You know you've opened a successful restaurant when I go to round-up my posse to leave and they look me in the eyes and tell me "We ain't goin' nowhere!"... This was the case with Model Milk.
Their location has been quite a number of venues over the last 100 years since the building opened as a dairy creamery; the best one being a happening night club with no doors on the bathroom stalls. The place has come a long way!
Model Milk's menu is small but original, food I have never seen on a menu made my mouth water like a tween on a shopping spree in Aritzia. The best dish of the night was the Shrimp and Grits with a chorizo emulsion. ($14)
Just the right amount of creamy and spicy, this is rich and longing to be shared by a couple on date night.
I'm also a real sucker for bread, and the Crab Roll, only available on the late night menu, made me want to wrap myself in a dough blanket and parade around yelling "Model Milk is the bread King!" And don't even get me stated on the Calamari Fricassee ($13)
And to wet your whistle, The Black Manhattan ($12), a mix of Whiskey, Amaro Averna, Chocolate Bitters, and Orange Zest is in my mind the best drink in town!