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What’s on the menu at Pick 6ix, the new restaurant and bar where Drake has a personal washroom

By Caroline Aksich| Photography by Gabby Frank
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What's on the menu at Pick 6ix, the new restaurant and bar where Drake has a personal washroom

Name: Pick 6ix Contact: 33 Yonge St., pick6ixto.com, @pick6ixto
Neighbourhood: Financial District Owners: Nessell “Chubbs” Beezer (Drake’s head of security) and Sabah Nissan Chefs: Executive chef Antonio Park (Park, Lavanderia, Jatoba, Kampai, Flyjin) and head chef Joon Anh.

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The food

Montreal chef Antonio Park has brought his signature globe-spanning creations to Pick 6ix. The menu jumps from lobster-topped bolognese pasta to nigiri to Latin American dishes slathered in chimichurri, but don’t you dare use the F-word to describe this food—according to Park, it’s not fusion.

What's on the menu at Pick 6ix, the new restaurant and bar where Drake has a personal washroom
This fish sauce–dressed salad is a mix of shaved papaya and carrots. It’s topped with house-made beef jerky, cilantro, mint, basil, chilies, cashews and pistachios. $14.

 

What's on the menu at Pick 6ix, the new restaurant and bar where Drake has a personal washroom
This butter-poached lobster tail on top of bolognese is something Park serves at his eponymous Montreal restaurant. $39.

 

What's on the menu at Pick 6ix, the new restaurant and bar where Drake has a personal washroom
A duo of sea bass and hamachi sashimi. Orders of sashimi come in trios, typically nine pieces of three different fish for $35.

 

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What's on the menu at Pick 6ix, the new restaurant and bar where Drake has a personal washroom
Hamachi crudo with moromi miso, jalapeños and yuzu ponzu. $28.

 

What's on the menu at Pick 6ix, the new restaurant and bar where Drake has a personal washroom
This board includes shima-aji, hamachi, sea urchin, sea bream, chutoro, sea bass and itoyori. Each is topped with luxe accents like caviar, edible gold and flowers. The yellow swooshes on the board are sweet yellow carrot purée. Each piece is $12.

 

What's on the menu at Pick 6ix, the new restaurant and bar where Drake has a personal washroom
A closer look at the uni.

 

What's on the menu at Pick 6ix, the new restaurant and bar where Drake has a personal washroom
Tiramisù topped with matcha powder.

 

What's on the menu at Pick 6ix, the new restaurant and bar where Drake has a personal washroom
This dessert layers white chocolate ganache with coconut yogurt, and then tops it all off with a coconut-Malibu granita and some fruit. $11.

 

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What's on the menu at Pick 6ix, the new restaurant and bar where Drake has a personal washroom
Chef Joon Anh.

 

The drinks

The wine card has a number of affordable celebratory options, like a $60 bottle of prosecco, though Drake or LeBron James would probably go for something like Ace of Spades champagne, a single bottle of which goes for a casual $700 a (literal) pop. The Old World wines are popular with the C-suite lunch crowd, but come dinner, the super-potent cocktails are the top pick.

What's on the menu at Pick 6ix, the new restaurant and bar where Drake has a personal washroom
Lucuma Loca: Bombay East gin, ginger sour, lucuma juice, white peach purée, prosecco. $12.

 

What's on the menu at Pick 6ix, the new restaurant and bar where Drake has a personal washroom
The Black Widow (right) is the top-selling cocktail. Maybe because it’s made with Drake’s Virginia Black whiskey. Or maybe just because anything tinted black with charcoal is trendy. There’s also sherry, sour mix and pineapple–star anise bitters in there. It’s topped with a vegan foam product made by Ms. Better’s. $16.

 

The space

Just about everything in the 178-seat space looks blessed by Midas, from the gold leaf–finished drinks to the gold-splattered menus to Drake’s glittery personal washroom. And what isn’t gold is black Nero Marquina marble, plush velvet or brass so polished it could pass for gold. The sprawling space has a VIP room with its own champagne bar, as well as a VVIP room (accessible only through the VIP room) for when Drake and his pals are in town. (Unsurprisingly, the soundtrack is Drake-heavy.) Come summer, a 108-seat patio will flank Yonge Street.

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What's on the menu at Pick 6ix, the new restaurant and bar where Drake has a personal washroom
Here’s where the regular people congregate.

 

What's on the menu at Pick 6ix, the new restaurant and bar where Drake has a personal washroom
This is the chef’s table.

 

What's on the menu at Pick 6ix, the new restaurant and bar where Drake has a personal washroom
The open kitchen.

 

What's on the menu at Pick 6ix, the new restaurant and bar where Drake has a personal washroom
Here’s the VIP room. You can make out the pink champagne bar in the mirrors.

 

What's on the menu at Pick 6ix, the new restaurant and bar where Drake has a personal washroom
And here’s the VVIP room, which is accessed through the VIP room. Those golden orbs on the ceiling are Void Benelux speakers. (This particular night’s VVIP must have been a big fan of curling.)

 

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What's on the menu at Pick 6ix, the new restaurant and bar where Drake has a personal washroom
The VVIP room, continued.

 

What's on the menu at Pick 6ix, the new restaurant and bar where Drake has a personal washroom
And this is Drake’s personal loo. Looks like he (or someone) left the seat up.

 

What's on the menu at Pick 6ix, the new restaurant and bar where Drake has a personal washroom

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Caroline Aksich, a National Magazine Award recipient, is an ex-Montrealer who writes about Toronto’s ever-evolving food scene, real estate and culture for Toronto Life, Fodor’s, Designlines, Canadian Business, Glory Media and Post City. Her work ranges from features on octopus-hunting in the Adriatic to celebrity profiles.

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