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Sort-of Secret: No Pain Gimbap, a new west-end kitchen for Korean snacks

The sushi-like rolls are perfect for park picnics

Sort-of Secret: Snack Edition, a delivery service for hard-to-find treats like apple-flavoured Fanta and Dunkaroos cereal

Owner Reema Aviles turned her junk food obsession into a business during the pandemic

Sort-of Secret: Heavenly Perogy, a Ukrainian restaurant and food shop running out of a church basement

It's the schnitz

Sort-of Secret: Cicchetto, a new line of Toronto-made tipples started by a chef and bartender

This ain't your nonna's limoncello

Sort-of Secret: The Donuterie, artisanal doughnuts from a Leslieville lunch counter

They make cronuts, too. Remember cronuts?

Sort-of Secret: These pillowy loaves of Japanese milk bread from a Roncesvalles ramen shop

Aoi Yoshida found out that you can still make milk bread even if you run out of milk

Sort-of Secret: Mamey, a family run pop-up and delivery service specializing in homemade tamales

Each tamal is like a gift waiting to be unwrapped

Sort-of Secret: Pies by Squires, savoury meat pies and sausage rolls from a former Buca chef

Including one that's dinner and dessert, combined

Sort-of Secret: Geladona’s freezies, artisanal ice treats in fun Brazilian flavours like açai, passion fruit, guava and avocado

Perfect for sweltering summer days

Sort-of Secret: Super Empanada, the new pastry pocket project of a west-end steakhouse

It's Tanto's comfort-food pandemic pivot

Sort-of Secret: Burgers, bagels and pastrami from a Toronto man who’s a lawyer by day and a chef by night

It's worth setting an alarm if you want to place an order

Sort-of Secret: The New Pie Company, a two-person operation baking up whimsical pies once a week

It all started with a giveaway

Sort-of Secret: Morts, a new mortadella sandwich business from Il Covo chef Ryan Campbell

Toronto has officially reached peak mortadella

Sort-of Secret: Radio Cocktails, a boutique virtual bar delivering bottled cocktails and salumi boards

A half-litre of negronis for only $29? Don't mind if we do

Sort-of Secret: Friday Night Delights, chef Matthew Ravenscroft’s new plant-based supper series

He's keeping busy while on furlough from vegan Mexican restaurant Rosalinda