Toronto Restaurant Openings: Koi Koi Sake Bar, PappaRoti, Omni Palace, Bonafide

Toronto restaurant openings highlight the latest food news in Toronto and gives a preview of what's coming soon. Find us here every Thursday morning.

Open now

• Koi Koi Sake Bar, from the team behind Sukoshi Mart, soft opens today at 170 Baldwin Street in Kensington Market.
• Bonafide, a European-style tapas and cocktail bar with buck-a-shuck specials has opened at 209 Augusta Avenue in Kensington Market, below the recently shuttered performance venue Double Double Land.
• Two Peas Variety, a cafe/salad bar/gift shop below Two Peas Podshare with consulting chef Adrian Forte (Dirty Bird, AF1 Caribbean Canteen), is now open at 403 Spadina Avenue (near Cecil Street) in Chinatown.
• Malaysian chain PappaRoti is serving up coffee buns inside its first downtown location at 270 Spadina Avenue in Chinatown.
• Tea Land, a Chinese bubble tea chain, has opened its first Toronto location in the former Condom Shack space at 231 Queen Street West.
• Selam Vegan, an offshoot of Pero, its sibling restaurant upstairs, claims to be Toronto's first vegan Ethiopian restaurant (it also has gluten-free options), and can be found at 812b Bloor Street West in Bloorcourt.
• The Chufa Co., which makes organic vegan soft serve, has a summer pop-up in a shipping container at 1973 Queen Street East (at Waverley Road) in the Beaches.
• A non-vegan ice cream pop-up called Churnt Up is also happening on Fridays and Saturdays this summer at Conspiracy Pizza in Leaside, featuring flavours like Strawberry Pocky and Birthday Cake.
• SK COOKKS, an African-Caribbean restaurant, has opened at 12-24 Ronson Drive in Etobicoke.

Recently reviewed

• Hunter Coffee Shop
• Pong Bar
• Salumi Bar
• The Maker Bean Cafe

Opening soon

• 817 Sports Bar & Grill is set to replace the now-shuttered Dog’s Bollocks Pub at 817 Queen Street West (between Claremont Street and Manning Avenue).
• Something called Sticky Rice Kitchen and Bar, boasting a bamboo-covered storefront, should be opening soon at 1489 Gerrard Street East in Little India.
• Flock will soon be opening another location, this time in North York at the Yonge Sheppard Centre.
• Omni Palace, a hand-pulled noodle chain from China, will be opening at the end of this month at 235 Consumers Road in North York.
• Chpt II, a sequel/sibling spot to Markham’s Inspire Restaurant, is opening soon at 1100 Davis Drive, Unit 1b in Newmarket.
• A ton of vendors, including Amano, Union Chicken, Sweet Jesus and Village Juicery, will be joining Market & Co., a huge 40,000-square-foot space coming to Upper Canada Mall in Newmarket this September.

Closed

• L'Avenue Bistro on Bayview Avenue in Leaside has closed.
• Mazz Bistro is no more in Riverside, but Mazz Sushi in Bloorcourt is still going.
• Sushi on Gerrard has bit the dust.

Have you seen restaurants opening or closing in your neighbourhood? Email tips to editors@blogto.com.

by Christina Cheung via blogTO