Seat and Eat

On Friday, I went to the Howard Park and Dundas St W area for lunch. This area is still a bit down-at-the-heels but gentrification is happening along this stretch. One of them is Dundas Park Kitchen which the Globe and Mail restaurant critic raved about last year. Since this husband-and-wife team isn't open on the week-end, I haven't had a chance to try it.

Inside, the space was surprisingly large. But since it was almost entirely taken up with an open kitchen and prep area, there are only a few seats by the store-front window. Everything looked great but I decided on a "summer intern" sandwich ($10.75) with a cookie for an extra $1. It was a big sandwich stuffed with roast chicken, sprouts, pickled green tomatoes, red onion jam, sweet corn, and bacon mayo. The chicken was moist but not out-of-this-world, I would add a bit more fattiness perhaps in the form of crispy skin (which you'd probably get with the chicken dinner). But what made the sandwich excellent was the perfect balance of flavour. But if Alex Tso's chicken is good, Melanie Harris' chocolate walnut cookie is amazing. I am not a sweets person but I inhaled that dessert. I've never had a richer confection. It had a wonderful moist chew, closer to a cake than a cookie. This was a wonderful lunch. I'm looking at my calendar to see when I can come back and try their pot pies or galettes.