Restaurant Appraisals: Quince Restaurant in Toronto
Quince is one of the Toronto must-try venues - a Mediterranean-inspired bistro with reasonable prices and fresh, innovative flavours. It has been evaluated as exceptional by the Eye Magazine and after getting some mixed reviews from Toronto Life, also one of the Toronto’s Best New Restaurants of 2007. Formerly of the high-valued Stork on the Roof, the husband and wife team of Jennifer Gittins and Michael van den Winkel came back in fall of 2006 with this new midtown digs, just a couple blocks south of the busy intersection at Yonge and Eglinton.
Quince is surrounded by a nice patio decorated with teak furniture and a plenty of bright-coloured cushions, but still located straight across the street from the abandoned hulk where an infamous nudie bar named Cheaters was once placed. Only two doors down, we can find the famous restaurant Coquine and a neon sign saying “Adult Video & Novelties” - I bet you wouldn’t expect this in a neighbourhood famous for its prospering business district and parks popular for families. But this part of Yonge Street between Eglinton and Davisville has always had, at least for the latest twenty-five years, an interesting selection of shops. A quick survey of the neighbourhood shows everything from clothing boutiques to bead and paper stores, home d
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