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Rasta Pasta had closed in Kensington over unpaid rent, apparently.

They are currently still open at their new Waterworks Foodhall location.

But the original space is now back, with the original menu, under a new name, as the original Rasta Pasta co-owner has come out of eretirmeent to revive it.

 
Rasta Pasta had closed in Kensington over unpaid rent, apparently.

They are currently still open at their new Waterworks Foodhall location.

But the original space is now back, with the original menu, under a new name, as the original Rasta Pasta co-owner has come out of eretirmeent to revive it.

I bought food from the Waterworks location in the summer and found it a tad underwhelming, so I'm surprised that Rasta Pasta has a "fanbase". What am I missing?
 

Name: Seahorse Restaurant
Contact: 1226 Yonge St., seahorserestaurant.ca, @seahorsetoronto
Neighbourhood: Summerhill
Owners: Simon Bower, Richard Renaud, Eamon Clark
Chef: Federico Garcia
Accessibility: Not fully accessible

In 2020, during the height of the Covid lockdowns, Richard Renaud didn’t turn to sourdough to soothe his idle hands and spiralling mind. Instead, he began roasting coffee beans in his apartment. As luck would have it, he was friends with the owner of now-closed Haute Coffee, which sat at the corner of Dupont and Davenport. “She needed someone to look after the coffee shop because she wanted to temporarily hunker down at her home in BC—and I needed somewhere to sell my coffee and learn the ins and outs of running a shop so I could eventually open my own,” Renaud says.
 

It only just turned one in October, but Lake Inez’s cocktail bar sibling, Belle Isle, is already entering a new era. The Leslieville hotspot recently announced that it’s pivoting from a snack-bar set-up to something more “dinner-y.” Restaurants do this all the time to better cater to their clientele, but the Belle Isle team decided to switch things up because of a particular chef: Keith Siu, formerly of See You Soon, Frilu and Mimi Chinese.

“We’ve known and admired Keith Siu for a while,” says Zac Schwartz, co-owner of Lake Inez and Belle Isle. “He’s held pop-ups at both of our restaurants, and he has such a unique perspective and vast talent.”
 
This sounds amazing:



I will go just to try that.
I finally got around to trying this octopus and beef tartare tonight and it was everything I hoped for. One of the best things I’ve eaten in Toronto in the last few years.

The rest of the menu wasn’t that great, though.
 
I finally got around to trying this octopus and beef tartare tonight and it was everything I hoped for. One of the best things I’ve eaten in Toronto in the last few years.

The rest of the menu wasn’t that great, though.

was it overhyped and underwhelming to say the least?
 

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