About our rating systemToronto food critic Chris Nuttall-Smith has called Actinolite one of the most essential places to eat in Ontario, if not in Canada. There's a purity to the restaurant's food-driven directive: to show off Southern Ontario’s landscape through cooking. In spring, expect fresh foraged ramps and fiddleheads. In summer, sorrel and marigolds are snagged from the garden out back. Crops are preserved into pickles, jellies, and more, only to return to the menu in different incarnations. Ramps come back months later, this time adding pickled punch. Chef Justin Cournoyer is a slow-food evangelist. “For everything there is a season. Even meat,” he once told me. This is why summer menus are vegetable-powered splendors, while winter is a heartier affair.
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Actinolite
971 Ossington Avenue, Toronto
Our Rating
Neighborhood
Downtown North
Hours
Reservations available Mon–Thurs 6-9pm; Fri–Sat 6-9:30pm
Transportation
Neighborhood
Downtown North
Hours
Reservations available Mon–Thurs 6-9pm; Fri–Sat 6-9:30pm
Transportation
Subway: Ossington, then bus 63 N to Hallam St
Phone 416/962-8943 Prices Tasting menu $105 Cuisine Type Canadian Web site ActinoliteNote: This information was accurate when it was published, but can change without notice. Please be sure to confirm all rates and details directly with the companies in question before planning your trip.
