Toronto so happily overfoams with trendy rustic-style Italian restaurants that I am almost surprised when one--in this case, La Fenice--sports a more traditional ambience. A pair of pals and I headed here for their Summerlicious menu.
The food is as great or better than what you might expect from Terroni or any of its reasonable facsimiles. I had a fresh garden salad with bocconcini, duck papparadelle, and raspberry sorbetto. The papparadelle was delicious, and the duck was perfectly cooked, swimming in a light but hearty sauce. The sorbetto had such a potent flavour, it was like something you'd serve to an alien if you wanted to be sure they knew exactly what the heck raspberries taste like.
The service was maybe a little too attentive at times--the waiter was becoming interrogative about a piece of steak left uneaten on one of my pal's plates--but nothing to complain about. You leave feeling that a lot of care goes into the food and service.