: calzone edition
Last year Firefly Circus and Get Cooking created a virtual performance and a cooking class to raise funds for Firefly Theatre. It’s back, Friday, February 18. Hosts are Firefly co-founders Annie Dugan and John Ullyatt. “I’m trying to keep artists working, I’m trying to keep them inspired and I want to keep audiences inspired too,” says Annie. Learn to bake calzone with Get Cooking and be dazzled and entertained by amazing performers and music—Caitlin Mader, Kate Ryan, Jay Flair Stephanie Gruson, VIVA Dance and musicians Jason Kodie and Franco Bessai. Don’t miss it. Sign up here
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beb’s bagels at wilfred’s
Now, this is a delish collab! Enjoy five bagel sandwiches including beet-cured steel head trout with pickled red onions and crispy deep fried capers; two different bagel sammys with Meuwly’s meats, a toothsome breakfast sausage and the Big McCartney, in homage to Paul McCartney’s favourite vegetarian bagel sandwich. Beb’s Bagel Brunch at Wilfred’s is on Saturday, February 19, Sunday, February 20 and Monday (Family Day) February 21 from 9am-3pm, or until sold out. No resos, first come, first served, available for take out too.
chico-bab and you
Fanta Camara of the Edmonton-based tea company Vitaliteas has created a partnership with two other inspiring local women in food—cookie maven Kathy Lescow (Confetti Sweets) and top chef Doreen Prie (May). “I wanted to make something new,” says Fanta. “Something beyond tea. I didn’t want to be alone in my next business either, but wanted the same emphasis on quality and health. Fanta had long used chicory in the Vitaliteas chai mix; ‘it’s high fibre and a prebiotic,” she says. “I have known baobab all my life, it’s the African tree of life—rich in vitamin C, a prebiotic and it’s unique, the fruit powders naturally. But I couldn’t find a trusted source for the powder until recently.” Now, they have created a new business called Chico-Bab which puts the two superfoods together. Help get this inspiring partnership off the ground and try a fabulous new product. Contribute to the ATB booster.
Doreen, Fanta and Kathy
be my valentine
The Glass Monkey is offering three different take out options— four course heat and eat Valentine’s dinner, $110/2; a picnic for two, $40/2 plus wine or cocktail add on; or Champagne, Salmon and Shrimp with house-cured gravlax with corn blini, chilled shrimp with house-made cocktail sauce and a bottle of Lanson Champagne or Canaletto prosecco, ideal for the appetizer lovers, $98 or $59/2. Visit here to order.
Fresh roses and fresh crisp rosé for two at Zocalo, 4pm-7pm on Sunday, February 13. Tix, $30, order here.
Chartier offers an intimate tasting menu for Valentine’s. Six courses by chef Tamara Solon featuring Redtail Farms, Effing Seafoods, Vertical Roots and Fifth Gen Gardens paired with five delicious wines. Tix, $125/p.
recipe of the week: masoor daal by damini mohan
Mini Kitchen’s Damini Mohan says her mother says ‘Khichadi ke four yaar—dahi, mooli, ghee, achaar.’ Loosely translated— khichadi has four friends, yogurt, radish, ghee (clarified butter) and pickles. Learn to make it here.
tomato top100: sepps pizza apulo
Take-out pizza took on a very different significance last year. And one of the best is Sepps Pizza Apulo, starring spicy soppressata, oregano, jalapeño and honey.
