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Named after world-renowned architect, Frank Gehry, who masterfully re-designed the AGO, FRANK also reflects the directness of the food that Anne Yarymowich serves forth. Direct. Honest. Ontario.
Frank Gehry’s grandmother lived on Beverley Street, just around the corner from the AGO. As a child he visited often and he must be happy with how comfort food is being interpreted here. Season-based, the menu changes often but when I was there this past spring, the smoked whitefish rillettes were served on wild arugula with the first spring asparagus. It was a beautiful dish. A mixed endive salad was set on a bed of roasted Jerusalem artichokes (the ones in my own garden are just ready to eat). Four-year old cheddar, the kind of cheese that made Ontario famous in the 1800s, is layered with caramelized onions on raisin/walnut bread, then grilled and served with a side of chardonnay grape gelée. Art and food interface. Anne and Martha’s dishes ooze with obvious flavour.
Food Day @ FRANK ( from 2010 )
The restaurant at the Art Gallery of Ontario
Highlights from our menu featuring the best of Ontario Products and Growers
paired with our exclusively Ontario wine list
Brunch
Omelette of the day featuring
Pingue prosciutto, fresh local peas, and Ingersol Ontario buratta cheese
Buttermilk pancakes with Niagara sour cherry compote, Kawartha growers maple syrup and almond flavoured whipped cream
Scrambled eggs and Coldspring frams smoked trout on toasted brioche, topped with lemon chive, chervil crème fraîche
Steak and eggs, grilled Cumbrae farm skirt steak with two fried eggs served with roasted poblano chimmichurri sauce and potato home fries
Baked savoury tart with locally grown fava beans, baby leeks and ricotta cheese served with yellow tomato and basil salad
Grilled cheese and bacon sandwich with Mapledale 4 year old cheddar, double smoked Walnut Hill bacon and house made Seville orange marmalade on Freds bread raisin walnut bread served with “Soiled Reputation” greens
Grilled lamb and lavender housemade sausage made with Texel Ontario grown lamb on braised beluga lentils with grilled baby eggplant and lavender honey mustard
Our eggs are farm fresh organic, from Stoddart Family Farms
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Dinner
Vegetarian daily risotto featuring Ontario grown garden peas, fava beans, and wild ramp pesto
Grilled Cumbrae Farm calf’s liver with roasted baby Vidalia onions buttermilk mashed potato and rosemary cabernet franc jus
Rare roasted Quebec duck magret with Ontario red currant Cumberland sauce roasted Cookstown fingerling potatoes and fresh Ontario garden peas
Grilled Perth County Berkshire rack of pork with uttered lemon thyme spaetzle, and Niagara sour cherry compote
Ontario lamb loin and housemade lamb sausage grill, Nicoise style, with harcots verts, oven dried tomato, Cookstown fingerling potatoes Nicoise olives and anchovy paste
FRANK @ The Art Gallery of Ontario is one of about 250 restaurants that celebrate Food Day across Canada. Contact them at the number below to reserve a table.
FRANK @ The Art Gallery of Ontario est l’un des 250 restaurants à travers tout le Canada qui participent au Journée des terroirs . Contactez FRANK directement, au numéro ci-dessous, afin de faire votre réservation.
FRANK at the Art Gallery of Ontario
317 Dundas Street West
Toronto,
Ontario M5T 1G4
T: 416 979 6648
Toll free: 1 877 225 4246
http://www.ago.net/frank-restaurant-contemporary-comfort-cuisine-toronto
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