An Italian bakery and trattoria is opening on the Etobicoke waterfront this summer

The next best thing to having direct access to a nonna is a solid Italian hot table. So we have good news for anyone who lives near Etobicoke’s waterfront: San Vito, a southern Italian hot table, bakery and trattoria, is opening next month at 110 Marine Parade Drive—and there’s more on the menu than just stainless-steel chafing dishes loaded to the rims with rigatoni alla vodka and olive oil–slathered steamed veggies. “Our vision is simple: to bring a true taste of Italy to Toronto,” says owner Julian Parentela.

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Until 11 a.m., San Vito will operate as a bakery and café, where customers can grab a cappuccino and cornetto or maybe a slice of frittata. For lunch, a fancier-than-usual hot table (there’s a lot of marble involved) will be stocked with Italian favourites like veal cutlets, eggplant parmigiana and oodles of saucy noodles. There will also be stone-baked thin-crust pizza, calzones and panuozzo—Neapolitan-style sandwiches that wrap pizza dough around stuffings like mortadella, pistachio cream and stracciatella.

Later in the day, sit-down service brings house-made pasta courtesy of head chef Marco Runco, a native of Calabria who doesn’t waver from the classics: gnocchi in a rich bolognese, spaghetti carbonara. It all pairs well with the heavy-hitting Italian wines on offer. And we realize this is the lake shore, not the Amalfi Coast, but you can’t go wrong with a boozy spritz by any body of water in the summer.