Slider Revolution hopes to bring an uprising of tiny burgers to the Danforth

Sliders, those tiny little burgers on their tiny little buns, have long been a fixture of catering menus in Toronto, but they haven’t really made their mark in restaurants. Richard Lee hopes to change that with his upcoming Danforth restaurant Slider Revolution. Lee, whose background is in sales and finance rather than food, worked on the ill-fated project to bring Wolfgang Puck to Toronto (there have been rumours and rumblings of a Puck outpost here for years, but a restaurant never materialized). Given that a new burger joint seems to open about every five minutes in Toronto (here are the best 25), Lee tells us, “Hell, yeah, I think we need a slider restaurant.” Instead of simply serving tiny patties of ground chuck, Lee will be offering fillings like pulled pork, chicken, meatball and veggies, in barbecue, jerk, bulgogi, Italian and other flavours. The restaurant is slated to be open for business sometime in October.

Slider Revolution, 673 Danforth Ave., sliderrevolution.com