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Best
Overall
3.
Bar Bricco
Bar Bricco has long been a favourite of Best Restaurants judges, and it
continues to impress. It is now the only remaining restaurant of chef
Daniel Costa’s original Jasper Avenue trio, with Uccellino evolving into
Best New restaurant Olia, and Corso 32 closing — though Bar Bricco
absorbed its space to provide more seating.
Bar Bricco’s menu of Italian wines and cocktails and cozy, moody
interior make it an ideal drink destination. But its food menu provides
a full-dinner experience that’s worth savouring well into the night.
Everything on the menu is deceptively simple, though complicated to
execute, and the chefs do it all effortlessly. The pillowy-soft Agnolotti ­ —
meant to dip in butter before coating it in parmigiano ­ — remains one of
the standout dishes. The previous year introduced the very fun Toc Toc
walk-in wine parties — which we strongly encourage attending to try
new wines and snacks. – B.M.
10347 JASPER AVE.
780-424-5588
BARBRICCO.COM
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4.
Little Wolf
Little Wolf is cozy, effortlessly cool, and
just kitschy enough to feel like you’ve
discovered something special. The dim
lighting sets the tone — warm, woodsy,
and intimate. My dad would definitely
pull out his flashlight to look at the menu,
but honestly, it adds to the charm.
Then there’s the food, and oh, the
food. The Japanese Curry Poutine is a
revelation: crispy potatoes swimming
in curry, topped with sesame, apples,
carrots, green onions and melted
cheese. It’s a glorious mash-up of
flavours that shouldn’t work, but abso-
lutely does. – HIBA ZAIDI
8424 109 ST. NW
780-757-2600
LITTLEWOLFRESTAURANT.COM
5.
Partake
Partake holds kind of an odd place in
my mind, because its small size makes
it seem like a quaint neighourhood
cafe (Edify’s neighbourhood, to be
exact), the kind of place you’d casually
recommend to a friend in a “you should
try their sandwiches sometime” kind of
way. But Partake is a high-end restaurant
with food as fine as any you’ll find in the
city, and we strongly recommend you
try it soon.
There are no sandwiches on the
menu, but it’s a French restaurant, so
there’s plenty of bread, some of which
accompanies its Flight of Three House
Butters, a dish we are so happy exists.
We start every meal with a Devilled Egg
(with confit tomato and smoked bacon
garnish), and either Beef Tartare (mixed
table side) or Escargot, which just now
made me salivate like Pavlov’s dog,
simply from writing it out (food writing
before lunch isn’t the best idea). – C.S.
12431 102 AVE. NW
780-760-8253
OUIPARTAKE.COM
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