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Here’s what went down at the Toronto Life Best Restaurants 2019 event last night

By Toronto Life| Photography by JOSH FEE
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Here’s what went down at the Toronto Life Best Restaurants 2019 event last night

Toronto Life‘s fifth-annual Best Restaurants event, held last night at the Evergreen Brick Works, brought together 22 restaurants featured in the pages of the magazine’s annual Where to Eat Now 2019 issue and last fall’s 100 Best Restaurants special edition. A crowd of 1,400 guests mixed and mingled over bites of Mother Tongue’s Guangzhou chicken wings, Buca’s charcoal-roasted porchetta, Bymark’s smoked B.C. codfish and Donna’s ham-and-leeks plate, among many other memorable dishes. Libations included no less than 38 Chilean wines poured, four bars serving up Beau’s beer, and cocktail stations crafting cocktails from Elit Vodka to Tanqueray No. Ten, Johnnie Walker Black Label and more.

Here’s the full menu:

Adamson Barbecue: BBQ beef cheek barbacoa on duck fat tortillas Amano: Butternut squash ravioli with brown butter and sage Après: Albacore tuna tartare with pickled potato chip Arthur’s Restaurant: Pastrami on rye Buca: Charcoal-roasted Tuscan porchetta with apple mostarda and salsa verde Bymark: Smoked B.C. codfish Café Cancan: Escargot with organic eggs Campechano Taquería: Taco de barbacoa Chop Chop: Taiwanese basil chicken Donna’s: Ham, bread and leek vinaigrette Estia: Lamb and wagyu adana kebab Fat Pasha: Musabaha with harissa and beef chuck chili Frilu: Savoury éclair Indilicious: “Chicken Indilicious” with mint pilaf Jacobs & Co.: Roast beef popover with sherry horseradish cream Kōjin: Spicy pork sausage with pickles and Kozlik’s mustard Miku: Salmon oshi and octopus kabayaki duo Mother Tongue: Guangzhou chicken wings Piano Piano: The Bitters and Hot Rod pizzas Uncle Mikey’s: Kimchi biscuit and maple butter Wynona: Lamb cavatelli with stracciatella and mint sauce Yukashi: “Spring in Your Mouth” with cherry blossom sauce

Check out photos from the event below:

Here’s what went down at the Toronto Life Best Restaurants 2019 event last night
Here’s what went down at the Toronto Life Best Restaurants 2019 event last night
Here’s what went down at the Toronto Life Best Restaurants 2019 event last night
One of everything.
Here’s what went down at the Toronto Life Best Restaurants 2019 event last night
Here’s what went down at the Toronto Life Best Restaurants 2019 event last night
Here’s what went down at the Toronto Life Best Restaurants 2019 event last night
Here’s what went down at the Toronto Life Best Restaurants 2019 event last night
Here’s what went down at the Toronto Life Best Restaurants 2019 event last night
Here’s what went down at the Toronto Life Best Restaurants 2019 event last night
Here’s what went down at the Toronto Life Best Restaurants 2019 event last night
Here’s what went down at the Toronto Life Best Restaurants 2019 event last night
Here’s what went down at the Toronto Life Best Restaurants 2019 event last night
Here’s what went down at the Toronto Life Best Restaurants 2019 event last night
Here’s what went down at the Toronto Life Best Restaurants 2019 event last night
Here’s what went down at the Toronto Life Best Restaurants 2019 event last night
Here’s what went down at the Toronto Life Best Restaurants 2019 event last night
Here’s what went down at the Toronto Life Best Restaurants 2019 event last night
Here’s what went down at the Toronto Life Best Restaurants 2019 event last night
Here’s what went down at the Toronto Life Best Restaurants 2019 event last night
Here’s what went down at the Toronto Life Best Restaurants 2019 event last night
Here’s what went down at the Toronto Life Best Restaurants 2019 event last night
Here’s what went down at the Toronto Life Best Restaurants 2019 event last night
Here’s what went down at the Toronto Life Best Restaurants 2019 event last night
Here’s what went down at the Toronto Life Best Restaurants 2019 event last night
Here’s what went down at the Toronto Life Best Restaurants 2019 event last night
Here’s what went down at the Toronto Life Best Restaurants 2019 event last night
Here’s what went down at the Toronto Life Best Restaurants 2019 event last night
Outside was where all the smoking (and we mean the smoking of food) and grilling over open fire went down.
Here’s what went down at the Toronto Life Best Restaurants 2019 event last night
Good thing there was a menu with a corresponding map.
Here’s what went down at the Toronto Life Best Restaurants 2019 event last night
Here’s what went down at the Toronto Life Best Restaurants 2019 event last night
Here’s what went down at the Toronto Life Best Restaurants 2019 event last night
Here’s what went down at the Toronto Life Best Restaurants 2019 event last night
Here’s what went down at the Toronto Life Best Restaurants 2019 event last night
The wine flowed freely.
Here’s what went down at the Toronto Life Best Restaurants 2019 event last night
Here’s what went down at the Toronto Life Best Restaurants 2019 event last night

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