Canadian comfort food: Toronto's best poutine
As temperatures plummet and February looms, the warm, cosy lure of the Canadian comfort meal beckons. You know what this means; French fries smothered in gravy and topped with creamy curds. That’s right, there’s nothing that warms the cockles quite like poutine. Poutine became the national de-facto dish because everyone was too lazy to make Tourtiere. This lowly dish from the province of Quebec has risen to the lofty heights of being Canada’s most love national cuisine. For the uninitiated, poutine is a plate of fries smothered in gravy and topped with cheese curds. Although some find any deviation from this triangle of awesomeness treason of the highest order and downright ‘un-Canadian’, the more adventurous chefs are creating poutine masterpieces from all manner of ingredients. Ask 20 Torontonians what they think the best poutine joint in town is and you’re bound to get 20 different answers. So I decided to ask a whole lot more and, even though there was very little consensus, there were defiantly areas of overlap. So, if not the definitive list I was aiming for, here is a stab at the best places to get poutine in the city of Toronto. The