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A Tasty Egyptian Speciality at Adel’s Fatatre

Published on October 13, 2026 by Michael NusairLeave a comment

Location: 6085 Creditview Road, Mississauga
Website: https://www.adelsfatatre.com/

Adel’s Fatatre serves an Egyptian stuffed pizza called fateer mahshey (which Wikipedia spells “feteer meshaltet“). I wasn’t super familiar with this dish prior to trying it here, but based just on this place, it’s a tasty dish.

They have a handful of options on the menu (including a few sweet ones); I went with the soujouk, which the menu describes as “soujouk, green pepper, cheese, and spicy tomato sauce.”

It’s quite satisfying — in particular, I feel like soujouk is extremely underrated as a pizza topping. It has a pleasantly assertive flavour that is quite distinct from any other sausage that I’ve had (and it’s quite delicious). If I ruled the world, this would be a mandatory option at every pizza joint.

The crust is vaguely calzone-like, but thinner and crispier (while still being nice and chewy around the edges).

I enjoyed it a lot, though I will say that I don’t think I saw or tasted any green peppers, or even the spicy tomato sauce. The only flavours I noticed were the gooey cheese, the sausage, and the grease from the sausage, with a little extra pop of flavour from the spice blend sprinkled on top.

It’s possible the sauce was just spread very thinly, but whatever was here was extremely delicious; it certainly didn’t taste like it was missing anything, so I’m not going to get too worked up about it.

A Tasty Breakfast at Kitchen on Sixth

Published on October 1, 2026 by Michael NusairLeave a comment

Location: 2976 Lake Shore Boulevard West, Etobicoke
Website: https://www.kitchenonsixth.com/

Kitchen on Sixth is a delightful little restaurant in Etobicoke that specializes in British eats. I came during brunch on a Saturday; there was a lot of tasty looking stuff on the menu, but the full English breakfast was calling my name.

The full English: “Sunny eggs, British bangers, peameal, black pudding, white pudding, baked beans, grilled tomato, sautéed mushrooms, house cut fries, toast.”

Pretty much every component here is quite tasty, from the snappy sausage (which I think is fried, giving it additional texture), to the savoury black and white puddings, to the zingy beans.

I say “pretty much” because fries both do not belong on a full English and weren’t particularly good (they were a bit chalky and dense in the middle), but everything else is tasty enough that I can easily overlook this.

One more tiny complaint: this is the nitpickiest of nitpicks, but the beans should absolutely not be in their own little container. For me, the joy of a full breakfast is trying to get a little bit of everything into each bite — the ramekin both segregates the beans and creates a barrier in the middle of the plate, making it unnecessarily difficult to get a mouthful with everything. However, dumping the beans onto the plate solves this, and is something you should absolutely do.

Nitpicks aside, this was a tasty breakfast and one I’d happily order again.

Amazing BBQ at Smoking Section Barbecue

Published on August 29, 2026 by Michael NusairLeave a comment

Location: 30 Queen Elizabeth Boulevard, Etobicoke
Website: https://www.instagram.com/smoking.section.bbq/

Smoking Section Barbecue is currently a pop-up at Great Lakes Brewery in Etobicoke, and wow — I was kinda blown away by how good it was.

I’ve mentioned before that finding legit BBQ in the GTA (that actually tastes smoky) is weirdly difficult. But not impossible, apparently, because here comes Smoking Section to show everyone how it’s done.

The pared-down menu currently features five meats (brisket, ribs, pulled pork, chicken, and sausage), two sides (smokey potato salad and maple vanilla slaw), and a dessert (sticky toffee cake). I went with brisket and sausage, with a side of the potato salad.

Good lord, that brisket — it’s exactly what you want it to be. It’s amazingly tender (but still has texture), features perfectly rendered and unctuous fat, and is nicely seasoned, with a great amount of satisfying smoky flavour.

I’ve never tried the real deal in Texas, but I have to imagine this is pretty close.

The sausage (jalapeno cheddar, I think?) is just as tasty, with more smoky flavour, a satisfying course grind on the meat, and a very pleasant level of greasiness (it’s extremely greasy, but in the best way).

