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Farmhouse Tavern’s Barnyard Burger: A juicy and flavourful beef patty, subtle goat cheese, a thick-cut slice of pork belly, and topped with a fried egg. Really good and I’m glad I can eat this again at the restaurant.
The Stop’s Night Market: Night 2. I can’t lie – it was a hard slog after Night 1 (cry me a river, I know) and I left almost 90 minutes earlier. But here’s what I managed to get before tapping out for the evening.
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The Drake’s Laughing Bird Prawn Roll & Chips. There were also pickled shoshito peppers that I shot, but didn’t think to take to eat. WHAT WAS I THINKING?!
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The Ritz Carlton’s TOCA offered two eats: a tunisian fricassee and a strawberry & tomato gazpacho.
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Paulette’s Chicken and Donuts piles of donuts dusted with garam masala and sugar. I really didn’t need more donuts after nibbling through 37 of them earlier in the week, but damn, these were super fresh and good. I had a Homer moment and took one to-go at the end of the night. Cart by LeuWebb Projects.
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Reunion Island Coffee offered both it’s staple offering of coffee (iced), as well as an their Benchmark Teas Jasmine (also iced). Love that floral jasmine. I am somewhat shamed to admit that I drank their coffee with cream. And a pump of sugar.
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Josh Lindley and Brett, acting “casual”. They were mixing up a Jamaica lemonade with Meukow cognac.
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Delica Kitchen’s Tandoori-spiked duck breast pastrami. With mango slaw and curried maple almonds. Though a little tough to get through, I liked the flavours off this dish.
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The Grove had a super lovely lemon verbena cream, olive caramel, strawberry gelée, and basil granita.
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416 Snack Bar’s Korean fried chicken.
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URSA’s home made tofu with edamame, preserved and lemon, bonito, radish sprouts, and dashi-marinated mushrooms. Also: little sips of tofu whey to try.
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Yours Truly’s Méchoui lamb, goat’s yogurt, flat great, and pickles. Cart by 3runettes.
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Tori’s Bakeshop had fresh mini donuts in two flavours: strawberry cream and vanilla bean.
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The Gabardine had this tasty Ontario pickerel tikka with bhelpuri, tamarind chutney, and yogurt. I liked the textural addition of the puffed rice bits.
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The ladies from Living Kitchen Wellness and their colourful salad of quinoa, mint, basil, and honey pecans.
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The Beet Organic Restaurant offered tempeh sloppy joes.
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Torito’s jicama, watermelon, & pineapple pintos. A very classic Spanish way to eat fruit. Love that cart by 3runettes.
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Valdez’s albacore tuna and watermelon ceviche, with pickled jicama and ginger. Steve Gonzalez works the cart with a very tidy work area.
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There were repeats of the really tasty Naked Singapore Wings; non-battered and tossed in chill salt & prickly ash on a bean sprout salad from Hawker Bar.
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Dillon’s was there too, though I didn’t sample. I knew I had my own bottles at home waiting for me.
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Got a group shot of Chef Nick Liu and team GwaiLo before the storm hit. On offer: Hakka style spicy wontons with crispy onions and toasted Ontario nuts.
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Pizzeria Libretto preps their meatball with ricotta & salmoriglio.
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A tequila-misted Atlantic salmon ceviche with jalapeño from Marben.
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For Night 2, The Stop’s booth offered the classic Osakan street food: takoyaki. Cart by Lift Office.
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Cindy from Babi & Co tries to tell me her sign isn’t done yet. Enjoyed their chicken rending on a golden-fried Chinese bun. Cart by Association of Independant Makers.
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Jack and Lil had many desserts: koeksisters (a sugar syrup covered doughnut from South Africa), malva pudding (a kind of sticky toffee pudding), and a Melktert meringue bites.
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Hawthorne’s greek chicken satay.
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Stockyards had fresh-from-the-fryer-hot pigs in a blanket.
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Richmond Station had hot dogs 2 ways: with a tangy beet relish or covered in mustard. Really liked that beet relish.
Sorry I missed some booths! My stamina by the end of Night 2 was pretty dismal. Though my companions and I was of mixed opinion on which night was better, I thought Night 2 was pretty comparable to Night 1. Both had their hits and misses, both equally enjoyable.
Will write up my extended thoughts on the event later, but I wanted to get these out first.
If you haven’t already: See Night 1
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