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Located in a rather residential neighbourhood, actinolite is quite different from other restaurants on Ossington. It's quiet, sleek, and very community focused. The restaurant is actually the first floor of chefs own house, and the mood they are trying to set for you is like you are invited to dine at chefs house. The chef will prepare the food for you and bring the dishes out to every table and introduce his thoughts, ideas, concepts behind the dishes. The ingredients are all locally farmed or foraged. I have to say not many restaurants in Toronto are able to do the same, not even Antler, not even Alo.
Flavour wise - super super yum and refreshing. I came in thinking it's all going to be vegetables but we actually had a quite a few meat dishes too including snow crab, halibut, and beef. The dishes are well thought of and executed, balanced,nutritious, and creative. We were absolutely swept off the feet! One of the highlights we had is the charred spinach with some green dipping sauce. We were not served any utensils as the chef explained this dish was encouraged to be consumed with hand. We tried and I've never had any other spinach that's better than this! It's so delicious.
We didn't have the wine pairings they offered but the a few drinks we ordered were all amazing.
Will definitely come back!
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