Introducing: Scaddabush, a 6,500-square-foot Italian restaurant in the Aura condos from the owners of Reds
Introducing: Scaddabush, a 6,500-square-foot Italian restaurant in the Aura condos from the owners of Reds
Name: Scaddabush
Neighbourhood: Financial District
Contact Info: 382 Yonge St., 416-597-8838, scaddabush.com
Owners: SIR Corp, the same mega-corp that owns nearby Reds Midtown and Duke’s Refresher, as well as the first Scaddabush location in Mississauga
Executive Chef: Steve Silvestro
The Food: The simple Italian menu includes pizzas, house-made pastas, sandwiches and traditional appetizers, like calamari fritti and a caprese salad made with hand-stretched mozzarella. Half-pound beef meatballs come three ways: over spaghetti, on a bun or “straight-up,” with crostini and cheese sauce.
The Drinks: Six wines are available by the litre (starting at $32). The encyclopedic cocktail list includes classic Manhattans and vodka martinis, a well as signature blends, like the Milano-Torino Reviver: a mix of gin, sweet vermouth, Aperol and blood-orange soda.
The Place: This is the third hangar-sized corporate restaurant to open in the Aura condos at Yonge and Gerrard. (The others are Reds Midtown and Duke’s Refresher, both also owned by SIR Corp.) The mix-and-match decor combines reclaimed wood, gilded mirrors and countless dangling Edison bulbs, plus old-country touches like a giant papier-mâché head salvaged from an Italian village festival.
The Numbers:
• ∞ Edison bulbs
• 6,500 square feet of dining space
• 300-person capacity
• $85 for the most expensive bottle of wine, an Amarone from Veneto
• 40 gilded mirrors
• 18 flat-screen TVs (some play sports while others play looped Italian shows and movies)
• 9 pizzas
• 2 floors
• 0.5 lb Angus beef meatball topping each order of spaghetti
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- Like nearby <strong>Reds Midtown</strong> and <strong>Duke’s Refresher,</strong> Scaddabush is big and casual with vintage touches, like antique silver candelabra and mismatched portraits and mirrors on the walls
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- Like nearby <strong>Reds Midtown</strong> and <strong>Duke’s Refresher,</strong> Scaddabush is big and casual with vintage touches, like antique silver candelabra and mismatched portraits on the walls
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- There are 18 flat-screen TVs around the restaurant. Some play sports, while others are tuned to Italian movies and soap operas
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- Mozzarella and pasta are hand-made daily
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- Hand-stretched mozzarella comes three ways: plain, with prosciutto and over crostini with lemon-butter-caper sauce
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- Fresh mozzarella with prosciutto, focaccia crostini and fig jam ($16)
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- The Americano pizza comes topped with pepperoni, mozzarella, San Marzano tomato sauce and wild Italian oregano ($14)
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- Spaghetti topped with a pepperoni-stuffed meatball ($16)
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- Apple hand pies come with a pot of caramel sauce ($6.50)
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- The papier-mâché head was salvaged from a village festival in Italy
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Sorry, which “financial district” is located at Yonge and Gerrard?
Looks like Edison bulbs have finally made the jump from Ossington basement to the hallowed culinary ground of…Mississauga-inspired big box dining.
Seems to me you have totally covered this before – someone one shares in this company?
The string of restaurants along Gerrard at the base of Aura Condos has really helped elevate the feel of the neighbourhood. These restaurants may be part of a large corporate chain, but they have brought vitality and interest to the neighbourhood and added appealing patio space to Gerrard in the summer months. Definitely a welcome addition to the area in my books!