Introducing: The Workshop by Latitude, a new Roncesvalles restaurant for anyone who loves cheese
Introducing: The Workshop by Latitude, a new Roncesvalles restaurant for anyone who loves cheese
Name: The Workshop by Latitude
Contact Info: 331 Roncesvalles Ave., 416-785-2123, workshopbylatitude.ca, @workshop331
Neighbourhood: Roncesvalles
Owners: Latitude Group
Chef: Former Fat Cat Wine Bar executive chef, Mathew Sutherland
The Food: The menu revolves entirely around cheese. Diners can build their own cheese boards from 25 different wedges—including a couple slabs produced exclusively for the Workshop—or choose from the list of snacks and comfort dishes, like a comte-stuffed croque monsieur and a lamb burger topped with goat-milk raita and halloumi. The “workman’s lunch” brings a selection of cheeses and cured meats, plus hard-boiled duck eggs, poached veggies, preserves, nuts and sliced baguette.
The Drinks: European and Canadian wines come by the bottle, the half-litre or the five-ounce glass. Bottles of craft beer are also available.
The Place: This new Roncey business is a spin-off of Latitude Food and Drink, a popular restaurant in Halton Hills. The former Fat Cat Wine Bar space hasn’t changed too much, save for a paint job and some rustic barn-board paneling on one wall. Behind the bar, liquor bottles have been replaced by wheels and wedges of cheese, which are apportioned by a staff of expert fromagophiles.
The Numbers:
• 43.6491 N is the exact latitude of both Latitude restaurants (by pure coincidence)
• 30 seats on the back patio
• 25 cheeses
• 19 cheese boards
• 3 cheese experts on staff
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- Executive chef <strong>Mathew Sutherland</strong>
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- The open kitchen and cheese bar are the focal points of the restaurant
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- The pine harvest tables were designed by the owners of Latitude Group
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- Decorative birch logs provide a rustic touch
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- The cheese wall, where everything on the menu begins
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- The Workshop stocks a rotating selection of 25 cheeses
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- The “worksman’s lunch” changes daily. The one photographed here includes fior di latte and manchego cheeses served with a walnut and basil pesto, horseradish and beet purée, duck eggs, blanched green beans, capicolla and Spanish Iberico ham ($15)
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- Included on this cheese board: a three-year Beemster from Holland, a Bleu Elizabeth from Quebec and a semi-firm Eagles Nest from Quebec ($13)
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- The panini changes daily and comes with a bowl of soup ($13)
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- Potato-leek soup with Parmesan
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- Butternut squash ravioli in sage brown butter sauce with sliced provolone ($9)
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- Frisee salad with double-smoked bacon, stilton and pear ($8)
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- Lamb burger with goat raita and halloumi cheese ($9)
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- The Workshop’s caesar is made with basil-infused vodka and comes with a caprese-salad skewer ($10)
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• 30 seats on the back patio
• 25 cheeses
• 19 cheese boards
• 3 cheese experts on staff
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We went to The Workshop last week – we were already fans of Chef Matthew from his Fat Cat days and love the new incarnation. The cheese monger is excellent and put together a tasty and interesting board for us.
OK for late night snack and wine, but not great for dinner. Also, they don’t carry any spirits; wine and beer only. It is essentially the exact same restaurant as Fat Cat.