Centro Restaurant

2472 Yonge Street, Toronto   |   Telephone 416-483-2211
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SARA SAYS…

Nothing shapes the personality of a city more than the opening of a high-concept important restaurant. When Franco Prevedello built Centro 24 years ago, everything we believed about dining out changed. It was a finishing school for many of Toronto’s more notable chefs. During this anniversary year, from January 2012 culminating at a grand soirée on November 4, 2012, these big-name chefs and other culinary greats will return once a month to again delight those of us who have wined and dined in this handsome room. Proprietor Armando Mano and his star chef Jason Carter have brilliant celebratory plans. Mano invites the tens of thousands of people who have passed through these doors to write in and tell their special Centro story. I have a few of my own.

Recently, Carter worked with the world’s most celebrated chefs at the world’s most celebrated restaurants: El Bulli in Spain, Noma in Copenhagen, the Fat Duck in London, and has brought back new and exciting techniques to his kitchen. His pasta, handmade, of course, is spectacular. Fish is prepared “sous vide” to bring out true flavour. Classic beef, veal and lamb are given breakthrough treatments. Service is unusually smart—a server remembers a year later that a guest is left-handed.

While Centro has changed owners several times in its last quarter century, this anniversary year will be its finest hour.