I quite liked the potato salad, too; potato salad has a tendency to just be blandly rich, but this had a nice mustardy pop, yet more smoky flavour, and some contrasting crunch from the celery. It was really tasty.

Even the bread was pretty great. I know plain, untoasted white bread is traditional for a BBQ platter like this, but the toasted, profoundly buttery sourdough here is a clear upgrade.

A Delicious Brunch at Emma’s Country Kitchen

Published on May 23, 2026 by Michael NusairLeave a comment

Location: 810 Saint Clair Avenue West, Toronto
Website: https://www.emmascountrykitchen.com/

Emma’s Country Kitchen has been serving up brunch for a while. I’ve been wanting to check the place out since seeing it on a 2015 episode of You Gotta Eat Here, and yeah, they’re still around and kicking. Even more surprising: the place is still hopping. I showed up at about 10:00am on a Saturday, and it was a half hour wait to get in.

I tend not to go to brunch places all that often, because it’s all a bit boring, and it’s generally all stuff you can make at home relatively easily. But when it’s as good as it is here? Yeah, I can’t do that at home, and I doubt you can, either.

It’s worth braving the crowds. Everything here was stellar.

In particular, the cinnamon bun pancakes (“Stack of light and fluffy buttermilk pancakes swirled with caramelized brown sugar, butter and cinnamon. Served with whipped brown butter and real maple syrup”) might be their most well known dish (it was featured on that episode of You Gotta Eat here all those years ago), and for good reason.

Seriously, I think these might be the best pancakes I’ve ever had? They were nice and fluffy with just the right amount of density, they’ve got a nice tang from the buttermilk, and the caramelized brown sugar gives the pancakes a nice crispiness in spots and a delightful amount of sweetness. I didn’t even use the syrup on the side — the level of sweetness here was restrained, but perfect.

The brown butter on top gives it a nice creaminess and a mild salty pop that offsets the sweetness of the brown sugar. Good lord these were good. I could eat about a million of them.

I also tried the Breakwich (“Freshly baked buttermilk biscuit topped with over easy egg, melted cheese and choice of sage and onion sausage, house cured bacon or griddled tomato”) and yeah, that was stellar, too. You can choose your egg, cheese, and meat: I went with scrambled, spicy pimento cheese, and sausage.

The perfect biscuit was the highlight, but everything here was very, very good. In particular, that pimento cheese has a nice kick and a satisfying zippy flavour. I want this stuff on all my breakfast sandwiches from now on.

Finally, I tried the Emma’s BLT (“Freshly baked buttermilk biscuit, 2 pieces house cured bacon, fresh tomato, baby arugula and roasted garlic mayo”). You can get this with a biscuit, or a toasted rye bun. I went with the bun since I was already having the biscuit.

This was the least exciting of the dishes I tried, but still quite tasty. I’m pretty sure I’m going to dream about that thickly-cut house-cured bacon. It’s fantastic. But then everything here is fantastic, so why shouldn’t it be?

Tasty Noodle Soup at Pho Anh Vu

Published on March 26, 2026 by Michael NusairLeave a comment

Location: 1482 Dundas Street East, Mississauga
Website: https://phoanhvu.com/

I’ll admit that I did not have particularly high hopes for Pho Anh Vu. A chain Vietnamese restaurant in a Walmart plaza? Surely that will be okay at best.

And indeed, the chain Hakka joint a couple of stores over is just as mediocre as you’d think. This place, however? Surprisingly good. Way, way better than you’d expect.

In particular, I’d heard good things about the bun bo hue here, so that’s what I got. I actually got the deluxe version of the dish, bun bo hue dac biet, which they only serve on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday: “Hue Style Beef Special, Crab Cake, Homemade Sausage, Rare Beef with Vermicelli Soup, Beef Shank, Ham Hock.”

It’s a tasty bowl of noodle soup and a solid version of this dish, with a vibrant, flavourful broth that has a nice spicy kick.

It’s also crammed with tasty stuff (though I think they left out the crab cake in mine, sadly), with the very tender beef and the flavour-packed sausage being the highlights. It’s quite good.